John Lovie

"I'm sorry, Donald, I'm afraid I can't do that."

Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...

‘It means missile defence on datacentres’: drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare

At 4.30am on Sunday morning, an Iranian Shahed 136 drone struck an Amazon Web Services datacentre in the United Arab Emirates, setting off a devastating fire and forcing a shutdown of the power supply. Further damage was inflicted as attempts were made to suppress the flames with water.

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Iranian drone strikes at Amazon sites raise alarms over protecting data centers Tech industry’s past focus on cyberattacks and natural disasters overshadowed threats of physical attacks.

As AI becomes critical to national economies, cloud infrastructure becomes a wartime target. Drone strikes on Amazon sites in the Gulf may force the industry to rethink where it builds https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-amazon-data-center-strikes/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

Caught that too.

Noem and Lewandowski, crying, determined, clasping hands tightly while they sit on their his and hers bidets, one last act of romantic defiance as the fuck jet barrels towards the White House

Markwayne Mullin is for Trump – and Indian Country - High Country News The Cherokee congressman, who is hard-right and white-passing, may not seem like an Indigenous lawmaker, but he’s no anomaly.

President Trump has replaced Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem with Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma. Revisit Graham Brewer's 2019 profile of the controversial Indigenous lawmaker.

So sorry for your loss

My pleasure. I hope you get it changed, and I hope we do here in Washington.

@evaholland.bsky.social

Memories of freezing my ass off at skating competitions at "The Dunk" - the Dunkin Donuts Arena in Providence. What do they call it now that Amica sponsors it? Still The Dunk?

Boots on the table. No manners.

In the beginning was the word, and the word was "aardvark."

Ohio has approved a $4.5 million sales tax exemption for a data center expansion project. The project will create 10 new full-time jobs.

www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03...

Maybe not a Pulitzer Prize, but a MacArthur Fellowship for sure

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

You have to watch this.

Watching and Waiting And Taking Up Space

The hierarchy has been around for millennia. It is designed and maintained to keep us busy guarding our place in it so that we don't notice that those on the very top are making off with the lion's share of the resources; resources that should be keeping us all in abundance, not engineered scarcity.

And these guys are totally reading Revelations as a how-to book. Scary that they rate their chances of surviving it higher than the chances of preventing it.

It's crazy how deeply the apocalypse is embedded in American culture, particularly in science fiction and Hollywood, often with some kind of rapture - a chosen few who get to survive and make a new life - and how that thinking underpins the survivalist movement, oligarch bunkers in NZ, Musk's Mars.

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

Operation E*****N F***S

" I'm sorry, Donald, I'm afraid I can't do that."

“I’m sorry, Donald, I’m afraid I can’t do that.“

"I'm sorry, Pete, I'm afraid I can't do that."

New proposal in Congress would gut key provisions of landmark chemical safety law, putting families’ health at risk - Toxic-Free Future A new U.S. Senate draft bill would dismantle core protections of the nation's main chemical safety law and make it easier for toxic chemicals to enter homes, schools, and workplaces.

NEW: Senate proposal would weaken core #TSCA chemical safety protections, making it easier for harmful chemicals to reach Americans — and harder to stop them. 

Dozens of leading groups oppose this rollback and urge Congress to reject it. #MAHA

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Thank you for your reporting on this.

Commentary: The Pentagon is demanding to use Claude AI as it pleases. Claude told me that's 'dangerous' Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI, that if it doesn't turn over full use of the powerful tool by Friday, the company will face severe repercussions.

Could Claude be trusted to feel that loyalty, the patriotism and purpose, that our human soldiers are guided by?

“I don’t have that,” Claude said. So an American life has no greater value than “a civilian life on the other side of a conflict.” www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Hannah Spencer's victory speech after Gorton and Denton byelection YouTube video by Guardian News

In an emotional victory speech, Spencer said people were being “bled dry”. She said: “Instead of working for a nice life, we’re working to line the pockets of billionaires. We’re being bled dry. And I don’t think it’s extreme or radical to think that working hard should get you a nice life.”