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  • A Bluesky comment

    For context: WA is close to passing a law that would add a tax to people earning 1M+ per year that would remove sales tax on various hygiene products and medicine, fund tax credits for families under the poverty line, and provide free meals for students. I guess that’s Nazism to them!

    I still have no idea if it's satire or those people have lead poisoned brains.

  • AP

    JUST IN: Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index plunges more than 7% and other Asian markets also tumble as oil surges to $114 a barrel

    That's the whole thing.

  • Mood

  • Centcom is pretending the Iranians are using human shields.

    U.S. Forces Issue Safety Warning to Civilians in Iran - x.comU.S. Central Command @CENTCOM

    Note - Xcancel doesn't work.

    TAMPA, Fla. – U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is issuing a safety warning to civilians in Iran, March 8, as Iran’s terrorist regime blatantly disregards the safety of innocent people.

    The Iranian regime is using heavily populated civilian areas to conduct military operations, including launching one-way attack drones and ballistic missiles. This dangerous decision risks the lives of all civilians in Iran since locations used for military purposes lose protected status and could become legitimate military targets under international law.

    Iranian forces are using crowded areas surrounded by civilians in cities such as Dezful, Esfahan and Shiraz to launch attack drones and ballistic missiles. U.S. forces strongly urge civilians in Iran to stay at home. The Iranian regime is knowingly endangering innocent lives. Additionally, Iranian forces are jeopardizing the safety of innocent people throughout the Middle East by deliberately and indiscriminately targeting civilian airports, hotels, and residential neighborhoods.

    “Iran’s terrorist regime is blatantly disregarding civilian lives by attacking Gulf partners while compromising the safety of their own people,” said Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of CENTCOM. Iran has launched hundreds of ballistic missiles and thousands of one-way attack drones since Feb 28. However, launch rates have drastically declined as U.S. and partner forces decimate Iran’s military capabilities.

    The U.S. military takes every feasible precaution to minimize harm to civilians but cannot guarantee civilian safety in or near facilities used by the Iranian regime for military purposes. Unlike the Iranian regime, U.S. forces do not target or intentionally risk the safety of civilians.


    I had to fix the layout by hand.

  • Scoop: U.S. dismayed by Israel's Iran fuel strikes, sources say - axios.com

    Israel's strikes on 30 Iranian fuel depots Saturday went far beyond what the U.S. expected when Israel notified it in advance, sparking the first significant disagreement between the allies since the war began eight days ago, according to a U.S. official, Israeli official and a source with knowledge.

    The U.S. is concerned Israeli strikes on infrastructure that serves ordinary Iranians could backfire strategically, rallying Iranian society to support the regime and driving up oil prices. The Israeli air force's Saturday strikes created large fires in Tehran, igniting flames visible for miles and blanketing the capital in heavy smoke.

    The IDF claimed in a statement that the fuel depots "are used by the Iranian regime to supply fuel to different consumers including its military organs." An Israeli military official said the strikes were intended in part to tell Iran to stop targeting Israeli civilian infrastructure.

    Israeli and U.S. officials said the IDF notified the U.S. military ahead of the strikes. But a U.S. official said that the U.S. military was surprised by how wide-ranging they were.

    • "We don't think it was a good idea," a senior U.S. official said.
    • An Israeli official said the U.S. message to Israel was "WTF".

    The White House and the IDF didn't comment. While the facilities that were struck are not oil production facilities, U.S. officials are concerned the footage of burning depots could removedoil markets and push energy prices even higher.

    "The president doesn't like the attack. He wants to save the oil. He doesn't want to burn it. And it reminds people of higher gas prices," a Trump adviser told Axios. The spokesman for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters, which oversees the military operations, warned Saturday that if attacks on Iran's oil infrastructure continue, Tehran may respond with similar strikes across the region.

    He added that Iran so far hasn't targeted regional fuel and energy infrastructure and threatened that if Iran does, oil prices could hit $200 a barrel. Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, one of the most senior officials in the regime, warned that if attacks on infrastructure continue, Iran will retaliate "without delay."

    A U.S. official says the disagreement and what the U.S. expects in the war is expected to be addressed at senior political levels between the two allies.


    I removed annoying shit like "Why it matters:". Also - Axios's layout is idiotic. I created sane paragraphs.

  • Al Jezeera

    Khamenei’s son named as Iran’s new leader

    Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been named as Iran’s new leader, state media report.

  • FT

    More than half a million people had been displaced across Lebanon in less than a week of hostilities between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hizbollah, the government said on Sunday. Authorities have registered 517,000 on its online portal, but the actual number is likely to be higher. The cash-strapped government has struggled to accommodate the large number of people who have been forced to flee their homes as Israel has called on residents of large swaths of the country to evacuate.

  • Tehrangeles

    It is a shopping, eating and gathering place for the large number (estimates range from 500,000–600,000) of Iranian-Americans and their descendants residing in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the largest such community outside of Iran.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Great. So what does the subhead say? What. The. Fuck!!!

    www.indystar.com /story/news/investigations/2026/03/05/braun-signs-bill-eliminating-child-labor-tracking-in-indiana/88951525007/
  • Through September

    Telling Trump what he wants to hear. What could go wrong?

  • I'll leave this here in case you missed this gem.

    Economic possibilities for Gaza - by Noah Smith

    It doesn't hurt to dream of better days.

    NOAH SMITH

    OCT 19, 2023

    A sampling - he has a section called "Easy wins: tourism, tax haven, and natural gas".

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Noah Smith on "China's strategy"

  • Shellbanks

    Is there a more common term than shellbank? Wikipedia doesn't have it and I googled but the results where for financial institutions, a turtle DNA project, and Swedish site that wasn't useful for me.

  • That's so bizarre. Before Trump that would have been right at home in some fifth-rate straight-to-video movie called Death Commandos where Steven Segal got top billing even though he was in the movie for all of ~120 seconds.

  • “A strong fist does not mean strong reason...”

    The Guardian

    The US-Israel warn on Iran “should never have happened”, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Sunday.

    Speaking at a press conference in Beijing, the senior official called for an end to military operations, and urged all parties to return to the negotiating table as soon as possible.

    “A strong fist does not mean strong reason,” he said. “The world cannot return to the law of the jungle.”

    Wang is taking questions at the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s annual parliamentary gathering, which began on Thursday.

  • What an antivaxxer sings at karaoke.

    Head like a hole - black as your soulI'd rather die from polioooHead like a hole, black as your soulI'd rather die from poliooo

    --

    I stole an idea or two from this Bluesky thread.

    Pain at the pumpFeel like a chumpJust checked the newsOutbreak of Mumps

    https://bsky.app/profile/papapishu.bsky.social/post/3mgixvxkru22l

    A reply

    We're going to get what we deserve.

    Context: 2 cases of mumps reported at Berkeley High School

    I think that's the context but maybe there's more than one outbreak.

  • Get back to me when the US has cases of polio and then after that Americans relearn what an "iron lung" is.

  • I think he has been having people type them up for years. But I think during Trump 1.0 the media certainly made it seem that although sometimes other people would write them from being to end - he was usually doing the whole thing.

  • My all time favorite is: the beauty of our weapons.

    It's in awful quality but it's the best Youtube result I could find. Sigh.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    CNN has this tracker on their homepage.

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK - USE THE WORD "POLIO"!

  • news @hexbear.net

    Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say

    www.ksl.com /article/51457971/patients-say-measles-worse-than-expected-as-utah-hits-350-infections-doctors-say
  • acab @hexbear.net

    Caption this.

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    Lib logic: Iran is Iraq 2.0. Sorry, it's that or the unthinkable.

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    My customers' appetites will be ruined if they perceive that members of a lower economic class might live somewhere nearby!

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Unfortunate

  • Earth @hexbear.net

    Check out this cool mantis.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Alex Jones on the Iran strikes: "It's like walking around in the desert or West Texas. One hole might have a pygmy owl in it..."

    bsky.app /profile/drewharwell.com/post/3mgauct4aws2q
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    The Vikings: with and without horns

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Sea levels are already higher than many scientists think, new study shows. Hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought. - NYT

    archive.ph /FJnBM
  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    His "I'm not a Nazi! I'm in the Anti-Fascist Knitting Club!" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by his shirt.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    The rebel loon design is quickly becoming popular request at Twin Cities tattoo parlors. The image blends the outline of a loon with the familiar Star Wars rebellion emblem.

  • Slop. @hexbear.net

    Instead???