March 2, 2026

Have you heard about the "big arch" video?

Well here is the best review of the review, lol.

https://x.com/RealBrianAtWork/status/2028027118970400949

March 1, 2026

Israel Hacked Popular Iranian Prayer App to Urge Defections, Resistance

Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging the country’s military personnel to defect from the regime and join a fight to liberate the country, according to people familiar with the matter.

The app, BadeSaba Calendar, is intended to help Muslims track prayer times and has wide reach within Iran. It has been downloaded over 5 million times from the Google Play app store alone. The burst of app notifications Saturday morning were sent in Persian and included a message that “help has arrived,” according to various screenshots posted on social media.

The app hack appeared to be one disruption in a broader wave of cyber operations that coincided with Israeli and U.S. military strikes. Iranian state media reported that some news sites, including state news agency IRNA, were hijacked to display articles about Saturday’s attacks and discredit the regime. “A terrifying hour for the security forces of the Ayatollahs’ regime; the IRGC and the Basij have suffered a crippling blow,” one message on IRNA’s front page read.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/israel-hacked-popular-iranian-prayer-app-to-urge-defections-resistance-wtYyb29CmKrTXoJBIV3C

February 28, 2026

Why Tucker Carlson pushed for Jewish DNA tests, and the Khazar theory touted by antisemites

JTA — During Tucker Carlson’s interview last week with Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, both men made considerable waves with their takes on history and theology.

Huckabee sparked a diplomatic row by citing the Bible to argue that Israel had a divine right to claim all of the Middle East — even though he didn’t back doing so politically.

But Carlson’s own interpretation of Israeli sovereignty was also notable, as the far-right pundit insisted that Israelis should undergo genetic testing to determine if they have a rightful claim to the land.

"Why don’t we do genetic testing on everybody in the land and find out who Abram’s descendants are?” Carlson asked Huckabee at one point, using the name Abraham used before he made a covenant with God to become the first Jew. “It’s really simple. We’ve cracked the human genome. We can do that. Why don’t we do that?”

At another point, Carlson singled out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu specifically as an illegitimate Israeli.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-tucker-carlson-pushed-for-jewish-dna-tests-and-the-khazar-theory-touted-by-antisemites/

February 28, 2026

UN watchdog says it can't verify whether Iran has suspended all uranium enrichment

VIENNA, Austria — Iran has not allowed the United Nations nuclear agency access to its nuclear facilities bombed by Iran and the United States during a 12-day war in June, according to a confidential report by the watchdog circulated to member states and seen Friday by The Associated Press.

The report from the International Atomic Energy Agency stressed that it “cannot verify whether Iran has suspended all enrichment-related activities,” or the “size of Iran’s uranium stockpile at the affected nuclear facilities.”

The report also said some of Iran’s most highly enriched uranium, close to weapons grade, was stored in an underground area of its nuclear site in Isfahan. It was the first time the IAEA has reported where uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, close to the 90% of weapons grade, has been stored. The tunnel complex’s entrance was hit in US and Israeli military strikes last year but the facility seems largely unharmed, diplomats say.

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Iran is legally obliged to cooperate with the IAEA under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, but suspended all cooperation after the war with Israel.

According to the IAEA, Iran maintains a stockpile of 440.9 kilograms (972 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60% purity — a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.

That stockpile could allow Iran to build as many as 10 nuclear bombs, should it decide to weaponize its program, IAEA director general Rafael Grossi warned in a recent interview with the AP. He added that it doesn’t mean that Iran has such a weapon.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-watchdog-says-it-cant-verify-whether-iran-has-suspended-all-uranium-enrichment/

February 27, 2026

Iran attempts to crush dissent with a wave of arrests after deadly crackdown

After a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests that left thousands dead, Iranian authorities are taking the next step to crush dissent: mass arrests.

Tens of thousands of people were arrested during the nationwide unrest, and security forces are still tracking down and detaining people they believe attended protests that called for an end to theocratic rule, according to human rights observers. But in recent weeks, authorities have also targeted specific groups perceived as threats to the regime, including reformist politicians, doctors, lawyers and journalists, rights groups say.

The arrests have not squashed the anti-government sentiment: Protests have broken out on a number of university campuses in recent days, according to state media and videos circulating on social media.

“What they have left is guns, prisons and the revolutionary courts. To kill and imprison people and in this way stay in power,” said Hossein Raeesi, a prominent human rights lawyer who practiced in Iran for 20 years and is now a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday in his State of the Union speech that Iran had killed at least 32,000 protesters.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-arrests-protesters-reformists-crush-dissent-deadly-crackdown-rcna259294

More than 50,000 have been arrested.

February 24, 2026

The hospital system is broken.

Today one of my breast cancer patients was placed under general anesthesia before I had seen her, marked her, or signed her chart.

That should never happen.

This is not the first time I have walked into a hospital and found that the rules were treated like suggestions. Surgery is not an assembly line. These are human beings. They deserve to be seen, evaluated, marked, and spoken to before anesthesia is administered.

When I asked for an explanation, I was met with defensiveness instead of accountability.

And here is the deeper issue. I am often told by insurance companies where I am allowed to operate. Even when I know that another facility is safer. Even when patterns like this have already occurred.

Physicians should be able to choose the safest environment for their patients. Insurance contracts should not override safety standards.

I am tired. But I am not going to be quiet.

We have to build a system where surgeons can vote with their feet and take patients where protocols are followed and safety comes first.

Our patients deserve better.
https://x.com/EPotterMD/status/2026340703333396586

My comments:

The hospital system in the US needs to be nationalized. Every single one, except surgical centers and clinics. This will go a long way to reduce costs and provide better access to everyone, because right now we have areas with far too many hospitals while other areas don't have enough medical services.

February 23, 2026

Speed cameras are back in Phoenix, here's what drivers need to know

Starting Monday, the City of Phoenix will activate photo safety enforcement cameras for the first time since 2019 as part of a more than $10 million street-safety push approved by the city council.

The Phoenix Streets Transportation Department says 17 speed enforcement cameras will be installed across the city.

Nine of the cameras are placed along major arterial roads, while eight will rotate through school zones. One of those cameras is already installed near 28th Street and Camelback Road.

https://www.abc15.com/news/operation-safe-roads/speed-cameras-are-back-in-phoenix-heres-what-drivers-need-to-know

February 22, 2026

I plan to donate my organs -- but I've taken my name off the registry

(I DID NOT WRITE THIS ARTICLE)

For decades, I have encouraged friends and family to register as organ donors. As an intensive care nurse, I’ve mourned patients who died needing a transplant, and I’ve joined “honor walks” accompanying dying patients to the operating room for their life-changing donations. When I die, I want to donate my own organs and help my family find meaning in my death. But I no longer believe that being on the donor registry is the right way to accomplish those goals.

My change of heart began years ago with a patient who suffered a catastrophic health event and was being kept barely alive by machines. (For reasons of privacy, I can’t identify the patient, even by sex, so I will use the pronoun “they.”) They could no longer consciously communicate, but they grimaced whenever they woke up and felt the tubes we had placed down their throat and in their groin, urethra, neck and wrists. Recognizing that the patient was suffering but not improving, the ICU team offered to stop our futile efforts and instead transition them to comfort care and a peaceful death. After more agonizing days, the family asked us to stop the patient’s suffering.

As required by law, we alerted the regional organ procurement organization. When its representative arrived, she informed the family that, because the patient had registered years ago while obtaining a driver’s license, the organization was authorized to begin preparations for transplant. This meant the patient had to remain on life support for more hours or days while the procurement organization identified potential recipients, assembled the donation surgical team and coordinated timing, transportation and other factors; they also would monitor the patient and request other treatments if necessary to keep the organs viable.

The distraught family explained that the patient likely registered inadvertently, that English was a second language, that donating in this way conflicted with the patient’s religious beliefs and that the patient would not have wanted to be kept nominally alive without hope of recovery while their children sobbed at the bedside. The decision to withdraw life support was hard enough, the family pleaded. They asked to be left to grieve.

But the representative said she was merely notifying them — not asking permission. She said the organization had the right to procure the patient’s organs and to continue life support in the meantime, regardless of family objection.

https://wapo.st/4aGugJx

February 22, 2026

Why Hold Your Straight-A Student Back a Year? To Get a Better Endorsement Deal

Michael Cancelleri, an entrepreneur in San Clemente, Calif., has poured tens of thousands of dollars into his son’s baseball career—club team fees, tournament travel and top-of-the-line equipment.

As high school approached, Cancelleri decided that wasn’t enough. He paid about $20,000 for his son, a straight-A student, to repeat a grade at a private middle school sports academy.

“The draw to it [was] just giving him a little bit of extra time to develop and mature,” said Cancelleri, whose 15-year-old son, Carter, has grown about 3 inches since August and hopes to be a strong competitor next year as a high school freshman.

Sixty other boys are repeating a grade at the same academy, The Togethership, where coursework includes throwing mechanics, game film review and nutrition along with traditional subjects such as Algebra and English.

Holding kids back in school for an athletic edge has existed for decades on the elite fringe of prep sports. In recent years, it has exploded in popularity for middle school boys.

Fueled by the lure of Name, Image and Likeness money in college, families are delaying high school so their sons can get bigger, stronger and more recruitable. The practice, known as “reclassifying,” “reclassing,” “bridge year” or “gap year,” is spreading fast in football, basketball, baseball, lacrosse and other sports where height and strength are key.

WSJ

February 22, 2026

Dillon Brooks has a broken hand

The Suns can't get a break.

Damn.

The refs sucked in the orlando/phx game tonight.