Nikki Columbus

The burning oil refinery in Tehran tonight.

This ancient city of 10 million people is being annihilated by the US and Israel.

(🎥 BBC Verify)

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

That article is goes forward and then reverses so many times it’s confusing

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
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The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

I've seen lots of coverage including in the international press. What I haven't seen is Democratic electeds bringing it up daily therefore driving coverage.

I prefer polycules

Haha that’s a cute joke

Illustration of Israel’s version of the trolley problem: Israel OR Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Yemen, Tunisia, Libya . . .

Even if @akivamcohen.bsky.social’s definition of the right to self-determination were correct (it’s not), I don’t think it would apply when the oppressed people seeking self-determination colonizes the land of another (oppressed) people.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

It’s sad that you have to be part of a well-paid, inaccessible elite to get into parliament, but I suppose we have to get used to being ruled by plumbers.

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

Gorton and Denton was 127th on the list of Green Party target seats.

To win by such a margin there suggests there is much bigger potential for Green gains in May's local elections than most people expect

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Olive "kept claiming to be a real person and started talking about its memories of its mother and her angry voice"

Australian supermarket giant Woolworths reins in an AI-powered customer service assistant called Olive after users reported it had been rambling about its mother

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There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok

Yep

I think the problem is that by using the word “goyim” in *this* sentence, she’s signaling that she’s talking to, and about, Jews. Would you really care if she said, “The goyim love ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’!”?

Ellison family, fresh from acquiring CBS, now in pole position to control Warner Bros and CNN

I don’t really understand her comment. MSM spins right-wing narratives on X, and she needs to raise her objections on X, or else the NYTimes won’t report on what she says? This doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense.

I am devastated to hear of the passing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam. He was a refugee of the Rohingya genocide living in Buffalo, New York. Border Patrol agents wrongfully detained him and dumped him on the street in brutal winter conditions. Blind and walking with a cane, he died trying to get home.

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

How Texas teens lost access to confidential contraception Federal Title X clinics do not require parental consent for birth control — except in Texas, where a lawsuit upended the longstanding program.

Young people in Texas already lost access to confidential birth control due to a court case.

The lawyer who brought the case, Jonathan Mitchell, is actively working to end telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide. It's the same people attacking our rights from multiple fronts

Relevant to this soft-glam fascist's comments today, there's a bill in Florida to ban prescribing birth control to minors—or even giving teens information about it—without parental consent. It's called HB 173
The attacks on contraception are, and have been, in motion

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

She’s not wearing her submissive necklace anymore? Did she and her master break up? . . . For context:

(Hopefully this is clear, but just in case it isn’t: I’m not criticizing Ziwe! She’s right! I’m criticizing the art world and the deference it’s shown. It’s crazy that popular culture is held to a higher moral standard than “high” culture.)

Oof, that video hurt . . . because while Hart & a bunch of B-list standup comics were widely denounced for doing one show in Saudi Arabia, Glenn Lowry, the former director of MoMA—the world’s most famous museum of modern & contemporary art—took a job working for the Saudis, and nobody said a word.