@servelan@newsie.social"Some supporters of the US-Israeli war on Iran are using the treatment of women in the country as a justification for bombing it."
How is feminism being used to justify war in Iran? | US-Israel war on Iran | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/12/how-is-feminism-being-used-to-justify-war-in-iran?traffic_source=rss
@kctipton@mas.toOpinion | The Rush to Justify Citizens’ Deaths Should Scare Americans https://www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-the-rush-to-justify-renee-goods-killing-should-scare-every-american/
@ErikUden@mastodon.deRE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116182695277730020
Imperialism wasn't done due to the racist beliefs that those we were colonizing are barbaric, the lie that they were barbarians was invented as a tool to justify the capitalist necessity of colonization.
@aardrian@toot.cafe“The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering.”
https://gbbns.co/journal/accessibility-problem-isnt-design/
Looking at EAA as a compliance concern, with LLMs as the accelerant going the wrong direction.
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.
The fact that the attack violates the Constitution won’t stop him from trying.
It is our job to expose this plot and ensure that it does not succeed. https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDOJ says it erroneously relied on ICE memo to justify immigration courthouse arrests (Chloe Atkins/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/doj-says-erroneously-relied-ice-memo-justify-immigration-courthouse-ar-rcna265206
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p153#a260325p153
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialIn the new episode of the YDS “Quadcast,” Professor of American Religious History Tisa Wenger discusses the early U.S. government’s use of Christianity to justify Indigenous land theft, the limits of religious freedom in America, and the importance of Yale’s new certificate in Native American and Indigenous studies.
https://
@mia@hcommons.socialI'm with the auditors on this one! Companies deploying AI need more expert human auditing, not less, at least until fundamental flaws in 'AI' are addressed and it's reliably accurate
'KPMG gets money off its own audit by arguing AI makes accounting cheaper'
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Madonna:
🎵 Justify My Love
#Madonna
https://chitoon.bandcamp.com/track/madonna-justify-my-love-chitoon-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/1cYs6km6tAzpPVk62WLpHn
@ErikUden@mastodon.deWhen in history has it ever been about being a good person in a vacuum. It never mattered what you'd do if the time was right, you had infinite money, no status to lose, and no other hurdles to rush through. It was always about what you'd do given the circumstances you find yourself in.
Would you offer someone refuge with little to spare for yourself? Would you stop and help someone in need even if it meant having to justify being late to an event or not showing up at all? Would you he…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzThe argument for (and against) selecting Jeremiyah Love as top-five pick in 2026 NFL Draft
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/jeremiyah-love-2026-nfl-dr…
@paulwermer@sfba.social @PaulWermer@sfba.social
@joe@toot.worksI really don't understand how anybody can justify continuing to use twitter.
"The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography."
#Twitter
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgAn attorney for ICE emailed Clayton’s office to say that the memo that prosecutors had relied on to defend the government in the lawsuit “does not and has never authorized” the arrests near the immigration courts, after previously claiming the opposite.
https://www.thegua…
@servelan@newsie.socialCourt orders ICE to justify arrest of Nashville journalist • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2026/03/08/repub/ice-nashville-journalist/
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 139 - CXXXIX
O! call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:
Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight,
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:
What need'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might
Is more than my o'erpressed defence can bide?
Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialThe inch that generative AI boosters give is the country mile that employers take to justify mass layoffs in the name of AI
@wraithe@mastodon.socialHey, remember when the regime was justifying everything they were doing because the “Dow was over 50,000”‽
Man, one month ago was a simpler time, huhn?
@kctipton@mas.toTrump advisers scramble to justify possible US military intervention in Iran | The Guardian #iran
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toRE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116002596573081932
> To justify the sweeping move, officials cited a classified report by the Defense Department that they said found the projects to be a national security threat.
Blimey. A National Se…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comChairman of the Joint Chiefs Struggles to Justify Trump's Threats (Greg Jaffe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/general-caine-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p140#a260407p140
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @cdarwin@c.imDuring a Palm Sunday mass in St Peter’s Square, the pope said the conflict between Iran, Israel and the US was “atrocious” and that Jesus could not be used to justify war.
“This is our God: Jesus, king of peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” he told tens of thousands of worshippers.
“He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”
Quoting a Bible passage, Leo added:
“‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not li…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWere Israel to shoot a Western journalist, the journalist would be like “I guess I was Hamas, oh, well, I guess I’ll die.”
I use “journalist”, here, very loosely. @… https://
@deabigt@universeodon.comWeird on so many levels.
Trump sends weird angry letter to Norway’s Prime Minister https://ground.news/article/trump-cites-nobel-snub-to-justify-greenland-demand-in-letter_fe8f31
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators...
...to advance their immoral agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://
@parltrack@eupolicy.socialjust fixed the OEIL scraper (again!), someone who needs to justify their EU bureaucrat salary and pension had spent the (half) effort and renamed some (not all) css classes starting with "erpl_" to "es_", which of course we use in our xpath expressions and which thusly broke.
anyway big thanks and hugs to the kind person who reported the failing scraper to us. ❤️
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itSometimes, people with a large audience let it go to their heads. When they are shitty, they feel the need to justify it with fancy rhetoric because they're above the rest of us.
We all take shortcuts, we all cheat on the diet, we all hit the snooze button for another 5 mins of sleep, we all do the thing we think we can get away with (and then feel guilty about it later) because no one was looking. We're human. Sometimes you've just gotta be honest and own up and say "…
@aardrian@toot.cafeI’ve been hesitant to share this since the post is strictly visuals sans alt text, but I think the examples it shows are worth it for those who are designing GUIs.
“It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons”
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
Though if you’re a sighted visual designer, you’ve like…
@kctipton@mas.toMilitary Leaders See Iran War as Part of “God’s Divine Plan” #fascism
@joe@toot.worksI give monthly to PBS, NPR, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Urban Milwaukee because I appreciate what they do, but there are soooo many others that put out the occasional article I want to read but can't justify paying a monthly or annual fee for. I wish there were an equivalent to the Libby magazine rack for stuff like the Wall Street Journal or The Verge.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: China is drafting rules for Nvidia H200 purchases, limiting how many chips local companies can buy and requiring them to justify the need (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/artificial-inte…
@cdarwin@c.imStephen Miller and Donald Trump Want War
-- They are ignoring a judge's ruling,
ignoring the sovereign right of governors to keep their states safe
and ignoring the on-the-ground facts to justify their dangerous invasions
Source: Steven Beschloss
https://bsky.app/profile/an…
@scott@carfree.cityI'm noticing people treating this as mere dysfunction, but it's not. City Hall is keeping most of the commissions intact because the whole purpose of “commission reform” was to justify an executive power grab, not because anyone seriously thought having too many commissions was a major issue.
And the executive power grab is still happening. 1/
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeFound this meme as I took a second gumm... I meant doing self care.
@servelan@newsie.socialGotta up the body count with some civilians to justify continued hostilities...and an emergency declaration?
US Embassies Tell Americans in Middle East They Can't Help Evacuate Them - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-embassies-say-they-cannot-evacuate-americans-middle-east-iran2026-3
@hex@kolektiva.socialBut it's worth recognizing the most brutal elements of church violence were directed at "others": Jews, pagans, Muslims, even other sects of Christianity. The Church's persecution of "heretics" neatly folded into the state, as the diest god of "Providence," represented by the "all seeing eye" atop a pyramid, ultimately justified a violent "civilization" of indigenous people.
The "Christianization" of the crusades became "civilization,' which, more recently, became "spreading democracy." Where once Atheists resisted the crushing oppression of the Church, they used the same arguments to justify the invasion of majority Muslim nations and the oppression of Muslims at home...
@crell@phpc.socialCompilers are deterministic machines built by very smart humans. CNC manufacturing is deterministic machines built by very smart humans. In both cases, they produce higher quality output with more precision and repeatability than almost any skilled human.
LLMs are non-deterministic Autocomplete that produce lower quality output with worse precision than a human, and nobody actually knows how they work.
Comparing them to justify AI is simply not valid.
@gwire@mastodon.socialThe US authorities saying that someone was a registered gun owner, when seeding a narrative to justify a killing, surely must be triggering the cognitive dissonance of the ruggedly independent bootlickers by now?
@mapto@qoto.orgThis is how superficial one needs to get to justify an argument of US global supremacy. Arthur Herman and WSJ deliberately choose to ignore Taiwan's unmatched leadership in superconductors and China's in energy. Instead, they turn to Soviet-style resources and headcount arguments. Apparently there is a force driving them to sacrifice whatever authority they might still have.
"China remains formidable. But from Europe and the Middle East to South America and Southeast Asia, …
@cdarwin@c.imWhile pursuing regime change in Iran, Trump is desperately attempting to stop regime change through the midterm elections.
He needs a swift victory in Iran to avoid a quagmire, but he needs a long war to attempt the assertion of unconstitutional emergency authority over the electoral process.
Plunging into war followed Trump’s signature style:
he negotiated in bad faith,
turned to bombing when the sides were making “significant progress”, according to Oman’s foreign …
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators - to advance their agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://bsky.app/pro…
@servelan@newsie.socialReligion Clause: 9th Circuit: Anti-Transgender Comments Justify Mayor's Veto of Membership on Police Advisory Board
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2026/02/9th-circuit-anti-transgender-comments.html
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems @cdarwin@c.imTrump describes Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer whose 2024 Paris Olympics match became a flashpoint in the transgender athlete debate, as a man who transitioned to womanhood.
-- She was not.
Khelif is a woman who was assigned female at birth. The entire anecdote, used to justify policy, rests on a lie.
Similarly, Trump claims that Somali-Americans in Minnesota have 94% unemployment.
-- The actual labor force participation rate for that community is approximately 70% …
@ErikUden@mastodon.deblack lives matter crowd cares about renee good
“all lives matter” people justify her killing
Very interesting
@relcfp@mastodon.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comFox News-Pilled SCOTUS Invents Wild Hypotheticals to Justify Curtailing Right to Vote by Mail (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-hypothetical-voting-by-mail-grace-period
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p101#a260323p101
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s likely casus belli for an attack on Iran
– which would be the largest US intervention since the Iraq war
– is fraught with contradictions,
and his top advisers have been left to cover for him as the White House makes the case for intervention.
In his State of the Union address this week, Trump alleged that Iran posed a direct threat to the US
and that the country was “working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America”.
But…
@deabigt@universeodon.comWhat happened to the worst of the worst? Can’t wait to hear them justify this one.
55 year old US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear in subzero temps after warrantless search https://ground.news/article/us-citizen-says-ice-removed-him-from-his-minnesota-home-in-his-underwear-after-warrantless-search_e642e0
@cdarwin@c.imA lawyer for ICE provided
false information to federal prosecutors
to justify seizing thousands of people seeking asylum and lawful immigration status in the U.S.
at immigration courts, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
The extraordinary revelation was included in filings by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton’s office
in a lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union and various civil rights groups and community organizations,
which challenges …
@gwire@mastodon.socialMassive, massive, overlap between people who justify military action against another country based on terrible things it has done to its domestic population, and people who don't think asylum should be offered to any person subject to those things.
@cdarwin@c.imAs Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday,
we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac,
pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice,
located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth.
This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran,
which many Christian nationalists in the U.S., including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
are framing in ext…
@buercher@tooting.chWhat is extraordinary is that Trump himself, prior to the attacks, made next to no attempt to articulate or justify to the American people, to Congress or to his allies his actions or his objectives.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/yet-another-mid-talks-attack-jeopardises-chances-of-iran-taking-trump-seriously?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/politics/hegseth-christianity-military.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p108#a260320p108
@cdarwin@c.imSenator Bernie Sanders has denounced the US attack on Iran,
comparing the justifications offered by Donald Trump to the lies used to justify previous US wars on Iraq and Vietnam that ended in disaster.
In a statement on social media, in which he called on his colleagues in the US Senate to deny the authorization for war Trump has not sought, Sanders wrote:
“President Trump, along with his right-wing extremist Israeli ally Benjamin Netanyahu, has begun an illegal, premeditate…
@cdarwin@c.imThe FIFA tournament may create some new American fans, but at what cost?
Exorbitant ticket prices have cut out the game’s grassroots.
Onerous demands on cities have siphoned public money.
Fifa has boosted an openly corrupt administration at every turn.
Now wanton federal violence has made it difficult to justify having the World Cup here at all.
Safety, justice, freedom, the continued functioning of society
– these are all under threat.
Even to ma…
@cdarwin@c.imAlabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants.
Federal courts in the state are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II
to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves.
The Trump administration is attempting to criminalize presence in the United to justify removal.
@cdarwin@c.imFederal prosecutors have repeatedly filed charges (and appealed adverse rulings),
arguing that
⚠️knowingly crossing the border is sufficient to prove criminal intent.
More than 20 legal scholars and former prosecutors told reporters they could not identify a conventional
law-enforcement or military goal that would justify their persistence.
