The Con Trump Used to Attempt to Hide How He's Rewarding Russia for Helping Iran Target Americans - emptywheel Americans deserve to know whether Russian targeting assistance helped kill Benjamin Pennington before Trump rewards Vladimir Putin for his own strategic idiocy.

Every time you post a WH troll, every time you post a Trump face-saving tweet, you could INSTEAD be talking abt details he's trying to ignore, such as there's a good chance RU helped kill Benjamin Pennington & Trump responded by doubling down on business deals w/RU.

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How meat lobbyists have infiltrated the fight against climate change Euronews Green exclusive: Big Agriculture’s ‘hidden’ climate strategy has been exposed in a new report.

Exclusive: How the meat industry is quietly keeping its emissions off the climate agenda share.google/zLFeUmJ1iYCf...

How Grok’s Deepfake Technology Is Being Weaponized Against Women Online While the use of AI technology, such as Grok, for gendered abuse is new, the dynamics of control that underpin widespread sexual harassment are not.

"When Hatewatch prompted, “Do you think the girl in these photos is happy that you can change these pictures?” Grok replied, “I think the girl in the photos would probably be at least entertained, and maybe even pleased..."

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‘We’re the good guys’: why moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal Once the narrative of a “just war” replaces the rule of law, there is little left to restrain powerful states from dominating weaker ones.

‘We’re the good guys’: why moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal share.google/D4YlvPuAmqpH...

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Botswana, South Africa and DRC on standby as reports show US has only two months’ worth of rare earths left Africa is emerging as a potential source of rare earth minerals for the United States, which reportedly has only about two months’ worth of the critical materials left in its defence stockpile as the ...

Weren't a couple of these on the Trump visa ban recently?

Botswana, South Africa and DRC on standby as reports show US has only two months’ worth of rare earths left | Business Insider Africa africa.businessinsider.com/local/market...

The next #Accordia lecture will take place on TUESDAY March 17 2026 at 17:30. Filippo Materazzi, Sapienza University of Rome, will talk about ‘Within the walls of Veii: multimodal investigations into the urban phenomenon of an Etruscan city’ in Room 261, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1.

Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told Health justice charity Medact says data-sharing potential could be used for UK version of US immigration raids

A deal that seems to have been partly influenced by access through Mandleson is defintiely in need to scrutiny. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yay, company currency is back! 🫠

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%, including London, San Francisco and Beijing

US struggles to evacuate American personnel from facilities under fire in Iraq: Officials Some U.S. staff were flown out by the British air force, officials said.

wait, we had to ask *THE BRITISH* to evac US personnel? holy christ these people are incompetent abcnews.com/Internationa...

I’m sure this be very useful for Scotland at the UN when the English Gvt tells them Scotland isn’t a colony because it has self governance.

The ‘number station’ sending mystery messages to Iran Radio station is broadcasting what appears to be coded orders in Farsi, echoing the cold war

6, 4, 0, 9, 3, 9.

One for the Le Carre fans: old school spy tactics using short wave radio broadcasting a stream of numbers. Perhaps communicating instructions to agents, or just stoking paranoia?
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Spain could be the only EU country to beat energy price hikes Spain spent the last six years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, leading to some of the cheapest power prices in Europe.

Nigel Farage keeps ranting against Net Zero, saying renewables are more expensive,
This articles nails that lie.

'Spain spent the last six years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, leading to some of the cheapest power prices in Europe.'

www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

Also in the article they say 'Of the 752 GPs who replied, 540 said they had never refused such a request, while 162 told us they had turned at least one down.' So a deliberately misleading headline looking to make you think mental health isn't legitimate. Do better BBC #BBC

New targeted tax in WA aims to keep coal power plant shut down • Washington State Standard But if the coal tax and a related climate pollution fee work as the Legislature intended, the state treasury will never collect a dime under the new law. That is because the idled Centralia generating...

Tax legislation signed by Gov. Bob Ferguson targets the last coal-fired power plant in the Pacific Northwest. But if the coal tax and a related pollution fee work as the Legislature intended, the state treasury will never collect a dime under the new law. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/11/n...

Hundreds of GPs tell BBC they have never refused a sick note over mental health concerns The number of fit notes issued has been rising, with more than 11.2m approved in England last year.

Sure, but what is this doing apart from leaning into right-wing framing around mental health being quackery? Did BBC also ask if they refused notes due to broken legs or flu?

Hundreds of GPs tell BBC they have never refused a sick note over mental health concerns
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Amazon is making even senior engineers get code signed off Even senior developers have been asked to get manager sign-off to prevent AI-generated errors affecting Amazon services.

So much for AI replacing programers. Vibe-coding doesn't seem to work as AI companies and tech journos touted.

Amazon is making even senior engineers get code signed off following multiple recent outages | TechRadar share.google/sQmT3DxLChwE...

Eight Arab, Islamic countries condemn Israeli closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque For the past 12 days, Israel has closed Al-Aqsa Mosque and restricted movement in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Eight Arab, Islamic countries condemn Israeli closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera share.google/iPn8flqytO8C...

"Britain is knee deep in this illegal war"

meme via The Horse School

Yair Zivan @YairZivan X.com Senator, I work for the Leader of the Opposition in Israel and I'm writing this from a bomb shelter with my children. Israel is under attack by fanatical terrorists who want to murder us. It never ceases to amaze that your humanity never seems to extend to Israeli lives. - Bernie Sanders * @BernieSanders • 1h It's not just Iran. It's Lebanon. In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and...

Look at my Israeli opposition dawg, that country is never becoming a liberal democracy

It doesn’t look like this really good anticolonial bit of Mo Chara’s press conference from RTÉ has made it here to Bluesky yet, so here it is. 🇵🇸

Very disappointing, though ultimately unsurprising, to see the DOJ surrender in the middle of the Ticketmaster-LiveNation case after political pressure from the top. Hopefully the states will continue to push to break up a monopoly that should have never been allowed to exist in the first place.

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

'Iran Is Not Gaza': Read Arundhati Roy's Scathing Speech on the US-Israeli War Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.

Arundhati Roy empties the clip!

ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor’s mansion ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate,’ an ADL spokesperson said

eat, and I can’t emphasize this enough, shit jewishinsider.com/2026/03/adl-...

How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power Outside Abu Dhabi, a vast area of desert is being carpeted with solar panels.

Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them.

"How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"

The Independent

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Fears for women’s rights in Chile as anti-abortion president set to take office José Antonio Kast, who voted against legalising divorce in 2004, has pushed for return to total abortion ban

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‘I took two bites and had to spit it out’: candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate Due to the volatile cocoa market, companies like Hershey are using replacement ingredients such as sugar, oil, milk and nuts

Saw this coming after the droughts but also after countries in west Africa started looking to establish their own production industries www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...