The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime.
And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.
Measles is spreading in Texas, as families are being crammed into detention centers with inadequate care. Not only is this inhumane treatment of detained people, but it puts the communities around the detention center at risk of catching measles too. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
I like army’s new crop top uniforms. And she seems very decorated for a foot model!
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]
Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
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.
Wow: In the early vote, it's a blow-out *so far*.
Rodney Sadler, the progessive pastor and activist, leads state Representative Carla Cunningham 75% to 18%.
(Stay tuned as we see how the Election Day vote compares, but that's an ominous start for the incumbent.)
Context:
Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.
the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A Waymo robotaxi picking up a passenger near Sunday morning's mass shooting in Austin blocked an ambulance from reaching the scene, according to a bystander video. A Waymo official confirmed the video shows the company's vehicle blocking the ambulance
www.axios.com/local/austin...
so the podcast that Platner went on as a guest last month and called himself a “longtime fan” of isn’t just antisemitic, it’s also full of anti-Black racism and promoted the racist and xenophobic GOP attacks on Somali immigrants in Minneapolis?
I read on here somewhere that the democratic /activist party leaders were targeted at the same time khomeini by Israel bc they don’t want ANY functional leader
Not loving the line from way too many Dems that the only issue with bombing Iran is that POTUS didn't ask first. That is certainly an issue, but not the main one which is that WE SHOULD NOT BE BOMBING IRAN.
That pillow is so hilarious I got it as gifts for everyone
Black cat ponders outlook email
How your email finds me
Not to mention the lead up with years of money laundering, business fraud and predating on young girls and whatever else we don’t know about.
there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true
this is one of those things where i think it would be useful for more people to recognize that this is completely unrecognizable compared to republican party orthodoxy for essentially the entire history of the republican party
Stansbury: “The vast majority of co-conspirators that were investigated were the women who assisted in Epstein's crimes—
None of the male perpetrators who committed rape & SA, including potentially the president who’s accused in the files, have been called to testify & to account for what happened”
Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.
SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way.
Half are luxury jets.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...
fyi the Columbia student newspaper has far more details on the ICE raid on a Columbia residence hall (including the likely name of the student in question) than any of the journalists y'all are reposting who aren't on campus. 🙂 support student journalism!
The State of the Union …🔻
Nice
Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….
And the frogs
So judgy! They seem critical of your bathroom routine
Three pictures of the sea bunny nudibranch a sea creature that looks like a tiny fluffy white rabbit with black tipped ears
Really looking like the sea bunny nudibranch
The biggest news of the night is that Trump’s effort to steer control of CNN to a lackey by threatening the corrupt use of regulatory power is moving closer to reality. www.mediamatters.org/cnn/trump-es...
nice exploration of how right wing propaganda and "pink slime" newspapers (fake local papers built by right wing propagandists to lie to locals) propped up the whole AOC "um" non news cycle
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
