holy shit

Artwork by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #Monday

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

I'm out of words here

Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.

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.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Cover illustration by Harry Grant Dart for the magazine "The All-Story", October 1908. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_G...

True independent thinkers don't change their clocks just because everyone else does. I will do my own research and determine what time it is

Guardian points out reporter Estefany Rodriguez “produced reports that were unflattering to ICE” — and she and her husband were in a marked Nashville Noticias vehicle when they grabbed her🤔 She is reportedly being held in Alabama www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Not the Idoru I imagined, l’m afraid. (Actually the previous sentence can be two, as well.)

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)

Launch a war that jeopardises the safety of over half a million Americans from Jerusalem to Dubai? ✅ Send a histrionic alert after the fact telling them all to “DEPART NOW?” ✅ Pause to ensure that we have the capacity to evacuate our own citizens? ❌❌❌ Clown show.

It must be nice to be a sociopath, because all the new products are for you. The smart glasses will give you that woman’s address, the betting apps will finally let you make bank on war crimes.

For ppl who aren't aware: Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut. They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures. You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

Distraction turducken.

In 1916, Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt Every month on Womensart is #WomensHistoryMonth 💙

all seems like fun and games until the measles outbreak, incel mass shooter, or Shahed 136 drone hits your kid's school I guess

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

They're calling it SuperBenghazi.

is everyone on glue

Put ICE agents on the front lines. They are already in costume.

relax you guys! those planes got shot down because the AI said the biggest threat to the troops is the troops so it's eliminating troops that threaten the troops

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

New signs in the neighborhood went up this morning:

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Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest. In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.

This is amazing.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

When fascists take rights away from a group of people, they never stop there. Eventually, they come for everything. Invalidating the drivers licenses of trans people in Kansas is just the start. Who will be next? www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

28th Mech Brigade of the UGF 🇺🇦: “Kostiantynivka. Russian forces struck a residential area with phosphorus. Then hit it with a 1.5-ton FAB-1500 bomb. ~2,000 civilians remain in the city. They are also hunted by FPV drones. The man on the bicycle was clearly a civilian. This is terror.”

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Liver's cheap because there's low demand for it. If everyone started eating it, it would become expensive. And even if everyone loved it, it's only recommended that you eat it once a week, or you risk vitamin A toxicity. Would be nice if the secretary of HEALTH knew that!

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

Democracy is dying in America. ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous. We need real leaders - not career politicians.

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever. One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

Guterres: We need a Security Council that reflects today’s world – not the world of 1945. When vetoes become political cover, when geopolitical rivalries override the protection of civilians, the result is the same: Impunity grows. Suffering multiplies. And human rights are trampled.

Look lady, if you’re arguing for a handful of parking spaces over protected bike lanes, you are in fact against safety, no matter how many times you object to that characterization.

'Eagle of the dawn' woven blanket by Anna Brown Ehlers of the Tlingit Chilkat tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast #womensart

"It’s beyond cruel to trap these girls — some are victims of sexual assault — in a state where they have no choice over whether to remain pregnant. Everyone deserves the right to make these fundamental decisions for themselves.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.