This from 2024 is essential reporting about AI, target generation, and tempo, deadly deadly deadly tempo.
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
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This from 2024 is essential reporting about AI, target generation, and tempo, deadly deadly deadly tempo.
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
“If a U.S. role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...
"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...
This is utterly unacceptable.
"This war will be fun, and easy" - every idiot who starts a war
I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.
[Exit Murderer.]
Mullin is the guy who tried to fight a witness at a Senate hearing. www.axios.com/2023/11/14/m...
"The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere"
I don't feel good about that!
I'm sure Lewandowski, committed to the department, will remain as a close adviser to Mullin.
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
I keep seeing the "OUR 50 YEAR WAR WITH IRAN" headlines and think, dang, really? Then maybe we should've come down harder on those Reagan administration guys for selling arms to Iran and using the proceeds to seed an illegal slush fund for far-right counterrevolutionaries in Central America
The constitution's design does not grant the president a kinglike ability to take the country to war by himself, lest he do so for self-serving reasons. That is the entire purpose of dividing that authority between POTUS and Congress. Guess what just happened? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Well at least this has gotten me back in touch with my long-dormant furor at the Bush admin's ineptitude and callousness, which got gradually buried under the million layers of shithearted will-to-power ruination that have settled on America since then
Stephen Miller at an international conference about cartels: "These organizations can only be defeated with military power. I see some heads nodding because they understand. You're dealing with a lot of lawyers in your own country, I'm sure. You have my permission not to listen to them."
this would make george orwell blush
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
Jesus fucking christ.
today at the newsletter, free: an adapted excerpt from my book Wild Faith, about evangelical Christian prophecies about war in the Middle East and the end of the world & how they influence US foreign policy:
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Iran-Contra happened 40 years ago! It *literally* involved the US selling weapons to... Iran.
So, the argument is we were funding the armed forces of a country we were at war with?
No, leave it up and text us if anyone with an IP address in D.C. suddenly puts down $100,000 www.404media.co/polymarket-p...
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![“Whether his morals are right or wrong or whatever, we’re not going to let [Amodei’s] decision making cost a single American life,” the person said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gljcmclsvuebhhnvpa2rwvjr/bafkreifclcg533bo64djzmgu37xpsq76gydnqqc7kmufwbkdx7e2u7huwm@jpeg)
“Whether his morals are right or wrong or whatever, we’re not going to let [Amodei’s] decision making cost a single American life,” the person said.
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Weird how everybody was like "let's ask the AI bot which targets to bomb" but nobody was like "let's ask the AI bot if it identifies any major aerial vulnerabilities to US joint ops centers across the region that we could triage"
Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke
Two headlines, both from this morning:
Last night, I spoke to former Army Pfc. Jeremy Watson who said this about Capt. Cody Khork: “[he] enjoyed being in the service…and was a great coach,” who taught him “Compassion, friendship, loyalty…[and] to always try to stay positive when you can.”
