Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
Maybe she's been told she's going to a puppy farm
Yep.
Not that Noem would've said or done anything different, but Markwayne is gonna be leading DHS and ICE during the midterms.
thoughts, prayers
congrats!
Mullin lacks much of a record on climate or FEMA, but he's a standard-issue MAGA pol who claims the 2020 election was stolen and opposes the rights of women & trans people. It's not hard to guess how this will go
But of course all of this incompetence suits Trump's designs. Noem's successor will likely be just as terrible, if maybe slightly less inclined to do photoshoots on horseback
Kristi Noem has been a nightmare running the DHS, which shouldn't exist, but she has also been a nightmare running FEMA, which should
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
I doubt her successor will be any better, but she needs to go anyway
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Red states are getting what they voted for.
But California could feel this worst of all, with shortages possiby pushing gasoline to $10 a gallon, per @philverleger.bsky.social
"The global economic impact could be severe; California's ag sector ranks as the world’s 5th-largest food supplier"
absolutely
"Climate change is not peripheral but structurally embedded in modern warfare." - Mark Hertsgaard of @coveringclimatenow.org
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
It's certainly temporary, as are all of the climate impacts of war. I worry we're not at a point in the transition where we can afford it (especially given the ongoing devastation in Ukraine, Gaza, etc)
Particularly if we're really entering a time of increased nationalism, resource wars, etc.
Chart from BloombergNEF: "Europe's coal power fleet profitability up on surging gas prices." Shows 22GW of gas-to-coal fuel switching potential across Europe. Germany, Poland, Czech Rep. and Netherlands have the biggest coal capacity + available new capacity.
Trump keeps finding unique ways to hurt the climate: By driving up fossil-gas prices, his war has temporarily made coal profitable again, encouraging Europe to burn more of it
Gasoline prices have risen 8.5% the last three days in the biggest surge since 2005 to an average $3.25 per gallon for regular grade, and are up 16.3% since early January, according to AAA
Trump has kicked open the door to China being the world's leader in renewable energy. China is at best tiptoeing through it
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
And 165 non-artificial schoolchildren were blown up by all this advanced and precise targeting. Congrats to everyone involved on achieving this brave new world.
love to pick up my phone and see 5 - 10 different things each of which successively makes me angrier than I’ve ever been in my entire fucking life
This isn’t just cowardice before a mad king, it’s an abiding love for war without end, planning or aim, and they will call you a traitor if you feel differently
But but we were promised drill baby drill www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...
Exactly
a very hot one
A screenshot of a couple of Polymarket bets, one asking about the number of measles cases in the US in 2026 and the other about the number of measles cases by March 31.
What level of Hell is reserved for "bookies for gambling on measles outbreaks"
front-running the chaos
Just as drawn up by Epstein and Thiel
Exactly
