@memeorandum@universeodon.comDeath toll rises in Trump's 'Epic Fury' military campaign (Ellen Mitchell/Associated Press)
https://thehill.com/newsletters/defense-national-security/5763715-death-toll-rises-in-trumps-epic-fury-military-campaign/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p130#a260302p130
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIsraeli media: the IDF destroyed the HQ of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting; the English-language site of Iran's official news agency is offline (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/iran-state-broadcaster-irib-de…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSeeing Iran appoint new leaders and continue to fight is seeing the more literal kind of necropolitics in action, as a hierarchical system continues to function while replacing the expendable human parts that it lost. The system is of course changed and influenced (and ultimately was built) by humans, but it has become something undying, or at least almost as hard to kill as an idea, and it maintains a terrible inertia in it's destructive tendencies (e.g., "Morality Police" continue to patrol the streets).
Lest anyone think this somehow expresses approval of US actions, the same logic applies here too: what once had a (thin) verneer of democracy, a system which loudly proclaimed to be controlled by "the people" (but which never was nor was ever intended to be) has lost its paint job, exposing the inhuman machinations beneath. Trump is a symptom, not cause, of an institution built on blood and spoils, whose alignment with the Epstein class (and moreover, their institutions) is ever more apparent with each disregarded law and principle.
Stepping back for a moment, this systems/necropolitics perspective is just a perspective, with its own distortions and blind spots. To paraphrase LeGuin, any institution built by humans can also be changed or destroyed by them. But I think it's very useful to put on the systems goggles in this moment, especially when some are fond of preaching about the dangers of "overwhelmingly powerful systems unaccountable to humans which pursue destructive ends" without actually examining the plethora of existing systems that do just that.
P.S. yes, United Healthcare is another good example of this.
P.P.S. yes I bending the meaning of necropolitics here, but the two are related: these systems would not be so free to profit from human death and suffering if they were more vulnerable to the deaths of their constituent parts. Necropolitics of the standard variety is of course present as companies like Raytheon and Lockeed Martin profit from the carnage. The F-15 caught by friendly fire? Just as profitable for Beoing to replace as one downed by the enemy.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialHealey to put British youth in the shadow of death.
Gap-year scheme is ‘first step towards conscription’.
| Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/healey-put-british-youth-shadow-death
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Death Cab For Cutie:
🎵 Fall On Me
#NowPlaying #DeathCabForCutie
https://deathcabforcutie.bandcamp.com/track/fall-on-me-r-e-m-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Q3n03P0U2IqEECicSgzUj
@grumpybozo@toad.socialIt is far too late in the day for me to try to figure out how to turn a github PR with one file change into an actual patch that applies cleanly to either the latest FreeBSD binary build or the latest version in ports (i.e. current release.) I figured out how to get Github to give me an actual patch file (why is this not a button???) but it’s against some intermediate version and <sigh>.
Maybe I just need to wander off into the woods. I’ll freeze to death soon enough…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialFloods ravage southeastern Brazil and kill 40 as rescuers race to find dozens missing https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/floods-ravage-southeastern-brazil-and-kill-40-as-rescuers-race-to-find-dozens…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
E_DEATH:
🎵 Halloween 2007
#E_DEATH
https://salemanhedonia.bandcamp.com/track/halloween-2007
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDOJ sought to probe Renee Good for criminal liability, even after her death: Sources (Carol Leonnig/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/doj-sought-to-probe-renee-good-for-criminal-liability-even-after-her-death-sources
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p115#a260123p115
@servelan@newsie.socialAlexei Navalny died after being poisoned with dart frog toxin by Russia, UK says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/navalny-death-poison-russia-putin-kremlin-b2920427.html
@rae@bne.socialI'm thinking very little had to do with the bike.
"Even though these ...bikes seem pretty normal and safe, if you're not wearing a helmet, and you're intoxicated, they can be really dangerous, and in my case, a life-or-death situation."
https://www.abc.…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
D.O.A.:
🎵 America
#DOA
https://dlloydthaish.bandcamp.com/track/d-o-a-death-of-america-prod-by-e-haynes
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Santigold:
🎵 L.E.S. Artistes
#NowPlaying #Santigold
https://djberlin.bandcamp.com/track/santigold-l-e-s-artistes-death-to-the-throne-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SvIUtl5QuOTJhKNVikt6m
@laxsill@social.spejset.orgHur främmande israelisk högern är från judisk religiös tradition. De talmudiska rabbinerna (1500-2000 år sedan) arbetade hårt för att göra det till en pappersprodukt, trots att det praktiserades brett i omgivningen. Man införde en stor mängd regler för att göra det mycket lättare att frikänna än att döma (se bilder) och man etablerade regeln att en överdomstol (sanhedrin) som dömer ut ett dödsstraff en gång på 70 år drar vanära över sig som en "blodig sanhedrin"
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