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He doesn't like heat? Maybe leave the hoodie part of his cosplay costume at home.
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He’s wearing a hoodie and covering his face because when he starts throwing rocks, he doesn’t want to be identified
Why is your POS son covering his face if he is so proud of figting these so called Nazis???.
On Friday, the Washington Post accused the US military of a potential war crime. Its reporters in Iran took photos of what were purported to be anti-tank land mines supposedly tossed into residential areas, including in Shiraz, supposedly to deter the movement of mobile missile launchers (via Twitchy):
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The Post claimed that the report came from an "independent" Canadian journalist, after quoting Iran's propagandists about the effect of the mines:QuoteIn a Telegram post Thursday, the Iranian State News Agency said at least one person had been killed and others injured as a result of the “explosive packages that resemble cans,” and it warned people to stay away from “any misshapen, deformed, or unusual metal cans.”
Central Command, which oversees U.S. operations in the region, declined to comment.
Images of the land mines were posted on social media platforms by Dimitri Lascaris, a Canadian independent journalist currently reporting from Iran and host of the “Reason2Resist” podcast, and state media outlet Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.
Ahem. For most rational people, all of that would raise a number of red flags on reliability. Just the fact that the IRGC had promoted this narrative is reason enough for skepticism, given its propensity for making absurd AI-based imagery and video to substantiate outlandish claims of Iranian victories or American setbacks. Also, a single glance at Lascaris' Substack should have disabused anyone of the notion that Lascaris is "independent" at all in the editorial sense, with headlines such as:
Another Israeli War Crime In Iran
To 'Protect' Iranians From Iran's Police, U.S. and Israel Massacre Civilians
They're 'Liberating' Iranians By Murdering Them
Who Engages In More Censorship: Israel or Iran?
I'm Off To Iran To Cover The Crimes Of The Epstein Regime
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Sometime over the weekend, the Post's editors must have gotten enough feedback to rethink this report ... a little. Rather than retract it, or rewrite it to discuss Lascaris' obvious hostility toward the US and Israel, the editors appended a "correction" at the end. In very small and greyish type, too:QuoteA previous version of this article incorrectly described Dimitri Lascaris, a Canadian independent journalist, as being in Iran with permission from the Iranian government and said that the people accompanying him were government representatives. He said he was invited by the state media outlet Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting and that their employees acted as guides and interpreters.
applegrove (132,168 posts)
Love this man and sign from No Kings:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221133013
Harvard is going to try to borrow more money, issuing $675 million in tax-exempt bonds with the help of the state of Massachusetts, according to a preliminary official statement dated March 27, 2026.
The 102-page document, a draft offering document used to help line up buyers for the bonds, offers some hints at how Harvard is coping under intense pressure from the federal government, which says the university has "failed to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment." The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency is controlled by Governor Maura Healey, a Democrat and former captain of the Harvard women’s basketball team; Harvard has already tapped the agency for $1,169,075,000 in bond offerings in 2024 and 2025, and if this offering is completed at the $675 million level, Healey’s helping hand to Harvard via Massachusetts' municipal bond authority will reach a total of more than $1.8 billion.
Among the key disclosures:
— "First-year student applications received" by Harvard plunged more than 21 percent to 47,893 for the 2025-2026 academic year from a recent high of 61,221 in 2022-23. Peer institutions such as Yale reported 54,919 applicants this year, Brown 47,937 applicants, and Columbia 61,031 applications. Harvard isn’t releasing its application numbers for students entering in the fall of 2026 until it is required to by the federal government, the Harvard Crimson reported.
— Harvard, which has been complaining it is so financially strapped that potentially life-saving cancer research is endangered, employs 12 vice presidents. The United States of America somehow manages with just one vice president, and MIT somehow survives with a mere seven.
well, I don't know - is Algonquin considered a "village"?
