After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
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Israeli forces have killed this entire family in Lebanon.

“I want to help people see what it means to be a neighbor and not just read Torah about what kind of neighbor we have to be, but actually get closer to our neighbors… We’re really trying to translate our story into our own obligations.”

Well, in this formulation, it makes a little bit more sense the way he phrased it. Since Israelis, like a lot, if not most Jews, do see the shoah as the greatest modern catastrophe that’s befallen us.

"Netanyahu biggest disaster for Israelis since Holocaust: Erdoğan"

"Israeli" was not a national identity that existed during the Holocaust, so this is a weird thing to say.

Who coulda predicted?

Oh right, anyone whose head wasn’t wedged permanently up Trump’s butt.

And also, while everybody’s looking over there, ICE is still terrorizing my city and my friends’ cities. Bleh.

Right?!?!

I was sitting here today thinking why hasn’t any other president done this? Because every one of them could see that it would be futile.

Then I turned off my phone for a while so I could marinate in the absolutely pointless destruction.

Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestselle... ♥・10h O 2/ I asked Al, "Can you wear a crop top for Iftar?" As Rama Duwaji is doing: Al Overview It is generally advised not to wear a crop top for Iftar. Ramadan is a time for modesty and respect, requiring covered shoulders and knees. Crop tops, which expose the midriff, are considered too revealing for traditional, public, or family Iftar gatherings. Opt for modest, loose, or flowing, comfortable clothing. ® 0 2 L7 10 © 81 ıl 6.2K Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestseller... • X.com @naomirwolf 3/ It is super rude by the way, in observant Muslim norms, for the hostess to reveal her midriff at an Iftar celebration in the presence of men who are not her husband and in the presence of Mahmoud Khalil's wife, who is veiled as is far more religiously customary. 10:38 PM • 3/9/26 • 5.6K Views

No idea who this Naomi Wolf person is but can people not be normal about Arab and Muslim women?

If you know this, why the fuck don’t the generals know this? or did they fire every general who knew this? I believe YOU know this. I believe that maybe some generals left know this. But I don’t think any general could tell anyone in this regime not to do this.

Bronze trump looming over the shoulder of bronze Epstein

it’s a mite frightening in the dark lol

Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target.

We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

Academy of the Hebrew Language website hacked * * *

Hackers took over the website of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and posted “No need to learn Hebrew anymore. You won’t need it for much longer” on it in English. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Tweet from Oren Kessler: "Aside from Rama Duwaji liking those October 7 posts, it's unfortunate that the first lady of New York City's social media bio is what's known in the literature as a lie Duwaji was born in Houston and grew up there, in Jersey and in Dubai. She's not "from damascus" by any stretch"

Listen, if you're a supporter of an ideology that says every Jewish person on earth has a right to live in their ancestral homeland, even if their family has not lived there in many generations, you don't get to tell a second-generation Syrian-American that she doesn't get to identify with Syria.

This is pretty illustrative on how awful the Canadian government can be at multiple levels.

And buses.

The optics of a racial justice organization run by white people endorsing the dude who had a Nazi tatto are...not great.

I really try not to only post about the horrors trans people are facing, but everyone needs to understand that this is genocide. Your average trans person is basically chronically depressed because society wants us dead. Imagine if the state came up to you and took your medication away

If the Iran war leads to more terrorism targeting the US and Israel, it will be used as an argument to justify further war. As opposed to proof that these wars lead to worse outcomes.

This is the mad logic of militaristic cultures, in which failure leads to even more of the same.

An easy place to boycott.

V.A. Begins Drive to Put Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship

The admin has cut tens of thousands of healthcare jobs from the VA while they seek to permanently and involuntarily institutionalize homeless vets.

V.A. Begins Drive to Put Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship

“Rights advocates said they were alarmed by the proposal, which they saw as part of a drive by the administration to place homeless people in institutional settings against their will.”

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

Borderline Personality Trump and the Uses of Press Myopia Every president wants favorable press coverage. Most feel a surprising level of...

Josh Marshall: Trump governs the country by a kind of manic coaxing which thrives on the ability to keep as many people fixated on the crisis of the moment without remembering that it was preceded by an endless litany of other crises with similar branding.

Fair play, 'the mad emperor started compulsively buying shoes for his court, guessing their foot size & his courtiers were too scared not to wear them even when they didn't fit' is some classic, on the nose End Days Of The Empire stuff

Amen. Ah-mein. Ameen.

ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor’s mansion ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate,’ an ADL spokesperson said

I'd love a long read on exactly what in God's name happened to the ADL

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NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert