It's been weird to see how much misinformation about the Minab school bombing has been just stuff on Twitter. Like, the actual Trump White House has told fewer lies, the actual Pentagon has been more transparent about a horror story they are likely responsible for than propaganda accounts on X
Yep Hadley Freeman reprinted this lie in her Guardian column, and refused to apologise for it.
The Graun printed the most graceless retraction possible, never retweeted it or apologised z
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Obama’s change in policy towards Cuba and the JCPOA happened, the world didn’t end, everything was fine. Part of manufacturing consent for more war is purposefully forgetting the very recent memory when it was proven to be wholly unnecessary.
I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from
Richard Hanania, the supposedly reformed ex-Nazi who is a prominent thought haver on X dot com.
Remember that guy who was like “lol turns out there are no negative consequences at all of just starting wars and taking out heads of state like this, we should do it more” on day… two?
The wife of the Iraqi President (both her and the President being Kurdish politicians with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party), releases a statement saying "leave the Kurds alone" citing various historical events, including "we saw what happened . . . in Rojava"
Expert analysis indicates that the elementary school in Minab, Iran, was hit by the US military with "picture perfect" targeted strikes. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
He fired Kristi Noem while she is speaking live. Lmao
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
Spanish PM Sánchez on Trump's threat to end trade:
"We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and contrary to our values and interests simply because of fear of reprisals... We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional & moral strength of our country."
Am sticking with my bet that the right is reading this wrong and that the majority of voters are not at all unhappy Starmer has upset Trump by holding back from a war whose purpose and end game no-one seems able to define.
The easiest analytical assumption to make whenever Trump does something is that he hasn't thought it through at all. And yet everytime commentators contort themselves into believing there's some kind of strategy.
The Tories' YT channel, meanwhile, think SHE SMASHED IT.😂
It is embarrassing. She is embarrassing. Suggesting welfare is why we don't have more missiles is embarrassing. Philp jeering while PM is trying to list evacuation flights is embarrassing. They are embarrassing, yet somehow NOT embarrassED.
It is wild to me that DOGE/Musk could dismantle so much of the government in just a few months from a combination of anti-regulatory personal greed and fascism-tinged stupidity and no one will ever face any consequence for it.
The 3 case studies here suggest that due diligence and listening to women can save a guy from making serious mistakes. Interesting
“Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here,” the scientist’s mom wrote back, when he asked her whether he should accept an invitation from Jeffrey Epstein.
Every trans person is like "I knew something was up before I had the words to describe it and had to fight for this for years" and every transphobe is like "one conversation with a doctor could have convinced me to get the walrus surgery from the movie 'The Walrus'"
yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have
more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases
This feels like a helpful primer for understanding AI in general. It makes programmers more efficient on the front end because they can generate more code. But it makes them less efficient afterwards because it vastly increases the amount of time they spend tweaking and fixing bugs.
A lot of people epically failed to accept the basic reality that the 2024 election was an election with huge moral stakes and a clear right and wrong answer (for a wide range of reasons). They now are twisting themselves into knots to protect themselves from accepting that moral failing.
Must-read: 10 years since Berta Caceres' murder
"To understand why Honduras remains among the deadliest places in the world for land rights & environmental defenders, it’s crucial to understand the context in which Cáceres lost her life."
drilled.media/news/berta by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
‘We’ll run out of food this week’: how attacks on Iran leave Gaza under siege
This has always been one of the big problems with Trump btw. The demand for people to make him seem more complex and interesting than he actually is makes careers but also leaves people misinformed in basic ways.
It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.
this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying
