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Lewis said it's more likely that the strike was the result of an error. Satellite images show that the school and clinic buildings were both once part of the base. The school was separated from the base by a wall between 2013 and 2016. The clinic was walled off between 2022 and 2024. Lewis believes it's possible American military planners had not updated their target sets. "There are thousands of targets across Iran, and so there will be teams in the United States and Israel that are responsible for tracking those targets and updating them," he said. "It's possible that the target didn't get updated." The Pentagon did not immediately respond to NPR's request for additional information about the strike.

Everyone is sharing a summary of the school bombing in Iran that includes a screen shot. The screen shot is apparently FROM THE VERY AI PROGRAM we are upset about. Here is a different screen shot, from the actual NPR story, by @gbrumfiel.bsky.social and colleagues

Link:
www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

That’s precisely how advanced the AI is

See, this is why I am a nonfiction writer. The truth can be its own metaphor

You should apply for this award, starting today & through April 3.

I almost didn’t enter in 2025, and then someone reminded me my book was eligible. So I went for it - and won the top journalism prize! 💰

You can’t win contests you don’t enter. Submit your best work & you might win - just ask me.

Fuck this timeline for making that statement possible

On moonshots and Minneapolis Space exploration can bring people together and reflect deep societal divisions.

I've been really struggling to write about space while living through the ICE occupation in Minneapolis this winter. I was shocked to find myself thinking, "Who cares about sending people to the moon?"

That feeling is more historically resonant than I thought. 🧪🔭
www.sciencenews.org/article/moon...

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

Help Kelly Pannek

This one is for a REAL need and imma hopeful that an auto company gonna step up. KELLY PANNEK from the women’s hockey team got hits by someone who totaled her car. She needs a new car.

Lots of brands commenting that they want to help,, but few truly stepping up. Who can help,??

Sounds a lot like the WPA, or the CCC. It is good to work together.

(Mental note to ask my friend who will 100 percent know about this)

Most people don’t realize how soon the Colorado River basin will be in crisis. Lake Powell may reach deadpool by the end of 2026. It won’t generate electricity, and no water will flow out of it to the Grand Canyon, Lake Mead, and all the cities and farms downstream that depend on it.

I’m at 7000 feet too and it’s dry as a bone. Hoping for an incredibly snowy March!

Totally a response to Obama’s recent interview! He can’t stand the spotlight being anywhere but on him.

The West’s Winter Has Been a Slow-Moving Catastrophe Without snow in the mountains, the places that depend on the West’s rivers will hurt for water.

I wrote about why it really needs to snow, a lot, ASAP, in Colorado.
Yep, I’ve heard the Sierras are getting a lot! That’s great, and is not going to help Lake Powell or Lake Mead. We need snow in the Rockies. You all should be paying more attention.
Gift link:

www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Weird ‘Little Red Dots’ in space are something we’ve never seen Astronomers are racing to understand mysterious ancient objects that pepper James Webb Space Telescope images

Exotic black hole stars could explain the mystery of Little Red Dots

Astronomers are racing to understand mysterious ancient objects that pepper James Webb Space Telescope images

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

It’s because the standard is to use the affiliation people have at the time an article publishes, in part so potential collaborators, the public, etc can find them where they presently are. It’s not intended to neglect or ignore any other institutions, though I understand why it feels unfair.

One of the hardest parts of this story was having to stop reporting and just get it done! I knew really cool stuff would come out right after we hit “send”

This is the last thing you have to do before you finish your degree in physics.

Opinion | Thanks Olympics. We Needed This. The Olympics have brought a much needed injection of awe, a welcome breather from a barrage of disturbing news.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“There is a lot of wonder to be had in the dedication that precedes the Games,” Kelly Corrigan writes about the Olympics. “Devotion, the opposite of smash and grab, is slow and full of faith.”

Flavor flav in front of the Olympic cauldron in cortina Italy

Uncle Flav has made it to Italy for the #Olympics

Letz GOOOOOOO USA Bobsled + Skeleton

Live Updates: F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days

The last time American airspace was closed for several days: 9/11

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

👏🏻 well done lolll

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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

winter olympics the superior olympics imo

Trees don't so much need deep, fertile soil, as protection from hungry sheep and deer, as this rowan seeded into a rock crevice – likely by a bird – shows.

Freeing the land from artificial overgrazing would see our lost wild native forests return naturally.

Can you picture it?

The mass layoffs at the Post really just make me feel a deep sadness for our industry. The severe weakening of the media ecosystem since 2017 has been catastrophic for American democracy. It has also, of course, come at great cost for journalists themselves.