Max Colbert

War expands to central Beirut as Israeli strike kills Iranians in luxury hotel Israel's military says it targeted Quds Force operatives after a return to war with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, but Iran says they were diplomats.

It’s telling that the IDF shows to the world it can carry out a very specific attack on the 4th floor of a hotel in Beirut. This begs the question: why did they have to level Gaza with 500lb bombs if their targeting systems were so precise?

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Nigel Farage, cosplaying as a country gent, gets tetchy when asked by @bethrigby.bsky.social about Reform UK’s inconsistencies and flip-flopping over the Iran War.

Explosions, Black Rain, and Dead Birds: Waking Up to War in Tehran An Iranian citizen describes life on the ground in Tehran in the wake of the bombing of oil depots outside the capital city.

Explosions, Black Rain, and Dead Birds: Waking Up to War in Tehran www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com

It's nothing to worry about, IMO! It's just a choice Jay is making about how she wants to spend her personal energy—getting back to working on the tech rather than the business.

#HeritageNetwork, etc, etc

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MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups

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I get people telling me to write to my (Labour) MP lmao. I’ve written to him every week for 11 months now and he’s ignored every single letter. My local (Labour) councillors also wrote to him saying he should meet me and he’s ignored them too!

Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs NEWS via @CBSNews : U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane. Iran is using smaller crafts that can carry 2 to 3 mines each. While Iran’s mine stock isn’t publicly known, estimates over the years have ranged from roughly 2,000 to 6,000 naval mines of Iranian, Chinese and Russian-made variants, @JimLaPorta reports 2:13 PM · Mar 10, 2026 · 6,060 Views

Here we go

Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.

"I see the proliferation of AI-based fake news pushing us over the edge of a fact-based world unless we enact change now."

Private jet used for Nigel Farage Chagos stunt linked to Reform mega-donor Exclusive: Plane that flew Reform leader to Maldives appears to be linked to billionaire Christopher Harborne

A private jet used for Farage’s Chagos stunt is reportedly linked to a billionaire donor who has given £12m to Reform

Huge money can buy political influence.

The #ElectionsBill must go further. Democracy shld be shaped by voters not the biggest cheque.

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Extreme Heat Is Making Life Increasingly Unlivable The number of hours where it’s too hot for everyday activities has doubled since 1950, a new study found.

It's getting too hot to walk the dog or sweep the porch for a growing number of people.

1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

It's especially delightful that he couldn't be in court to receive news of yet another legal defeat because he was in custody in connection with an assault for which he has just been charged.

Proud to be a signatory to this letter. The proposals are a dangerous, authoritarian attack on individual liberty – when the proper solution is funding our courts.

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions Climate breakdown is shrinking the amount of time that people can safely go about their lives, according to a study that shows a third of the world’s population now resides in areas where heat severely limits activity. Rising temperatures, driven by the continued burning of fossil fuels, are making it difficult even for many young, healthy adults to do basic physical activities, such as housework or walking up stairs during daylight hours at the height of the summer, the report warns. Continue reading...

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds

I can't even bring myself to read the fucking article if I'm being real with you. It took me FIVE YEARS to get my first diagnosis and now I'm awaiting a second NHS one.
This is not for some fun personality quirk. ADHD is fucking horrible.

I say this every year, but:

The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better.

With a new addition for 2026:

They deeply hate AI.

This is violent, sickening rhetoric.

GB News commentator claiming here that non “indigenous” people are committing “genocide” against the UK.

GB News is beyond the fucking pale

no she‘s not. we are.

A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war.

Here's what has happened since then to public opinion

Writing the abstract is not an afterthought; the abstract is not some minor convenience for readers. It is the heart of your idea, the point of the entire process. Writing it is a form of discipline, a way of testing your own knowledge and emerging with something simple, memorable, and correct.

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Not unlike the Derbyshire budget meeting in where a 4.9% increase was unveiled as a tax cut (max is 4.99%)

fwiw, Bluesky is already mostly backed by VC investments, and it's still a public benefit corporation (for now). I don't think this means anything too drastic just yet

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Graber stepping down as CEO of Bluesky www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

The return of slavery The Taliban government in Afghanistan has just released a new penal code. The rules it sets out are relentlessly brutal and backward

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has just released a new penal code. The rules it sets out are relentlessly brutal and backward

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New YouGov:

Six in 10 Britons, 59%, say they are opposed to military action, up 10 points in a week.

Labour
Support: 14%
Oppose: 76%

Conservatives
Support: 43%
Oppose: 43%

Reform UK
Support: 57%
Oppose: 27%

Lib Dem
Support: 12%
Oppose: 81%

Green
Support: 4%
Oppose: 87%

Exclusive: Republicans get staggering boost from mystery donors as 'arms race' heats up The main super PAC supporting Senate Republicans saw a “huge spike” in dark money contributions in 2025, a sign of the massive arsenal the GOP is building to protect its hold on Congress in November’s midterm elections, according to a new report from political reform group Issue One first reported b...

EXCLUSIVE: Exclusive: Republicans get staggering boost from mystery donors as 'arms race' heats up

Look, again, as I've said over and over and over, it would be one thing if the people obsessing over trans people in sports were interested in some sort of compromise. But they're just... not. www.readtpa.com/p/fine-lets-...

It's actually profoundly similar to the way that eugenicist anti vaccine organisations worked to disrupt messaging around COVID (and previously MMR)

Royal Canadian Air Force Major Discovered on White Supremacist Dating Site The Canadian Anti-Hate Network has identified over 190 Canadian users of a white supremacist dating website, including a Royal Canadian Air Force Major.

Late last year, a white supremacist dating platform was hacked and its users leaked. One of those users is Royal Canadian Air Force Major Tristan Armstrong, who CAHN has linked to thousands of posts made on far-right forums between 2019 and 2024.

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Who is funding the Reform Party? Sam Bright interview YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

My new PoliticsJoe interview on Farage, his funders, the Gorton and Denton by-election, and plenty more 👇🏻