U.S. Sent a Rescue Plane for Boat Strike Survivors. It Took 45 Hours to Arrive.
In seas that could kill a person within an hour, it took nearly two days for a rescue plane to arrive.
How does a country fulfill the duty to render aid to the shipwrecked without the inconvenience of survivors?
Today, some of the work I've done with Airwars was published in a piece I co-authored with @nickturse.bsky.social of The Intercept
@theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2026/02/17/b...
17.02.2026 22:51
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Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran
02.03.2026 19:38
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Maybe the real cyberwars were the friends we made along the way π«
02.03.2026 20:08
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DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients
βDreamersβ who came to the U.S. as children are protected under U.S. law, so deportations of them are unusual.
βThe Department of Homeland Security admitted to Congress this month that it deported dozens of unauthorized immigrants who are protected under U.S. law because they were brought as children to the United States, according to a letter made public Thursday.β www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
02.03.2026 17:00
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For the love of god, please learn to express disagreement on this app without talking like an absolute piece of shit who canβt understand that the person on the other end is a thinking, feeling human too
02.03.2026 13:12
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a motto for our times
02.03.2026 19:42
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I think of all the past generations who toiled and wept to give us, the present, such treasures. And how they are destroyed in the blink of an eye, by malignant fools, by the enemies of beauty, civilization, culture and life.
02.03.2026 19:54
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everyone loves smart missiles until they correctly parse the constitution and UCMJ and determine that they have a duty to obstruct an illegal war
02.03.2026 14:49
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Raytheon Executive: I know youβre skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.
Danish Defense Minister: Continue.
02.03.2026 14:43
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see that's that bullshit
a tic is involuntary, but BAFTA not saying anything to Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan afterwards is a choice
23.02.2026 16:26
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π European Human Rights delegation arrives in Rojava to investigate violations
πMore (hawarnews.com/en/european-...)
π HAWAR NEWS AGENCY #ANHA
t.me/enhawarnewsβ
23.02.2026 14:59
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Rojava delegation to attend European Parliament meeting
A delegation from Rojava will participate in a meeting at the European Parliament, scheduled to be held next Wednesday in the Belgian capital, Brussels.
π Rojava delegation to attend European Parliament meeting
π΅ A delegation from Rojava will participate in a meeting at the European Parliament, scheduled to be held next Wednesday in the Belgian capital, Brussels.
πMore (hawarnews.com/en/rojava-de...)
π HAWAR NEWS AGENCY #ANHA
23.02.2026 17:33
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
15.02.2026 14:47
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Introducing Wireservice - Wireservice
Today, an alpha WordPress plugin for standard.site. Tomorrow?
Introducing Wireservice. Today, it's a WordPress plugin in alpha for publishing to @standard.site. Tomorrow, it's... another longform content lexicon? A news aggregation app on atproto? We'll see. wordpress.wireservice.net/index.php/20...
19.02.2026 20:20
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AI and Media Moderation for Blacksky-Only Posts
Blacksky-only posts are coming. The community uploads 100K+ media monthly, too much for human review alone. Any AI moderation would run on our own infrastructure. No third party gets access to Blacksk...
π³οΈ Blacksky-only posts are coming.
- The community uploads 100K+ media monthly, too much for human review alone.
- Any AI moderation (if we used it) would run on our own infrastructure.
- No third party gets access to Blacksky data, period.
Please weigh in using the below survey by Feb 28th ππΎππΎππΎ
20.02.2026 15:23
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20.02.2026 22:02
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Cover of Tyesha Maddox's newly released book A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity. The cover features a colorized, archival photo of three Black Caribbean women at the turn of the 20th century, each wearing dresses of the period and all three wearing hats, with the one on the right wearing a hat unique to her Caribbean heritage.
THURS, FEB 26 @ 6:30PM EST: "A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity," with author Tyesha Maddox. This FREE and ONLINE event is by Gotham Center for New York City History. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-home-awa... #activism #MutualAid #BlackHistory
20.02.2026 21:58
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idk guys i just think if your pathologically contrarian posting brain leads you to try and whitewash the pedophile sex trafficking cult you should have very bad things happen to you
05.02.2026 17:31
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"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far olderβand not Denisovans
The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China.
My latest for @arstechnica.com explores what it means that we have 1.77 million year-old Homo erectus fossils in central China, and whether Homo erectus was really the first hominin to migrate that far. π§ͺ
20.02.2026 19:07
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Jonathan Brown - jbcartoonist on Instagram.
20.02.2026 14:07
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DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies
Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platformβafter dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.
NEW: Homeland Security officials are asking companies to help them combine all of their face and fingerprint systems together into one giant biometric platform.
Buttttttt it's unclear how workable this really is since DHS uses a wide mishmash of proprietary algos.
20.02.2026 20:09
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From what? They just passed it off to consumers
20.02.2026 18:03
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A banner featuring Donald Trump's photo featuring the phrase "Make America Great Again" is hung on the side of the headquarters of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, DC.
As @brendannyhan.bsky.social says on repeat, what would you say if you saw it happening in another country?
Source: x.com/HBRabinowitz...
19.02.2026 19:13
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two hands holding the book "Black Arms To Hold You Up" featuring two cartoon figures running in the bottom corner and the words "TFSR 12-28-25 | Black Arms To Hold You Up (with Ben Passmore)"
Hear @benpassmore.bsky.social on history, Black liberation, anarchism, martial arts, myths, comics & his new book, βBlack Arms To Hold You Upβ.
+ an interview with anarchist & former Belarusian political prisoner Mikola Dziadok, conducted by Frequenz-A
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/12...
28.12.2025 14:35
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idk, feels like a teachable moment.
free them tho.
24.01.2026 05:54
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This is, as we know, the problem with "better training and oversight."
It is already a clear violation of DHS/ICE's use of force guidelines to immediately draw and point your firearm at an unarmed person. They know this, and they know the administration will defend their rule-breaking.
03.02.2026 16:36
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Screenshot of a web browser. The top of the page says "Text editor" with a save button, folder button and a plus sign button. A dialog is open with a form labelled "Create file". The save type is `hyper://`, the site name is `notes` and the file name is `example.txt`
Want to learn how to make a #dweb app using Agregore? Check out our new tutorial that will guide you through making a basic text editor.
https://agregore.mauve.moe/docs/tutorials/texteditor
14.01.2026 04:54
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i met this guy on Saturday. he was engaged in the devious business of walking a kid who'd just been maced back to his apartment and washing out their eyes.
03.02.2026 01:11
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