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mr. dang sunshine retweeted
For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
dropsitenews.com/p/minab-sch…
Please share this story with as many people as you can.
mr. dang sunshine retweeted
So having experienced the literal, exact opposite cultural milieu of the Last Ditch Bar mask-freakness phenomena, it's worth asking why CHUDs think it's gay to not get bronchitis. Thank you.
one question that you don't see people ask enough is what happens when one of the jobs an AI replaces is "corporate executive" and "investment fund manager." not like it's that hard to imagine a robot doing a better job than the often extremely unimpressive humans who do it now
for da record if I say "America deserved 9/11" I'm not trying to make some not-all-that-apt point about blowback, i'm declaring myself an enemy of sentimentality about 9/11. and the reason i'm doing that is that sentimentality about 9/11 killed way more people than mohamed atta
funny for me when they make these posts because as someone who always disliked the idea of the cloud and never stopped torrenting i more or less check every box
If you’re a hater of “data centers,” then be consistent: don’t use AI, don’t stream movies or music, don’t livestream from your phone, and don’t rely on cloud-based services from your computer or TV.
You can’t demand the digital world at your beck and call while opposing the very infrastructure that makes it possible.
mr. dang sunshine retweeted
Horses run through Biscarrosse in southwestern France after a fast-moving wildfire forces equestrian center staff to release them, July 2026.
mr. dang sunshine retweeted
I deeply miss the world before AI existed. I’m so exhausted from side eyeing videos, recoiling at tacky fonts, sepia tinted art, the messy blobs and blips of unmatched colors. It’s slowly sucking all the creative life out of the world while it physically destroys it.
mr. dang sunshine retweeted
Hegseth has to go to prison
A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.
What the evidence shows:
Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.
Built to fail:
The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.
Accountability buried:
Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.
My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.
vindicatation washingtonpost.com/investiga…
mr. dang sunshine retweeted
change swampman's username to "Weird Owl" Yankovic and give him this avatar
free advice to Democratic 2028 hopefuls: promise to send Trump to Iran to stand trial for crimes against humanity. two birds one stone
mr. dang sunshine retweeted
Look at the faces, and the posture. These are your local volunteer firefighters if the US was invaded, taking up arms to protect their home.
İran güneybatısı Bahtiyari ile Kohgiluyeh kırsalında Dehdeşt yakınlarında Kuhi Siah tepelerinde dün gece ABD Özel Kuvvetleri ile şiddetli çatışmaya giren mobil uçaksavar grubu şehit düştü.
MJ-130J özel kuvvetler uçaklarını MANPADS atışıyla ilk kez vuran ve hem yakınlara inen ABD askerleri ile hem de uçak ve helikopter hareketliliğiyle mücadele edip ABD'ye ağır kayıplar verdirdiler ve bu çatışma esnasında da hayatlarını kaybettiler.
6 kişi en az 1 MANPADS ve Allah'ın yardımıyla büyük bir özel kuvvetler saldırısını durduran ana unsur dağlardaki bu bir avuç adamın stratejik bir noktayı tek başlarına savunmasıyla gerçekleşti Allah onlardan razı olsun.
