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There should be universal outrage over the 165 Iranian girls who were killed by what evidence indicates was a U.S. strike.
Instead, Trump lied about it, and we’re just supposed to move on? These were children.
If Iran bombed a school near a U.S. military base, it would be our new Pearl Harbor.
WHO verifies 18 attacks on healthcare services in Iran & 25 in Lebanon - a violation of intnl law. WHO warns of deteriorating public health conditions, unsafe water, poor sanitation.
In Iran, fires & smoke from bombings are putting dangerous toxins into the air. www.emro.who.int/media/news/c...
Using genAI for "research, brainstorming, or outlining" means your so-called work is not just human work. You may think you can still call it "human-authored work" but it doesn't meet my criteria for "human-authored work."
Authors don't just type words. They think. They read. They choose.
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Für die "der Angriff auf den #Iran ist im Interesse der Iraner*innen!"-Imperialismus-Cheerleader*innen:
"The fear of Iran’s destruction is increasingly uniting people as they fear the consequences of such a large-scale conflict".
The Iranians don't agree with you: they prefer not to be bombed.
Asking who is better is a question so dumb it's nearly suicidal. Who is better at being human? We are. If it could be shown someone would be a "better" parent to your child, would you think your child should be taken away? I am better at being me than AI, every time.
Don't forget that despite being busy bombing Iranian and Lebanese schools and hospitals, Israel hasn't stopped their genocide of the Palestinian people. Yesterday they killed journalist Amal Shamali while they were firebombing tents housing displaced people in central Gaza. Her daughter saw her die.
As of 9 March 2026, Israel has killed 486 people, injured 1,313 and displaced 667,831 people in Lebanon
That's roughly 10% of the entire population displaced already
Small baby asleep in a cot with a sleeping bengal cat curled next to a fluffy toy cheeseburger
Everything is pretty intense right now. So here are my new baby, my cat, and a fluffy cheeseburger having a snooze... I've been watching/listening to them snore for the last 10 minutes and I'm in a positively zen-like state of relaxation
“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.”
These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.
The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining.
A senseless, criminal waste
New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."
Attacks leave dead vs killed
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in its genocidal war on Gaza.
On International Women's Day, we look at the number of women and girls Israel killed in Gaza in 2025.
#Infograph
Though it is day, the sun cannot be seen in Tehran today because of all the smoke following the US and Israel bombing Tehran's oil refineries. People on the ground describe it as armageddon. History will not forgive Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, and all other "leaders" who tricked Iranians into thinking this war would set them free.
Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.
Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE.
www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks during a press conference. PHOTO: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Ilhan Omar: “As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know that bombs do not build peace or create stability—
Military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions & push the region further into chaos — every time we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction”
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) speaks during a press conference. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
Rep Stansbury: “The president & his admin can’t explain a legal justification for an eminent threat that gave them the authority to use the military—
They can’t provide an explanation of their war plan — they can’t explain why they’ve killed over 200 civilians — the president needs to be impeached”
the harder the industry invests on pushing narratives of AI as (only) positive, inevitable, and inherently good for society/business, the more any criticism of this narrative becomes “too radical”, “unworkable” and “unrealistic”
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.
Israel is announcing that the entirety of Dahieh is being ethnically cleansed a day after announcing that the entirety of South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed.
“Save yourselves and evacuate immediately”
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The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.
![An Iranian warship destroyed in a US torpedo strike on Wednesday was "defenceless" and participating in an international naval exercise as a guest of the Indian navy, according to reports.
Former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal said “the Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk [sic] part in our Milan exercise”. Sibal added that because it was taking part in an exercise “it was defenceless”.
Indian politician Supriya Shrinate said on social media: "These Iranian navy men parading at an event in India, were our guests. Invited by us.
"US submarine targeted their ship and killed them while they were returning home."
Shrinate also criticised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his failure to make a statement on the attack.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:evgc4ukadedre3gwsiwygkpz/bafkreiblljxh6wfsnwpcyuuykp42qaz7mwrn7e2btsx3be2rahy3lrxxxi)
An Iranian warship destroyed in a US torpedo strike on Wednesday was "defenceless" and participating in an international naval exercise as a guest of the Indian navy, according to reports. Former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal said “the Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk [sic] part in our Milan exercise”. Sibal added that because it was taking part in an exercise “it was defenceless”. Indian politician Supriya Shrinate said on social media: "These Iranian navy men parading at an event in India, were our guests. Invited by us. "US submarine targeted their ship and killed them while they were returning home." Shrinate also criticised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his failure to make a statement on the attack.
The Iranian warship that was bombed by the US was unarmed
www.middleeasteye.net/news/iranian...
It’s truly incredible that with the Americans and Israelis making up claims of potential Iranian WMDs, there is virtually no mention anywhere in most of the mainstream coverage so far that the *only* Middle Eastern state with undeclared nuclear weapon is Israel.
Absolute legend. The Spanish PM is a proper statesman.
