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The sheer strategic stupidity of bailing Russia out of its economic hole by launching a war that entirely foreseeably spikes the oil price - and then having no minesweepers in place to deal with the foreseeable fallout. Rank incompetence.

This war in Iran is a perfect illustration of the dangers of autocratic rule — and right now we indisputably have the foreign policy of a personalistic autocracy.

Trump got high on his Venezuelan supply, and immediately got the entire world into a completely unnecessary crisis.

Trump sons back drone startup in talks to acquire Ukrainian manufacturers A drone startup backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. is negotiating to acquire Ukrainian drone manufacturers or license their technology for US production

Trump's sons Eric and Donald Jr. have backed drone startup Powerus, which is in talks to acquire Ukrainian drone manufacturers or license their technology for US production
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After backlash, von der Leyen stresses support for rules-based order Two days after declaring that "Europe can no longer be a custodian for the old world order", Ursula von der Leyen attempted to defuse the backlash by stressing her "unwavering" support for internation...

Amid an intense backlash led by Spain, Ursula von der Leyen goes on the record to clarify where she stands on the rules-based order.

Full story.

Salih Muslim was not only a successful politician but also a deeply loved leader of the Kurdish people, remembered for his warm smile and positive attitude. His passing is a profound loss for the Kurds.

Russia's deportations of Ukrainian children amount to crimes against humanity, UN inquiry finds A U.N. investigation ​found on Tuesday that Russia's deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children since Moscow's full-scale ‌invasion in 2022 amounted to crimes against humanity.

Russia’s deportation and forcible transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children amounts to a crime against humanity, according to the UN Commission of Inquiry.

Putin and another Russian official are wanted by the ICC in connection with these allegations:

L’armée belge en guerre contre la drogue à Bruxelles : le pari (risqué) du gouvernement fédéral Face à la violence liée au trafic de drogue à Bruxelles, le gouvernement belge envisage un déploiement militaire controversé dans les rues de la capitale. Mesure critiquée pour son inefficacité potent...

📖| L’armée belge en guerre contre la drogue à Bruxelles : le pari (risqué) du gouvernement fédéral
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FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert The warning came in a bulletin that was reviewed by ABC News.

The FBI thinks you are fucking stupid. Iran has zero capability to cross the Pacific and sea-launch a drone attack on California. This is too fucking dumb for me to comment on further.

Babies in America are now dying because of vitamin K shot refusal, and the lies told by the antivax movement are the root cause of their deaths.

Skepticism about vaccines was once a fringe view, held by a small group of Americans. But the Covid-19 pandemic, with its mandates and rapid rollout of vaccines, breathed new vigor into the anti-vaccine movement and bred hostility toward the medical establishment.

“The pandemic” didn’t “breathe” the hesitance, @apoorvanyt.bsky.social. The anti-vaccine movement leaders made a conscious decision to exploit it to undermine trust. They literally made videos about how they would do exactly that, before the vaccines existed. Show your readers those videos!

These are the stories media needs to be covering. Every time an infant dies of a refusal, tell the story. Use those words. The NYT has some of the most abysmal, sympathetic coverage of the AV movement because it can’t bring itself to offend, so we get writing implying we don’t know why it’s grown🤷🏻‍♀️

This is true of most global oppression. Modern industrial extraction techniques work much better than artisanal mining, which is why China is the world's largest gold producer and Sudan (despite being robbed blind by Russian mercenaries for its mineral resources) isn't.

there's this weird tendency to see Palestine as a load-bearing part of global systems of power or capital, rather than a marginalized population brutally oppressed by a fairly small state. A mirror image of the "Israel is the defender of the West' stuff.

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

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It's simple. Just announce the war is over every morning before the stock market opens. Then right after it closes double down with threats of an even bigger, longer war.

Just do this every day forever. The war and the market siloed off in two alternating realities that never meet.

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New evidence challenges Trump claim about deadly girls school strike On 28 February, a missile hit Shajareh Tayyebeh School - a girl's primary school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, Iran. Iranian authorities have said the strike killed at least 165 people, many of them children.

New evidence challenges Trump claim about deadly girls school strike

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

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Summary of Hungarian arguments. Full text in the link.

New EU court case III

Rule of law/asylum law

Hungary sues EU court for damages, saying that the EU court breached EU law by fining Hungary for *its* breach of EU law eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

‘Slopaganda’: White House celebrates Iran strikes with movie clips The White House has drafted Tom Cruise, Walter White and Sith Lords in a propaganda video which celebrates the Iran strikes. It shows once more to what extent the Trump administration’s trolling reveals a staggering lack of empathy.

‘Slopaganda’: White House celebrates Iran strikes with movie clips

BREAKING A strike targeting Bahrain's sprawling Al Ma'ameer oil facility has caused a fire at the complex along with material damage, state media reports.

Bahrain's state-owned energy company Bapco declares force majeure after waves of Iranian strikes targeted the country's energy installations

that the Trump administration is trying to shut down a leading AI company because it’s unwilling to develop autonomous murder systems is terrifying, and should be of grave concern to everyone in the world

Holy shit. Crude oil futures going nuts tonight.

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose

Trump does whatever he can to help Putin:
1. Refuses to deliver any arms for sale to Ukraine.
2. Hikes the global oil and gas prices to Russia's benefit through his madcap war against Iran.
3. Eases oil sanctions against Russia to help financing its war against Ukraine.

What Trump was actually wearing: [Recent image of Donald Trump wearing a white and gold oversize baseball cap while saluting our fallen soldiers] Old footage falsely labeled as current by Fox News Channel: [Old image of Donald Trump from 2025 saluting and dressed in black] Sponsors of Fox News Channel today Chase Bank [Screenshot of Chase Bank Freedom Unlimited ad] Jones Road Beauty [Screenshot of Jones Road Beauty add showing founder Bobbi Brown]

Donald Trump wore an oversize white and gold baseball cap at a recent dignified transfer of fallen soldiers. Fox News covered that up with old footage, sponsored today by Chase Bank and Jones Road Beauty. Don't support brands like these that fund misleading right wing media.

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Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...