The US is firing limited advanced munitions - TLAMs, PAC-3s, JASSMs - at a breakneck pace, but replenishing them will take years and billions. Iran is waging a cost-imposing battle on the US defense industrial base -- and it is working.
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(AXIOS) - President Trump told Axios in a brief phone interview Wednesday that the war with Iran will end "soon" because there is "practically nothing left to target."
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NEW: Before the Iran War, Trump ignored warnings that Iran could retaliate across the region and stop oil shipments. Now, with energy markets in chaos, some aides are pessimistic about the lack of a strategy to end the war. But they haven't told Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
MAHA-aligned research is entering the training data of AI models that millions of people (and increasingly governments) rely on.
Staggering numbers. “Mass displacement across Lebanon has forced nearly 700,000 people – including around 200,000 children – from their homes, adding to the tens of thousands already uprooted from previous escalations…Children are being killed and…thousands are now sleeping in…overcrowded shelters.”
If you missed my UMass @sbs-umass.bsky.social webinar on international law and Iran today, you can read a summary of my key points here: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-israel-ir...
Trump promised these Navy escorts "if needed." He promised this ... yesterday. youtu.be/ed2xOwmHZl0?...
"When AI begins making or accelerating decisions about who lives and who dies, the ethical stakes become existential," writes @bmomani.bsky.social via @theglobeandmail.com
Media, contact Momani @ tinyurl.com/3emrybaa www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Delivery apps are glitching and navigation routes are changing abruptly thanks to electronic warfare disrupting the satellite signals that power everything from missiles to your ride home. www.wired.com/story/gps-at...
NEW: The Israeli military unlawfully used white phosphorus over homes on March 3, 2026, in the Lebanese town of Yohmor.
The use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians.
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
This is heartwarming: “What I think has sometimes been underappreciated is just what a huge contribution Canada has made over the past decade or even longer, which has really helped to accelerate maternal and child health progress globally.”
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
'The Pentagon is moving parts of a THAAD system from South Korea to the ME and also drawing from its supply of sophisticated Patriot interceptors in the Indo-Pacific and elsewhere to bolster its defense against Iran’s drone and ballistic missile attacks'
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they would not allow ‘one litre of oil’ to be shipped from the Middle East if US and Israeli attacks continue, prompting a warning from President Trump that the US would hit Iran much harder if it blocked exports from the vital energy-producing region reut.rs/4bwHKJw
Since last year, the US has publicized a visa policy that targets & threatens people who study & report on online harms.
Yesterday @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org filed a lawsuit challenging this censorship policy on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...
British Airways cancels all flights to and from Abu Dhabi until later this year, and all flights to and from Amman, Bahrain, Doha, Dubai and Tel Aviv until later this month. -BBC
“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”
American satellite company Planet is restricting access to its satellite imagery, making it harder for media organisations to report what the US & Israel are doing in Iran.
This is a technical story with stunning strategic implications. It is quite possible the US launched a massive war because Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff lacked the technical expertise to even understand what the Iranians were offering in negotiations. Absolute idiocy.
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Not all countries will be affected equally by surging global energy prices
• Among G7, US and Canada are net energy exporters - softening the blow
• Meanwhile Italy, Germany and UK are heavily reliant on gas imports, suggesting inflation could rise fast
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🚨🚨Major story of today: Nearly seven months ago, #Ukraine tried to sell the US their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made attack drones but #Trump admin dismissed the Ukrainians, only to reverse course last week because of heavy drone strikes from #Iran.🧵
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"Trump chose to go to war and has taken explicit satisfaction in his power of life and death. War is a grave step after all other options have been exhausted. That Trump had other courses of action is well known. That he preferred this one is hard to unsee." My column. www.ft.com/content/2f3e...
Then, more than 30 employees from OpenAI and Google, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of Anthropic in its legal fight against the US government. www.wired.com/story/openai...
New footage reveals an apparent U.S. or Israeli strike near a boys' school in Abyek, west of Tehran, on Feb. 28. Satellite imagery suggests a comms tower was the intended target, but flying debris killed a child on the playground. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...
Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.
Israeli forces advanced in southern Lebanon on Monday, raiding new territory as part of a stated effort to expand a military-controlled buffer zone as it steps up its campaign against the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
This is a prominent UAE businessman at the forefront of normalizing with Israel
