US military spent $9 million on crab legs and lobster in the months before Iran war
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, according to a watchdog report
I used to work for the government. In order to justify budgets, bad actors overspend at the end of the fiscal year. So the administration spent $93B on bullshit to justify massive Pentagon budget proposals, all while gutting health care and food assistance. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
11.03.2026 18:15
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the US did this. these are precision munitions, someone had to explicitly program in the coordinates of the school. and they likely did so at the direction of Maven Smart System, by Palantir.
09.03.2026 23:07
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A wartime presidency defined by Trump's unique political style
epic levels of sanewashing
09.03.2026 14:14
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Sigh. As much as I’d like to recommend the Switch 1 version which is on cart and that I have- there are some really annoying performance issues on S1 and there is no upgrade option between S1 and S2. Annoying but if you want physical this might be the way to go.
09.03.2026 12:59
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Why is the U.S. at war with Iran? Here’s what the Trump administration says.
President Donald Trump and top administration officials have offered a range of rationales for launching Operation Epic Fury.
Why is the U.S. at war with Iran?
Trump: “They would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks”
Vance: “I think the president was looking for the long haul”
Rubio: “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action”
Trump: “If anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand”
wapo.st/4bAOdCj
08.03.2026 13:53
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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
08.03.2026 02:12
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"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'
Quite the headline from People.com
people.com/trump-says-i...
06.03.2026 00:24
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We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them the liberty to bomb the crap out of people I don't like
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“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“
A double-tap strike on little girls at school.
05.03.2026 01:32
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This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
03.03.2026 13:15
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I want you to know that insurance companies want you to give up. And even though my motto has always been never give up, there were times where I’ve wanted to throw my phone and have burst into tears. This has been the worst year. No one is advocating for me. It’s just me. So let me help you.2/7
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Deadly bombing of Iran primary school ‘a grave violation of humanitarian law’: UNESCO
The UN education agency, UNESCO, says that the bombing of a primary school during the US and Israeli military attacks on Iran on Saturday constitutes a grave violation of humanitarian law.
The UN Education agency, UNESCO, says the US / Israeli strike that destroyed a girls primary school in Iran and left 150 dead and almost 100 wounded was a "a grave violation of humanitarian law".
"Places dedicated to learning are protected under international humanitarian law"
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ICE Took Wael Tarabishi's Full Time Caregiver Away... and it Killed Him
Wael Tarabishi was a 30 year old disabled man who's father Maher was his full time caregiver. ICE took Maher in October, leaving Wael without support. He died three months later.
On this Disability Day of Mourning, let’s honor Wael Tarabishi, a disabled man who died when ICE took his caregiver away.
Wael told them he would die without his father who was his “arms, legs & lungs”.
ICE took him anyways.
Wael died 3 months later:
www.disabledginger.com/p/ice-took-w...
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Germany (and the EU in other statements) is effectively saying that international law does not apply to the US and Israel, and that it fully backs their actions in the region.
There's no demand that the US reverse the block on aid to Ukraine, no ask for de-escalation on Greenland, just war war war
02.03.2026 20:22
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Too late 😭
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A pronouns joke in 2026? 😭
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Those of us who have served in the Global War on Terror know the story that this will bring "stability" and broader peace to the region. It was wrong then. I don't believe for a moment it will be true now. Killing begets killing.
01.03.2026 18:40
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ChatGPT after you start a war in the Middle East:
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White House officials, after planning atrocities
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Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.
01.03.2026 13:38
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But hey Claude promises to never run ads.
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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
01.03.2026 02:09
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For all intents and purposes, what the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis did to this blind refugee from Myanmar, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, is the equivalent of torturing him and then leaving him to die in the freezing cold of Buffalo.
28.02.2026 22:53
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We had a deal with Iran to ensure limits on its nuclear capacities. Trump ended that deal. Now he says that sending our young people off to fight and potentially lose their lives for this country is just a ‘cost of war.’ This is the cost of his broken promises. No war with Iran.
28.02.2026 12:43
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call (202) 224-3121 & you'll get connected to your representatives
my heart is so heavy
28.02.2026 13:00
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I think @normative.bsky.social made this point yesterday, but once you get beyond the outrage of the brutality of the original “arrest” here, you also have to confront the fact that a D.A. CHOSE TO PROSECUTE THIS and a judge SENTENCED HIM TO A YEAR IN JAIL. Total system fail. WTF
27.02.2026 02:45
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