The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

Cuba's national electric grid collapsed ​on Saturday, the ‌country's grid operator said, leaving around ​10 million ​people without power amid ⁠a U.S.-imposed ​oil blockade that ​has crippled the island's already obsolete generation system. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

wow! Germany withdraws legal backing for Israel in ICJ genocide case www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260319-ger...

How it started. How it's going.

Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Iran while at the same time declaring war on Iran shatters international norms.

Last month, Elon Musk pumped $5 million into a GOP super PAC and is now calling for the ouster of Senate Majority Leader John Thune for being insufficiently conservative, while pushing white nationalist videos into X users' feeds. But his true political beliefs remain a mystery.

Estimated U.S. cost of Iran war rises to $27 billion. Current burn rate: $1B/day. $41.7M/hour. $11.6K/second. Based on Pentagon briefing: $11.3B in first 6 days + ~$1B/day ongoing. Conflict duration: ~21 days

"Dignity ain't what it used to be..." brilliant stuff from @carlkinsella.bsky.social

Live update: Iran missiles hit Israel. Nuclear city | US strikes Iran, middle east war escalates youtu.be/e02xgbVm3tw

We should not forget that Ta-Nehisi Coates gave a far better answer to the "right to exist [as a Jewish state]" question than Tucker Carlson. The issue isn't that Tucker is the only one who will say it, but that the American commentariat ices out left-liberal, and often nonwhite, people who say it.

For Gulf states, this war exposed a paradox they have long understood but dreaded confronting: Decades of dependence on the U.S. as their main security guarantor does not insulate them from the consequences of American military decisions. www.972mag.com/gulf-states-...

I wrote up what the Iran War and crisis in the Strait of Hormuz means for the world. If this continues to spiral, we may be heading for a very different world than the one we currently inhabit. The last bit of normal may be gone for a generation. www.thedissident.news/the-last/

A transformational shift in public opinion is happening in Germany, France, Canada and the UK, away from the US and towards China www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The final report on the Iberia Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) blackout is out. Many will be blaming renewables and talk about inertia: nonsense. The cause was bad voltage control. Solar and wind could have helped but that was illegal. The fix is is surprisingly easy. www.entsoe.eu/publications...

Good news! The final ENTSO-E report into the Spain blackout is out A complex stew of different factors, but "too much solar" is simply not even among them, let alone a major component. As always: the narrative built by fossil/nuke advocates was wrong www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

As our economic divide widens, the plasma economy is reaching its tentacles into the middle class (I'm quoted in this one) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...

If you know a researcher studying any aspect of state violence, please consider sharing Harms Committed with them! From bathroom bans to solitary confinement, policing to climate destruction, my curation treats the harms committed by state violence as an interconnected network.

"In a city that has forgotten how to breathe without fear, we are alive."

Waxing Crescent Moon and Venus. 1915UT 20 March 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

"US officials are furiously trying to avert a potential months-long closure of the Strait of Hormuz, privately acknowledging that reopening the key waterway is a problem without a clear solution...."

Just days ago, Witkoff told us on @cnbc.com that Putin said he WASN'T sharing intel and that we had to "take him at his word."

I can't quote-tweet this, but I thought this was especially spot-on. This horrific story is an illustration of how noble causes can be enlisted in the service of horrid abuse, by making women and girls responsible for that cause, rather than the men perpetrating the horrid act.

bosses demanded people stop working from home

He's talking about using nuclear weapons in Iran. I always figured his fear of nukes would keep him in check, but he's so disinhibited that it seems like anything is now possible. Removing him before he has a chance to order a nuclear release would be a good idea, but it's not going to happen.

"The people of the Twin Cities" are the winners of the prestigious 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

A senior journalist at the Mediahaus group, publisher of the Irish Independent and Sunday Independent, has been suspended after it emerged he used quotes fabricated by AI. jrnl.ie/6990092

Le racisme de la bourgeoisie est souvent mêlé à un mépris de classe, il cible le pauvre racisé, celui qui vient d'ailleurs et qu'elle imagine en "parasite improductif" (i.e. en "assisté") : non content de coûter économiquement, ce dernier apporterait une culture étrangère qui dénature le propre.

🌀Archival Navigation🌀 Harms Committed is a unique social media news service in that every posted article is integrated into an archive of thousands of articles, searchable by topic and location. This thread details 3 easy ways to use this account to access curated feeds of journalism. 1/7 🧵

Israeli drone manufacturer Easy Aerial’s lease at the Brooklyn Navy Yard will not be renewed after more than a year of protests. Now activists are demanding that another military gear manufacturer follow it out the door. @arshiqureshi.bsky.social reports:

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"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows (Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows)

Hey so just a reminder that whenever we see a narrative about welfare cheats, the actual proportion rarely features. Ireland's welfare budget is in the BILLIONS and while 17 mill is a lot of money compared to my salary, it's not actually a lot of our welfare budget.

Spain's wind & solar rollout means gas sets the price of electricity far less than neighbouring countries, and has lower prices as a result "Its speedy rollout of renewables has put a lid on electricity bills — that should help bolster its political independence too" www.ft.com/content/19f2...

If this happens, we need to remember there is a big difference between "We are two countries with divergent goals" and "they manipulated us." Even though a lot of people will try to conflate those. www.thedailybeast.com/president-do...

Does it surprise anyone that body cam footage caught an agent using ChatGPT to compile an incident report?

I have lead in my hair right now. Not hypothetically. According to a new Consumer Report investigation, the exact human braiding hair on my head—Ywigs Water Wave Bulk—tested with the HIGHEST lead levels of any product analyzed. Let me tell you why that matters beyond the obvious. 🧵

The grift continues...

Fighting cancer has sharpened Amisha Patel’s understanding of what the present moment demands: resist isolation, move even without certainty, tend to trauma, and build for the long haul. Anti-fascist struggle must be deeply relational.

Paul Ehrlich is dead. His ideas have been a blight on the environmental & climate justice movement for decades. Too few characters here to do this justice, so this article by me and Ian Rappel must serve as a critical obituary. isj.org.uk/beyond-our-n...

Amazing piece giving examples of how the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is hitting South Asian nations that rely upon liquified petroleum gas and liquified natural gas 🧵 www.ft.com/content/d3fc...

Joe Kent's resignation letter is an antisemitic tract — the ur-text of a "stabbed in the back" myth that could do enormous damage to American Jews www.vox.com/politics/482...

Admittedly it's slightly funny we got some "President Connolly's words will damage our relationship with Trump and the USA" opinion pieces to Trump going "I don't know who that guy is".

We are such a great role model around the world.

"If society surrenders to the illusion of sentient AI, it risks entering a digital hall of mirrors from which it might never fully emerge." --Commentary from @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Robot dog guarding the data center” is the cherry on top of your dystopian sundae.

US counterterror chief says in resignation letter Israel 'deceived' Trump into attacking Iran - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-counterterror-chief-says-resignation-letter-israel-deceived-trump

I don't want a smart home. I never wanted a smart home. Home was where I went to escape the complexification of our lives. The details needed to perform our science at the cutting edge means solving endless problems, often with computers. Home was the refuge, and I will resist smart home anything.

This completely encapsulates the concept of enshittification which pulls us deeper into management of our devices just to navigate our jobs. To do work, we now have to log in, and then perform a 2FA which often has multiple clicks to acknowledge. Then perform maintenance tasks to just do our jobs.