Reporter: You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war. But you're the only person in your government saying this. Why?
Trump: Because I just don't know enough about it.
The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.
An Ayatollah Khamenei is Supreme Leader of Iran and oil is above $100 a barrel
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March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
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Here's my story on Trump's cyber strategy: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/white-h...
Dans la communauté autochtone de Whitefish, rien ne va plus: les compagnies minières s’en donnent à coeur joie, le chef en place semble frayer avec la pègre, et Polam, qui souhaite se lancer en politique, est taraudé par une histoire familiale complexe doublée du vol d’un objet sacré.
#Theatre
Quite an opening paragraph.
Don't forget Demolition Man!
a set of graphs of US jobs data
NEW US JOBS DATA:
Non-farm Payrolls: -92k
Unemployment Rate: 4.4% (+0.1%)
Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.7% (-0.1%)
Average Hourly Earnings: +0.4%
Unicef says reports indicate 180 children killed in Iran - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unicef-says-reports-indicate-180-children-killed-iran
“No, we are waiting for them”
For those of us who understand that PM Carney is working on long-term goals, and especially for those who don't, I offer you this absolute GEM!!!
Read it and celebrate!!!
And now, I'm going for my walk!!
Love ya!
❤️🍁❤️
#StrongerTogether #CANZUK
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Reminds me of Griffintown, in Montreal
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
En salle dès le vendredi 20 mars, MAIGRET ET LE MORT AMOUREUX est un polar qui semble nous arriver d'une autre époque, et c'est ce qui fait son charme. J'en jase avec mon ami @hugoprevost.bsky.social au podcast Rembobinage.
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Federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supreme Court are due refunds.
Kalshi customers who bet on the death of Iran’s ayatollah won’t get any of the $54 million wagered, company says
Polymarket has pulled the bet on a nuclear detonation happening in 2026. There were obv concerns that a platform being used by insider traders would not mix well with a bet encouraging the detonation of a nuke. Polymarket didn't respond to request for comment
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BREAKING:
A federal judge dismissed Trump’s challenge to New York’s congestion pricing program, writing, “It is difficult to imagine more arbitrary and capricious decisionmaking than that at issue here.”
Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social with the backstory:
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Reporter: Did you have a plan to evacuate Americans before the attack?
Marco Rubio: Well, that‘s the plan we‘re trying to carry out.
Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has all but stopped since yesterday.
Read the @financialtimes.com Economics editor, Sam Fleming's analysis of what the impact the war in Iran will have on the global economy
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A real black eye to the FIFA peace prize selection committee
Thoughts and prayers for US intelligence analysts stuck using ChatGPT, instead of Claude
Trump Orders Government to Stop Using Anthropic After Pentagon Standoff www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
Les info-influenceurs transforment le paysage médiatique et révolutionnent la façon dont les internautes s’informent. À Entretiens, Farnell Morisset répond aux questions de Hugo Prévost à propos de son travail et des défis auxquels sont confrontés les médias traditionnels.
#Podcast #Medias
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
C'est bien, ils vont pouvoir aller manger des Big Macs à la Maison-Blanche.
"The husband of Labor Sec Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from dept headquarters after at least 2 female staff members told officials he sexually assaulted them ...
The women’s concerns about Mr. DeRemer were raised as part of an internal probe into alleged misconduct by Ms. Chavez-DeRemer ... "
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
A large banner of Donald Trump was hung outside of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, emphasizing the White House’s control over the nation’s top law enforcement branch that once pursued criminal prosecutions against the president. https://cnn.it/4cBCqW7
