A real powerful one today by @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on reading Milton Mayer’s 1955 book They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 in the age of ICE. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-little-a...

A letter by 17 state attorneys general urging Congress to close the data broker loophole enabling warrantless federal mass surveillance, citing an investigation into Google adtech last year by me & @dmehro.bsky.social (among other reporting): oag.ca.gov/system/files...

anyway here's Akira Kurosawa gazing lovingly at Toshiro Mifune on the set of Seven Samurai

How Palantir, not Anthropic, led US bombs to kill 175 civilians, mostly 7-12yo girls, in a school in Minab, Iran on Feb 28. How embedding automation - not LLMs in this case, just image processing and sensor fusion - in military workflows mutes human judgment, causes errors, & diverts accountability.

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:

what

the metaverse may have sucked ass and blown dick but at least it gave us this paul murray feature nymag.com/intelligence...

extremely good

The very definition of courage—

Mustafa Ali Bani Odeh (age 8) after he witnessed Israeli soldiers kill his mother, his father, and two of his brothers ages 7 and 5

This is how I feel about the new regs: #f1

I think this is a really good piece about bigotry and I wish people in the elite press would grapple with how eliminationism has crept into their own spaces with transphobia as its main vector.

Every time Clyburn is mentioned I’m reminded of @propublica.org’s piece on his devastating arrogance. He’s a standard-issue entrenched, corporate-friendly, out-of-touch old fool, and you can add his continued relevance and power to the seemingly infinite list of reasons Dems are losing the people.

"It is not irrational for a legislature to encourage citizens to appreciate their sex and not become disdainful of their sex by refusing to fund experimental procedures that may have the opposite effect," which is in the *ruling*, is a position that has nothing to do with any law

It is already funny but now it’s become far funnier because they know everyone knows and is looking at their shoes but they still have to do this

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain. This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region. aje.news/64yl8m?updat...

the people yearn for woke 2

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

If Lewis and charles can put the frightners on the strategy desk, they should win plenty of races this year. The tifosi deserve some time in the sun #f1 #ausgp

Sorry everyone but what it takes to win a Grand Prix is having big wet eyes and who does that better than my angel George

Toto is going to the goddamn club tonight #f1 #ausgp

People are voting max driver of the day? It should be a dual award for the two absolute divas who gave us the best race start in years #f1 #ausgp

Old regs: 20 second gap to race leader by lap 15 New regs: 1st and 2nd overtaking each other 100 times in ten laps. I’m a fan! #f1 #ausgp

Ferrari can’t close this gap to Mercedes, that’s a worry, but overall this looks like it could be a great year for Lewis and Charles. Otherwise, I’m happy to see George hit the T pose all the way to the championship #f1 #ausgp

All the shit talked about these regulations, and what do we get? Loads of beautiful racing. #f1 #ausgp

At least 9 American citizens have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank since 2022. The most recent victim is Philadelphia native Nasrallah Abu Siyam, killed on 18 Feb www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

If my girl @lillywachowski.bsky.social is steering something, you can bet it has the goods. Now, more than ever, we need a cinema by and for the queers.

Over 400 scientists have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the deployment of age-verification technologies. The letter suggests the widespread deployment of untested AV tech is making the internet less safe. www.politico.eu/article/age-...

‘piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks’ is some harrowing shit my god

Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say reut.rs/4l9SCAs

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

The Pentagon’s ultimatum to Anthropic might signal an Iran war, enabled by AI for generating targets at scale, that looks more like Gaza than it does last June’s Twelve Days.

Grace Pinson, a trans woman in prison told a federal court, “I think that it is important for the Court to know what is happening here,“ in alleging a horrifying pattern of abuse that her lawyers call “flagrant violations” by the Trump administration of a federal court order against retaliation.

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

Extremely good piece about how Epstein is less the architect of a vast conspiracy than an especially good example of the shitty, smug, casually bigoted elite guys who all know each other from the listserv

this is based on US data but the first sport on this list below $1,000 a year is golf!!! (i cropped the post for legibility here but the full one is here, track is at the bottom, only sport under $200/year) www.playgroundequipment.com/the-average-...

eternally true, sadly for my profession

Pretty overwhelming evidence that the UAE-backed RSF committed genocide in El Fasher www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Trump put Ghislaine on easy street knowing this shit

Trump's pick for Secretary of Commerce...

It’s crazy a rude person reads a xenophobic racist transphobic newspaper

The Wall Street Journal story on Noem and Lewandowski is just a bus running over them, backing up, running over them again, and on and on. A line of admin officials waiting to get their turn at the wheel. Paywalled at WSJ, free at MSN (good biz model) www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

"Last year, a user who went by the name ricosuave666 correctly predicted the timeline around the 12-day war between Israel and Iran." Jesus Christ.