I wish Hegseth would just say that he doesn’t care that he murdered 174 little girls rather than telling these stupid lies to cover up the fact that they disabled the intelligence officer that might have prevented this calamity

Heating oil prices in the UK have trebled in a week. 2 million homes, no price cap protection, no warning. Heat pumps + solar are multiple times more efficient, don’t require an oil tank and oil deliveries and are an insurance against such frightening price spikes.

My mood these days is a combination of low-res brain fog and constant moral injury

"I think many people in academia could do more if they wanted to. They could reorient part of their research line to the climate crisis in a similar way to how, during [WWII], many people repurposed themselves for the war effort. Or...be an activist or advocate." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"But unlike [Renee Good and Alex Pretti], Martinez was not protesting - he was driving by the scene of a road accident where ICE officers were helping to direct traffic."

This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure. This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research. Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease share.google/Vm0hfSMfkGIc...

I like this analogy, and I'm going to try to figure out how to expand it to encompass the fact that at volumes greater than a sip—a novel, a movie, even a three-minute video clip—AI turns inevitably to bilgewater.

Insanity.

Trump is not the unfortunate victim of job “losses”; he is destroying jobs, especially manufacturing jobs. And in savaging medical and scientific grants and going to war with universities, Trump is further undercutting one of America’s greatest sources of long-term growth and productivity

BOOK REC TIME TO ALLL

He *still* thinks "asylum seekers" means "came out of a mental asylum".

LOUIS!! 😍

The CIA-backed coup against Prime Minister Mosaddegh which installed the Shah is also key for understanding why some Iranians invaded the U.S. embassy in 1979 (tragically taking the employees hostage). Many believed the prior coup was planned in the embassy and feared another would happen.

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But... ...maybe there wasn't much planning?

This is why I find it interesting that, in the week after this person (the 7th US service member killed in Trump's illegal war), DOD never managed to evacuate them to Ramstein to treat injuries suffered on March 1.

Wait what?

Again, the unifying 🧵 about Trump’s foreign policy is not realism or neo-royalism. It’s the extension of sexual assault/predation/partner abuse to IR. If he thinks you’re his macho pal, he’ll respect you/your sovereignty. If not, he’ll try to violate you & humiliate you. Epstein-ism, if you like.

The thing is, these are conversations a parent should be having cheerfully, calmly, over and over again throughout their children's lives. There is no BIG DIFFICULT conversation unless the parent has been, sorry, frankly, fucking up and being a pusillanimous titwhistle for years. I speak as a queer

Brilliant 🏆 Isata Kanneh-Mason absolutely tears through Rachmaninoff’s fiendish Piano Concerto No. 3 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Ask yourself where all that money went? (Spoiler: to those who need it least) — Trump continues to make the rich richer. Heads they win, tails we lose. Yet we always have money for war and bombs. They don’t care really about the debt and never did. fortune.com/2026/03/06/t...

taps the sign of something i said regarding another pixar project

I don't know if Trump thinks in these terms, but I do think he believes that he can leverage chaotic situations (see also tariffs) which causes him to double down in cases where the costs are going to be borne by others

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

Okay this is funny

Page One in UK: @telegraph.co.uk

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

They have refused to comment to other journalists as to if they are even still providing care: :Mount Sinai Health System declined to comment, as did the publicly run NYC Health and Hospitals. Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office declined to comment further on the matter.: gothamist.com/news/future-...

Listened to this at 6 minutes in or so. It’s not directly stated, but it appears the reason that Mamdani has not directed H+H to absorb trans patients is out of fear of the federal government. “It’s part of the game we have to play with the federal government .” It’s the EXACT logic NYU is using.

Links: time.com/7382697/trum... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

He killed over 200 schoolchildren.

Trump and MAGA have committed many atrocities Family separation ICE beating, shooting and killing people Dismantling USAID-which has led to thousands of deaths Slashing $1 trillion from Medicaid-which will kill thousands more But the school bombing in Iran is particularly inhuman-even for them

I double checked. This is not being reported at WaPo. www.ft.com/content/09fa...

So the fact that we bombed a girls elementary school, while likely using AI for targeting, is going to be a major headline story dominating American news coverage when exactly?

Good morning ☀️ Today's inspiration from Ukrainian cheerleaders doing the unexpected, finding joy, in wartime. "We train no matter what. When it's dark, & we're walking through the street while everything is burning. When there's no light. I tell my girls: 'We are the light.'" ✨We are the light✨

Fossils show exceptionally rare evidence of a cloacal vent—the slit that most vertebrates use to excrete, have sex and lay egg—which could shed light on the evolution of the orifice

The Justice Department released *some* of the missing files, namely FBI interview notes from the woman alleging Epstein trafficked her as a young teen to Trump, Trump sexually assaulted her, and then she later endured a series of threats not to talk. Very dark reading www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

When I wrote a piece about my son's love of reading in January, I included this bit because I refuse to hear lectures about literacy rates from the selfsame ghouls and vandals who've cheered on as the UK's apparatus for childhood reading has been stripped to the wiring and sold off for scrap.

Pretty compelling piece overall on who might be best positioned to finally bring the Democratic Party's leadership closer to its own base on Israel-Palestine. I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion but I think it demonstrates a serious thinking we need in the lead-up to 2028.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

📌This is an AP photo of graves being dug at a cemetery in Minab, Iran, before the funeral for children and teachers killed in a U.S. airstrike on a school there Feb. 28. 📌To bloodthirsty MAGA asking why the school was next to a naval base, shut up. WE have schools ON our bases overseas.

To Gen Z from an elder millennial: Do not let these filthy politicians convince you there is honour in fighting their Holy Resource Wars. It is bonkers. Stay in school, get an education, help us create a world without war.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...