Grant W. Turner

Iran is Making MORE Oil Money Since the War Started YouTube video by EYES ON GEOPOLITICS

Analysis by Eyes on Geopolitics of @theteamhouse.bsky.social
Iran, Russia, etc. are all making more money now thanks to Trump and Netanyahu's war on Iran. Also, Trump's DoD decided not to buy Ukraine's anti-drone tech, so now the US can't defend against Iran's drones
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#irsky

They Helped Plan the January 6 Rally. Now Their Events Company Is Raking in Millions in Government Contracts The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.

NEW: An events company whose associates helped plan the Jan. 6th insurrection have raked in millions in contracts with the U.S. government since Trump's election.

The firm had previously netted only $50,000 in government contracts over the past decade.

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.

NEW:

Grok is making disinformation on X so much worse—

....it's now even backing it's own lies by creating AI images

www.wired.com/story/fake-a...

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

A fun thing about this story is that DHS told Dell "Any allegation that DHS adopted a policy making Privacy Threshold Analyses exempt from the Freedom of Information Act is FALSE,” even though Dell had already reviewed emails showing that is absolutely not true.

A DHS spokesperson told WIRED on Monday, “Any allegation that DHS adopted a policy making Privacy Threshold Analyses exempt from the Freedom of Information Act is FALSE.” Internal emails show otherwise. On December 3, the DHS Privacy Office announced a "major change" that required all future PTAs to carry a disclaimer marking them exempt from public release. The disclaimer reads in full: “This is a draft document that is pre-decisional, deliberative, and is designated For Official Use Only. It is subject to the deliberative process privilege and attorney client privilege. It is not to be released, shared, or distributed outside of authorized channels without prior consultation and approval from the Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office. Unauthorized disclosure may result in administrative, civil, or criminal penalties.”

DHS's press office straight up lied about this. But they didn't know I had receipts.

Pete Hegseth Is Pushing Defense Employees to Volunteer With DHS The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration's immigration crackdown.

NEW: DOD employees are being pressured to volunteer to help with DHS's immigration crackdown. The work includes things like: “developing concepts of operation and campaign plans to execute internal arrests and raids as well as patrols along the Southwest Border”

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Technology Is Reshaping Sleep Apnea Treatment For decades, cumbersome CPAP machines have been the primary way to help people with sleep apnea. A range of new options has recently come into focus.

For decades, cumbersome CPAP machines have been the primary way to help people with sleep apnea. A range of new options has recently come into focus. www.wired.com/story/sleep-...

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?

Why is the biggest name in AI late to the coding revolution?

@mzeff.bsky.social spoke to more than 30 people, including OpenAI execs and employees who spoke without company permission, about how OpenAI is racing to catch up with Anthropic -- and why it fell behind in the first place:

Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence After leaving Meta last year, the former deputy prime minister of the UK is charting a new path in the AI industry that has nothing to do with AGI.

Nick Clegg, former president of global affairs at Meta, has a lot to say about tech under the Trump admin ("endless ring-kissing"), the EU's AI regulation ("a ludicrous act of self-harm"), and much more.

An excellent @wired.com interview from @joelkhalili.bsky.social.

Big Oil did imagine this — and the risk to industry profits scared them so badly that they launched a decades-long deception campaign to block the energy transition and keep us hooked on fossil fuels.

Imagine how different the world might be without Big Oil's climate lies.

Hitler, Jews, and the Holocaust Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s problems. Over the years, the Nazis targeted Jews with increasingly evil treatment, leading to the "Final Solution" — mass extermination. We visit the Auschwitz-Birken...

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — and with masked troops in our streets, law-abiding neighbors being disappeared, a president othering and dehumanizing entire communities in our country, and big mysterious prisons awaiting his scapegoats, history is speaking to all of us.

Excellent account that is even more relevant today than when it was originally made.

The Traveler & American Democracy with Rick Steves YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe

Traveler/historian @ricksteves.bsky.social is concerned about what's going on in our country, and the possibility of losing our #Democracy. So am I. #Fascism #Authoritarianism www.youtube.com/watch?v=E20u...

Rick Steves and the Defense of American Democracy Rick Steves recently delivered a powerful address in defense of American democracy in his hometown of Edmonds, Washington.  We’ve all been thinking and reading about this topic a lot, but I think Rick...

My friend @ricksteves.bsky.social calls out MAGA’s lies and policies that are eroding democratic norms, including how federal budget choices are shifting wealth from working people to the rich.

Watch in the link below.

#EndPoverty #PovertyAbolitionists #DefendDemocracy

A conversation with Jack Smith ’94 YouTube video by Harvard Law School

Former Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, speaks to @hls.harvard.edu

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#polisky #legalsky

Killing drug lords won’t end Mexico’s cartels. Ending the drug war might. The death of El Mencho shows why decades of prohibition enforcement have only strengthened cartels.

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes was a bad man. But it remains to be seen if his death will only kick off yet another round of cartel warfare.

Early Edition: March 9, 2026 A curated guide to major news and developments over the weekend.

Today's news roundup:
-G7 to discuss joint release of emergency oil reserves
-Trump sons back new drone company targeting Pentagon sales
-Florida bar retreats from statement saying Lindsey Halligan was under investigation
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JNIM fighters killed 15 Beninese soldiers in an attack on an army base near Benin's border with Niger.
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New paper by Dr @rogercre.bsky.social & colleagues expose hidden risks in global food system.
Shows how food‑trade globalisation makes some regions more vulnerable to production shocks, plus their tool estimating how much countries must boost reserves of any food category to withstand 20% of shocks👇

DHS wants to build a system to surveil Americans’ travel records Previously unreported documents show the agency has asked companies for input. Last year, a similar program was shuttered over public outcry.

SCOOP: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Secret Service want to build a tool for tracking US travelers’ flights and other personal information, according to previously unreported documents reviewed by Mother Jones.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

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.

Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.

“I have a bomb, I have a bomb. Don’t let anyone in or out of the clinic, or I’ll set it off.”

After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.

The story behind the BBC refusing to air a documentary about Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals Two veteran journalists produced a documentary that showed evidence of war crimes in Gaza. But the BBC refused to air the film. Why?

Two veteran journalists made a documentary about Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals, but the BBC later refused to air it.

This week on Reveal, we team up with @kcrw.com to investigate why and what it says about the future of journalism:

Then they came for the Dreamers Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.

Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.

The list of impeachable offenses keeps growing Nixon couldn't have dreamed of all of Trump's abuses of power.

Nixon could not have dreamed of such a revenge-fest.

Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights He is now threatening not to sign any other bills until Congress passes the SAVE America Act.

Trump's looks increasingly desperate to restrict Americans' voting rights. Here's his latest threat targeting the November midterms:

New footage yet again contradicts DHS claims about its killing of a US citizen Body camera video obtained by CBS News in the Ruben Ray Martinez case is another example of the administration misrepresenting lethal action from immigration agents.

Body camera footage newly obtained by CBS News shows the moments leading up to and after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot US citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in March 2025 and contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the killing.

A wave of quittings reveals the AI industry’s gloom and doom What's behind the existential terror seizing Silicon Valley?

“The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else.”

Evangelicals love Donald Trump for many reasons, but one of them is especially terrifying End Times.

If you want to understand how Trump's self-created crisis in Iran fits into his foreign policy, revisit our deep-dive into our End Times president.