Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.
I gotta say, following the adage of 'ad fontes' leads you to reading some really weird shit.
A rare photograph of me during grad school
This directly contradicts Trump and Hegseth’s claims that Iran bombed the area where the Iranian school was hit. We knew it, but it’s good to have the video.
I both respect and fear anyone who can read E.P. Thompson without an open tab to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
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.
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Even if AI is successful beyond its boosters’ wildest dreams, there is still the inherent contradiction of a machine that kills off the people it needs to steal from
Star Trek Voyager scene. We see a small, lone shuttlecraft fllying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"
It takes real galaxy brains to mass cancel solar and wind projects and then start a pointless unpopular war that sends oil prices soaring.
I suppose the Left really will have a second chance at the social crises of the 1970s
The Gang Creates a 1970s-level Oil Crisis
Pete Hegseth is a dishonorable man.
That’s a hell yeah
Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
[Exit Murderer.]
Madness
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Seeing Thomas Friedman in the NYTimes defending this as a righteous war to bring democracy to Iran broke me, a person who remembers 2003.
"When the state is growing weak, the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity." -- Rousseau, Social Contract, 2.5
Gangsterism as international policy
This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.
NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
“Let them eat offal”
Just finding that Bill Connolly has passed. I only read one of his books, published in 2008, and it is the single most prescient text I've read on how/why we arrived at our current reality. Even from that one text it was clear he was a giant.
Bill Connolly died yesterday and he was one of the good ones. It kills me that he was taken while our politics are like this. He deserved to outlive the bastards. I guess we’ll have to take it from here. But let me say: for depth of understanding, empathy & moral clarity, this man had few rivals /1
