Oh, good. This is just getting better and better. 😐
14.03.2026 16:50
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Oh, good. This is just getting better and better. 😐
Do you remember how you found out that linguistics existed and was a thing you could get enthusiastic about?
"Thought-provoking... an allegorical tale about humanity’s inherent morality."
Artem Chapeye's THE WEATHERING (tr. by Daisy Gibbons) reviewed in @wwborders.bsky.social.
Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
And Iran has already basically stopped the flow of oil through Hormuz, so.... 🤔
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Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
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Hey, so by law I am supposed to name a lot of individual officers. The Architect’s office has handled that (on interim basis?) but by hanging a 45-page PDF with all the names on its website.
Check out to QR or go direct to www.aoc.gov/sites/defaul...
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#xl8 😒
Video of the March 2025 fatal shooting of American citizen Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims by federal officials that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over" another agent with his car.
CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
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:
Blowtorching diplomatic and humanitarian capacity while burning through military capabilities and alienating allies is malpractice of the highest order by the Secretary of State, the nation's top DIPLOMAT, and by the National Security Advisor. It does not help the military to kill US diplomacy. 14/
🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
People are rightly concerned about the idea that decisions to go to war might turn on the President’s whim, on his opinion, alone, that Iran was “going to attack.”
But —> 🧵
I think LLMs have uses, but "1,000 targets, including a girls elementary school we hit twice with precision munitions" is indeed representative of their state-of-the-art—and likely a fundamental limitation of the technology.
Sometimes sloppiness is okay; sometimes it's 160 dead children.
Tell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake but is 100% true.
uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68
Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.
Literally, "abolishing."
yougov.com/en-us/articl...
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
23% among GOP, wow
According to Rubio: 1. Leader of weaker ally (Country A) tells leader of stronger ally (Country B) that it is determined to attack Country C. 2. Country B fears that if this happens, Country C will attack both Countries A & B. 3. So Country B goes ahead and attacks Country C too. (Rather than telling Country A: Don’t do it.) Obviously in this case A=Netanyahu/Israel; B=Trump/US; C=Islamic Iran. Any other historical scenario that matches what Rubio has laid out?
Calling diplo/military historians:
Have attached summary of what seems to be Rubio's rationale [sic] for why US had to attack *now.*
What's the closest comparison in US or other history of a major power following the logic Rubio claims prevailed here?
Actual question—looking for compare/contrast.
It’s been a while, so quote this skeet with your favourite $20 dollar word.
I’m going to start in hopes you all y’all escalate:
- inchoate
- perfunctory
- epiphenomenal
Now you all y’all go:
On the role of Congress in the decision to take the nation to war.
Read the final paragraph of Justice Neil Gorsuch's opinion in the Supreme Court tariffs case.⤵️
"[M]ost major decisions affecting the rights and responsibilities of the American people ...
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1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...
Indeed.
Standing up for what you believe in is important, noble, and necessary.
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