Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
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This is quite an amazing thing for a sitting US senator to say.
BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence for molesting 2 children
Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net has arrived!
"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).
“It was naive to think she would stand on principle when that much money was on the line,” a CBS reporter told me about Gayle King's new contract. “A lot of people were disappointed that she didn’t use her position to speak up. Instead, she rolled over for a fat paycheck.”
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.
🟥These images were posted by the Israeli Air Force on social media during the ongoing war with Iran. Some of the posts directly mention Israeli Air Force strikes in Iran.
View images of the munitions here:
osmp.ngo/osmp2051/
The OSMP has added Israeli 2,000-pound-class air-delivered bombs with distinct red and yellow markings.
This suggests the munitions likely contain an incendiary and high-explosive payload. The best known of these is the BLU-119/B CrashPAD which contains white phosphorous.
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
Sometimes you learn things when you do an interview with a chief executive. And sometimes, you learn things when you do not in fact do an interview with a chief executive:
The battle between the Pentagon and Anthropic couldn't have come at a worse time. AI safety is no longer a hypothetical problem; it's a real concern for the world we live in today. And the US Government's demand? Move faster and break more things. My cover story: www.economist.com/briefing/202...
Kristi Noem claiming she "ushered in the golden age of travel" is a perfect example of how MAGA is assaulting the plain meaning of words
Secretary Kristi Noem @Sec_Noem Thank you @POTUS Trump for appointing me as the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. @SecRubio and @SecWar are incredible leaders and I look forward to working with them closely to dismantle cartels that have poured drugs into our nation and killed our children and grandchildren. The Western Hemisphere is absolutely critical for U.S. security. In this new role, I will be able to build on the partnerships and national security expertise, I forged over the last 13 months as Secretary of Homeland Security. We have made historic accomplishments at the Department of Homeland Security to make America safe again: we delivered the MOST secure border in American history, 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S., we have located 145,000 children, FEMA delivered disaster relief at a 100% faster rate, we ushered in the golden age of travel, saved the American taxpayer $13 billion and revitalized the U.S. Coast Guard.
oh my goodness she seems to think Special Envoy for the Shield is a real job
After initially saying he would wait for a House Ethics inquiry to conclude, House Speaker Mike Johnson said he had asked U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales to withdraw from his GOP primary runoff. bit.ly/3NlmQDZ
NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED
What oligarch doesn’t say that?
There it is: Noem out, Mullin in
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
The questions is, what do you when the institutions responsible for accountability are all captured by authoritarian lackeys?
What's angered Trump re Noem? Her testimony about a $200 million self-promotional ad campaign at DHS — about which @propublica.org broke the critical details last year:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
CNN put together a video illustrating that while Trump regime officials keep describing the Iran strikes as a "war," Republican members of Congress are using all sorts of euphemisms
Like Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Aside from a few AI generated images, there is no evidence any "wars". The wild west here is the media, police and schools spreading unsubstantiated bullshit when they should know better. Classic press fueled hysteria, just like with the momo challenge in 2018 and rainbow parties in the 2000s.
The police asked schools in my area to send out a message to our community and, yes, it just meant we spread disinformation amd made it more visible. Some parents just lost it and were emailing school with hysterical nonsense suggesting we change our school day and uniform policy. Just nuts.
So when some kids get stabbed actually take the time to find out where they heard about it first, TikTok or from their parents via their schools.
Anecdotally, it appears the warnings from our local schools in Leicester have made School Wars go viral among the local kids, the vast majority of which hadn't heard of it before the warnings-
'School wars' social media trend prompts warnings
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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