Links 3/4/2026

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1. The Rev Kev March 4, 2026 at 7:17 am

   ‘War Analyst
   @War_Analysts
   Afghanistan’s Bagram’s Dark Secret: How Pakistan destroyed Israeli Drone Hub’

   Wait a minute. Something does not ring true here. Why would the Taliban invite the Israelis in to set up shop at Bagram air force base? That would be akin to inviting in American spook forces there.The implication is that the Taliban want to make buddies with Israel so that they can go after Pakistan? And that Pakistan wiped out over a hundred drones in one hit? I am awarding this story four Pinocchios.
   1. vao March 4, 2026 at 8:07 am

      The whole clip looks and sounds like it was put together out of bits of pre-existing b-roll, AI, and TTS.

      The whole idea sounds odd: how could hundreds of large drones be imported into Afghanistan without anybody noticing in the first place, and why would the Talebans seek Israeli products?

      We have seen a lot of crazy things (like the USA and the EU allying and praising a regime of former Al Qaeda/Daesh bigwigs), but Afghanistan allying with Israel sounds definitely weird.
   2. ciroc March 4, 2026 at 9:33 am

      We are living in interesting times.
2. Samuel Conner March 4, 2026 at 7:32 am

   The thought occurs, in reflection on the MRFF item, that a faint silver lining to the current dark thunderclouds is the possibility of thorough discrediting of certain flavors of futurist eschatology within the Christian churches.
   1. Skip Intro March 4, 2026 at 10:42 am

      ‘Discrediting’
      How optimistic!
      1. Henry Moon Pie March 4, 2026 at 11:40 am

         Well, they may get their Armageddon, but they may be disappointed when it comes to a pre-
         Tribulation rapture. Oops.
         1. Lefty Godot March 4, 2026 at 4:36 pm

            It’s interesting that they think they can bully the Son of God into coming back when they want, rather than waiting for Him to come on His own schedule. A belief system like that is very difficult to understand. Even extreme faith would say you should wait patiently for the time to come, not try to push it by committing vile atrocities while crowing hysterical self-congratulations about it.
3. Wukchumni March 4, 2026 at 7:58 am

   Gooooooooood Mooooooorning Fiatnam!

   The first casualties of war were truth, decorum and a unbiased public organ, as the trio was loaded onto an airliner in flag draped caskets.
4. Patrick Donnelly March 4, 2026 at 8:04 am

   “Hegseth Calling Rules of Engagement ‘Stupid,’ Critics Warn, Opens Door to War Crimes in Iran”

   That means Iran need not follow them either? /s

   Schools in Slough and Washington DC may want to get advice on insurance policies.
   1. Wukchumni March 4, 2026 at 8:37 am

      As the worms of war turn, how will strident evang Hegseth’s ‘Salvation Army’ ploy play with the esprit d’corps. that is to say the infidels within that only signed up as it was family tradition, great grandfather stormed the beaches on D-Day +8, grandfather knew where the best Thai stick was in Saigon, dad narrowly missed being blown up by an IED in Iraq, as it blew a Humvee to kingdom come 200 feet in front of him.
   2. The Rev Kev March 4, 2026 at 9:08 am

      You have to wonder if Hegseth is a believer in the Geneva Conventions. I suspect that he would regard them with disdain so killing prisoners and blowing up hospitals is all AOK with him. So for him, they would be more of a Geneva Checklist.
   3. Aurelien March 4, 2026 at 9:09 am

      The author doesn’t understand the difference between laws of war and Rules of Engagement. The Law of War applies pre-emptively and uniformly and is governed by treaties. Rules of Engagement are supplementary limitations and instructions, generally for political reasons, and which can be modified at any time. I assume the Iranians have their own, but, like those of any other nation, they will depend on the exact situation on the ground and the wider political context.
      1. Hickory March 4, 2026 at 9:50 am

         There might not be any confusion. Rules of engagement partly include a military’s codification of Laws of War. If SecWar is throwing out rules of engagement, that may well include those related to laws of war. Depends on which rules he wants to ignore.
         1. t March 4, 2026 at 10:14 am

            Depends on which rules he wants to ignore.

            All of them. Any of them. We all know this. This administration does not see themselves as subject to law.

            And I expect him to use claims of lawless evil heathens and the laws of Jesus H. Christ to justify more rogue murdering.
      2. Kouros March 4, 2026 at 5:03 pm

         Pete doesn’t look like one that can differentiate between the two…
   4. lyman alpha blob March 4, 2026 at 1:51 pm

      Since we seem to be replaying the stupidity from the 2nd Iraq invasion, maybe Hegseth would like to see the charred corpses of USians hung from a bridge again.
5. The Rev Kev March 4, 2026 at 8:09 am

   “Why Britain’s Air Defence Destroyer HMS Duncan Can’t Protect Key Bases From Iranian Strikes”

   A question occurs to me after reading this article. They only have 48 vertical launch cells which is very small compared to their American and Chinese counterparts. So the question is if the Type 45 destroyer is the one tasked with protecting Britain’s two aircraft carriers? If so it would not take much to deplete the missiles stocks aboard those destroyers leaving the carriers wide open for an attack.
6. Wukchumni March 4, 2026 at 8:24 am

   Much Of The Western Half Of The Country Had Its Warmest Winter On Record Weather.com
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

   We’d been coasting on the largess of a powerful storm system that came over xmas-new years in the Sierra Nevada, when Ullr came calling a fortnight ago in a big way complete with lower down snow in Bishop, Ca.

   Some locations received 8 feet of new snow in the high country

   The melt-off since then has been amazing. The really high up snow was in less peril of perishing, but a lot of it is gone below 8k now. Is this what the new normal looks like, a big snowstorm is turned into liquid, toot suite?

   In a reversal of fortune, the Southern Sierra is at 76% of average snowpack, with the Central Sierra @ 55% and the Northern Sierra plodding along at 36%.

   Usually the Northern Sierra has the most snowfall~

   And the Sierra has been the big winner compared to the Cascades & Rocky Mountains, which have had bleak snowfalls.
   1. CanCyn March 4, 2026 at 8:34 am

      We have had our snowiest winter in years here in Eastern Ontario. A week of warm weather and rain is going to quickly melt it all away potentially leaving fields exposed to harsh March sun and wind. Not a recipe for good growing and grazing conditions. Not to mention run off instead of absorption in the woods which will likely result in more forest fires.
      1. Ann March 4, 2026 at 3:07 pm

         Here in BC, we have had almost no snow. It snowed once on December 1st, then a bit more on Christmas Eve. Then it RAINED all through January. February was cold with no snow. Now my fruit trees are beginning to bud. This is bad news because it’s way too early. If those buds get frozen off, there will be no fruit.

         And I expect a very hot summer with another record fire season.
         1. Chris March 4, 2026 at 4:38 pm

            Here in Moscow, Russia, we just had our biggest snowfall in 75 years.
7. DJG, Reality Czar March 4, 2026 at 8:26 am

   A Rabbit. Of Caerbannog?

   A reference to the current fog of war?

   ARTHUR: Right. How many did we lose?
   LANCELOT: Gawain.
   GALAHAD: Ector.
   ARTHUR: And Bors. That’s five.
   GALAHAD: Three, sir.
   ARTHUR: Three. Three. And we’d better not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit’s dynamite.

   http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Holy_Grail/Scene20.htm

   LANCELOT: We have the Holy Hand Grenade.
   ARTHUR: Yes, of course! The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch! ‘Tis one of the sacred relics Brother Maynard carries with him! Brother Maynard! Bring up the Holy Hand Grenade!

   Sly. Very sly. At least we can laugh as we peer into the abyss, which is now peering back.
   1. The Rev Kev March 4, 2026 at 8:46 am

      At the risk of showing my age, I was thinking that with ears like that, that that rabbit won’t get any good reception-
      1. Oregon Lawhobbit March 4, 2026 at 4:48 pm

         Dunno – sometimes you had to adjust the ears JUST like that to get proper reception.

         Except at Grandma’s where the ears were on remote control and you just turned the dial to the line marked for which of the four* channels you were trying to pick up.

         *except when the weather was right, when you could get CBS Channel 12 out of Binghamton, which had MUCH better late night movies than CBS Channel 22 in town…
      2. CanCyn March 4, 2026 at 5:56 pm

         We had a dial in antenna a mere 25 years ago! There are still folks hereabouts with those tall antennas on the sides of their houses. I’m thinking they’re relics that never got taken down, not sure what they might receive if anything.
8. TimH March 4, 2026 at 8:39 am

   On that Coruna iPhone attack that Google reported: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/coruna-powerful-ios-exploit-kit
   It’s a JS exploit. All the articles on this say “patch”, but you can’t on older phones. I have a 6S which works fine. But you can turn JS off in Safari. Which stops all JS exploits, not just this. And NC works fine without JS, except commenting won’t work.
9. flora March 4, 2026 at 8:57 am

   Judge Napolitano and Alastair Crooke, from Monday. utube, ~35+ minutes.

   Alastair Crooke : Trump’s Dangerous War of Choice

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQi8exiUVVw
10. flora March 4, 2026 at 9:19 am

    re: Trump rebukes Starmer again for not letting US attack Iran from UK bases – Guardian

    UK has a large Muslim population. Wiki puts it at 15% of the greater London area. That might have something to do with Starmer’s hesitation.
    1. The Rev Kev March 4, 2026 at 9:40 am

       And I believe that there are a lot of Local Council elections coming up. In the last one a week or so ago Labour got crunched and I believe that that seat had a lot of Muslim voters.
    2. Anonymous 2 March 4, 2026 at 2:01 pm

       More important probably here is that Starmer almost certainly has UK government legal advice that an unprovoked attack on Iran is illegal. The UK civil service, thankfully, pays a good deal of attention to advice from its lawyers if there are proposals to break the law. The Iraq war only went ahead with the UK when the then UK Attorney General provided Blair with advice that war would be legal (it convinced few but the advice was there for Blair to point to).
11. The Rev Kev March 4, 2026 at 9:26 am

    “Astronomers Estimated the Lifespan of Alien Civilizations, and It’s Not Looking Good for Us”

    Made a comment before about this but will do so again for fun. Let’s suppose that the average civilization last about 20,000 years to be generous. So far so good. But all civilizations are not developing at the same pace. What that means is if we developed warp drive and could visit hundreds of stars in our neighbourhood, that what we find might surprise us. One planet still has dinosaurs so we skip that one. The next had civilization all right but is now suffering a nuclear winter so a landing party is out of the question. The next one turns up what looks like humans but they are still living a neolithic lifestyle and them developing civilization is tens of thousands of year away. The next one looks like a bust until a survey from space reveals what looks like pyramids. You realize that the civilization there has come and gone and most of who and what they were has gone back into the soil. So we are mostly too early or too late. Here is an amateur scifi story illustrating this idea-

    https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/107kqq1/voices/
    1. ambrit March 4, 2026 at 12:46 pm

       You stirred the echoes of my mind back to Arthur C. Clarke’s story “The Star.”
       Read (4 pages): https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf
    2. t March 4, 2026 at 1:21 pm

       Nice break from life. Thanks for the link.
    3. Yalt March 4, 2026 at 1:54 pm

       We have a close view of exactly one planet, other than our own, that’s (barely) within its sun’s habitable zone. And whaddayaknow, it’s gone through a runaway greenhouse effect and has clouds of sulfuric acid and sulfur dioxide in its CO2/N2 atmosphere.

       Warmer temperatures = faster reactions so they would get to life and eventually “civilization” a little ahead of us.

       Alas, I don’t have an amateur scifi story but somebody should write one.
12. Revenant March 4, 2026 at 9:28 am

    The link to the OBR report – on the very significant impact to the UK economy of the Iran war – is broken.

    The report is here
    https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69a6d7b62e1f4fbda4252208/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2026-web-accessible.pdf

    Newspaper comment here (FT because economics)
    https://archive.is/TLERz
13. Wukchumni March 4, 2026 at 9:31 am

    Operation Epicurean Fury continues apace… destroyed a Dubai chocolate in one sitting the other day-filled with a sweet pistachio-tahini cream and kadayif. all demolished by tiny missiles ingested in a downward spiral, delish!
14. Otto Reply March 4, 2026 at 9:34 am

    Re: MRFF
    aljazerra posted a helpful explainer that’s well worth a read:

    “Religious language mobilises domestic constituencies,” Ibrahim Abusharif, an associate professor at Northwestern University in Qatar said, explaining that in the US, this connects deeply with many evangelicals and Christian Zionists, because they already see Middle East wars as part of a religious “end times” story.

    “References to the ‘end times’, the Book of Revelation, or biblical enemies are not incidental; they activate a cultural script already present in American political theology.”

    “Political theology” indeed!
    1. ChrisRUEcon March 4, 2026 at 9:11 pm

       The #ZionismSchism is real, though …

       “No one wants to fight for Israel!” (Max Blumenthal via X)
       1. ChrisRUEcon March 4, 2026 at 9:45 pm

          This is his X Profile. He’s a Green Party Senate candidate for NC.
15. Screwball March 4, 2026 at 9:39 am

    Stock futures fall as traders monitor latest developments in U.S.-Iran war: Live updates CNBC

    IMO, the reaction of our market since this has all begun is quite subdued. Sure, oil is up about 7-8 bucks a barrel, which doesn’t seem like much given the circumstances, and the S&P is trading in range it has been in for the last several months.
    1. Carolinian March 4, 2026 at 10:39 am

       Early days. The Trump loving ZH site has been doing considerable whistling past the graveyard.

       If reports I read here and on similar sites are true then the Iranians haven’t really started yet. Plus the insane Israeli leadership are trying to make things even worse by invading Lebanon as if to prove that they are the escalation dominators.
    2. Jason Boxman March 4, 2026 at 4:27 pm

       It’s all been very orderly, VIX has fallen in fact. A very very modest sell-off met with dip buying.
16. The Rev Kev March 4, 2026 at 9:53 am

    “Iran’s cyberwar has begun”

    This article is pretty dismissive of Iranian cyber acumen and totally forgets to mention western cyber attacks on Iran such as Stuxnet and hacking Iran’s traffic control cameras. But what happens if Russia and/or China decide to lend a hand here? It could happen very easily and would give those two countries perfect deniability.
    1. Jeremy Grimm March 4, 2026 at 1:16 pm

       I am surprised no cyber attacks have been launched against the u.s. — or at least none have been reported. I guess Iran is playing nice for now. Even if the Iranians were totally clueless about cyber warfare, as you point out Russia and/or China could lend a hand, or North Korea. Iran could hire a criminal organization to conduct attacks. Iran could put some of their excellent engineers and programmers to work on a crash program to create cyber attacks, assuming that had not been done long before the war started. Both the u.s. and israel have been indiscriminately attacking military and non-military targets inside Iran. Non-combatants are definitely on the menu in this war, which I believe makes the u.s. homeland fair game.

       I believe the u.s. Populace is most unhappy with Trump’s newest war. The financial markets may temporarily underestimate how the war will damage the u.s. and the world’s economies but I expect there will be larger stock market declines in the near future, coupled with economic decline and many unknown follow-on effects. That will not improve the popularity of Trump’s war. Before Trump’s war got going, the u.s. Populace was already looking toward some punishing stagflation for the future. But with the Trump war underway, some punishing stagflation seems a rosy prediction.

       The software updates to repair security risks show up on a regular basis. I infer that the home and commercial computing systems are vulnerable to cyber attack. I do not understand what might be holding Iran back from cyber attacks on the commercial Internet. I am growing very annoyed at being pushed into automatic billing of my credit card or bank account to pay my utility bills and many other similar periodic charges. I cannot buy a lot of items except by making orders over the Internet. The Yellow Pages are a fond memory which leaves me searching the Internet to find local places where I can buy the commonplace things I need. Creating havoc on the Internet would make all sorts of interesting problems for u.s. businesses and the Populace. Who would harvest the anger and frustration generated? Iran is not the first culprit I would think of. I would blame the businesses that created this vulnerability. Many Federal, State, and Local governments are compelling more and more of their bureaucratic business demands — change of address, license renewal, tax payments … sourcing the myriad forms they require — onto the Internet. Killing or wounding civilians in the u.s. would have difficult to gauge political and morale impacts on the u.s. public. I think killing u.s. civilians would create anger against Iran. But creating havoc on the Internet would have very different consequences.

       I have not noticed much mention of cyber attacks on the telephone or banking systems but I suspect they are vulnerable to attack. I cannot imagine all the havoc that could result from attacking those systems. Iran could bring the war home directly to the u.s. elites by going after their accounts in the Caymans and similar tax havens.
       1. rePiet March 4, 2026 at 1:33 pm

          imo a combination of not wanting to be on the receiving end of the madman doctrine and what Richard Medhurt called sub-critical escalatory military doctrine.
          1. rePiet March 4, 2026 at 1:45 pm

             Mehurst* and sub threshold escalation military doctrine*

             he explains in a video on the tube titled “The Road Ahead: What Can Iran Do Next”
             1. Jeremy Grimm March 4, 2026 at 3:32 pm

                I thought I read somewhere in the last couple of days of posts and comments that the u.s. and israel have already launched cyber attacks against Iran. As I recall, military communications and systems were targeted but I do not know whether any commercial or civilian systems were targeted. Perhaps the u.s. and israel avoided cyber attacks on commercial and civilian systems and especially the big money financial targets in Iran following the so-called sub-critical escalatory military doctrine you referred to. I suspect the u.s. and israel governments and business rely on commercial and civilian systems and on the telephone and banking systems much more heavily than the Iran. I also suspect attacks on large accounts in the Caymans and similar tax havens would harm u.s. and israel elites much more than Iran might be harmed by such attacks. Using the same analogy the commentator you referred to used: The u.s. and israel punched Iran in the face with their cyber attacks. Now Iran’s supposed sub-critical escalatory military doctrine — dictates punching them back really hard in their faces with cyber attacks, which I believe should include targeting big money accounts in the Caymans and similar tax havens to make the punch land really hard.
17. Wukchumni March 4, 2026 at 10:27 am

    Well, he watched what went down in Gaza, IDF doing their best
    Excitable goy, they all said
    And he tried to fake umbrage to Bibi, get it off his chest
    Excitable goy, they all said
    Well, he’s just an excitable goy

    He took in Jared to plan Club Meddle
    Excitable goy, they all said
    Bead there-done that
    Excitable goy, they all said
    Well, he’s just an excitable goy

    He took no exception to the hundreds of thousands dead
    Excitable goy, they all said
    And he saw all the Palestinians with no home
    Excitable goy, they all said
    Well, he’s just an excitable goy
    After a few years and a few hundred Gaza eyes for every lost Israeli eye
    Excitable goy, they all said
    And you wondered if the Warsaw Ghetto was like this, aye yi yi
    Excitable goy, they all said
    Well, he’s just an excitable goy

    Excitable Boy, by Warren Zevon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZokPAuhD6k
18. AG March 4, 2026 at 10:32 am

    re: Germany EU sanctions = German law

    NACHDENKSEITEN publishing a Swiss interview with frm German MP Andrei Hunko

    use google-translate

    “Stop it before it starts” – the “denunciation clause” demands mutual monitoring of citizens

    In an interview with the Swiss newspaper Zeitgeschehen im Fokus, former member of the German Bundestag Andrej Hunko discusses the recent initiatives in the EU and Germany regarding the sanctioning of dissenting opinions, the personal reprisals against individuals that push unwelcome critics to the brink of ruin, and the now legally mandated practice of denunciation.

    https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=147114

    So this is a Swiss piece even though the law is German!

    It ought to be frontpage news evreywhere but I am sure 99 out of 100 people asked randomly in the street would have no clue of what is going on…

    But of course the Swiss publication is no real established daily. It´s a monthly/twice a month fringe, alternative paper.
19. earthling March 4, 2026 at 10:36 am

    re: Six data-driven reasons Texas could actually go blue in 2026

    This is really big news in the ray-of-hope category.
    “In El Paso, the number of voters under 30 nearly tripled compared to 2022, and voters 30-44 more than doubled.”

    For a PRIMARY. Young people historically ignore these. They are now so motivated they are willing to participate in primaries. This is a sea change. They are sick of our gerontocracy and they are mobilizing to throw it in history’s dustbin where it belongs.
20. Wukchumni March 4, 2026 at 11:56 am

    Flower Power to the People!

    I’ve been to 3 super blooms in Death Valley NP, and the 2005 version was quite something in scope-the desert aflame in flora.

    Its easy to see what’s happening on a daily basis online-if you get an inkling to go, and its looking really promising so far, and we’re doing a floral drive-by on the 12th.

    Its the kind of excursion where you get out every once in awhile to take photos and gawk at once was and will be again, tanned terra firma showing scant signs of life.
21. Ben Panga March 4, 2026 at 12:15 pm

    JD Vance Has His Reasons (NYT opinion via archive)

    Proving they can do good work when they want to, the NYT has this analysis of Vance’s beliefs and motivations.

    I’ve said many times here that Vance is underestimated and when Trump is swept away the real ideologues will be in charge. Vance is not the average glib self-aggrandizing politician, he is much more dangerous than that (although still glib). He has a well-structured belief system, and is part of a powerful faction that intends to implement it. I also see a much more competent politician (in terms of both PR and behind the scenes stuff) than almost anyone else in the US.

    With a disintegrating Trump setting both the Middle East and his own trousers on fire, I believe we will be seeing President Thielism soon.
    1. Alphonse March 4, 2026 at 5:21 pm

       Thank you for a good article. I don’t follow Vance, though I know he has said some reprehensible things. Thiel has been plausibly accused of vampirism. Please don’t take anything I say as advocacy for them. But I have come to have a lot of sympathy for Deneen’s postliberalism.

       I am not religious and my sympathies were, like most I see criticizing it or liberalism today, once with the left. Here in ultra-liberal Canada I have never personally witnessed significant racism or Christian bigotry (of course I’ve seen it online). Surrounded by PMC and scholars the bigotry I witness has all been the liberal kind. It used to be embarrassing, like the proverbial racist uncle who in his ignorance has never met a black man (or conservative). Now it is terrifying and totalitarian. Liberals burn churches. They destroy the life of an elected school trustee with a $750,000 penalty for saying that he believed in gender identity. I often think of how Ta-Nehisi Coates explained Jim Crow: they hate us because they know they wronged us.

       If wokeness is the extreme liberal ideology that, as Musa Al-Gharbi‘s analysis shows, justifies the self-regard and bullshit jobs of the PMC, the next question is whether wokeness is an inevitable development of liberalism. Many here on NC strenuously defend the distinction between liberals and the old labour left. I respect that, but in practice the vast majority of both groups have become woke. It appears the answer is yes, woke was always the endpoint of unconstrained liberalism.

       Part of the postliberal critique is that at its core liberalism rejects boundaries (to the point of open borders). It aims to destroy all unchosen bonds. What began with liberation from religion and aristocracy has progressed to trying to erase family (you don’t choose your parents) and even nature itself (sex and gender).

       It was always the function of liberalism to liquidate existing relationships leaving the way clear for colonization by capital. Liberal rationality homogenizes people and the world into uniform categories and measurements (see Scott’s Seeing Like a State). It abstracts human beings as equal and interchangeable.

       The liberated individual is not so much independent as cast adrift. “You can be anything” really means “until you create yourself, you are nothing.” Each of us is forced to become an entrepreneur who constructs, performs and sells his or her own identity in a culture that treats the individual as a commodity. Freya Indiadescribes how devastating this is for young women in particular.

       Liberalism inherits Christianity’s evangelical imperative. John Gray explains how from Napoleon to Iraq liberal universalism justifies and motivates imperialist war. Liberalism claims to own tolerance and freedom, but at the limit it is totalitarian. Like Ford’s black Model T cars, we are free to be anything, so long as we are liberal.

       Liberalism stripped us of all relationships and virtues and substituted consumerism. When that too was stripped in the 2008 crash there was only a void. No wonder that the counterculture today is youthful, illiberal and anti-woke, e.g. the Amelia memes (French, German variants; all four links are AI music videos; the first ends with Vance, which is why I thought of them). Think what you like about the anti-immigrant or even racist sentiment in those videos: young people are reclaiming boundaries and inherited bonds. Liberalism has many positive accomplishments, but as Alasdair MacIntyre argues it has long been lost touch with any moral core. It has turned toxic.
       1. The Rev Kev March 4, 2026 at 5:53 pm

          That Amelia deserves to be talked about. The UK government created a game called Pathways and I believe that the idea was to teach people not to get radicalized with such ideas as not doing your own research. In one scenario, the player meets a purple-haired young activist girl named Amelia who is against mass emigration. With that, conservatives claimed her as their own and she has become a hero with widespread memes appearing. Massive own goal on the part of the UK government.
22. Kontrary Kansan March 4, 2026 at 1:26 pm

    https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for

    Christian Zionism is ultra-processed religiosity. It is to Christianity as fecal matter is to food. Christians have a word for it: heresay.
    Chris Hedges has documentation in his Christian Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.
    Those who are able to speak out and don’t . . ..
    1. Henry Moon Pie March 4, 2026 at 7:23 pm

       It’s Darbyism, the twin of Zionism. Both British imports.
23. Ben Panga March 4, 2026 at 3:07 pm

    🤡

    Spain ‘has agreed to cooperate’ with US after Trump ire, says White House (Guardian Live Blog)

    During the White House press briefing on Wednesday, Karoline Leavitt said that Spain had agreed to cooperate with US operations in the Middle East.

    “With respect to Spain, I think they heard the president’s message yesterday loud and clear,” the White House press secretary said. “And it’s my understanding over the past several hours, they’ve agreed to cooperate with the US military. And so I know that the US military is coordinating with their counterparts in Spain.”

    But, shortly after, Spain’s foreign minister, Jose Manuel Albares, said that the Spanish government’s position “on the war in the Middle East the bombings in Iran, and the use of our bases has not changed one iota”.

    “She may be the White House press secretary, but I’m the foreign minister of Spain, and I’m telling her that our position hasn’t changed at all” he added.

    A government spokesperson added: “It is not true. We categorically deny any change it. Spain’s position has not changed.”
24. Jason Boxman March 4, 2026 at 4:25 pm

    Meanwhile, America is going great

    Gas prices here have popped 30-40 cents so far. How quickly might this cause political discomfort for Trump?
    1. Jonathan Holland Becnel March 4, 2026 at 6:33 pm

       Gone from 2.59 – 2.99$ down here in Metairie, Louisiana…
25. Ann March 4, 2026 at 4:49 pm

    NBC: ICE confirms a measles outbreak in the nation’s largest detention facility in Texas

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-confirms-measles-outbreak-nations-largest-detention-facility-texas-rcna261659
26. Ann March 4, 2026 at 5:37 pm

    Oil companies shun Trump administration’s Alaska offshore auction

    By Reuters, March 4, 20264:05 AM PST

    “Oil and gas drillers failed to show up at the Trump administration’s ​sale of more than 1 million acres (404,686 hectares) in ‌Alaska’s Cook Inlet on Wednesday, declining to submit even a single bid.”
27. Ann March 4, 2026 at 7:50 pm

    NBC: “Senate blocks resolution that would have restricted Trump’s war in Iran. The House is also expected to vote down a war powers resolution as Democrats and just a handful of Republicans push for Congress to assert its constitutional role in declaring war.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-blocks-restrictions-trump-using-military-iran-war-rcna261680
28. ArvidMartensen March 5, 2026 at 2:09 am

    Re nitrous oxide turbocharging warming.

    Does this mean we’re all going to die laughing?

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