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Israel Illegally Using White Phosphorus Against Civilians in Lebanon: Human Rights Watch | Common Dreams

Israel is illegally using white phosphorous in civilian areas amid its new onslaught in Lebanon, putting residents at risk of death or life-altering injury, according to a report released Monday by Human Rights Watch.

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"The incendiary effects of white phosphorous can cause death or cruel injuries that result in lifelong suffering.”

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Prewar US Intel Assessment Found Intervention in Iran Wasn’t Likely to Change Leadership

A U.S. intelligence assessment completed shortly before the United States and Israel launched a war in Iran had determined that American military intervention was not likely to lead to regime change in the Islamic Republic, according to two people familiar with the finding.

military.com

An intelligence assessment completed shortly before the U.S. and Israel launched a war in Iran determined that military intervention is unlikely to result in regime change.

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Improvised explosive devices near NYC mayor’s home being investigated as ISIS-inspired terrorism - NYPD

An improvised explosive device hurled during protests outside New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Manhattan home on Saturday (all times local) and two other devices are being investigated as an act of ISIS-inspired terrorism, NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

rnz.co.nz

The New York Police Department said it was investigating the incident as ISIS-inspired terrorism.

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US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges

US military commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical “end times” to justify involvement in the Iran war to troops, according to complaints made to a watchdog group.

theguardian.com

Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

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✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to withhold his signature from all bills until Congress passes a GOP-led voting bill that implements voter restrictions ahead of the November midterms.

motherjones.com

Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights

He is now threatening not to sign any other bills until Congress passes the SAVE America Act.

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✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Iran’s Assembly of Experts has named Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader, state media reported Sunday.

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Iran names Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, as new supreme leader, state media report

Iran’s Assembly of Experts has named Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

An inmate housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York told the FBI he overheard guards talking about covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s death on the morning he died.

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Prison guards discussed cover-up of Epstein’s death, inmate tells FBI

One officer said: “Dudes, you killed that dude.”

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✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

A new Pew Research Center study found 53 percent of U.S. adults rated Americans’ morals and ethics as “bad,” making the U.S. the only country surveyed where that view prevailed.

newsweek.com

Most Americans think their fellow citizens have poor morals

A new poll reports a partisan divide in judgments of morality, while overall concern is lower around issues like gambling and marijuana.

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✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The Pokémon Company has issued a statement pushing back against the White House's use of Pokémon branding and imagery in its political propaganda.

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Pokémon Company stands firm against the White House's political meme

The Pokémon rights holder has broken its silence over MAGA's use of its brand

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✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Satellite images, expert analysis, a U.S. official and public information released by the U.S. and Israeli suggest an explosion that killed scores of Iranian students at a school was likely caused by U.S. airstrikes that also hit an adjacent compound associated with the regime’s Revolutionary Guard.

Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a US airstrike

Satellite images and videos of an Iranian girls school damaged by large explosions at the start of a U.S.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

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✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Democratic US Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voted with nearly every Senate Republican on Wednesday to block a war powers resolution intended to halt President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on Iran.

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'Blood Is On Their Hands': Fetterman and Senate GOP Block War Powers Resolution on Iran | Common Dreams

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman joined Senate Republicans to block a war powers resolution that was intended to stop President Donald Trump and Israel's assault on Iran.

He's at best a low budget cartoon character.

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Ryan Zinke, a Montana Republican who served as interior secretary during President Donald Trump’s first administration, said Monday that he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. House, citing health concerns.

Former Trump Cabinet secretary Ryan Zinke won't seek reelection to a Montana US House seat

A Republican lawmaker from Montana who served as interior secretary during President Donald Trump’s first administration says he will not seek reelection to a fifth term.

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Trump won’t rule out boots on the ground. Iran experts say he’s ‘grasping at straws’

Donald Trump will not rule out sending American troops into Iran after launching a massive bombing campaign that the president says could last several weeks or longer.

the-independent.com

‘Regime implosion’ risks drawn-out campaign to exhaust US and Israel, experts say

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Saudi Official Claims US Abandons Gulf Allies for Israel's Defense

A senior Saudi official has publicly accused the United States of abandoning Gulf allies by shifting key air-defence assets from the region to protect Israel amid escalating conflict following coordinated US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

ibtimes.co.uk

A senior Saudi official accuses the US of prioritizing Israel's defense over Gulf allies amid escalating Middle East tensions.

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✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Asia-Pacific markets tumbled Monday as the conflict between Iran and U.S.-Israel escalates, following the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, raising concerns over energy supplies.

cnbc.com

Asia-Pacific markets tumble after Iran strikes, oil futures spike by over 8%

Oil futures on Monday jumped by over 8%, with West Texas Intermediate futures and Brent trading at $72.52 and $79.04 per barrel respectively.

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✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died following a major attack by Israel and the United States, Iranian state media confirmed early Sunday. President Donald Trump previously announced the death, saying it gave Iranians their “greatest chance” to “take back” their country.

Iranian state media say country's supreme leader is dead

Iranian state media have reported the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. State television and the state-run IRNA news agency reported the 86-year-old’s death early Sunday, without elabora...

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✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) gave a “hard no” to his own party’s response to President Donald Trump’s Iran strikes on Saturday, appearing on Fox News to call him “absolutely correct” in the situation.

mediaite.com

John Fetterman Defends 'Correct' Trump From Dems On Iran

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) gave a "hard no" to his own party's response to Trump's Iran strikes on Saturday, calling him "absolutely correct" in the situation.

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✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A mysterious super PAC tied to a billionaire AIPAC donor has popped up in the high-profile House Democratic primary in North Carolina’s Fourth District to support Rep. Valerie Foushee, a past beneficiary of millions of dollars in AIPAC spending.

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AIPAC Donor-Tied Group Drops Six Figures for Foushee

A mysterious super PAC, Article One PAC, has spent $600,000 supporting Rep. Valerie Foushee in the NC-04 Democratic primary against challenger Nida Allam.

✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Pro-Trump “activists” who say they’re working with the Trump administration “are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”

newrepublic.com

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État

During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

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Top Mideast commander briefs Trump on military options on Iran: Exclusive

Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, who oversees troops in the Middle East as head of U.S. Central Command, briefed President Donald Trump on Thursday on potential military options in Iran, according to a person close to the president.

abcnews.com

Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, briefed President Donald Trump on Thursday on potential military options in Iran, a source said.

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The Labor Department reported Friday that its producer price index, which measures inflation before it hits consumers, rose 0.5% from December and 2.9% from January 2025. The increase suggests that companies are passing along the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs to their customers.

US wholesale prices arrive hotter than expected, up 0.5% from December and 2.9% from a year ago

U.S. wholesale prices came in hotter than expected last month. The Labor Department reported Friday that its producer price index, which measures inflation before it hits consumers, rose 0.5% from Dec...

Trump tariff refund update: FedEx would pass payments to customers

FedEx has said it will pass along a portion of the refunds it is seeking from the government to its customers, following the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Donald Trump’s tariff powers.

newsweek.com

An estimated $175 billion was paid by importers in the now-annulled duties, an amount the government may be forced to refund.

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Agriculture is consuming grasslands and wetlands at alarming rates

New research published this week finds that non-forest ecosystems—the world’s grasslands, savannas, and wetlands—are being devoured for agriculture at nearly four times the rate as forests. As with forests, the primary driver is livestock.

motherjones.com

A new study examines how farming converts key carbon sinks into cropland and pasture.

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Bill Clinton tells lawmakers in closed-door testimony that he 'saw nothing' and 'did nothing wrong' related to Jeffrey Epstein

Former President Bill Clinton told members of Congress on Friday that he “did nothing wrong” in his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and saw no signs of Epstein's sexual abuse as he faced hours of grilling from lawmakers over his connection to the disgraced financier from more than two decades ago.

nbcnews.com

No sitting or former president has testified before members of Congress since 1983.

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Horrifying discovery of mass graves found scattered around Mexican soccer stadium set to host World Cup games

Hundreds of bags of human remains were recently found in makeshift graves in the Mexican city at the heart of the startling wave of violence over the killing of a cartel boss — just months before key World Cup games are scheduled to be held there.

nypost.com

Hundreds of bags of human remains were recently found in makeshift graves in the Mexican city at the heart of the startling wave of violence over the killing of a cartel boss.

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U.S. aims to bring in 4,500 white South Africans per month as refugees, document says

The U.S. aims to process 4,500 refugee applications from white South Africans per month, far above President Donald Trump's stated refugee program cap, and is installing trailers on embassy property in Pretoria to support the effort, ‌a U.S. contracting document said.

japantoday.com

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Top Oversight panel Democrat calls for Trump to testify in Epstein probe

Rep. Robert Garcia (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Thursday called for President Trump to testify under oath before the committee as part of its investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Simulated war scenarios reveal AI's tendency to push toward nuclear strikes

In a world where military planners are increasingly turning to AI for strategy modeling, a recent experiment from King's College London offers a serious warning: when left to their own devices, AI systems tend to go nuclear.

techspot.com

Each AI model was fed detailed scenario prompts spanning border conflicts, resource shortages, and existential threats to state survival. They were provided with an "escalation ladder," a...

✌️ Woobie ✌️ @w00bie.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told U.S. House lawmakers in New York on Thursday that she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s or Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes, starting off two days of depositions that will also include former President Bill Clinton.