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[Clash Report @clashreport]

Pentagon probe found that the Feb. 28 US missile strike on an Iranian elementary school in Minab — killing 123 children — resulted from a cascade of failures.

Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility, compressed timelines as the administration demanded 1,000+ strikes in 24 hours, overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system (which personnel wrongly expected to flag stale data), and Hegseth's 90% cuts to civilian-harm-mitigation teams.

The site had visibly operated as a school for nearly a decade, was on Google Maps, and had its own website.

UN report this week said the failures "went beyond negligence" and may constitute war crimes.

The Pentagon investigation has been effectively complete for months but remains unreleased.

The administration still hasn't publicly accepted responsibility.

Source: Bloomberg

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.

I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.

Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.

Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.

Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.

So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.

PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.

Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.

[i Expose Racists & Pedos @SeeRacists]

🚨 Florida police tackled and broke a 15-year-old Black teen’s arm while searching for a white runaway they had just seen in a photo.

Judah Everage was on his knees with his hands in the air when officers slammed him to the ground near Wickham Park in Melbourne. He wasn’t the person they were looking for, but they still fractured his elbow. Body camera footage shows he was complying the entire time.

One officer has since resigned, but the others involved are still on the job.

This is what happens when police treat Black kids as suspects first and ask questions later. Disgusting.

Sources: Body camera footage / Local reporting

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

When Trump says he won the 2020 election in his address to the nation tomorrow night, remember Fox News had to pay $787.5 million for lying to viewers and spreading that same lie.

[Jack Settleman @jacksettleman]

Trump LOUDLY booed during the national anthem

[kaleb @Kaleb0217]

@Traneofthought_ @Michael_Cerami That’s hilarious. Didn’t even look at that lol.

[kaleb @Kaleb0217]

@RLindley88 @SteveEnders8 @STLSprtsCntrl It’s weighted different because different positions are harder to play then others…

[kaleb @Kaleb0217]

@jon_jon020207 @gatewaygrinders The Torres ball had a 20% catch probability

[kaleb @Kaleb0217]

@AnnoyedSoxFan Overall FanGraphs is a better WAR to use. Murakami 2.1 fWAR and Kurtz 2.0.

[Crazy Stats @NBAcrazystats]

Last night, LeBron James became the first player in @NBA history to appear in 300 career playoff games. Here is the breakdown of each hundred milestone:

First 100: 2,799 points / 836 rebounds / 684 assists / 173 steals / 95 blocks
Second 100: 2,805 points / 928 rebounds / 677 assists / 184 steals / 91 blocks
Third 100: 2,874 points / 913 rebounds / 796 assists / 148 steals / 100 blocks

Even if you combine any two of these three milestones, still no player in postseason history has reached those counting stats.

[kaleb @Kaleb0217]

@AndrewClem52005 @TheRealHoz35 No one thinks Nico isn’t valuable. Both the “old heads” and the advanced analytics community love Nico. He is elite on defense, an elite base runner and a good hitter. He is not some elite hitter though

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

Amazon paid $4.2 BILLION less in taxes this year than they did last year—even though they made MORE money.

Eli Lilly paid $500 MILLION less—even though they brought in $13 BILLION more in income.

That's almost $5 BILLION we could have used to boost working people. Gone.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt today:

“Our nation was founded, almost 250 years ago, on Judeo-Christian values.”

The Treaty of Tripoli. 1797. Signed by Founding Father John Adams. Ratified unanimously by the Senate:

“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

Thomas Jefferson — who wrote the Declaration of Independence — was a deist who literally cut the miracles out of his Bible.

James Madison — the father of the Constitution — explicitly warned against the “diabolical hell conceived principle of persecution” by state religion.

The First Amendment’s opening words:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”

They put it first.

[Johnny AGI @JohnnyAGI]

The most annoying thing about this SAVE Act nonsensical bullshit is that every study in the world (including those by Conservative organizations) has determined that voter fraud is so miniscule, it doesn't even come close to changing the results of any election.

Republicans are in this weird state of psychosis, where they believe there's 10 million "illegal aliens" waiting to cast votes.

You know what illegal aliens in this country do? Fly under the radar as much as they can.

When Biden won in 2020, these people conducted every audit, recount, voter machine autopsy, in the books. They found nothing

And even the ones with the guts to take voter fraud complaints to court, admitted to judges they didn't actually have any evidence.

The biggest virus Trump installed into the MAGA @GOP is this myth of stolen elections.

It's not real.

Ironically, Elon Musk was blatantly giving money to people who "vote" (hint hint) all during the last election cycle.

So if there's anyone fixing elections right now, it's them.

Massive voter fraud, but not a single living soul can prove it?

It's like my dad says, some people are SOS: Stuck On Stupid

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

A bill passed the Senate last night 100-0 to fund TSA, the Coast Guard and FEMA. If Speaker Johnson called it for a vote it would pass easily.

But he won’t do that. Because Trump has ordered him to keep TSA shut down and keep the chaos.

Pure incompetence.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Donald Trump has the slowest GDP growth of any President in the last 100 years.

The top three are Democrats.

6 out of the bottom 8 are Republicans.

But yeah, Republicans are good for the economy!

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

I don’t dislike Donald Trump because he’s a Republican. I dislike him because he’s a terrible human being.

Let’s not confuse the two.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Hard to tell if measles vaccine works

[uncle ric @ihatethiskid]

The dumbest person you’ve ever met: “he donates his salary”