there are millions of cars on the road with "full self-driving" systems that require dynamic intervention in safety-critical situations by the person behind the wheel... and even after more than 50 deaths, regulators haven't issued a single requirement for driver monitoring, etc
Woman with child under stadium, in front of tents.
Women on concrete pad, carrying bags, children in foreground.
Women and children in foreground, bombing in background.
Woman checking phone on concrete, bombing in distance.
Displaced people and bombing, Beirut, Lebanon:
1 - Anwar Amro/AFP
2 - Hassan Ammar/AP Photo
3 & 4 - Adri Salido/Getty Images
From: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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The Chicago Police Department’s bolstered training in the execution of search warrants will soon mean an increase in residential searches by CPD officers, Superintendent Larry Snelling told a federal judge Tuesday.
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Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.
That's about the same as the Oklahoma City bombing toll, of course our government is now controlled by a bunch of racist Turner Diaries enthusiasts and insurretionists who would have probably pardoned Timothy McVeigh.
Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.
New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deaf–and his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
Latest attacks in Lebanon leave nearly 400 dead as two Israeli soldiers killed
Maybe the most impressive headline distortionism I've ever seen
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
Ryan Coogler said, ”I wanted to be a director since I was 17 and found out what it was. But way before that, I wanted to be a part of a union.”
Here’s Coogler discussing the influence of his family’s union memberships.
deadline.com/2026/02/ryan...
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Trump tells Times of Israel: The decision to end the war with Iran will be a joint decision in consultation with Netanyahu.
This repeats yet another pattern from the Iraq War. When the Iraqis did not behave as the Americans wanted — without the deference and gratitude that a foreign military occupier felt it was due — they became targets.
A. This is awful and no one, wherever you stand on the death penalty, should be okay with it
B. This is a good headline that refuses to equivocate
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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.
There are open passages for rainwater etc between the road & the sidewalks in Tehran. Some of them seem to be filled with flaming oil thanks to US/Israel targeting of civilian infrastructure. This will spread the fire quickly. Ppl, homes thru the city are at risk of burning. x.com/Conflict_Rad...
WH official: “We want to seize all the oil from Iran. The long-term benefit is getting massive oil reserves out of the hands of terrorists.”
W.H.O.: US and Israel attacked At least 13 hospitals and health facilities in Iran flip.it/ulihkZ
Iranians are claiming that US has targeted water desalination planta on the Qeshm island (directly on top of the Strait of Hormuz. I don’t see this reported in Aljazeera or western media yet.
www.turkiyetoday.com/region/iran-...
The U.S. State Department said on Friday it has made a determination approving a possible foreign military sale to Israel of munitions and munitions support for $151.8 million, without congressional review. www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
