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It's really unfair to compare this to Iraq in 2003, at least then they had the decency to put some effort into their lies and deception.

Hey Tennessee-Israel caucus chair @CepickyTn64 — remember yesterday when you told us “the people of 🇺🇸 don’t want regime change”? Here’s your guy today saying that’s now the plan (after previously admitting they killed all the next guys)

It’s almost like we didn’t think this through.

Trump thinks this will be Venezuela, over in a week, then onto Cuba

"There is an old saying in politics: if you want loyalty, get a dog. The trouble for Kristi Noem is that she infamously shot hers as a 14-month-old puppy after failing to train it properly. So, freshly fired by Donald Trump, she has absolutely nowhere left to turn." inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Excellent NYT video analysis finds that the bombing of scores of schoolchildren in Iran came amid other US strikes in the vicinity: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

An Iranian drone exploded within shockwave distance of my godson in Erbil, who is four years old, and he cannot stop breaking down crying randomly now and isn't really eating. Just in case you'd bought into the "poor plucky Iran" bullshit. Fuck Trump's war, and fuck the IRGC.

Ukraine today accused Hungary of detaining seven employees of the state-owned Oschadbank and seizing millions in cash and gold.

Reads like a CPAC attendee list.

Tate was trying to get to Dubai on a bus. When they got to the Saudi border everyone was told to get off for passport and baggage checks and Tate decided to stay on - presumably because the bus was air conditioned and he didn't want to stand in a queue. He then got detained by Saudi guards.

Genuinely think you could trace all this back to a single fedora somewhere.

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

Here's what Bellingcat has been up to this week: Bellingcat analysed imagery and reporting from the first days of the conflict with Iran to identify US, Israeli and Iranian munitions now being deployed. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

“The creators picked the wrong woman here” too bloody right! It’s me vs AI slop this Sunday on Radio 4

BREAKING: Four people arrested as part of counter-terrorism investigation relating to Iran - Met police Police arrested one Iranian & three dual Brit-Iranian nationals on suspicion of assisting foreign intel service. Investigation relates to suspected surveillance of Jewish communities in London.

Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say www.reuters.com/world/middle...

This is quite an amazing thing for a sitting US senator to say.

BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence for molesting 2 children

Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net has arrived!

"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." — Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).

“It was naive to think she would stand on principle when that much money was on the line,” a CBS reporter told me about Gayle King's new contract. “A lot of people were disappointed that she didn’t use her position to speak up. Instead, she rolled over for a fat paycheck.” zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

🟥These images were posted by the Israeli Air Force on social media during the ongoing war with Iran. Some of the posts directly mention Israeli Air Force strikes in Iran. View images of the munitions here: osmp.ngo/osmp2051/

The OSMP has added Israeli 2,000-pound-class air-delivered bombs with distinct red and yellow markings. This suggests the munitions likely contain an incendiary and high-explosive payload. The best known of these is the BLU-119/B CrashPAD which contains white phosphorous.

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

Sometimes you learn things when you do an interview with a chief executive. And sometimes, you learn things when you do not in fact do an interview with a chief executive:

The battle between the Pentagon and Anthropic couldn't have come at a worse time. AI safety is no longer a hypothetical problem; it's a real concern for the world we live in today. And the US Government's demand? Move faster and break more things. My cover story: www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Kristi Noem claiming she "ushered in the golden age of travel" is a perfect example of how MAGA is assaulting the plain meaning of words

oh my goodness she seems to think Special Envoy for the Shield is a real job

After initially saying he would wait for a House Ethics inquiry to conclude, House Speaker Mike Johnson said he had asked U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales to withdraw from his GOP primary runoff. bit.ly/3NlmQDZ

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

What oligarch doesn’t say that?

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

The questions is, what do you when the institutions responsible for accountability are all captured by authoritarian lackeys?

What's angered Trump re Noem? Her testimony about a $200 million self-promotional ad campaign at DHS — about which @propublica.org broke the critical details last year: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

CNN put together a video illustrating that while Trump regime officials keep describing the Iran strikes as a "war," Republican members of Congress are using all sorts of euphemisms

Like Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Aside from a few AI generated images, there is no evidence any "wars". The wild west here is the media, police and schools spreading unsubstantiated bullshit when they should know better. Classic press fueled hysteria, just like with the momo challenge in 2018 and rainbow parties in the 2000s.

The police asked schools in my area to send out a message to our community and, yes, it just meant we spread disinformation amd made it more visible. Some parents just lost it and were emailing school with hysterical nonsense suggesting we change our school day and uniform policy. Just nuts.

Anecdotally, it appears the warnings from our local schools in Leicester have made School Wars go viral among the local kids, the vast majority of which hadn't heard of it before the warnings- 'School wars' social media trend prompts warnings www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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In this video Bellingcat’s Technology Officer and creator of the tool @obtusatum.bsky.social walks you through how to use Turnstone: youtu.be/DYbXbi8CRYw

Popular flight-tracking websites such as Flightradar24 and ADS-B Exchange do offer historical data for a particular time or aircraft. But for deeper analysis Turnstone aggregates ADS-B data for multiple aircraft over time, and allows users to search for flights across two areas of interest at once.

This tool primarily uses Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) data, the technology that enables open source investigators and enthusiasts to track flights. The resource is open source and the source code for the tool can be found on Bellingcat’s GitHub. github.com/bellingcat/a...

With Turnstone, it is possible to interrogate the baseline level of movement and spot unusual patterns. For example, flight data before both the June 2025 and February 2026 strikes showed a uniquely large number of American aerial tankers leaving the US and crossing the Atlantic towards Iran.

Trying to make sense of an aircraft’s movements during a conflict? Context is everything. That’s why we built Turnstone, an open source tool that searches historical flight data to allow researchers to explore flight patterns over time and in specific locations. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...