It seems like the most obvious thing to say in the world, but people need to be held accountable for the murder of children during an illegal war. Yet any real accountability for this will clearly require a radical political break.
South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign
I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.
This is essentially the argument of all the genocide deniers in Germany who think they’re the experts because their ancestors committed one.
The rhetorical labour that accompanied the invasion of Iraq has been abandoned. Even senior US military officials have struggled to explain how the campaign’s objectives would be achieved. The assumption of inevitability has replaced the burden of argument. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
The Iran war never happened
Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide
We need better Democrats.
Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.
That's not true. But Gandalf fought Durin's Bane, a Balrog of Morgoth, from the Bridge of Khazad-dum, up the Endless Stair to the peak of Zirakzigil until Darkness took him and he strayed out of thought and time and wandered far on roads that he will not tell to avoid an interview with Chotiner.
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A rotating GIF of images from the return of passengers on the first commercial flight from the Middle East to Australia after US-Israel strikes on Iran. Middle East at war ‘My kid’s in a war zone’: David Koch among relieved parents as Sydney private school students return The Australians on the first flight from Dubai included a group from Sydney’s Barker College who were welcomed by parents, including TV personality David Koch. 2 hours ago
Huzzah. The SMH finally found a way to link the Iran War with private schools!
US is a death cult.
The most dangerous words in the English language are an Isaac Chotiner follow-up question:
silver linings, I guess
The USA: the GATT national security exception is self-judging.
Australia: for the US and Israel, the entirety of international law is self-judging.
clownery all the way down.
my favourites!
Facts
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This is a cool and normal way of organising society
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
If you were wondering, the regime's Cuba planning is a sticky note that says "Bay of Pigs but less planning?"
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Iran human rights group HRANA:
"The total number of reported civilian deaths stands at 742, including 176 children under 18, with 624 reported deaths currently . under review"
"Reported civilian injuries since 28 February 2026 stand at 971, including 115 children"
www.en-hrana.org/the-third-da...
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”
incredible, he did the joke
Happy to have this out - give it a read and let me know what you think
Is 'Netanyahu's long career built on conflict avoidance' in the room with us right now?
"No stupid rules of engagement"
We just bombed a school and killed dozens of children.
