Cory Dransfeldt :demi:
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Trump going after NCAR, ugh
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/climate/ncar-breakup-plan-nasa-noaa.html
Aral Balkan
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BREAKING:
Belgium’s MEP Marc Botenga:
“You claim to stand with the people of #Iran while you offer European bases to #US killing machines.
#eu #europe #uk #france #germany #netherlands #greece #italy #hungary #europeanunion #belgium #news #mastodon #socialmedia #trump #cdnpoli #uspol #politi #sovereignty #economy #resistance #antifascism #lfi #protest #freepalestine #china #russia #yemen #hezbollah #lebanon @politics @socialmedia @democracy #education #canada #Africa #justice #humanrights
Aral Balkan
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Welcome to the world of Alex Karp, one of the leaders of the new wave of techno-militarists in Silicon Valley:
"If they are not scared, they don’t wake up scared, they don’t go to bed scared, they don’t fear that the wrath of America will come down on them, they will attack us. They will attack us everywhere.”
~Alex Karp, CEO Palantir
https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/unhinged-optimists-humanity.html
The solution? Buy more Palantir
A spokesperson for Iran’s military command, Ebrahim Zolfaqari, said: “Get ready for oil to be $200 a barrel, because the oil price depends on regional security, which you have destabilised.”
Even if Trump declared victory tomorrow, it won't stop #Iran. With mines and drones they can extend this for years. He's started his very own version of the Vietnam War.
Thai sailors float in a lifeboat as they watch their ship burn after an Iranian
USV strike in the Strait of Hormuz.
Ingraham: It looks like Donald Trump, his team, the U.S. Military, and the
American taxpayer may have saved the world
Welcome to the world of Alex Karp, one of the leaders of the new wave of techno-militarists in Silicon Valley:
"If they are not scared, they don’t wake up scared, they don’t go to bed scared, they don’t fear that the wrath of America will come down on them, they will attack us. They will attack us everywhere.”
~Alex Karp, CEO Palantir
https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/unhinged-optimists-humanity.html
The solution? Buy more Palantir
BREAKING:
Belgium’s MEP Marc Botenga:
“You claim to stand with the people of #Iran while you offer European bases to #US killing machines.
#eu #europe #uk #france #germany #netherlands #greece #italy #hungary #europeanunion #belgium #news #mastodon #socialmedia #trump #cdnpoli #uspol #politi #sovereignty #economy #resistance #antifascism #lfi #protest #freepalestine #china #russia #yemen #hezbollah #lebanon @politics @socialmedia @democracy #education #canada #Africa #justice #humanrights
This stuff all seems fishy, the bulletins going to local police departments, especially. (this, looking out for suspicious radio transmissions, sleeper cells, etc.). Smells like the "Red Scare" to me. I would be nervous if I was of Middle Eastern descent flying a drone around for recreation, unfortunately.
ABC: FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert
Suburban #Cincinnati #Ohio Little Miami school board member resigns citing social posts
Literal Nazi school board member resigns days after voting with the MAGA majority school board to take down "hate has no home here" that had five hands holding up hearts with images on them poster. He recently posted things like, "The US fought on the wrong side of WW2," denied the holocaust, said Hitler made Germany great again, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
He goes on, ""Christians are lovers. We love people. Jesus loved people," Smith said at the Feb. 25 meeting. "But I'll tell you what he didn't love. He didn't love sin."
Although his posts were actually text he typed, and not fly by night boosts or favs, etc, the MAGA majority school board carries his water, "...he has indicated that the posts do not reflect his actual beliefs"
From the poster, to this, this breaks my heart because this is my Genx school district.
Receipts: https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/03/11/dan-smith-social-media/
Aral Balkan
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Report: Millions of Israelis are spending sleepless nights in bomb shelters.
Israel’s radar systems have reportedly been jeopardised, making "it difficult to know when a missile has been launched from Iran."
In addition, "Hezbollah has developed a new long-range missile", one of which fell in Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem, "provoking anxiety among the Israeli public."
https://aje.news/apjw94?update=4387675
Not as many sleepless nights & as much anxiety as Palestinians have had...
Report: Millions of Israelis are spending sleepless nights in bomb shelters.
Israel’s radar systems have reportedly been jeopardised, making "it difficult to know when a missile has been launched from Iran."
In addition, "Hezbollah has developed a new long-range missile", one of which fell in Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem, "provoking anxiety among the Israeli public."
https://aje.news/apjw94?update=4387675
Not as many sleepless nights & as much anxiety as Palestinians have had...
Aral Balkan
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"They want our oil, to Balkanise Iran. But they’re failing miserably"
"Washington’s strategy echoes older imperial policies... They want to rule the Persian Gulf like the British did in the 19th C."
Trump "wants to take out the oil-rich southern part of Iran, disintegrate Iran... create a new state in southern Iran & use it to control oil resources while increasing pressure on China & expanding Israeli influence in the region."
~Foad Izadi
Aral Balkan
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Interview: "Trump & Hegseth & Rubio have completely misjudged the nature of this war".
And "the lies that the American mainstream media..are telling the American people.. are putting us in jeopardy in a real substantive sense"...
"because the American people have no way of judging just how foolhardy, how stupid, how unwise, how violative of international dictum & rule this war is."
~Ret Col Lawrence Wilkerson
"They want our oil, to Balkanise Iran. But they’re failing miserably"
"Washington’s strategy echoes older imperial policies... They want to rule the Persian Gulf like the British did in the 19th C."
Trump "wants to take out the oil-rich southern part of Iran, disintegrate Iran... create a new state in southern Iran & use it to control oil resources while increasing pressure on China & expanding Israeli influence in the region."
~Foad Izadi
Interview: "Trump & Hegseth & Rubio have completely misjudged the nature of this war".
And "the lies that the American mainstream media..are telling the American people.. are putting us in jeopardy in a real substantive sense"...
"because the American people have no way of judging just how foolhardy, how stupid, how unwise, how violative of international dictum & rule this war is."
~Ret Col Lawrence Wilkerson
Welcome to the world of Alex Karp, one of the leaders of the new wave of techno-militarists in Silicon Valley:
"If they are not scared, they don’t wake up scared, they don’t go to bed scared, they don’t fear that the wrath of America will come down on them, they will attack us. They will attack us everywhere.”
~Alex Karp, CEO Palantir
https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/unhinged-optimists-humanity.html
The solution? Buy more Palantir
Understanding Geopolitics No.689 - Arms Sales.
Sooo... the country the US "has been at war with for 50 years" has a fleet of US-made F-14 fighter jets. Well of course.
#Iran
But we've seen Mavarick beating 5th-gen fighters with an old Tomcat! The US is done for!
Now, I wonder where Iran got those? Fighters-R-Us? A garage sale?