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Interim social media editor, Forward.com. Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, #ActuallyADHD, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."
I occasionally type a post with my left hand. It goes chiral
This is good. No more Republican legislation until the Democrats retake the House. I hope Trump threatens to not send any more nominations to the Senate next.
Data breakdown
New NPR/PBS News/Marist poll on US military action in Iran: "By a 56%-44% margin, respondents said they oppose the military action. Just 36% approve of how Trump is handling Iran, and a majority (55%) thinks Iran either represents a minor threat or no threat at all to the United States."
Had some more thoughts on the latest between Anthropic and the Defense Department. The story is less about the specifics, and more about the way Anthropic now feels it needs to act to grovel before the Trump admin.
President Trump told CNN that Cuba 'is going to fall pretty soon' in a phone interview while touting US military success in his second term. https://cnn.it/3OV2kKO
So much to unpack
It was always a political apointment. What else could it be? Bari Weiss did not qualify for the job of running CBS, except ideologically. But that's not a newsroom virtue, it's normally treated as a vice. Thus the job she was appointed to requires conflict with the newsroom, via accusations of bias.
BREAKING: Trump announces that Kristi Noem has officially been removed from her position as DHS secretary.
He says he's nominating Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her.
I didn't even need to customize this one
Oh rub it in why don't you I was getting to zapodidae eventually
There's always more lettuce if needed
Mullahs scramble for primetime pundit slots on FOX News
Time to to break out the iceberg lettuce and see who wilts first.
When Nato helped overthrow Gaddafi in 2011, there were hopes of a new beginning. More than a decade later, a former CIA asset runs the country – and Libya has become yet another lesson in the unintended consequences of foreign intervention
Had the slightly grim thought that maybe Trump's "big one" is en route and the US has quietly told allied governments that this is the moment to get as many people out as they can before they strike.
Whomp, there it is
@ilyasomin.bsky.social watching the natural result of his win over Trump at SCOTUS
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
In a major escalation, Iran uses drones to target the passenger terminal of Nakhchivan airport in Azerbaijan. aje.news/prolie
Bar chart: Most Americans disapprove of US military action against Iran A new CNN poll, conducted by SSRS shortly after the US launched a military operation in Iran, finds that roughly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of the attack. Initial reactions closely track the results of a CNN poll conducted last summer after the US launched airstrikes in Iran.
New from us: Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of the US decision to take military action in Iran, as most say a long-term military conflict between the two nations is likely, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...
As a reminder the "Venezuela template" is to keep the regime intact and control the flow of oil.
More here: www.businessinsider.com/trump-energy...
"Faced with viral footage of an attack on an Iranian school, xAI’s chatbot Grok didn't just fail to identify the location—it hallucinated three different and conflicting 'facts' for the same video."
Now imagine this same technology networked into Pentagon command-and-control infrastructure.
They spent billions on regime change in Venezuela and left the Maduro's head of torture in charge.
They are now spending billions on regime change in Iran, knowing the most likely outcome will be harder line leadership.
We do not have serious people running our country.
Satellite imagery showing two tunnel entrances destroyed.
Satellite imagery showing three tunnel entrances and support buildings destroyed.
NEW: We've heard a lot about air strikes near Tabriz. This morning @planet.com has fresh imagery from today (01 March) of IRGC missile bases that have been hit.
MOE: +/ - 2.5 PTS FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 OCBS NEWS POLL | YouGov HOW SHOULD THE U.S. APPROACH IRAN'S CURRENT LEADERSHIP? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATE WITH THEM THROUGH DIPLOMACY PRESSURE THEM WITH SANCTIONS NOT GET INVOLVED REMOVE THEM FROM POWER WITH FORCE 38% 22% 22% 18%
MOE: +/- 2.5 PTS| FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 @CBS NEWS POLL | YouGov TRUMP NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT 74% NEEDS APPROVAL 26% DOES NOT NEED APPROVAL
CBS News conducts a poll.
It finds that only 18% of Americans advocate removing Iran's leadership "by force," and 74% say Trump needs congressional approval before starting a war.
So their headline is, "CBS News poll on Americans' views on Iran prior to conflict."
www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
Iranians in Kazerun, Bame Karaj, and Isfahan took to the streets honking car horns to celebrate the alleged killing of Khamenei. #Iran
Celebrations in Tehran, Iran, over the death of the tyrant Khamenei; pro-illegal war and anti-illegal war people are celebrating worldwide. He's responsible for thousands of deaths, mass oppression, and boundless cruelty.
If all these high profile killings are confirmed, including SL, and if they happened in the early hours of the attack as some Israeli journalists are reporting, who has been running the retaliatory attacks across the region all day? Clearly some regime elements are surviving.
Trump says Khamenei is dead.
Trump in dopey USA baseball cap, posed at the head of a table full of crisis actor White House staffer flown into Perv-A-Lago for the “war” photo op, in a black-draped section of his club, which is supposed to make it look like a high security “situation room,” but doesn’t.
Cropped version on the previous photo, showing aires peeking in through the high security, top secret curtains.
Pipe and draping does not make it a SCIF. And DEFINITELY not a SCIF if you can just peek your head in from outside.
