War is Peace. Orwell would be proud of this.

3/ Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale re-posted this message from exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi 10 hours ago. x.com/pahlavireza/...

In April 2024, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale interviewed exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. He titled it, “The Path to Regime Change in Iran…” 1/ youtu.be/MmoEeCx30Fc?...

Landscape with Snow Tom Thomson 1916

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

For the editors of NYT, the fact that the attacks were a violation of international and US law is just not important. bsky.app/profile/empt...

The Washington Post sacked all of its Middle East correspondents a couple of weeks ago. Useful.

And how much in taxes do non-permanent residents contribute? $100 million / 280,000 non permanent residents = $357 per year per person I guarantee you these PEOPLE (refugees, visa holders, TFWs) pay more than $357/year per person in taxes. Get fucked, Danielle #ABPoli #ABleg

Can’t help but believe that the majority of AI usage by the average schmuck will be for doxxing, disinformation in text and images, nonconsensual porn of real people, creating long-form text that’s suppose to be user-written, and wasting of time and Earth’s resources. Not an upside in any of it.

The only reason we are alive to debate this is because Stanislav Petrov decided not to trust a computer.

[February 28th, 1986] BREAKING: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated while walking home with his wife in Stockholm on Friday night. Police are searching for a man aged 30-45 described as wearing a cap and blue jacket.

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. How it works: www.404media.co/this-app-war...

The US should be banned not only from hosting the World Cup but also from participating.

The host nation is blowing fuck out of a country that has qualified for the tournament. I don’t see how the US can now host.

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

People keep saying that this goes against the Davis speech. It does not. Carney said the rules based international order was always hypocritical, is now dead, and we live in a time of rupture. I disagree with support but this is not against what he said. The sign is gone. GONE GONE.

🎯 "For a bunch of gold-medalists, the U.S. men’s hockey team sure acted like a bunch of losers."

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Remember how Trump's SOTU included a line about how he'd stopped eight wars, including Israel v. Iran?

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Direct Iranian drone hit on a high rise building in Bahrain's capital of Manama. Gulf states seem to be struggling to intercept Shaheds while successfully knocking out cruise missiles.

Still up on the official White House website: www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

I can’t recall another politician ever expressing this direct of a sentiment before. (depressing! it’s so simple!) it’s difficult to explain how it feels to wake up and find your country is bombing the place your family grew up. again

Then what happened?

This was my response when my agents asked if I wanted to pitch on this reboot back in November. I really hope more creatives do the same so that the likes of Max Landis are all they can hire. I may not make an honest buck but I’m a hundred per cent American and I don’t work for no two-bit Nazi.

“FBI tactical agents have ferried [Patel’s girlfriend] to a resort in Britain… and to an appointment at a hair salon in Nashville. Last April, agents in two SUVs stood guard outside a senior center in Ronald Reagan’s boyhood home of Dixon, Ill., while she sang for a few dozen young conservatives.”

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

“The presumption created by the surrounding evidence is that this war could very well be about (1) subverting US democracy, (2) enriching the president, or both. These presumptions, while not proof, provide solid lines of inquiry as we learn more about the war.” snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

It’s the least important thing, but I can’t believe our pedophile president just declared an illegal war at 3am in this fuckass hat.

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

As Trump ramps up his warmongering with Iran, his own son-in-law Jared Kushner — who is leading negotiations with Iran — stands to profit from lucrative contracts with its regional rivals. The Trump family's insatiable greed endangers us all.

In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

It's just going to be bombing, bombing, bombing for the remainder of yer man's time in office, isn't it?

Shame on you, America. Again.

I like to distract myself from the terrifying political news by reading the ridiculous political news.

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This is Trump's former AI adviser

Something that's being overlooked: The Saudi government—yes, the same gov't that butchered a Washington Post journalist a few years ago—is set to be a part owner of CNN. Watch the full episode of Power Lines on YouTube: youtu.be/nWEG5jUrP2Q?...

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

In Trump's America, the jokes write themselves.

the economy is being propped up in large part by AI spend and this is what the guy who wrote Trump’s AI plan is posting

First of all -- fuck you, Pete. None of this is happening in the faculty lounges of your fever dreams. Second, I've taught military personnel in our PhD programs and if you think slamming the door to Harvard and Princeton in their faces is "having their back" you're even dumber than you sound.