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“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

Critics say that Trump's war with Iran could have a lot of blowback. But there is no historical precedent for the United States overthrowing an Iranian government and then facing 50 years of hostility from Iranians.

Did @nytpitchbot.bsky.social write this?

Contempt isn't a strong enough word but it'll do

also the "W" on there is trying real hard to make you think this is Bezos's rag, but it's actually the Moonies

Oh I already saw it yesterday from someone who usually seemed to be on the left! And it was paired with "what do you expect them to do, they can't disobey orders or they go to prison" because apparently we've chosen to forget that "just following orders" is never a defense

Next time you think about listening to The Bulwark about, well, anything, remember they fkin love this dude who's currently cheering for the Iran war and thinks the only thing wrong is Congress hasn't yet retroactively granted Trump authority to have started it

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

who made this

They are literally rounding up immigrants right now. The police state that makes this possible was built on abusing and incarcerating Black, Indigenous and Mexican people. All of us are on the list, all of us are in danger, just different places on the white supremacy hitlist

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Imagine if there were regular polls on "diabetic issues", as well as breathless news articles on "diabetic ideology" and politicians giving speeches about the "diabetic agenda".

Healthcare is healthcare, period.

This is obviously incorrect as a description of fact but it is a forthright expression of MAGA goals and aspirations: they believe it should be illegal to not like, agree or associate with them bsky.app/profile/bern...

Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.

This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.

Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.

It was a "sideshow," I was told.

Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled. Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.

Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."

Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

Hating the Game The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Live updates: White House blames 'staffer' for racist Obamas post shared by Trump Trump administration live updates: New Jersey's special House primary too close to call

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

Well they're not gonna decant themselves

Alt National Park Service on Facebook: Be careful who you trust. In times of resistance, knowing your true allies from new ones matters.

AltNPS seems a lot more comfortable leaning into the LARP on Facebook than they do here on Bluesky. This post calling on their followers to "be careful who you trust" is exclusive to their Facebook page.

NEW VIDEO: Federal Agent in Coon Rapids: ‘The more people that you lose in Minnesota, you then lose a voting right to stay blue.’
Two observers talk with this agent who mentions “blue state media” and “voting rights.” Recorded at 4 p.m. on February 4.

She's 16. It's not like she's four. And we have now really shifted on how we think about that, I think, in a good way. Right. Right. I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But I think that you're not going to find the evidence of a pedophile ring where he is actively trafficking these girls because until Me Too... It's not like a pedophile, right? There are 16-year-old girls around who are vulnerable and can be exploited, but not in this, like, there is a mastermind who is going on the dark web and selling these girls to you. They're just around, and they're close enough to the age of consent that a lot of people probably felt like it was okay to hit on them.

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

Now instead of reporting a damaged delivery or whatever...imagine that with a medical emergency, or simply with routine but important medical care

Absolute nightmare

Customer service bots get stuck in loops all the time!

I tell the bot what I need, it gives me a list of options, I select 1, bot says invalid entry and sends me back to the start

Or, bot determines I need a human, asks for details to pass on, it spots a keyword in my reply and goes back 4 steps

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Whatever criticism you have of solar is almost certainly debunked in this video.

Also there miiiight be a 30 minute rant at the end about the GOP that's as thorough and detailed as his info on solar.

So if either of those things interest you, watch it.
If they don't? Fix that problem and watch it.

centrists like to use terminology disputes as a proxy battle for actual policy fights, and engaging is often fruitless. if you don’t like the slogan use something else. but the agency needs to be hollowed out, every existing agent needs to be put on no-hire lists, and there need to be prosecutions.