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Iran's parliament speaker said Saturday that the attack on a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island was carried out with support from one of the airbases in a southern neighboring country. He did not name the country. "The crime will receive a proportionate response," he said.

The US doesn’t seem to understand how many targets there are for Iran in the Gulf.

Attacking the desalination plant in Iran is monstrous in itself as so many people depend on them, but it also opens up the way for Iran to target the Gulf’s desalination plants, which would also be monstrous

i mean, there’s also the fact that you are looking at more of a 20 to 50 year timeline for the scale of improvements needed in a lot of these areas …

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

This reporting is frustrating. It's vague on the specifics of how AI is actually used in these contexts and manages to frame human decisions as technological inevitabilities.

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

When we were interviewing agency folks in the Panhandle, someone we interviewed said "emergency management is always the first line item people want to cut - until there is an emergency. Then they want to know why we didn't spend more."

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

AfD vor der Wahl in Baden-Württemberg: Was ein AfD-Direktkandidat so alles auf Telegram chattete Der taz liegen Chats des AfD-Kandidaten Sebastian Ruth vor. Der 20-Jährige leitete eine Telegram-Gruppe, in der gefordert wurde, „Asylheime anzuzünden“.

Der taz liegen Chats des AfD-Kandidaten Sebastian Ruth vor. Der 20-Jährige leitete eine Telegram-Gruppe, in der gefordert wurde, „Asylheime anzuzünden“.

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

The emerging “Claude killed the kids” frame on this story shows just how easily anti-AI counterhype can end up doing the government’s work for it. If you use a computer to choose targets—esp. but not only if you give it bad data to work with—and it chooses poorly, that‘s on you, not the computer!

Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.

When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”

Video + interview with her and her daughter:

"The United States government made a promise over 13 years ago... Straightforward, a promise."

Despite keeping their end of the bargain, Dreamers are now being swept up in this administration's mass deportation campaign.

Watch Sen. @padilla.senate.gov’s remarks on the government's broken promise.

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This piece has been updated yet again with the figure Matt Meck saying he was involved with the proposed Trump "national emergency" executive order.

Meck is a board member of the election denial organization Fight Voter Fraud, & is apparently QAnon figure Juan O. Savin's "chief of staff."

That the removal of a corporate tax break which would have cost the state $550M survives in this final income tax proposal is great news for everyday people of our state. As more Washingtonians make use of popular programs, we must continue pressing the issue of taxing corporate and personal wealth.

This 4chan Board Became a Factory for Explicit AI ‘Deepfakes.’ Nobody Is Stopping It. - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.

openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

9 people in front of a Starbucks store show off their union vote papers and celebrate.

FACT: Starbucks has spent unfathomable amounts on union-busting their own workers.

ANOTHER FACT: Baristas are cutting through the corporate BS and continuing to WIN!

Congratulations to workers at Colorado's 14th & Tomichi store - they just won their union!!! ✊🔥

Couple things here:

1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Cover of the "Intellectual Freedom Manual" by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, Eleventh Edition. The design features colorful, patterned triangles overlaying text snippets.

When facing a tough intellectual freedom issue, you don’t have time to wade through dense text to find the answers you need. Designed as a real-world reference, the new edition of OIF’s "Intellectual Freedom Manual" provides trusted, comprehensive guidance in plain language. https://bit.ly/46Jfn8i

One thing I learned while reporting this story was that even though sex trafficking dominates megaevent headlines, "there is no empirical data demonstrating an increase in sex trafficking" during major events.

What does increase dramatically during megaevents? Labor trafficking

Lol nice gyre dude. You widening that shit?

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In a separate letter, Governor Josh Shapiro wrote to the Attorney General of the United States and asked for a federal criminal investigation into the Israeli settler murder of Palestinian-American and Philadelphia-native Nasrallah Abu Siyam.

genuinely astonishing that epik is like, “i can excuse genocidal manifestos by mass shooters, but i draw the line at animal cruelty”

Free Press Condemns ICE Arrest of Colombian Journalist Seeking Political Asylum The Nashville reporter’s detention by federal immigration officials poses a grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know.

Nashville reporter's detention by federal immigration officials poses grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know. A thread on Estefany Rodriguez: www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...

The 75 Elections to Watch This March - Bolts The 2026 midterms really are starting. Five states hold all of their primaries for federal and state offices in March, and voters there face high-profile choices. They’ll decide which Democrat... Read More

Tempe, Arizona, has a contract with Flock, a surveillance company that shares data with law enforcement, including ICE. Ending that contract is one candidate’s priority in next week’s city council election there.

The American Astronomical Society has a page with more info and how you can submit comments to the FCC to stop this travesty. Hurry though; submissions end today.

aas.org/action-alert...