Andrew Sparling

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

Julie K Brown: FBI releases interviews with woman who alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor... "A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."

The United States had a deal that could have prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

Donald Trump ripped that deal up and got nothing in return.

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

The slurs somehow have more agency than the Republicans.

The “NYT actually assigns agency to the people doing the thing” headline challenge remains unwon.

I mean, it’s an old trick. But if this a real photo and not doctored, it could be almost anywhere and anywhen. I dimly recall pics of this from the first Gulf War maybe

Exactly

the risk of *developing* Long COVID in the first place.

I haven’t read the article, but this would appear to be addressing the question of whether those already suffering from Long COVID benefit from Metformin. What has been fairly well established, however, is something different: that a Metformin regimen during acute infection substantially reduces

Is this real? What’s the image source?

The more countries that stand up to the US in concert, the more effectively the US can be restrained and also deterred from retaliating. They are not going to threaten trade embargoes on several countries at once.

People are dying in Iran, and Hegseth is talking like a teen on a ‘Call of Duty’ bender - The Boston Globe There appears to be no clear objective from the Trump administration in Iran, beyond perhaps maximizing death and destruction.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/05/m...

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

Amigos!

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

The US govt mixing video of real violence in a war it started with a video game scene feels like crossing a(nother) line.

I’m not sure what to say. I don’t think war is a game. And even when I think military action is necessary, there are real human beings on the other end, not pixels that respawn.

If we’re talking about the same Marc, he does not discuss in good faith. Best to mute or block him. He seems bent on demoralizing those engaged in good-faith, science-based discussion.

Fascism is in the water

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Dave Whamond, Toronto Star

“Smart” “AI”

Q: Are any so-called fully autonomous weapons or other AI tools being used in Operation Epic Fury?

HEGSETH: We've got a lot of autonomous systems, drones and others, incorporated with smart AI aspects to them, but a lot of which I can't talk about here

It’s morning here in Melbourne. Gonna bring some Unca Viktor energy to the day, I can tell already

Very à propos.

AI slop.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

“One day, son, all of this will be yours.”

“What, the curtains?”

Good point about the combined image, duh. I need more coffee

Apparently the version you’ve got is an AI-slopped corruption of the original:

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