The senators have voted 47 to 52 to prevent a measure advancing in the chamber that would limit #President Donald Trump's ability to order further #military action in #Iran.
"A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call."
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
I'm not going to post any more CIA talking heads, but there's a raft of them and quite a number of former spooks I don't trust are saying this whole Iran idea was a bad idea.
Democratic politicians like Jeff Merkley are saying Trump's actions are wholely unconstitutional.
They are chaffing at the idea that Congress was not consulted.
While I do believe Democrats wouldn't have done something so wreckless as Trump, I fully expected a Democrat to try Iran.
Former Veteran + NASA astronaut and current Senator Mark Kelly took Elbridge Colby (The Undersecretary of Defense for Policy) to task in the senate today.
Kelly and many other politicians have been poking holes in the Trump administrations reasons for attack Iran.
Mark Kelly points to the fact that none of Iran's missiles can reach the US as why he thinks starting a war with Iran doesn't make sense.
❝ “W͟e͟ h͟a͟v͟e͟ t͟h͟e͟ n͟e͟c͟e͟s͟s͟a͟r͟y͟ r͟e͟s͟o͟u͟r͟c͟e͟s͟ to contain the possible impact of the trade embargo by the US,” the Spanish government said in a statement on Tuesday. “The US must comply with international law and bilateral EU-US trade agreements,” it added.
Hot take: People are afraid of reacting or replying to AI critiques on LinkedIn for the same reason Trump's cabinet meetings are full of sycophantic praise for the president.
"There are examples of takeovers that produced sustained improvements in student outcomes, but they are the minority, according to research. More often, research shows the loss of control disproportionately affects communities of color in exchange for meager and short-term gains in academic achievement." chalkbeat.org/2026/03/03/natio… #politics #education #USPol
Officials have used poor academic achievement and anti-ICE protests to threaten state takeovers of schools. The tactic has a new political tone, particularly in Texas.
Q. does the Tangerine Tyrant have an endgame in Iran?
Well, little that has been said suggests he has any idea what he expects (or wants) to happen once the war is 'won' (if it ever is)....
This is declaratory politics at a new level: having declared that Iran is a threat that the US needs to neutralise (with the help of Israel & other willing & not so willing allies).... nothing more is required.
Which presents us with the likelihood that things will only get worse.
"A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing...He urged us to tell our troops that this was “all part of God’s divine plan” and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the #BookOfRevelation referring to #Armageddon and the imminent return of #Jesus #Christ. He said that “#PresidentTrump has been anointed..
A pattern worth noting here is that Trump has now deployed the US military to end the rule of two undemocratic leaders, which may seem like a reversal of his prior coziness with authoritarians, but is more likely rooted in his recognition that objections from democratic nations tend to be less forceful when you attack dictators and theocrats. #politics #war #USPol #Iran #Venezuela
Yes, starting a shooting war in the Middle East will likely raise the price of oil from regional sources, which has typically been bad for the party in power, but that trade-off might seem worth it to a president who has just opened up a previously closed oil market in the Americas, and is looking for a way to encourage oil companies to invest in production there, where he's better positioned to take a slice of the profits. #politics #war #USPol #Iran #Venezuela #Trump
Before I have to read another "hot take", let me make something clear: Nobody thinks Iran is harmless. We just aren't stupid enough to believe that ISRAEL and the USA are harmeless and get to decide who they want to overthrow with their "harmlessness".
"If you look line-by-line at the OpenAI terms, the source said, every aspect of it boils down to: If it's technically legal, then the US military can use OpenAI's technology to carry it out. And over the past decades, the US government has stretched the definition of 'technically legal' to cover sweeping mass surveillance programs — and more." theverge.com/ai-artificial-int… #politics #USPol #OpenAI #AI
Amidst fallout from a dramatic standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a new contract with the Pentagon. But everything wasn’t what it seemed.
Differences in political ideology are a major source of human disagreement and conflict. There is increasing evidence that neurobiological mechanisms mediate individual differences in political ideology through effects on a conservative-liberal axis.
« Les six membres d’équipage se sont éjectés sains et saufs, ont été récupérés et leur état est stable », a fait savoir le commandement central américain, dans des propos rapportés par Associated Press.
One (another) aspect that makes me feel stressed out with this US-Iran conflict is that Iran is nororious for hybride terror warfare ... and you know, a major terror attack in US would be a excellent excuse to postpone the mid term election ...
My paranoid brain is just working overtime here? eh, eh?
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You know, if I believed that Trump & Bibi gave a single solitary feeble little fuck about the people of Iran, I might… well, why bother completing that sentence.
I can’t stop thinking about Nurul Shah Alam, the disabled refugee who died after Border Patrol left him outside in the cold with no way to contact friends or family.
It took five days for him to die.
He was blind and didn’t speak English.
They took the pole he was using as a cane.
This man survived an actual genocide only to be killed by the incompetence and cruelty of the Trump regime.
Five days of wandering around lost, sick and disoriented.
#US Senator #TimKane from #Virginia is brilliant. Here is his verbal obliteration of a white supremacist regarding the alleged "#CulturalGenocide" of Whites:
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The FTC publicly saying that they won't enforce the law seems like a good opportunity to shut down a lot of age verification programs with a good lawsuit or two. theverge.com/policy/885592/ftc… #politics #USPol #privacy
Make no mistake. The Kansas law is going to be a model for other states just like the "Don't Say Gay" law went to other states. Just like the districts Gerrymandered districts along political lines were used to further disenfranchise BIPOC. Just like the "ID verification" laws for porn on the internet have become models. Some of these things have even become models for other countries.
