Gayle Turner

Photo shows graves of Iranian girls killed in Minab school attack Contrary to claims from Grok and others, the image does not show grave sites in Jakarta or Brazil.

This photo shows the graves of schoolchildren killed by airstrikes in Minab, Iran — not grave sites in Indonesia or Brazil, contrary to claims from Grok and others online. Here's how we verified its authenticity. 👇
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“He had a feeling” is a crazy reason to start a war

NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs

Senate Republicans crack jokes about Senator Tim Sheehy after he reportedly broke a Marine’s arm after the man was protesting the Iran war during a hearing.

Vile.

But I do love the CN on Tim’s post.

He’s a thug.

The FDIC Is Being Dismantled—Most Won’t Realize Until It’s Too Late They are dismantling deposit protections before you notice—and making sure the wealthy move their money first. By the time the system locks down, you won’t have time to. Here’s how to get ahead of it.

The FDIC Is Being Dismantled—Most Won’t Realize Until It’s Too Late 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

"The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs... and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”" www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

Calculating the Taxpayers' Tab for Ken Paxton's Extensive Travels In his three terms as attorney general, Paxton’s state police security detail has cost nearly $3 million as it accompanied him across Texas, the country, and the world.

Featured story: The annual cost of Ken Paxton's security detail clocked in at an average of $245,000 a year—but the costs have steadily ticked up in recent years. At the peak, in 2024, it cost DPS nearly $500,000 to accompany Paxton on his travels.

The Supreme Court Has Abandoned All Pretense For the court’s conservatives, the only consistency is their inconsistency. Still, things rather conspicuously keep going the GOP’s way.

The court’s conservative members went out of their way to change their normal procedures in shadow-docket cases to benefit a Republican member of Congress as she tries to fend off a less favorable legislative map. trib.al/g80DPxm

Neguse demolishes Noem (2/2)

Pete Hegseth says US is ‘investigating’ deadly strike on girls’ school in Iran US defense secretary was evasive when asked about the airstrike that Iranian officials say killed at least 165 students

Now I’m wondering whether this Palantir/Anthropic software targeted the girls’ school in Minab. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm to Win Access to Fed’s Core Payments System The decision means the industry is a step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system.

The @federalreserve.gov just granted a crypto company—Kraken—access to its public payment services for the first time.

More evidence that crypto’s success is not as an *alternative* to the existing financial system but to capture the existing payment infrastructure.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Off Sri Lanka! That’s some horizontal escalation.

You cannot really run a university like a business because our most valuable product is failure.

Four people, with their hands up, standing behind 2 people sitting. The four people standing are US citizens who were detained, the two people are families whose family members were killed by migrants.

Jayapal is now introducing 4 US citizens who were detained for at least 6 hours merely for observing ICE.

Kristi Noem sent a much-delayed list of USCit detained by ICE yesterday. None of these four were on the list.

The UN, though in Manhattan, is on international land, not American. Also a pretty central tenet of diplomacy is “we will not take advantage of proximity to murder your people” for reasons that should be very obvious.

CORREA: What do you suggest I tell my constituents? Have a passport with you all the time?

NOEM: No. I would tell your citizens to be grateful they live in this country where President Trump is upholding the law. We will help them self-deport.

CORREA: These are American citzens!

Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America’s New Gilded Age

Since Trump’s tax cuts:

“The county’s top 1 percent of households…now have an estimated average annual income of about $35 million, 221 times what the bottom 99 percent is making, according to a Times analysis of tax data.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

🔥 @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. We are focused on the wrong 1%… it’s not left vs. right, it’s top vs. bottom.”

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

"Two years after a brutal Texas GOP civil war, the party’s arc still bends toward its far-right flank."

At the victory party for Rev. Dr. Rodney Sadler, who has unseated Rep. Carla Cunningham in a NC House race.
A huge victory for progressives in Charlotte and its Northern suburbs.

These charges were not similar. Peters literally stole an innocent person’s identity and used it to illegally access systems protected by state law. And she remains unrepentant to this day.

RESULT: Sheriff Terry Johnson survives his GOP primary in North Carolina's Alamance County, 57% to 42%.

He may face an independent in the general election—so stay tuned on that.

incredible scenes where this is apparently a thing that Khameni has been wanting for ages and others on the council were pushing back against because optics but now council's all dead and congratulations on toppling the regime by giving the previous leader exactly what he wanted- a family throne

This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else:

“What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

Totally seems like a good time for so many colleges and universities to gut their Religious Studies programs.

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title!

WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS
Yes, *all*
And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think...

I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

Billionaires and private school vouchers • Ohio Capital Journal For years, voucher programs that used taxpayer dollars for private school tuition were limited to low-income or special needs students. Now many states including Ohio have near-universal vouchers.…

For years, voucher programs that used taxpayer dollars for private school tuition were limited to low-income or special needs students. Now many states including Ohio have near-universal vouchers. Critics argue there’s not enough oversight ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/03/r...