Matt Rodier

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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"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."

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

“There is no thought process into what any of this means long term,” said one official. “It’s not coordinated regime change. It’s just ‘bomb them until they’re less of a threat.’”

Asked about the administration’s plan for Iran after the war, that official responded: “Whatever.”

US Issues License to Allow Some Russian Oil Sales to India By Natalie Choy 03/05/2026 19:14:03 [BFW] (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Dept’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says it is issuing a Russia-related general license to allow some Russian oil sales to India, according to a statement. License related to Russia oil sale to India valid to April 4, 2026

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Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes Andrew Paul Johnson, authorities said, tried to keep one of his victims mum by floating the promise of money he was expecting to receive from the Justice Department.

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes

To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare.

Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://wapo.st/46BFe1T

Quicker than I thought: bsky.app/profile/wash...

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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My overwhelming thoughts on this are less schadenfreude and more that if the dollar continues sliding right as domestic food production falters significantly that confluence of factors could produce some conditions generally unseen in developed nations outside of natural disaster zones.

Just a lie

Post-9/11 the stated justification for why our government kills someone is largely semantic. Obama’s AG, Eric Holder, wrote an op-ed in NYT that if you were close enough to a drone strike to be killed and a military aged male you were deemed a terrorist, and your killing was legal.

You may have misread my tone. I meant months from now, if ever. Just seemed odd to me that Sec Def was bragging about AI/mil integration right around this time. And you have my sincere appreciation for filing the FOIA lawsuits. The lack of transparency on topics like this is firmly anti-democratic.

What’s the chances that a couple months from now we find out that target list was generated with the use of AI?

I’d second the high smoke point suggestion. Avocado oil is another good option for this issue.

I was gonna say use butter and oil in combination, which works, but thank you for this Hank Green like science magic.

US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war US military commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical “end times” to justify involvement in the Iran war to troops, according to complaints made to a watchdog group. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) says it has received more than 200 complaints from service members across all branches of the armed forces, including the marines, air force and space force. Continue reading...

US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

I think that’s a bit naive. Look at the use of Iranian drones in Ukraine. They know where those Shaheds go and it never slowed down their production or distribution of them. Also, it’s a nation state not disinclined to sponsor terrorism in potentially existential danger.

Iranian schoolgirls, U.S. troops, Israeli villagers, random Emiratis, Pakistani rioters and maybe a couple folks in a bar in Texas — all dead because of a vainglorious American dictator

A mad king’s illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

My instant reaction at 3 a.m. yesterday was not whether Khamenei would be killed or oil prices or anything else but this

This undeclared, unexplained war is illegal. Full stop

28 hours later, it is still the worse abuse of power in U.S. history. Impeach

My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Whenever a govt attempts to bomb a people to freedom it’s always about the bombing and never about the freedom.

Just watched video of at least one drone impact on Dubai.

Whenever a govt attempts to bomb a people to freedom it’s always about the bombing and never about the freedom.

Israel has now killed more journalists than any other government since the Committee to Project Journalists began collecting records in 1992.

The Israel-Gaza war is the deadliest conflict on record for journalists, the CPJ found. https://wapo.st/4aJGqBm

New York Times: Dozens of U.S. strikes are being carried out by attack planes based at bases around the Middle East and from one or more aircraft carriers, a U.S. official said.

“Dozens of U.S. strikes are being carried out by attack planes based at bases around the Middle East and from one or more aircraft carriers, a U.S. official said.”

The United States is participating in the Israeli strikes against Iran, AP sources say The United States is participating in the Israeli strikes against Iran, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the operation, who spoke on condition of anonymity to detail sensitive m...

“The apparent strike happened near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the 86-year-old Khamenei had been in his offices at the time.”

This is Trump's former AI adviser