The most comical media event of the day is Hegseth and Caine struggling to explain how the firing of missiles on US warships in the Gulf does not mean war is going on. It's truly a topsy-turvy world. www.ft.com/content/2e48...

Middle East war: US says Iran has not broken ceasefire following clashes over strait

Top Pentagon general says strikes ‘all below the threshold’ of restarting full combat

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Catch-up: * Ten-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon comes into effect * Netanyahu says Israeli troops will stay in the Lebanon ‘security zone’ * Epstein pal Peter Mandelson failed his vetting to be UK Ambassador to the US but the Foreign Office overruled it. Starmer said he didn’t know

The U.S. Has Murdered 175 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. 51 attacks and counting. All of them chronicled @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

The U.S. Has Killed 175 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.

The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.

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EXCLUSIVE: “The [State] Department is actively preventing experienced, cleared, available officers from helping American citizens in crisis,” a group of nearly 250 mostly mid-career and senior State Department foreign service officers told lawmakers. theintercept.com/2026/04/12/a...

DOGE Cuts Left U.S. Unable to Help Americans Stranded in Iran War Zone

Foreign service officers fired in Elon Musk’s workforce purge warn the State Department is unable to help Americans stranded in the Middle East.

theintercept.com

Next week, MPs will vote on a bill to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests, turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. It must be opposed tribunemag.co.uk/2026/04/prot...

Protest Is Not a Privilege

Next week, MPs will vote on a bill to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests, turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. It must be opposed.

tribunemag.co.uk

"Even as Americans grow, for the second time, disillusioned with a Trump presidency, we have put drapes over all the mirrors." 🔥

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 4mo ago

“What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, and most importantly about themselves.” www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark...

Making America great again one bombing at a time. Excellent work everyone.

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We just got the first numbers showing economic effects of the war in Iran. Headline inflation is up sharply, and there's more to come. Stay tuned.

We just got the first numbers showing economic effects of the war in Iran. Headline inflation is up sharply, and there's more to come. Stay tuned.

We’re about to experience the largest loss of health insurance coverage in U.S. history. The Pitt helps explain how it will happen—in the mundane morass of undone paperwork. But this is exactly as Trumps One Big Beautiful Bill planned it.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New with @pamherd.bsky.social: While never mentioning Trump or political parties, the show’s second season offers an almost-real time commentary on how policy changes are affecting health. Lets take one particular example of Medicaid coverage loss. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-p...

The United States is behaving in a way that is indistinguishable from how an advanced Third Reich would had it emerged victorious from World War 2, and nearly every leader in the developed world is now abandoning their duty to confront it, having acclaimed and legitimated it every step of the way.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Evil. No other word for it.

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BREAKING | Tonga struck by massive 7.6-magnitude earthquake as New Zealand monitors tsunami threat

Massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes off Tonga

An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, prompting countries in the region to assess a tsunami threat.

independent.co.uk

MAGA bringing "democracy" to every corner of the Global South.

Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW: Pentagon Reveals Attacks in Latin America Are Just the Beginning With “Operation Total Extermination” and Trump’s threats against Cuba, expect more U.S. military strikes in the region. theintercept.com/2026/03/23/t...

They killed him. It takes a lot to infuriate me and break my heart only because you have to be able to tolerate a lot when covering Trump and fascism and try your best to stay centered and hopeful. This story I can't let go. They chose to let him just die. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold

"They just left him."

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www.nature.com/articles/s41... Surprising no one.

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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"Today's arrest is extraordinary and unprecedented... The last time a British royal was arrested was in the 1600s. That saw King Charles I tried and executed while on the throne. He was tried on tyranny and treason and condemned by four judges in January, 1649." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Live: Police search properties after former prince's arrest

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has reportedly been arrested at his eastern England home. Follow live.

abc.net.au

A "potentially catastrophic" decline in Australia's childhood vaccination rates has contributed to the sharpest increase in cases of whooping cough in 35 years, infectious disease experts say. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... #aushealth

Record spike in whooping cough cases due to 'potentially catastrophic' trend

A "potentially catastrophic" decline in Australia's childhood vaccination rates has contributed to the sharpest increase in cases of whooping cough in 35 years, infectious diseases experts say.

abc.net.au

insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Joe Robertson@joro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

Jenét Morrow@jenetallday.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

All flights to and from El Paso, Texas, have been grounded for ten days for “Special Security Reasons”, the Federal Aviation Administration announced. Shutting down airspace of a major US city for such an extended period hasn’t happened since the aftermath of 9-11.

It's important to know that the British student targeted by ICE and by Google is Black. Racism here has the function of providing a vanguard for further attacks on all our rights and liberties.

Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Drop Palantir worldwide.

Ed Wilson@eddwilson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

"on Monday, Israel made another move to exert its control of the West Bank, where settlers have been aggressively throwing local Palestinians off their land, assaulting residents, demolishing houses and killing crops with pesticides." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Israel undermines two-state solution while Herzog visits Australia

While Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Sydney, his government was taking concrete actions in the West Bank designed to "continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state".

abc.net.au

POLITICO: “As Europe’s political class moves to clean up its mess and address its shame concerning ties with Epstein , it’s inadvertently highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in 🇺🇸- No prominent politicians have taken a fall.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Breaking: The White House press secretary just said she "can't guarantee" that ICE won't be around polling locations in November.