By continuing to insist that the school in Minab was hit by a stray Iranian missile, Trump is doubling down on his belief that his supporters are stupid and gullible.
Seven bombs hit, not one. The impact marks match those of US munitions designed to penetrate then explode.
Time to fire up the memes
(IMO they are clearly functionally distinct—LLMs are no substitute for human wetware.)
This is the LARGEST oil supply disruption in history with no clear end in sight.
Brent crude oil has surged to $115. A 25% jump in a single day. On a Sunday night.
The last time the world saw an oil shock this severe was the 1970s. That crisis caused gas rationing and double-digit inflation.
OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...
Asked if we're at war, Pete Hegseth replies: "The lawyers will debate all these things ... Call it what you want."
From a philosophical standpoint, holding that free will is illusory is orthogonal to questions of whether LLMs are “intelligent” in the human sense or “sentient” (whatever that means). The more important question is whether LLMs are distinguishable in function from biological brain systems.
Level of strategic planning Trump's administration put into this war
“On Trump’s head sat a gold-embroidered white hat with the letters ‘USA’ on the front, ‘45-47’ on one side, and the American flag on the other.
The $55 cap is available to purchase on the president’s merch website.”
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
They're still lying on the website:
www.foxnews.com/video/639055...
TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops.
CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.
64% of Americans want to stop changing the clocks
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/64-of-amer...
Ars Technica: Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials
RFK Jr. has tried hard to villainize Fauci. Americans still trust Fauci more.
by Beth Mole @bethmariem.bsky.social @arstechnica.com
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Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
They arrived in the dark and were unloaded. Were they loaded back up to be unloaded AGAIN when Donald FINALLY got there?
Page One in Miami:
@miamiherald.com
Politicians don’t want to ignore it—DEI is a threat to their status and the very jobs they hold.
Oof. You can’t even grasp irony. Good luck understanding anything, let alone tactics of persuasion.
Oh, but you haven’t convinced me, I need you to convince me more. Persuade me, or I’ll just pout and do the opposite of whatever you want.
Y’all sound like babies who are to afraid to stand up to the people around you making bad decisions to hold them responsible. You expect someone else to cater to them so you can do nothing. Selfish, lazy pricks.
And you’re gonna start by absolving them of any responsibility. Fucking brilliant, lol.
If people thought a vote for Harris vs. Trump “wouldn’t matter,” they were obviously very wrong. Why is that hard for you to understand?
there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
Do you think Harris would have spontaneously started a war with Iran?
Why can’t you just say that Harris made some terrible mistakes *and also* everyone who stayed at home made a terrible mistake? The either/or format of the present argument is silly and dumb.
Your viewpoint immediately and fully devolves into “people aren’t responsible for their actions.”
Jeffrey Goldberg: "[Iran] has been a stalwart enemy of the United States and has undone the U.S. in various ways. It's not the worst theory in the world to say, 'Let's just deal with it once and for all, right?'"
What’s it like having your head so far up your own ass you can lick your own tonsils?
Why do you feel the need to shit on something many people like? It’s as though its fans bear some kind of social marker to you, and it’s not just, ya know, a fucking fictional tv show written by some people trying to make something good that people enjoy. And maybe you don’t like it and that’s fine.
