A black and white photo of a wide shallow and rocky stream taken from an arched pedestrian bridge.
A wide shallow and rocky stream taken from a pedestrian bridge.
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'Up There With My Lai" US military investigators have found it is “likely” American forces were responsible for the deadly strike on school in southern Iranian town of Minab...Schools are protected under international law, targeting them is a war crime. www.commondreams.org/news/us-bomb...
The print press should always quote him exactly and TV should quote him exactly too, the way they do here:
Oh word?
Others have said it but in doing this the United States has made every claim of the Iranian regime about our bloodthirstiness and callousness instantly correct
In other administrations I would believe the strike on the school was a mistake, but it is very difficult to even give the benefit of the doubt when they're damn near cutting wrestling promos about how many bombs they're dropping
Virulent misogyny (and racism) will be the death of this country
Landscape in the Rain - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14814
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
"It's important to pause and appreciate just how utterly diseased this kind of thinking is: the idea that you can mandate that corporations broadly pretend that systemic racism and sexism do not exist. And that this madness can enjoy any kind of meaningful compliance or permanence"
It’s worth emphasizing that the Supreme Court has propped up this presidential lawlessness.
When Congress enacted limits on presidential power in 1973, it included an enforcement provision. If the president said there’s an “emergency from attack” and Congress disagreed, it could order troops home.
Anyway the entire “Trump is the first President in decades to…” idea hinges entirely on pretending these things hadn’t already been addressed diplomatically.
its beside the point, as everything is ultimately so far beside the point anymore, but baseline question: who the fuck are we to be telling other countries this stuff? what sort of idiots believe you get to just dictate terms and bomb people when you don't like their government
The Trump Administration can’t even impose its will on Minneapolis when the full force of the federal government was focused on it, but surely they will be able to pacify and remake Iran, a nation of 90 million people halfway around the world.
Except for Juliet Binoche.
The Trump regime is easing sanctions on the russian terrorist state for oil exports. India (one of the biggest financial backers of the russian terrorist state) can buy and refine the millions of barrels of russian crude oil in floating storage.
This is a huge blow to Ukraine.
Scientists and other experts were preparing an assessment of the health of nature in the US when Trump returned to the White House. He canceled the report. The researchers went ahead and compiled it on their own. This week, they released a 868-p draft for public comment and scientific review.
"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026
Ballet pic of the day
Héloïse Bourdon as the “Blue Fairy Sixième Variation”, “Sleeping Beauty"
Photographer Akiko Koizumi
Cant get over how insane this answer is. News media would absolutely have destroyed a Dem president who responded flippantly to the idea of civilian casualities in the US bc of a war like Trump does here.
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."
Always the good ones 😞
So Ukraine helps the US beat Shaheds and the US helps Russia kill Ukrainians.
A classic black-and-white photograph of Geraldyn “Jerrie” Cobb, pioneering American aviator and astronaut candidate, seated in the cockpit of a high-performance jet aircraft during the early 1960s. She wears a flight helmet with visor, oxygen mask connected to a hose, and flight suit with patches. Her expression is calm, focused, and determined as she looks upward slightly toward the sky, evoking her role as the first woman to pass the same astronaut screening tests as NASA's Mercury Seven men and her status as the top contender in the Mercury 13 program. The image captures her courage, skill, and groundbreaking ambition in an era when women were excluded from spaceflight due to gender bias.
Jerrie Cobb should have been the first woman in #space. 🚀
Due to gender bias, she wasn't.
Part of the Mercury 13 (women), she passed the same tests as the Mercury Seven astronauts (men), often ranking in the top 2% (including compared to the men). She was born #OTD in 1931.
#WomensHistoryMonth
Wrote about the US government following the tradition of dehumanizing their enemies as barbarians to justify their violence but also how it sells its constant violence to Americans by convincing Americans that they’re the only real human beings
open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
Agreed
If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.
This is the spirit in which mighty Lincoln sought to bind up the nation's wounds when its soul was yet seething with fierce hatreds, with wrath, with rancor, with all the evil and dreadful passions provoked by civil war. Surely this is the spirit which all Americans should show now, when there is so little excuse for malice or rancor or hatred, when there is so little of vital consequence to divide brother from brother. from: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-lincoln-dinner-the-republican-club-new-york-city
Our tendency to focus on the "malice toward none, charity for all" line—and to misremember/forget the rest—is in part a legacy of the Jim Crow era.
White northerners and southerners reconciled and abandoned Reconstruction's promise—as, they claimed, Lincoln wanted all along.
Here's TR, 1905.
-with malice toward none
-with charity for all
-with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right
The 3d point is no less important. Lincoln calls for firmness. And he invokes God and the right - just after he describes the Civil War as God's punishment for the national sin of slavery.
