"Doctors are manually operating ventilators in order to keep babies alive in Cuba. The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. crime against humanity." xcancel.com/mhdksafa/sta...

WHUT?

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

Rick Steves: "Know people before you bomb them." On Death, Sex & Money, the travel writer reflects on the 2009 episode of his show on Iran. Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/MGQw7_-6uCw?...

Iran has created a "Q route" (a cleared maritime passage through an area that may be mined or otherwise closed) and they're charging a $2 million toll per ship to pass through.

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

🚨 US military document leaked to shows how the Pentagon is working with private companies to manipulate the information you see about the Iran war www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leaked-doc...

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

Did the media "miss it" or do they just want a pat on the head from this admin for ignoring it?

Exactly 5 minutes BEFORE Trump announced a 5-day delay in bombing Iranian power plants, someone purchased $1.5 billion worth of S&P futures in a single trade. Someone also sold $192 million in oil futures. Trump and/or his cronies are engaging in market manipulation and insider trading.

Trump: "Look at the way Iran attacked unexpectedly all of those countries surrounding them. That was not supposed to-- nobody was even thinking about it."

The collapse of AI cannot happen soon enough.... www.consumerreports.org/data-centers...

Reposting the image with alt text. So EVERYONE can see which of the thirteen airports will have ICE agents on site

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

The United States committed this crime on Cuba

Uh. So to be clear: first power the data centres, then the human settlement? I dunno, that seems… bad?

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

#ResistanceEarth Twenty years ago, Florida was a leader in climate change action. Now, amid soaring heat, soaring gas prices and soaring hurricane damage, the Repubs who control the state have doubled down, preventing communities from making "net-zero" pledges. floridaphoenix.com/2026/03/19/f...

Dynamic pricing is just another way to say price gouging when applied to daily necessities. It should be banned, especially in a crisis like the pandemic or war as illegal profiteering.

The leadership of Stetson University College of Law, located in Gulfport, Florida, is facing the very real prospect of donations drying up in large part because of alumna Pam Bondi's performance as Donald Trump's attorney general.

As reported in the UK. Barely noticed on this side of the pond

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk found liable for misleading investors in Twitter takeover. Damages could cost him billions.

“underfeeding detainees drives them to spend more at the commissary – if they can afford it. It's not uncommon that the commissary at immigration detention centers is run by a subsidiary of the same company that provides food service”

6 months before bombing Iran and closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump admin fired the State Dept. oil and gas experts. The people who modeled exactly this scenario. The ones with contacts at Gulf energy ministries. Now nobody knows who to call. You can't make this up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

WAIT. WHUT????

Wife just told me this one: What’s the difference between Iran and Vietnam? Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.

To put that gigantic number into perspective, TOTAL non-defense discretionary federal spending is $783 billion. That includes everything from highways to the FBI to border security to the CDC, FEMA, and the rest. Trump wants defense spending to be 1.2 times higher than all other spending combined.

What does Trump do about this, I wonder?

New from 404 Media: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. Spoke to people briefed on plans. This isn't licensed PIs/bounty hunters. These are just former police/military; members of public "Something doesn't sound right" www.404media.co/contractor-p...

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

Amazing and appalling (but no longer surprising) that Trump won’t call out Putin. He reserves his anger for NATO allies.

“[J]udge orders Kari Lake’s Voice of America to bring back 1,000 fired workers” 3/17/25

"We don't give a shit about Americans, tbh...."

Did you know that 6th months ago, while presumably we were planning this stupid war, the Navy decommissioned its four Avenger-class minesweepers that had been stationed in Bahrain precisely to deal with Iranian mines in the Strait? More from @jvl.bsky.social . www.thebulwark.com/p/our-low-iq...

For 6 months, residents of New Hill, NC organized to stop a massive data center from bulldozing their farmland. "The project will not be moving forward. It's over." — Apex Mayor Pro Tem Terry Mahaffey The people won. 🔥 Read the full story: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-resist...

For anyone up late and eager to be pissed off: Ohio Republicans have introduced a bill that would require every pregnancy to be registered with the state and given a "certificate of life" jessica.substack.com/p/ohio-gop-w...

You can DECLINE to stop giving people e.coli?

WILD: Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei wounded when U.S. & Israel killed his father was secretly flown to Moscow for surgery. Putin personally invited him. He’s reportedly recovering in Putin’s presidential residence in Moscow. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AQw0ZAbitSzO...

NARRATOR: Cuba is, in fact, in the hurricane zone.

Glad Susie Wiles is getting the healthcare she needs for breast cancer so she can continue working with Donald Trump to strip healthcare from average Americans. 🙄

PERFECT!!! Plus...

Just 37 of 11,776 Israeli public shelters are located in Arab towns. Yes just 37. And of The 37 shelters in Arab towns include eight that have been deemed unfit for public use. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

(apologies for going for the low hanging fruit, but:) if you're a star they let you do anything

The University of Florida is deactivating the campus College Republicans as a registered student group after some members engaged in antisemitism. This marks the 2nd time this month that a public university in Florida acted against a GOP group accused of racist or antisemitic behavior. Gift article

The way he describes the antichrist sounds a lot like....Trump.

In a survey of 1,000 hiring managers, 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles.

They're going to fill their shitty warehouse with veterans so Core Civic, et al can make money treating homeless veterans like shit. I cannot understand why ANY current or former military support this man.