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Writer of all things genre, frustrated ham, and rugby union/laser-tag/air guitar champion... Really! There are trophies! Also, purveyor of fine poptiquities by way of the 'Bazaar of the Popzarre'.

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U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

07.03.2026 00:03 👍 965 🔁 461 💬 59 📌 114
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LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him.

Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.

07.03.2026 00:16 👍 1151 🔁 419 💬 24 📌 32

I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here.

I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!

06.03.2026 21:39 👍 1453 🔁 409 💬 28 📌 9

Is it finally time to break out my browncoat? I sure do hope so! #Firefly #Serenity

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Obama: Every day you wake up to things you just didn’t think were possible. Each day we’re told by those in high office to fear each other. Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated, and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength.

06.03.2026 20:12 👍 3561 🔁 1137 💬 96 📌 68
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Trump calls on divided GOP to pass SAVE America Act ‘at the expense of everything else’ Trump suggested the SAVE America Act includes a number of provisions that are not in the proposal.

If you care about free and fair election this November, this is the most important story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

06.03.2026 02:23 👍 1963 🔁 998 💬 70 📌 47
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This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

05.03.2026 23:19 👍 12857 🔁 3324 💬 2102 📌 568
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

05.03.2026 22:00 👍 16439 🔁 3344 💬 254 📌 173

The techbros are already doing their best to destroy the world, now we have to deal with the warbros too! Fuck! #warbros #techbros

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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

05.03.2026 08:46 👍 3846 🔁 2088 💬 100 📌 182
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Undercover at the Advance conference

“Advance is preparing for what comes next," writes GetUp's Conal Feehely. “The question is whether the rest of us are too.” satpa.pe/GGt0dvu

04.03.2026 09:46 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

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Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

03.03.2026 21:48 👍 20374 🔁 8488 💬 2471 📌 1182
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What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

03.03.2026 16:51 👍 1434 🔁 794 💬 41 📌 163
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New True Edition

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01.03.2026 07:31 👍 221 🔁 67 💬 3 📌 7
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7.8K views · 1.1K reactions | Here’s the moment during Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Epstein testimony when Lauren Boebert was caught red-handed sharing a photo of the proceedings online. Listen to how ... Here’s the moment during Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Epstein testimony when Lauren Boebert was caught red-handed sharing a photo of the proceedings online. Listen to how fast Boebert goes from...

POS Lauren Boebert caught red handed releasing photos of Hillary Clinton testifying, after Clinton asked to testify publicly and Republicans said no.

www.facebook.com/reel/1444330...

03.03.2026 08:17 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

🧵 1/4

02.03.2026 15:43 👍 2893 🔁 2417 💬 93 📌 467
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Undercover at the Advance conference

"Advance's task, one speaker said, was to look for the persuadables. Link cost-of-living anxiety to immigration. Frame net zero as a household burden. Find a narrative and repeat it until it stopped feeling like a narrative and started feeling like reality." satpa.pe/mMYXR8i

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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

03.03.2026 01:54 👍 12807 🔁 6376 💬 1309 📌 4133

Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joe’s Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.

01.03.2026 02:43 👍 1626 🔁 628 💬 36 📌 53
Harrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor Awards
Harrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor Awards YouTube video by Netflix

When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...

02.03.2026 04:02 👍 6214 🔁 1447 💬 292 📌 217
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The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada A growing movement of MAGA-pilled Albertan separatists would happily break up the country to be closer to Trump.

Figures like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, who has explicitly compared Canada to Ukraine, see Canada as a bastion of decadent liberalism in the West that must be broken and subdued, one way or another. trib.al/Hqq63Z2

02.03.2026 13:43 👍 80 🔁 56 💬 7 📌 6
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Be the change you want to see in the world: mobilizing to protect American science | TPM podcast #53 with Colette Delawalla, Stand Up For Science Colette Delawalla on building Stand Up For Science into a national movement defending scientific freedom and evidence-based policy in 2026.

Visit the link to listen to Stand Up For Science Founder and CEO @cdelawalla.bsky.social speak on the Talking Precision Medicine about SUFS's origins, the campaign to impeach
RFK Jr., and what rebuilding science in America may look like in the future!

www.genialis.com/2026/02/26/b...

26.02.2026 20:29 👍 35 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
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That’s how fascism descends. And it’s becoming less and less hypothetical by the week. trib.al/QPhj9MO

01.03.2026 20:37 👍 151 🔁 85 💬 4 📌 6

Yeah, not a great sign that they're just going to be experimenting on trans inmates like this and it's not a big story.

01.03.2026 21:46 👍 1263 🔁 493 💬 11 📌 11
Twin Peaks title screen with the text: "Bob lives inside RFK Jr." styled to fit, courtesy of https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/memes/twin-peaks-opening-title-generator/

Twin Peaks title screen with the text: "Bob lives inside RFK Jr." styled to fit, courtesy of https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/memes/twin-peaks-opening-title-generator/

hey, this is pretty neat!

28.02.2026 01:04 👍 222 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 1

The B-Team

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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

28.02.2026 07:19 👍 23672 🔁 7121 💬 735 📌 405