This is at least the third attack on democratic official residences by right wing actors in under a year no? there were the murders of the minnesotta state reps the burning of the PA governor residence and now this?

@thejan6plaque.bsky.social Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

it's only 4 times larger than Iraq, has only 90 million people, only 95% of it is mountain or desert and they've only been mentally prepping for being invaded for 40 years. Gonna be a breeze

This seems ominous if you care about the rise of fully autonomous robots used for killing people

Damn.

For those who can't bypass the paywall, the Obama administration, CIA determined that a single strike on a single Saudi water desalination plant would require evacuation of Riyadh and collapse its government. The Saudis have beefed up their infrastructure since, but I would rather not find out.

Food is not the most immediate concern, water is. A few strategic bombings by Iran on desalination plants, and most of Saudia Arabia will literally die of thirst within a week www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Never let them tell you that enshittification was a mystery. Enshittification isn't downstream of the "iron laws of economics" or an unrealistic demand by "consumers" to get stuff for free. 1/

feels telling about American foreign policy punditry that while many decry the aimlessness of Trump’s monstrously wrong Iran war there were far more outraged columns over the harm done to US power and influence and standing and interests and example when Biden rightly withdrew from Afghanistan.

“A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment.” wapo.st/4lcrq3M

Gosh, who coulda foreseen this? (Hint: literally anyone, ever)

NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

I see we’re at the starting-new-wars-so-I-can-claim-I-ended-them stage of the out-of-control Trump regime.

I will never get over how the result of going through a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, including 1.2 million Americans—and where we swiftly created an effective vaccine for it—was massive growth in anti-vax sentiment, the rise of RFK Jr., and the return of fucking measles.

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

Remember what they took from you

Pro-AI groups spent roughly $1.3 million backing Foushee, who is now heavily favored to win the November general election in North Carolina’s Democrat-dominated 4th Congressional District.

* KUWAIT CONFIRMS CUTS IN OIL PRODUCTION AND REFINING THROUGHPUT @bloomberg.com

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

Nintendo suing US government over tariffs aftermath.site/nintendo-tarif...

in the criminal justice system, the people are mostly represented by a public defender, who protect their rights against the crimes of the state. these are their stories.

Funny I’m no expert and I started to question this ages ago

I haven't cried since I visited the Renee Good memorial in Minneapolis. This piece made me sob. How are we letting this happen? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This guy is seething

It is February 2022. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process. It is February 2026. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.

The most scathing critics of Silicon Valley circa 2014 barely scratched the surface of the treachery these companies have shown. Providing your products to criminal regimes planning to use them to violate human rights on a massive scale is a choice!

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Yeah, that seems like a good idea!

one of the many issues with public health comms now being dominated by influencers instead of institutions is the broader loss of strategic planning and organization. ask me how i know

Texas why. Stop voting for these losers

​A convenient establishment leak reveals the Pentagon prefers burning billions on Patriot missiles over asking Ukraine how to swat down flying lawnmowers. As Washington bleeds cash to counter cheap Iranian drones, Gulf allies quietly call Kyiv to do the job the superpower cannot afford. #GiftArticle

Stand Up For Science announces Mrs. Frazzled (@mrs-frazzled.bsky.social) as a speaker at the Virtual National Day of Action rally on Saturday, March 7th! (tr.ee/virtual-rally) Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find local rally! #standupforscience #March7Virtual #science #rally #savescience

the duration of the conflict is one thing, 'keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed' is another, because while there are ton of actors involved almost all of them have a vested interest in reopening passage. Even the Houthis have ties to China, where about a third of that oil goes in normal times.

The next time someone says, "Oh, I'm just going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, what's the big deal?" you should show them this

damn, if the Childcrusher 5000 GTX pickup truck owners can’t afford gas, how are they going to be able to tote their massive loads of a single loaf of bread and a canned Starbucks latte

“We want to make sure that science is not only well funded but is also used appropriately for the good of the public and to better the human experience across the world. That’s what publicly funded science should do.” - Colette Delawalla

So they basically told her that if she flew back she'd be thrown in a notorious concentration camp

Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

one reason i do not want Hegseth's idea of boots on the ground is that it's quickly going to turn into some horrific bullshit

Wrote with @swin24.bsky.social about how the White House is posting fascist memes about GTA and Call of Duty to make themselves laugh about their war as it threatens to blow up the global economy zeteo.com/p/trump-iran...

this is explicitly genocidal

At least three commercial fishing crews off the coast of NJ between 2016-2023 were exposed to mustard agent dredged up from the ocean floor where until 1970 the US dumped 17,000 tons of unspent chemical weapons from WWI and II in the Atlantic.

"Fire hurts," complains arsonist www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket. When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.” Video + interview with her and her daughter: