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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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"There is no scientific evidence autistic children benefit from ear defenders" is technically true if you don't count the child asking for the ear defenders as evidence

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Mason County mother, daughter reject millions as data center land dispute continues A mother and daughter in Mason County are rejecting multimillion-dollar offers for their land as a proposed data center project continues to move forward, and they say they're not budging.

A mother and daughter in Kentucky have rejected multimillion-dollar offers for their land, offers made by an anonymous tech company trying to build a data center.

Ida Huddleston has turned down $4,260,000.

Her daughter turned down $22,224,000.

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HUGE.

This

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They do Nazi shit because they are Nazis

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jfc.

oh

We need reparations for ICE victims.

Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

Surely the President’s task force on antisemitism will be looking into this pronto to figure out how this could have happened.

also the “I met with some Jewish leaders in New York and they didn’t think a totenkopf was even a big deal,” FUCKING LIAR. WHICH “JEWISH LEADERS”? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT????

I wanna see this mfer try to survive a week on SNAP

there is no such thing as a facially qualified trump administration appointee because the trump administration's project is facially disqualifying and i will keep saying it into the void to keep myself sane

To those who never stop asking well, what do you expect the Democrats to DO???

Stop doing this for starters.

Jesus Christ

Anna is right. I’m fairly certain that home security systems have killed more women than they saved. Abusers are much more likely to use them to escalate violence than police are to intervene.

After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?”

And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

I hate this so much because there is no, and has never been any, demand to impose sharia law in this country.

On the other hand, we do have religious extremists currently stealing our freedom and those guys should stop.

Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."

It is true that there is a lot of popular sentiment about this, but it is insane and made up.

this is disgraceful but it’s also notable that they’re running the exact same playbook that completely failed to beat him in the election and it’s even less effective now that voters can contrast that with Mamdani’s actual behavior as mayor

there is an extremely long list of people who need to be held accountable in the next administration but sending the DOGE boys to big boy jail needs to be near the top of the list