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Likely violating the UN Charter (article 2(4), article 51) and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (article 88, article 90), and possibly the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocol I as well, the United States killed 87 Iranian sailors over 1,000 miles from Iran.
Unclear if the United States even attempted to rescue any of the 32 survivors rescued by the Sri Lankan Navy and Air Force.

Sri Lanka recovers 87 bodies from Iranian warship sunk by US submarine
Sri Lanka’s navy has recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people after an Iranian warship was sunk by a U.S. submarine in international waters near the island. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday a torpedo sank Iran's “prize ship” — one of the few instances of a submarine sinking a ship since World War II. A spokesman for Sri Lanka's navy said it responded to a distress signal from the IRIS Dena, but by the time its personnel reached the location, there was no sign of the s…

The US-Israeli war on Iran created a massive hole in global airspace
Airlines are using long-readied contingency plans but bottlenecks have formed that no amount of planning can fix
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

Fine tuning the Lego spectrometer more.
Using a maglite as the source eliminates the need for a separate collimating lens.
I also switched away from the very flaky variable slit made of a sliding brick that wouldn't stay in place if you looked at it wrong.
After some failed experiments with aluminum foil, I discovered that the round tree trunk Duplo brick was a tiny bit smaller than a nominal square 2x2 brick. When placed next to a square brick and locked in place with …

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

House to vote on war powers resolution after Senate measure fails
The House is preparing to vote on Thursday on a "war powers resolution" that would require Donald Trump to seek congressional permission before continuing the war with Iran
– a sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly widening conflict.
It’s the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines on Wednesday.
The tally in the House is expected to be t…

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

US abruptly dropped support for Kurds in Syria in January
Now talking about supporting Iranian Kurdish separatists
It hardly fills with you with confidence in the long term planning that went into this
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/us-said-to-b…

Zohran Mamdani’s third day as mayor of New York City was supposed to be dedicated to a long-stalled #pedestrian #safety plan,
the kind of local quality-of-life issue he had made central to his campaign.
Instead, after the U.S. military captured

For Mamdani, a Break With the President Just Three Days Into His New Job
New York City’s newly elected mayor planned to spend Saturday announcing a pedestrian safety plan. Then President Trump brought a captured foreign leader to his doorstep.

NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities
McBATH: Did you just hear me?
He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower.
This is absolute lunacy and you know it.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupa…

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.

Following the fatal shootings of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last month,
Democrats have refused to support long-term funding for the Department of Homland Security unless Republicans agree to reforms on the tactics of federal agents carrying out Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
“The American people rightfully expect their elected representatives to take action to rein in ICE and ensure no more lives are lost,” Senate minorit…