Malatesta Appreciator

Any time you post about something outside the USA on this app, you are met with people orientalizing and massively oversimplifying complex situations. It is incredibly frustrating, and it is why I generally do not engage here about the things I cover in Myanmar and Kurdistan.

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Liberal discourse on Mullin has far too often strayed into offensive and misleading tropes about Indigenous people, or mockery of his unusual name. This is wrong, classist, counterproductive, and actively hurtful to people I suspect liberals have no intention of hurting.

There are a lot of things to be mad at Sen Mullin for, but now is not the time for people who have no special insight to revive their takes on Cherokee identity & police how Indigenous people should appear.

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Don't think we will

Doing well will ever find out but I can’t help but think this could be an AI assigned target

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

This is very serious and I hope all the 1A orgs will meet the moment here.

disappointing to see how many American left outlets seem to think the appropriate response to the attack on Iran is to do a soft pro regime stance. Just like anyone else, people in Iran deserve the right to govern themselves. Seeing their freedom as tool in domestic politics is an imperialist stance

Was quite a relief at the start of the week - I found fascist graffiti in the building entrance and wondered if I was being dramatic, but one of the local antifa said no, that’s a new development in this area, and cleaned it up. Things are slowly but definitely intensifying in Berlin.

I know everyone is watching what’s happening in Iran, but Ice arrested another set of journalists for reporting on their black bagging of American citizens in Nashville last night.

Aw man, @thenarwhal.ca , I used to really appreciate the reporting on First Nations, but this is an unfollowable offense. Please don't use the plagiarism theft world destroying machine.

Opinion | The Supreme Court makes a common-sense decision on parental rights in California The government of California doesn’t supersede parental rights. Even at school.

WaPo has since changed the headline to this

Josh's wife is talking about the case where the Supreme Court said teachers have to out trans students to their parents. This mess

screenshot from the Washington Post: Opinion The Supreme Court is right. Parents get to decide how to raise their kids. The government of California doesn’t supersede parental rights. Even at school. March 5, 2026 at 7:15 a.m. EST 4 min [photo: The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 29. (Kent Nishimura/Reuters)] By Erin Morrow Hawley Erin Morrow Hawley is chair of Lex Politica’s Supreme Court and appellate practice and counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom.

*Conservative parents. Only conservative parents get to decide how to raise their kids, per this court

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Louisiana lawsuit targeting abortion pill telehealth could ripple nationwide, providers warn A judge is weighing whether to roll back a federal policy change that allows mifepristone to be dispensed by a local pharmacy or by mail

“It is completely inappropriate for Louisiana to try to export its own restrictive laws in this way.”

A federal judge in Louisiana is weighing whether to roll back telehealth access to mifepristone, of which people already facing barriers to care would bear the brunt, @alexmar.bsky.social writes.

My kids have measles, there are no jobs, and the country is at war. But at least now I can buy raw milk with my HSA card.

BlackRock curbs redemptions at HPS private credit fund as investors weigh risks The reported surge of withdrawal requests at HPS Corporate Lending Fund adds to recent reminders of liquidity risk in the private credit market.

Here we go.

BlackRock straight up saying 'NO' to redemption requests.

If BlackRock is this fucked; it's the ENTIRE sector of Private Credit that's about to unravel.

Iran: check this shit out, I drew a fake tunnel entrance. and labelled it Secret Bunker. The American AI burned a quarter of their remaining ammunition trying to destroy it.

The US: claude, give me bunkers hot in Asian land war visible nipples right altitude big tiddies not fooled by black paint

Iran: check this shit out. I literally just drew a big picture of a soldier on the ground. The American AI spent $150 million trying to kill it.

The US: Claude, give me war plans big tiddies wins in war Montgomery and Rommel visible nipples mastermind plans child-like face

Iran: look, it's simple. We literally just paint the silhouette of a plane on the ground. We literally just nail together some boxes in the shape of a tank. We literally just pull looney tunes shit. Their AI will make them spend $100 million to destroy $5 of arts and crafts.

the US: grok is this

AI is destroying the environment, depleting water, causing layoffs, destroying critical thinking, but at least it's also inaccurate.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

I actually think much of the public is basically aright on this. A great many people indeed have this attitude of scepticism, aren't so blood thirsty as the worst propagandists would have us. Yet for some reason, at least here in the UK, there is a terrible filter for access to our journalist class.

Wars are extremely hard things to justify. It is intrinsic to what they are that they tend to death, destruction, and misery. Given this and some knowledge of history, one's default attitude towards powerful people purporting to do the world some great benefit by war should be extreme scepticism.

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

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Call it end-times fascism, or Toscano's Late Fascism, there is a real crisis faced by capital but it is not merely a crisis of production and profit but an existential crisis, a crisis of climate, a crisis of futurity itself. Speculation reaches its end in the non existence of a speculative future

So instead we get war, death, apocalypse, rubble. This is ultimately all that fascism can actually produce, as its smartest people merely provide a figleaf, paving the way for its suicidal patriarchs to indulge in their death drives

The fash realignment ironically relied on the continued neoliberal US/Euro system in whose shadow it bloomed, its most venal ideologues taking the US have ruined the plan by accelerating it, they rolled the dice on countertevolution, but Trump is such a bad gambler he lost money owning the casino