Peter McInnis

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

Make America Unaccountable Again. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

As a nation, do you know how assholic you have to be and how badly you have to behave to radicalize Canadians?

US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people were killed, expert video analysis shows.

A newly published video shows that a US Tomahawk missile hit a medical clinic inside an IRGC base and near a primary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab where the authorities said 168 people, including around 110 children, were killed.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ukraine’s brilliant military improvisations are now a vital commodity.

Library and Archives planning deep cuts to access to information team, document shows Cuts will put at risk ability to comply with access and privacy laws, department acknowledged in a document

This is seriously concerning for all academic researchers in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/cc21826...

‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

This is the voice of fast-declining American global reputation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

"Everyone is 12" theory remains undefeated.

At this point, I think there might literally be a 7th grade boy running White House comms.

Jerkassic Park.

$1.5T defense budget
$170B on ICE & Border Patrol
$100B on tax cuts for the 1%
$20B from Treasury for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$300M on Kristi Noem's jets
$100M+ for Trump to golf
$75k+ for Kash Patel's Olympic trip

And now $50B in emergency funding for war in Iran?

Priorities.

Tuberville for the win.

Endless supply of useful idiots.

Residents Rally to Keep AI Data Centre-Fueling Power Plant Out Residents in Olds, Alberta, are organizing to block a 1.4-gigawatt gas power plant slated for construction directly across from their homes.

AI data centres coming to your community. www.theenergymix.com/200-metres-a...

Remind us, was the US government in any way involved in this regime change?

Supreme Court Abuse of the Shadow Docket Under Trump The Court has sided with the administration 80 percent of the time when making “emergency” rulings, often without revealing its reasoning.

Today marks one year since the Supreme Court first used the shadow docket to rule on Trump policies in his second term. Since then, the Court has sided with the president 80 percent of the time. bit.ly/4cybln3

Delivering guardrails in the era of AI: The role of academic staff unions - CAUT When AI is mentioned, most post-secondary educators will think first of generative AI (GenAI) technologies.

Delivering guardrails in the era of AI: The role of academic staff unions - www.caut.ca/bulletin/del...

OpenAI's deal with Trump is putting Canadians at risk too Which leaves us with the current predicament: a US government that is openly hostile to large swaths of its own people and a frontier AI company more than willing to supply the government with the too...

"A powerful AI looking across billions of conversations from millions of people could gauge public sentiment, detect pockets of disloyalty forming, and stamp them out before they grow."

Inadequate masculinity.

UNC–Chapel Hill Abandons Classroom Surveillance After Massive Faculty and Student Pushback The North Carolina AAUP state conference and national AAUP celebrate the reversal of an intrusive surveillance policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This policy would've created a Big Brother atmosphere in the classroom that would stifle the free exchange of ideas, chill student discussion, & suppress the requisite willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Unethical surveillance policies have no place in higher education.”

Trump’s strikes on Iran could cost American economy up to $210 billion, report says The president has said the U.S. could give military escorts to oil tankers in the region to ease the strain on global energy supplies

Trump’s strikes on Iran could cost the American economy up to $210B, report says

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images f...

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Priorities.

Define: bloviate.

Infantino’s idolisation of Trump has left football with blood on its hands | Barney Ronay The Fifa president’s sycophancy towards the US president has left the organisation facing a new nadir, but any reckoning seems a distant prospect

"Sport is the most important of all the unimportant things." ://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/02/fifa-gianni-infantino-idolisation-donald-trump-football-world-cup-us-israel-middle-east

It would be tempting to do thematic analysis on the quote-skeets here, if only the sample could be understood as representative of anything.

Wow, Mullin giving reigning champ Tuberville spirited competition for the most dumbass GOP is oddly compelling.