New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."
"While All Eyes Are on Iran, Jewish Terrorism Is Rising in the West Bank" www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
NEW: Trump admin effort to claim Kari Lake had power over Voice of America was illegal, judge rules.
"The Court declines Lake’s invitation to do such violence to the statutory and constitutional scheme," Judge Lamberth ruled on Saturday.
A dive into Lamberth's opinion, tonight, at Law Dork —>
"We hosted that Iranian ship. They disarmed for our naval exercise. Then America attacked."
India's ex-FM just exposed the setup.
The UK stays silent when our "allies" pull stunts like this.
Chicago Cardinal Cupich on the White House video mashup celebrating the Iran bombings:
“A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead…”
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Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
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It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
NEW: Today marks 61 years since Bloody Sunday.
On this day, protestors in Alabama were brutally attacked by police. They marched anyway to secure something sacred: their voting rights.
But as we mark their sacrifice, SCOTUS threatens to squander it, Chika Okafor writes. https://bit.ly/4lfbwWA
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
X will demonetize users who post AI-generated videos of war (but not other kinds of disinformation) www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/x-wi...
61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.
There it is. “Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target” 3/6/26 … 1/
Young adults, both those with and those without a religious preference, are less likely to participate in religious services, with 25% reporting almost weekly or weekly attendance, 13% monthly attendance and 61% seldom or never going. In contrast, 37% of adults aged 65 and older say they attend almost weekly or weekly, 9% monthly and 51% seldom or never.
Young adults continue to attend worship services less often than older adults, according to new Gallup data from phone surveys conducted among a random sample of 13,454 U.S. adults.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/702572/americans-religious-engagement-holds-lower-levels.aspx
A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future
The relevant law is Article 18 of the second Geneva Convention.
Submarines are bound by the law— and at the very least, the U.S. had an obligation to alert other ships to the need for a rescue.
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An Iranian frigate is a legal target (even if unarmed) in war. Whether its sinking served a practical aim is debatable. If it was truly unarmed, it’s morally questionable.
However, the U.S. sub had a clear legal (& moral) duty to assist the survivors.
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The economic story just changed dramatically.
Payrolls fell -92k in Feb. Jan growth was revised down by -4k to +126k. And Dec revisions subtracted -64k to -17k.
Unemployment rate up a tick to 4.4%.
Recession questions are back on the menu
On March 28, we need to show up in world-historic numbers to send a message: Not in our name. The people of the US reject Trump’s brutality at home and abroad and we say in one voice: No wars of aggression. No terrorizing our communities or yours. No tyrants, no conquests, no kings.
Last week, Denver’s mayor announced a new executive order that bans ICE agents from city property, citing the killing of protesters by federal agents in Minneapolis this year as motivation for the measure.
"The president is claiming there is a 'virtually unlimited supply' of U.S. munitions. But he is simultaneously summoning the CEOs of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to the White House to discuss emergency production increases."
The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.
Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.
Himes on war powers: "That is not a debate that the Republicans want to have, because a year ago they turned the Congress into the Russian Duma. We don't have a Congress today. We have a majority party in the House and Senate that's going to do exactly what Donald Trump tells them to do."
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
The GOP can't get its story straight.
“Missing files
Aren’t in Iran”
To understand Hegseth, and his religion, you should listen to this Reign of Error episode from January, with @julieingersoll.bsky.social.
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