Helen Lindberg

A map showing casualties. Iran – killed: 1,045, injured: hundreds Israel – killed: 11, injured: hundreds US soldiers – killed: 6, injured: 18 Bahrain – killed: 1, injured: 4 Iraq – killed: 2, injured: 5 Jordan – killed: 0, injured: 5 Kuwait – killed: 4, injured: 35 Lebanon – killed: 50 injured: 335 Oman – killed: 1, injured: 5 Qatar – killed: 0, injured: 16 Saudi Arabia – killed: 0, injured: 0 United Arab Emirates – killed: 3, injured: 68

Al Jazeera has a useful tracker of who is getting killed and injured.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

Good quotes from Marko and Brian.

Hon varnade för kristna högern för tolv år sedan ”Det är verkligen värre än vad jag hade kunnat föreställa mig när jag skrev boken.” Journalisten Michelle Goldberg varnade för vita kristna nationalister för ett drygt decennium sedan i sin bok. I dag...

De där tatueringarna Hegseth har betyder visst nåt trots allt. Jag skrev och varnade för 8 år sedan. Ingen journalist var intresserad av att följa upp. Nu först börjar det pratas om det i dagspress. (bortse från att det givetvis ska vara evangekalisk och inte evangelisk) www.svd.se/a/xGO5B/hon-...

Iran 🇮🇷 BREAKING: opposition channel IranIntl reports that the Assembly of Experts has elected Mojtaba Khamenei to be the next Supreme Leader.

Mojtaba is the eldest son of Ali Khamenei.

Khamenei 2: Ayatollah Boogaloo

Deep sense of alienation today: about universities abandoning their mission as universities; about gen-AI mass deskilling of human cognitive capacity; about stupidity of people in power and people who vote for them. And they are all related.

They really truly fucked this up. It will be a horror. So many lives will be lost. A horror. And it will speed up this administration’s downfall, for sure.

Reminiscent of the Marshall McLuhan scene in Annie Hall, except the reporter had already asked the question.

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It will take years to undo this degree of corruption

I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.

I see analyses that are disturbing. Yes, it bothers me that the USS Gerald R. Ford is parked off Israel and Haifa. Hegseth wants an Iranian escalation to trigger full american retaliation with allied participation.

Proving one thing: they fully intended to put some IRGC general in charge, likely one who happily ordered the killing of protesters

Implying another: they accidentally killed a bunch of the high level guys who were on the Mossad payroll.

Neither of these things are implied. Though it does at min imply some attempt to plan for the succession of a diminished but intact regime rather than a shattered one. It is at least suggestive that they anticipated capitulation but are now unsure who would will left to capitulate.

Fusk och brister – 39 kommuner bröt hemtjänstavtal - Ekot Misstänkt fusk inom hemtjänstbranschen har fått 39 av Sveriges kommuner att bryta avtal med privata utförare. De senaste fem åren har över 70 bolag fått ...

I Gävle jämförde man olika hemtjänstbesök som ett bolag krävde betalning för och kunde då se att vid majoriteten av besöken var ingen personal på plats.

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I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

The silver lining is that president Bozo hasn’t decided to march ground troops into Iran yet.

Very unusual for me to call for more religion in politics but that’s where we are now. We have a war centred on three countries supposedly professing different religious values but none of the leaders seemingly understanding what their religions call for.

How to Think About the Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute A conversation with Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center for Justice.

The Pentagon wants AI that can fight wars without limits. Anthropic says there are lines it won't cross. And this week, that standoff turned into an all-out confrontation. To unpack the news, I spoke to Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center:

a group of men standing at a podium with the words `` ladies and gentleman we got him '' written on the screen . Alt: a group of men standing at a podium with the words `` ladies and gentleman we got him '' written on the screen .

Saddam was captured in December 2003, nine months after the U.S. invaded. And as we all know, the war wrapped up by year’s end and didn’t drag on for another damn near two decades.

Something something arrested development meme

“did it work for those people?” “No it never does… but it might work for us.”

To be fair, there's no way anyone could have known that US-led regime change in Iran might not make things better

Does Congress Even Exist Anymore? The fast fade of a co-equal branch of government

Great question

The FIFA Peace Prize keeps getting more prestigious by the day

*looking

I will never understand how some friends and colleagues (yes, political scientists, kooking at you) actually believed Harris was the hawk and Trump the loveydovey.

Dessa svenska värderingar alltså…sonen nynasse och med i nasseträningsklubb och själv ägnar han sig åt gängkriminalitetsfasoner. Jisses - det här med vandel, någon?

Omfamnar en politik och människosyn vi avskyr DEBATT. Den socialdemokratiska stödet till SD-regeringens invandrarpolitik kan nu anses fast och tydligt. Där ingår också löften om att den skall fortsätta ocks

Mycket bra av Carl Tham.

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All from Minnesota. Love to see it.