If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

As a surgeon, I am not allowed to operate on someone without their fully informed consent. A mentally competent patient has the right to make her own decision even if I think it’s a bad/dangerous one. You document the conversation, and you move on. It is not complicated. FFS

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

Vietnam was a catastrophe and there were objectively smart people in charge. I’m sure this will go great with the dumbest secdef in history who got the job because Trump thinks he looks good on tv and is good at blowing the sun up the president’s ass

They can’t do that if you cancel your subscription 👍

They have arrest quotas and are using surveillance software to target and round people up. Abolish this shit right now before it somehow gets even worse.

Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after AI facial recognition mistakenly linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

Another entitled little shit who’s definitely getting an F from @johntrterry.bsky.social

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

“The arrest of the soldiers prompted fury from hard-line ultranationalists who violently overran the prison in protest. Members of Israel’s far-right government called the investigation into their conduct an affront to their service.”

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Unfortunately this is true. Shit + mud if you live in the burbs

HELPFUL FLOWCHART Are you a dude who is about to reply guy mansplain an expert woman on Bluesky? / \ Yes No / \ Don't Good

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

Oh, wow

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

senator sheehy should be fired and arrested. what a fucking traitor.

It remains to be seen if the evidence will stand up in court.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

We're all trapped in the twisted reality of a few because they lack the imagination to see other people as human. That's literally it.

This blind man - a refugee from Burma - was dropped off by Border Patrol at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo, NY. In the middle of February. A mile from a home where he no longer lived. While his relatives were searching for him. Cops found his body 5 days later www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Guess I’ll just have to keep pointing out that voting is a constitutional right, and flying and buying beer are not

Rep. Haridopolos: "It's shocking to me still today that 14 states don't allow a situation where they can get away with actually not having voter ID. It's comical. You can't buy a beer, you need an ID to board a plane."

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

“I hope this news brings some joy to all who need to hear it,” she said. “As an important side note, I would like to be called Dr. Öztürk, not Miss Öztürk, from now on.” 👏👏👏

Love her

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So, the US govt approach is: *We are going to scan tourists social media accounts and deny visas because of content we dislike, like mocking Trump and *We are going to allow foreigners a work-around to consume social media content their governments have banned, including hate speech

SO SATISFYING

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham

Rev. Jesse Jackson's life was a tireless fight for the cause of justice. He inspired countless others to do the same. “The arc of the moral universe is long and it bends towards justice, but you have to pull it to bend. It doesn’t bend automatically.”

BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi. Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.

“I enjoy driving 90 miles an hour without a seatbelt, particularly after drinking, let me explain” “I don’t cook my meat, let me explain” 🤦‍♀️

SCOOP: I have the first interview with the 36-year-old South Jersey man whose tearful protest against an ICE raid at a school bus stop has been watched more than 3 million times How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

This is interesting. In other words, Minneapolis is producing an overall strengthening of the social contract, including towards the undocumented. That's a stark rebuttal to MAGA theory, which holds that the silent majority agrees that foreign invaders threaten national social cohesion

1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.

The fact that large parts of the German media landscape “reported” on this White nationalist fever dream of a speech by Rubio as merely reaffirming the transatlantic alliance is so far removed from reality that it truly makes me speechless.

Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.

Basically, an ahistorical and illogical defense of colonialism, ethno-religious supremacy, and blood and soil nationalism - delivered in GERMANY. FFS 🤮

The “classical education” right do not actually do any reading of classical texts. They just know that British imperialists knew Latin and Greek and so push for that as a pro-“western-civ” position.

Nine and ten year olds, fleeing in fear. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

Who’s going to tell them