The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship
The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countriesโincluding the United States.
That Iranian Navy ship we torpedoed had no ammunition on board because that was a requirement to participate in the MILAN 2026 exercise (organized by the Indian Navy).
The US Navy knew this because IT ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE EXERCISE. What a national embarrassment.
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this is, almost literally, a panel from next week's cartoon, written before I read this.
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BREAKING via NBC News
Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran.
Full Story: nbcnews.to/4rW7N2w
07.03.2026 00:06
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I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
06.03.2026 23:10
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This dude is the bad guy in every single movie made about high school ever
07.03.2026 03:59
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S.F. mayor, board president propose 3 ballot measures to expand executive branch power
The three measures emerged from charter reform efforts that involved getting input from a 31-person working group
San Francisco already has a strong mayor system, but thatโs not enough for those who want full control vested in billionaires.
Just in time for No Kings Day, Lurie and Mandelman argue โGiving more power to the mayor would create more โaccountability.โ
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Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.
Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.
Democrats had two years to fix this.
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Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
Don't. Platform. Lying. Liars. To. Performatively. Lie. On. The. Teevee. Shows.
If you've screwed up & done that anyway, immediately end the interviews when the performative public liars performatively lie in public.
What is journalism, anyway?
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โThe evidence is strong that Trumpโs central claims about Iran are false, not merely that they havenโt been sufficiently explained to lawmakers.โ
@gregsargent.bsky.social is dead on
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This is going to be hard for some people to accept, but I think the US government is lying to us about the state of negotiations between itself and Iran.
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Kristi Noem: "They talk about masks. They're the party that in 2020 mandated masks and penalized and put crimes on US citizens if they didn't have a mask on, and now they don't want our law enforcement officers to be protected from doxxing." (Trump in fact was the president in 2020.)
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In each of these cases identified by the district court, the court found that, on the plaintiffsโ version of the facts, law enforcement officers had used excessive force against individuals who had stopped resisting, were attempting to flee, and/or were only โpassively resisting, i.e. . . . not complying, but . . . also not attempting to fight back.โ With the possible exception of Yates, which involved the deployment of a taser, we agree that this collection of cases clearly establishes that Deputy Wrightโs use of force would be excessive if the facts taken most favorably to Barricks were established. See Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731, 741 (2011) (recognizing that for a law to be clearly established in the context of 11 qualified immunity, we do โnot require a case directly on point, but existing precedent must have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debateโ). And although there may be some factual distinctions with the case currently on appeal, these cases surely provide particularized examples of constitutional violations involving the use of excessive force โunder similar circumstancesโ to those in the altercation between Barricks and Deputy Wright. White, 580 U.S. at 79.
4th Cir.: it was clearly established law that officer could not punch surrendering arrestee twelve times in the face, causing several fractures and a brain bleed.
Immediately after the arrest, officer told his girlfriend he "fucked his face up."
No QI.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...
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Itโs actually FEWER Misรฉrables
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Americans Stranded in the Middle East Arenโt Getting Help from the State Department
โPlease do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,โ a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.
NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East โ but the State Dept is not helping them do it.
We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."
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He looks like a divorced meerkat
03.03.2026 20:21
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Ayatollah Ali Khameneiโs Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor
It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei
03.03.2026 23:32
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A Kuwaiti F-18 could do the funniest thing right now
04.03.2026 01:30
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Tweet from Vince Shalomi: Suing the GOP Texas for deleting my nickname
"Shamwow" in the Primaries so they help the incumbent John Carter so the voters don't recognize me. Rigged election by these rhinos.
The Shamwow Guy, Vince Shlomi, says he is suing the Texas GOP for โriggingโ his Texas House race by not including the word โShamwowโ on ballots
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I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.
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Supreme Court TX has ruled for pure fucking CHAOS if the primary is close enough to matter
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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 oftenโand her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
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The โshieldโ is intolerable here as well.
โParents tried to shield their children from water. Instead they died of dehydration.โ
Thatโs what the @nytimes.com headline here says. Both โshieldโ and โinsteadโ appallingly reinforce anti-vax attitudes and frames.
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I think it's super that the GOP has dispatched its dullest and dimmest senators, like Mullin and Tuberville, to make the unintelligible case for an unpopular unplanned war. Go get 'em, boys.
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This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesnโt inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.
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Pretty much, yep.
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Steve King 9
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Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
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Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel
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I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."
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This turns out exactly how everyone except the dummy who decided to do something idiotic and then agree to an interview with Chotiner knows it will turn out
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