Took me a month to get around to reading this, but here Der Spiegel reports that the CIA had very early knowledge of Ukraine's secret op to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline, and officials even hinted US support before Washington tried to stop the whole thing. www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

All Axon has to do to prevent Seattle from pausing data collection is not even ask for data -- just take it. Feds have already done this at the state level. At minimum, expansion of this tech needs to stop. Ideally, we should pause its use altogether as these tools are being used to abuse people.

The world is failing so many tests of solidarity these days, but the one in Cuba is so heartbreaking since it's also so near. The hemisphere is simply allowing the US to starve a neighbor whose primary export is medical services. www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/w...

I don’t want to sound like a hippie or anything but if you’re out in the wilderness and see a coyote and it briefly turns to look at you, you will understand down to the floor of your soul that we are not on earth to pay health insurance premiums

Axon is actually way more embedded in public infrastructure than Flock ever was -- Flock was just trying to get on their level. Why are we not talking about them? Dems are even patting themselves on the back for canceling Flock contracts just to go to them instead. jacobin.com/2026/03/axon...

Signing this letter only takes a moment. Don't let Mayor Wilson add another layer to the panopticon.

Why the USA can't afford anything.

Here is video right after the horrific war crime. They're holding up the blood-stained flag from the woman who was martyred by the missile. #Iran

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

lol, Trump attacked Iran and all the little Hitlers lined up to goosestep in lockstep

Schultz fleeing a prospective wealth tax--just like his fellow billionaires in California--goes to show that state level wealth taxes should include common sense provisions to imprison billionaires until they pay it.

Gonna be fun watching NAFO guys who oppose Trump's war in Iran explain why Americans get to do conscientious objection but Ukrainians do not

“Much of the American public associates abundance with the ideas put forth by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson...While they are certainly part of the picture, the incomplete policy ideas championed in the airplane book are only a glimpse of the entire abundance universe." Read the report. If you can. 🤢

More Iran War coverage with Radio War Nerd. Babylon Will Fall: www.patreon.com/posts/1016-p...

There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.

One underreported aspect of this war is that Shi'a eschatology clearly states that the End Times will be ushered in by colossal injustices inflicted upon Shi'a believers by evil powers. This belief will likely further strengthen the resolve of the Iranian regime and its most loyal supporters.

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Not surprising in the least.. isreal is behind the Saudi armaco Oil Field attack not Iran Al Jazeera English Netanyahu must be in panic mode as Saudis figure out Israel did false flag on their oil fields to blame Iran 👀

One is inseparable from the other—home policy is inseparable from foreign policy.

The technological capabilities of the Iranian government are truly unparalleled if they actually killed 30k people in protests and we don’t have any evidence of that scale of mass death. 4 days into the bombing and I’ve seen pictures of hundreds of bodies.

We try to sane-wash it otherwise, but the military’s primary function is to defend capital. That we keep spending ungodly sums for that purpose reflects the depth of capitalism’s crisis

What in the ever loving fuck is this shit? If this is true it means there is a literal god damn doomsday cult in the military. jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

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

Waiting for Americans to realize that Iran is four times the size of Iraq, three times the size of Ukraine, and has as many professional engineers as the United States despite having a quarter of the U.S. population.

The White House also internally committed to a policy of regime change, but did not share that with Congress (or the public) until after the bombs started flying.

The impressions you get from this article: *Netanyahu made the decision to attack. *Trump went along with it. *Internal voices urging caution (Generals, and uh, Tucker Carlson) were ignored. *Voices arguing for escalation (Vance) gained influence (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Just a few weeks ago, all these European powers spoke of the threat that the US now presents to Europe. They talked about the possibility of Trump attacking Greenland, like it was an imminent and existential danger. Now Trump unilaterally bombs Iran and they all fall in lockstep

I admit, I do not understand why it's considered illegal to shoot back at the countries hosting military bases that are being used to bomb you.

The goal *is* the wasteland-ification of much of MENA so that Israel and the Emirates can rule over rubble.

Far likelier that the sheer emboldening of the US and Israel on the basis of being able to destabilize and balkanize any country they like at any time and for any reason will only lead them to do it to Egypt, or Turkey, or Saudi Arabia.

Those who speculate that without IRI the US will finally clamp down on Israel's transgressions in other arenas are deluded beyond comprehension. If one takes the likes of Blinken, Lew, Hochstein and McGurk at their word, which their word is nearly identical to that of Kushner, this will not happen.

for those fixated on congressional authorization, i get it. this is a massive violation of our constitutional order. even so, congress *cannot* legitimize an illegal war. there is nothing congress can do to make it legal under int'l law.

BREAKING: Israeli air strikes have targeted Blat and Wadi Barghouti in several attacks across southern Lebanon’s Iqlim al-Tuffah region, marking the latest violation of a ceasefire reached in November 2024 between Israel and Hezbollah aje.news/rfb3rn

BREAKING: Israel has launched a “preventative” attack against Iran, as witnesses say they have heard explosions in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to the Reuters news agency.

Read the whole thread. It show how the Harrell and @ricoque-opcd.bsky.social is fighting to condemn all renters to tiny corridors of polluted roads. Blood will be on their hands if we let them follow through. Let's fight to expand corridors and allow renters to live in safe quite neighborhoods.

My new shirt design is so powerful that part of it had to be redacted for the preview image roryblank.bigcartel.com

Jesus Fuck

Imagine two cows having sex. Now imagine them wearing tiny hats. What's wrong with you?

They 100% trained them to do this and this was a deliberate choice to create this exact headline, which was absolutely necessary to write but also the intended result

"The most famous case of SPD using surveillance cameras to 'solve' a crime was last year when SPD arrested an innocent person for arson and murder based on CCTV footage. The person was interrogated by SPD for over 10 hours, charged with arson and murder, spent over a month in jail..."

"The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsible for ordering the killing of Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes in 2018."

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

These comments are extraordinary. The head of the CARE Team is saying that the police contract negotiated by Bruce Harrell and approved by council (under the police chief Katie Wilson retained) effectively prevents the team from responding to almost any of the calls they were created to respond to.

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...