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ابن البطة السودة Live, Laugh, Lethality Law, Ethics, War

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Armed robots take to the battlefield in Ukraine war Ukraine has embarked on a programme to deploy armed robots on the battlefield against Russian forces.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

07.03.2026 05:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 👍 12330 🔁 2643 💬 303 📌 168

Go read Walzer already.

07.03.2026 02:52 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

When visiting Indonesia a couple years ago, I overheard someone explaining that they didn’t need a visa because “we’re American, & we don’t do that.”

06.03.2026 23:57 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump: "A lot of our people were walking around without legs"

06.03.2026 23:13 👍 2954 🔁 759 💬 539 📌 370
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Poll: A majority of Americans opposes U.S. military action in Iran Most Americans disapprove of President Trump's handling of Iran, and a majority sees Iran as either only a minor threat or no threat at all, an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds.

Most Americans disapprove of President Trump's handling of Iran, and a majority sees Iran as either only a minor threat or no threat at all, an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds.

06.03.2026 21:13 👍 578 🔁 142 💬 34 📌 10

2 years from now, 5 years from now, 10 years from now, and 20 years from now, Americans are going to be subject to attacks here and all over the world because of what Trump is doing right now.

06.03.2026 12:44 👍 4353 🔁 1123 💬 218 📌 82
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Russia is Providing Iran Intelligence to Target U.S. Forces, Officials Say

By Noah Robertson, Ellen Nakashima and Warren P. Strobel

"The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East."

Gift link! @ellenwapo.bsky.social

06.03.2026 17:54 👍 32 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 8

Susie Wiles: Gotta do something about gas prices

Trump advisor: Let's lie about it.

Wiles: Tried that

Advisor: Say gas prices are going down?

Wiles: But they're not

Advisor: OK, berate media to say up is down.

Wiles: Gas station signs

Advisor: Have we tried asserting things that aren't true?

06.03.2026 18:30 👍 151 🔁 57 💬 13 📌 2

Yes, also, the US wants everyone to get on board—use of bases, absorbing refugees, increased fuel costs, etc—while also dealing with US tariffs.

06.03.2026 13:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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RAJU: You'll concede this is war?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We haven't declared war. They declared war on us

RAJU: The president called it war and Secretary Hegseth called it war

REPORTER: When you walked up just now, you called it war

MULLIN: Okay. That was a misspoke.

03.03.2026 23:14 👍 3428 🔁 860 💬 567 📌 374
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Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

05.03.2026 14:11 👍 6007 🔁 2120 💬 114 📌 123
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Trade court orders tariff refunds in setback for Trump A trade court has cleared the way for businesses to receive refunds for tariffs that the Supreme Court struck down last month.

How about refunds for American consumers that had to pay? (Maybe just for those that didn’t vote for this nonsense)

www.bbc.com/news/article...

05.03.2026 16:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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> @economist.com

www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

05.03.2026 12:51 👍 671 🔁 280 💬 46 📌 21

There’s only 30k data points out of Ukraine but learning is woke

05.03.2026 12:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

05.03.2026 12:21 👍 1247 🔁 301 💬 70 📌 34
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 👍 17101 🔁 5967 💬 513 📌 493

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

04.03.2026 20:25 👍 4245 🔁 1050 💬 41 📌 46

"We only had 30,000 or so observable Shahed variant attacks in Ukraine, but the targets were woke, so our Chief Technology Officer decided not to study them"

05.03.2026 01:55 👍 163 🔁 34 💬 5 📌 0
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05.03.2026 01:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Congress be like:

05.03.2026 01:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Donald Trump increases the defense budget last year from $874 billion to $1 trillion. He says he wants $1.5 trillion this year. Now he wants $50 billion more for his Iran War. Every Democrat should be screaming about the military budget, not cutting deals to keep raising it.

05.03.2026 01:19 👍 2964 🔁 852 💬 135 📌 48

🤔

04.03.2026 23:01 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

On the one hand fuck.

On the other... that means they own this, and I don't see it getting any more popular as time goes on.

04.03.2026 22:57 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody.

This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration.

This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

04.03.2026 14:49 👍 3843 🔁 1623 💬 107 📌 61

As bad as the entire situation in Iran is, the way it’s being communicated about to our troops is even worse.

At least 200 members of the U.S. Armed Services have filed complaints alleging that military commanders have used extremist Christian rhetoric to justify the war with Iran.

04.03.2026 18:28 👍 279 🔁 82 💬 14 📌 10
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Damn, Barbara Starr 🔥

04.03.2026 20:08 👍 2598 🔁 631 💬 86 📌 15

I know this is very funny but also pretty striking that our government lies about literally everything, including stuff that's easy to prove.

Any Dem who ever sits down to make a deal across the aisle with this captured Congress, you're a dope.

04.03.2026 20:10 👍 661 🔁 155 💬 1 📌 1
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Average Kuwaiti pilot seeing an unidentified radar track show up

04.03.2026 01:25 👍 727 🔁 115 💬 17 📌 6
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"America's average gas price saw its largest single-day jump in 4 years" www.businessinsider.com/average-gas-...

04.03.2026 12:53 👍 201 🔁 83 💬 5 📌 8