Bellingcat analysis makes a strong case that a US tomahawk hit that girl's school in Iran, contrary to U.S. government claims
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
20% of the world’s oil.
I didn’t know that but it certainly makes a lot of sense.
Thank you. The responses were always generally seen as: hit near allies of attacking party, particularly energy facilities, mine Strait, do their best to crash world economy if necessary. It’s widely understood. I got particularly worried when I read “build on VZLA” as if Iran was a similar foe.
When I studied IR in undergrad in 2005 we thoroughly discussed Iran mining the Strait as a reaction to being attacked, so yeah agreed, I think the mil/int folks anticipated it.
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
New: Prison guards discussed cover-up in Epstein's death, inmate tells FBI. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Detainee says guards bet on suicide Like other detainees, Ramsingh said that between cleanings the rooms, restrooms and showers were often filthy and infested with insects. He said detainees stole others’ food because everyone was hungry due to the small and sometimes inedible meals, which led to fights, and the conditions took a toll on his mental health. At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome. The talk was particularly jarring, he said, because he had contemplated suicide himself.
This is a sign of the complete moral failure of our society. AP report. apnews.com/article/suic...
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.
The president wore a red tie and a baseball cap to a ceremony in honor of fallen soldiers.
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
I see your point, but worry the unequal application lessens the strength of the system.
They’re right though. It is often enforced against nation states in the global south, particularly ones without nuclear weapons. This war is nonsense. Certainly agree with you on that part, but once you have enough warheads and effective delivery systems intl law is largely a theoretical exercise.
This is not accurate, as it has happened multiple times, most famously when Michael Burry wouldn’t redeem his hedge fund clients while waiting for subprime to bust.
“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
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Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
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“There is no thought process into what any of this means long term,” said one official. “It’s not coordinated regime change. It’s just ‘bomb them until they’re less of a threat.’”
Asked about the administration’s plan for Iran after the war, that official responded: “Whatever.”
![US Issues License to Allow Some Russian Oil Sales to India
By Natalie Choy
03/05/2026 19:14:03 [BFW]
(Bloomberg) -- Treasury Dept’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says it is issuing a Russia-related general license to allow some Russian oil sales to India, according to a statement.
License related to Russia oil sale to India valid to April 4, 2026](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ra6gopdeuq77naoqp3qob5od/bafkreifef4he7uibhvtguruopaelmhd5vbhctfxoh7oi2g6nv5gwgmiho4)
US Issues License to Allow Some Russian Oil Sales to India By Natalie Choy 03/05/2026 19:14:03 [BFW] (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Dept’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says it is issuing a Russia-related general license to allow some Russian oil sales to India, according to a statement. License related to Russia oil sale to India valid to April 4, 2026
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Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes
To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare.
Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://wapo.st/46BFe1T
Quicker than I thought: bsky.app/profile/wash...
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...
The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
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My overwhelming thoughts on this are less schadenfreude and more that if the dollar continues sliding right as domestic food production falters significantly that confluence of factors could produce some conditions generally unseen in developed nations outside of natural disaster zones.
Just a lie
Post-9/11 the stated justification for why our government kills someone is largely semantic. Obama’s AG, Eric Holder, wrote an op-ed in NYT that if you were close enough to a drone strike to be killed and a military aged male you were deemed a terrorist, and your killing was legal.
You may have misread my tone. I meant months from now, if ever. Just seemed odd to me that Sec Def was bragging about AI/mil integration right around this time. And you have my sincere appreciation for filing the FOIA lawsuits. The lack of transparency on topics like this is firmly anti-democratic.
