From the Tehran Times - photos of the school CHILDREN killed by an AMERICAN tomahawk cruise missile. The headline: TRUMP, LOOK THEM IN THE EYES
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10.03.2026 18:04
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"Some of these [news coverage] approaches in the context of climate change, I just don't think work anymore."
- @chasecain.bsky.social
"It started to really piss me off when I was told to keep going back to companies that have only lied to reporters for 40 years." - @emorwee.bsky.social
09.03.2026 21:11
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Confusion about oil tankers in the
Strait of Hormuz
18:20 THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The US Navy has reportedly escorted
an oil tanker through the Strait of
Hormuz, according to US Energy
Secretary Chris Wright, writes AFP.
The purpose was "to ensure that oil
continues to flow to global markets,"
Wright said, Reuters reports.
US President Donald Trump announced
on Monday that the Navy would escort
ships in the Strait of Hormuz when the
time is right.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard denies that
an oil tanker was escorted by the US
Navy, writes Reuters.
Shortly after Wright made the
statement, Wright reportedly removed
them.
Oil prices plunged 13 percent after US
President Donald Trump warned that
the war in Iran is "very much over,
basically," Reuters and BBC reported .
After Wright published his remarks, oil
prices rose again.
Iran claims to have closed the strait
and has threatened to set fire to any
ships that attempt to pass through.
TEE UES. Wem
White House: Oil tankers have not |
been escorted through the Strait of
Hormuz
19:31 UNITED STATES |
No oil tankers have been escorted by |
the US Navy, says White House |
spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. |
On Tuesday, US Energy Secretary Chris |
Wright announced that an oil tanker
had been escorted through the strait |
by the US Navy. He later retracted the |
statement. |
Oil prices fell after Wright's claims, but |
rose again after he withdrew his |
statement.
BEET BE
fossil fuels are ridiculous and shame on anyone who ever pretended they're a grown up or mature way of running a modern human energy system
10.03.2026 19:20
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Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action? - Carbon Brief
The US and Israel’s war on Iran has caused oil and gas prices to soar, with the world now preparing for the possibility of another energy crisis.
NEW – Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action?
✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
Read here ⬇️
10.03.2026 16:47
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As someone who once co-authored two books in support of nuclear energy: this is likely the kiss of death to nuclear power.
It is a risky long term investment that is uniquely dependent on social acceptance. An incompetent, very unpopular government slashing safety rules leads to a reaction.
27.02.2026 07:16
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So when are Republican lawmakers going to admit this president is endangering not just the U.S. but the entire globe and stop him before he does even more damage?
10.03.2026 19:31
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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.
10.03.2026 14:19
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Times Square, lit up by night. Every ad sprouts a giant CCTV bubble. A green smoke crawls over the landscape.
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Ad-tech is fascist tech; and more!
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10.03.2026 16:49
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UPDATE: U.S. colleges face steep drop in international student visas
The latest education news updates from EdSource.
Trump's attacks on migration and higher ed: 97,000 fewer visas were issued and a preliminary survey of colleges last fall indicated a 17% drop in the enrollment of new international students edsource.org/updates/fewe...
10.03.2026 17:04
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A tomahawk missile was used to bomb a school in Minab & kill over 100 young children
Trump says lots of countries, including Iran, have Tomahawks
BBC Verify: Iran doesnt have Tomahawks, the school was hit in a series of strikes, & munitions experts all say it was a US operation
10.03.2026 15:57
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The carnivore promoters seem simply unable to comprehend that their preferred human diet is impossible to have without farming animals in this manner!
10.03.2026 15:31
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A map of countries in the Middle East. There are coloured markers at locations where there have been incidents causing environmental harm between 28 Feb and 10 Mar 2026. The colour of the marker relates to the magnitude of environmental risk. The most high risk incidents are situated along the Gulf coast and near Tehran.
We've just updated our overview of environmentally damaging incidents in the Israeli-US war against #Iran. We've identified more than 300 incidents and remotely assessed 232 for harm.
Read more about these incidents and trends here: ceobs.org/operation-ep... #IranWar #Iran 1/5
10.03.2026 14:44
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Mohamad Elmasry: "its been catastrophic for the Trump administration.. its looking more & more like they were pushed into this war by Israel. That isn't going over very well in the US.. this is the least popular war at the start of a war in polling history for the US"
10.03.2026 15:45
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Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates
The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.
The Pentagon burned through $5.6 billion worth of munitions in the first two days of its Iran assault, according to U.S. officials, alarming some on Capitol Hill over how quickly the military has depleted scarce supplies of America’s most advanced weaponry.
09.03.2026 23:30
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I know the brain badly wants to go numb and not see this but: $5.6 BILLION. $5.6 BILLION to achieve: murdered elementary school kids, a new Iranian leader like the old one, toxic rain, environmental disaster, destroyed water resources, dead US soldiers, damaged historic sites.
10.03.2026 14:48
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How Britain is involved in Trump’s Iran war
Keir Starmer’s complicity in the illegal US-Israeli war started in January when British and American assets started moving to the Middle East
👉NEW -- How Britain is involved in Trump’s Iran war
by Dania Akkad
Keir Starmer’s complicity in the illegal US-Israeli war started in January when British and American assets started moving to the Middle East
www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...
10.03.2026 10:47
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
10.03.2026 04:00
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Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates
The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.
The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions.
Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.
10.03.2026 11:09
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Andrew Tate Doesn’t Get the Point of Books
The erosion of deep reading weakens our capacity to grasp complex ideas.
Books, a public moron argued, are too slow. His brain is “far too advanced” to enjoy such a low-velocity medium. But what if the slowness of books is not a weakness but their virtue—and one that we, in this digital age, are at risk of losing? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
10.03.2026 12:59
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Oliver Metcalfe, head of wind research at BloombergNEF. “Challenged by razor-thin margins at home, Chinese suppliers are leveraging lower-cost production and fast delivery to enter new markets and undercut established rivals across Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.”
Outside mainland China, new additions also rose, increasing 17% year-on-year to 43GW. For the first time since wind power emerged as a major global force, India edged out the US and Germany to claim the title of biggest wind market outside mainland China. India’s climb is bolstered by complex auctions, which typically require developers to integrate multiple renewable technologies or oversize projects beyond their contracted capacity, particularly in wind.
“India fully deserves its place as the second-largest wind market in the world.” said Siddharth Shetty, BNEF’s lead wind analyst for India. “The sector is reaping the rewards of complex auctions, pioneered by India’s clean power auctioning agencies in 2018. And this momentum is not fading. We expect wind build to continue at similar levels through the end of this decade.”
China and India making the smart choice while Europe bafflingly decides this is the perfect time to tighten the cuffs that are chaining us to ultra-expensive gas
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