how is this level of illiteracy possible? surely senior officers in the US military either know from self-education or learn from on-the-job training that ethnic identity, religious affiliation, and language fluency are different? who thinks every Christian speaks Aramaic like Jesus did?

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

New: Doomposting Old, very very VERY Old: Doomtableting

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Furthermore, I have often noted that Obama’s inability to recognize who his enemies were and to act accordingly was precisely because he was raised by white people who were able to love him beyond his Blackness, and by doing so, taught him the wrong lesson about whiteness.

“You have Caligula derangement syndrome, he’s not going to make his horse a senator” 5 hours later: “stop being hysterical you’re going to startle my colleague senator horse”

don’t cancel me for saying this but Nobody should be assaulted in prison. Not even Harvey Weinstein Listen listen! The point of rights isn’t to protect people who we like. The main point of rights is to protect people who we don’t like from our own worst instincts

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Analyzing @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social’s report on attacks on food systems around El Fasher early in the siege, @oonahathaway.bsky.social & I find “compelling evidence relevant to … war crimes, crimes against humanity, & genocide” medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo... www.justsecurity.org/131508/repor...

Scenes from the Women's March at Epstein's Zorro Ranch. We need justice for victims; we need accountability for perpetrators.

everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true

This is ironclad proof there's no afterlife because Orwell would find a way to tear his way through the fabric of reality to address this otherwise

First the Golestan Palace, now this. Imagine if Versailles or Westminster Abbey were bombed.

175 Iranian kids sacrificed for...

This is the Chehel Sutoun Palace that was bombed. It is a marvel of 17th century Iranian archetectufe, composed of a pavilion and a garden. The name means "40 Columns", in Persian. It has exquisite murals of the Safavid dynasty and the state of Iran at that time.

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Daniel is a mensch.

It is a rich and layered text, delighted me on this dreary Monday with "modernity gave us the French Revolution, but also the dirty chai latte with soy milk and extra foam" and sentences like this

stealing from whole foods to feel punk is the most embarassing shit i have ever heard in my life

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Early January, private meeting between White House officials and US oil industry execs: “I’m sorry, sir, but in order to justify the capex necessary to sufficiently build Venezuelan infrastructure, we’d need crude prices to double from where they stand today, and that’s obviously not in the cards.”

Artist Lily Renée Phillips. Active in the Golden Age, her family had fled Nazi-controlled Vienna in her youth. She drew stories for series such as Wings Comics & Planet Comics, & features like Senorita Rio & the Werewolf Hunter. #InternationalWomensDay  #InternationalWomensDay2026

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

That's why I'm so against ChatGPT. I'm against letting a machine do your homework for you. I think you should cling to Doing Your Homework Yourself like it's the last opportunity you have to liberate yourself from mental enslavement. Because it basically is. Anyway shout out to Kai Cenat.

Now every commercial regardless of subject matter but also including things that require thought or consumption is just like "Have AI do handle it for you" And I think that is bad. I think we are being hit with a weapon.

This is a veritable war crime. They are poisoning these people. Millions of innocent people.

"War is sweet to those who have never experienced it." —Pindar (c. 518 BC – c. 438 BC)

little hesitant here bc I don’t want to downplay how much safer you are if you’re white, but folks this woman was Norwegian. her whiteness didn’t save her. if you think you are completely safe from this regime due to who you are, you’re wrong.

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

Wow, this is very interesting. They're suing OpenAI for tortious interference with a contract because ChatGPT induced her to breach it. Can an AI commit torts?

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

In 1938, Kundan Lal Gupta, a businessman and philanthropist from Ludhiana, quietly rescued five Jewish families from Nazi Austria. He did it without fanfare, and few knew his story for decades. #EternalLight 1/10

He seems like the only international leader with the guts to stand up for the right positions. And he is widely successful (so is Spain 🇪🇸). Maybe some of the other left-party/liberal leaders should follow his example instead constantly bowing to the right & Trump

It is an existential imperative that we begin a serious global dialogue about how ‘experts’ as the media uses the term, consistently lag behind us laymen when it comes to Knowing Some Bullshit When We See It.

I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below

this isn't just a MAGA thing, it's a cross-American one and *especially* a lot of people who came of age in politics or punditry in the 1990s. the idea that the news could happen to them - that the world might not be all going their way - is genuinely brain-breaking to a lot of them

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

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there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

both sides are basically playing chicken: the iranians are betting the US will capitulate and quit bombing as the economy shits the bed, and the US is betting the iranians will disintegrate if we keep killing them. there is no way to climb down from this.

Federal data shows that #NIH lost ~4400 people, 20% of the workforce. Many scientists have been pushed out. ~80% of NIH $ is awarded to universities & research institutions. Funding cuts are having a trickle down effect all over the country, affecting job prospects. 🧪 www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

What is the Greek word for government by nihilists?

The society of spectacle

Chat is this good?

Oh man we are HAVING A NEWS DAY I see *BLACKROCK’S $26 BILLION PRIVATE CREDIT FUND LIMITS WITHDRAWALS

The "police-involved shooting" of war crimes

This is one of those things that is less sexy to talk about but is unequivocally a war crime