Israel has dropped all charges against 5 Israeli soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at a detention facility. A doctor at the facility was so shocked by the man’s condition that he initially assumed it was the work of a rival armed group. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Iran didn't say they were going to attack California... the FBI did.

1. protecting ships in the Strait of Hormuz is nearly impossible & there's no reason for Iran to stop threatening ships. 2. the market can't rely on the TACO trade again, since tRump can't simply decide on his own how the conflict ultimately ends. www.businessinsider.com/oil-prices-i...

The tRumpWar™️ fallout has sent oil prices on a historic tear above $100 &is ricocheting across major airlines, which are certain to hike ticket prices in response. www.dallasnews.com/business/air...

Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen power of highly educated who vote Democrat while increasing the power of working-class men. Karp’s tech will take political capital away from "liberal women with degrees" & give working-class men more political power. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Most existing data centers are plugged into the grid, so they use the same energy supply on which households depend. When demand grows, utility companies often need to pass on costs of grid upgrades to consumers, so households end up paying more for their electricity. fortune.com/2026/03/06/e...

As AI develops closer to autonomous learning, there will have to be new conversations about placing limits on the technology. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

when the american empire finally collapses, historians won't be stunned by the greed of the elite. they'll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor.

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A preliminary US military investigation has reportedly determined that Washington was responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed scores of children. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Many of those returning to South Africa are leaving the US, citing the political situation under Trump. They see that people are shot in broad daylight… American citizens are being shot & killed, referring to ICE’s attacks in Minneapolis & elsewhere. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Instead of embracing his invitation to America, growing numbers of those same expatriates are buying one-way tickets home, disillusioned by the violence, fear & brutality in Trump’s United States. www.thedailybeast.com/white-south-...

Kharg Island is sufficiently important to the Iranian economy that destroying its facilities would abandon any pretence of fighting a war to create a brighter future for Iran because it would deny a successor regime vital oil income. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The SAVE Act would require Americans to produce a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. About half of all Americans don’t have a passport & millions of married women who have changed their names might need to jump through extra hoops to vote. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

The biggest non-combatant beneficiary from Operation Epic Fury has been Putin. His country’s ailing economy gets revenue relief from higher energy prices. To lubricate global supply, Washington has waived sanctions on India buying Russian oil. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The MIC of the future augurs not just a change in technology or business practices, but a culture shift in which militarism is openly celebrated, w/o the need for any cover language about promoting global stability or defending a rules-based international order. www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/10/t...

When tRump re-entered the White House in early 2025, his supporters’ fixation on South Africa grew exponentially. He issued an unprecedented EO & made a startling exception to his antipathy to immigrants by offering expedited refugee status to Afrikaners. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Some evangelicals interpret passages from the Bible to mean the Messiah will reappear­­ only when Jews return to Israel. Once Jesus comes back, those who accept him will be saved & everyone else, including recalcitrant Jews, will perish & be damned to hell. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In 2014, Epstein contacted Thiel to request that “one of your people” meet w/ the individuals behind a start-up that involved Guardicore, whose founders came out of Israeli military intelligence, including its infamous Unit 8200 cyberwarfare division. jacobin.com/2026/03/thie...

The recycling of petrodollars has been the basis of America’s financialization & weaponization of the world’s oil trade & its imperial strategy of isolating countries that resist adherence to the U.S. ruler-based order. www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/09/t...

Impossible to ignore are fears & uncertainty over enormous investments in AI. Companies are spending hundreds of billions on enormous data centers across the country, unprecedented capital expenditures that are seemingly propping up a waning US economy. futurism.com/science-ener...

As CONS were standing to honor tRump, his DoJ was busy suing Oklahoma’s election chief to force the release of private voter data. That’s data that Oklahomans have made crystal clear that they don’t want in anybody’s hands except state election officials. oklahomavoice.com/2026/03/09/h...

For markets, oil crossing triple digits isn't just a headline; it's a direct tax on every business & household simultaneously. US economy shed 92,000 payrolls in February. Unemployment rose to 4.4% www.tradingview.com/news/invezz:...

The evidence of who set the clock of this war is unmistakable. The admission came from the U.S. State Dept. In an unguarded moment, the U.S.admitted that the timing of this war was not an American choice. The made-for-Israel wars will not end with Iran. www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/09/w...

We’re just following orders.

Consider 3 of the biggest developments in US politics right now: - the economy lost 92,000 jobs - tRump fired despised Krusti Noem - the killing of Iranian schoolchildren, the handiwork of the US military. www.alternet.org/trump-s-trif...

The US military said it killed six men on Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oil prices continued to surge, triggering a stark sell-off across some of the world’s leading stock markets amid growing concern that the US-Israel war on Iran could set the stage for a global economic shock. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Figure 2: Theoretical capability & observed exposure by occupational category. Share of job tasks that LLMs could theoretically perform (blue area) & our own job coverage measure derived from usage data (red area). www.anthropic.com/research/lab...

The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized & are embedded in the machinery of government. www.propublica.org/article/elec...

An Australian biotech startup claims to have successfully programmed living human neurons to play the cult-classic 1993 video game Doom. The team created a microelectrode array by growing 200,000 brain cells onto it. interestingengineering.com/science/biol...

We won’t just have individuals who are suffering as a result of job loss once or twice. We can expect serial job loss & chronic uncertainty & therefore chronic anxiety about one’s future, one’s future in the workplace & future capacity to sustain themselves economically. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Democracy usually involves voters, primaries, debates, competition. But apparently we’re trying something new, “succession planning”. Apparently the voters of Montana will no longer choose their Senator. Instead, the sitting Senator (& tRump) simply appoints one. www.alternet.org/steve-daines...

tRump has appointed more than 200 people who collectively owned, either by themselves or w/ their spouses, between $175M & $340M in cryptocurrency investments. Some of those appointees now hold positions overseeing or influencing regulation of the crypto industry. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

If you listen to some of AI’s lead players, AI will have the capacity to replace workers across multiple businesses, as it develops strengths that go beyond the purely mechanical. aswathdamodaran.substack.com/p/the-ai-dis...

Corporate AI’s destructive impacts on this planet are only set to expand. Consider that by 2034, data centers that power AI are expected to consume as much energy as all of India. The increased energy costs are being passed onto everyday households. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/opin...

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I put an end to what does not please me. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along w/ this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

hard to believe the country founded on genocide & built by slavery is slipping into fascism

If a war is illegally waged, there’s no point demanding a rationale or hoping for a successful outcome. www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/06/i...

Operation AIPAC Fury

just remember, it took 2.5 trillion dollars & 20 years to replace the Taliban w/ the Taliban.

Researchers singled out the trait recognized as “right-wing authoritarianism,” which describes a preference for strict obedience to authority, conformity to traditional social norms & hostility toward people who break those norms. www.alternet.org/maga-2675343...

When it comes to foreign policy, US presidents have been ignoring Congress at will & defying constitutional requirements for levying war, for decades. www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/05/o...

Roughly half of global food production depends on synthetic nitrogen & crop yields would fall w/o fertilizer. The resulting shortages would push up the prices of household staples such as bread, pasta & potatoes & make animal feed more costly. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Polymarket seldom scruples on the ethics of its prediction markets, allowing users to profit on plenty of war-related outcomes & deadly disasters. futurism.com/science-ener...

What we’re seeing with tRump is the favoring of some places & viewpoints over others & an increase in prosecutions to blur the line between speech & intimidation & protests. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The cost of U.S. goods will rise. The conflict has already put upward pressure on oil & natural gas. In turn this will put pressure on global inflation. Rising energy prices impact all kinds of transportation, chemicals, fertilizers & food prices. www.the-independent.com/us/money/ira...

When a sitting US Ambassador says it would be “fine” if Israel absorbed the entire Middle East because Genesis says so, we have left the realm of policy & entered the realm of apocalyptic real estate speculation. www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/03/a...

The US-led war on Iran has already caused a high civilian toll. The US-based Human Rights Activist news agency says at least 742 civilians have been reported killed, of whom 85 had been confirmed & verified. The number reported killed included 176 children. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...