Thanks. I’m one of I think millions who would love this kind of AI help.

Matt, have you or anyone used AI to comb through a dozen or more iPhoto libraries (some duplicates) on different drives, with the goal of creating one library/database without duplicated photos? Asking for a friend ;)

1980 Summer Olympics boycott - Wikipedia

Related to the upcoming World Cup in the U.S., what should the world do when the host nation of a major sports event illegally attacks another? In 1980, the U.S. led a boycott of the Summer Olympics in Moscow over the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Su...

The Many Fathers of The Murder of Iran As Trump threatens that "a whole civilization will die tonight," remember that he didn't get here by himself

As always, @attackerman.bsky.social is a must read:
"This mass murder will not be [Trump's] alone. There is an entire political, security and media apparatus that brought us to this point." www.forever-wars.com/the-many-fat...

April 7, 2003, I ran across this bridge over the Diyala River in Iraq, past the body of this civilian. Bodies of a lot more civilians were on the other side of the bridge, killed by American fire. It was 23 years ago to the day, will never forget it. Iraq then, Iran now. (Photo by Kuni Takahashi)

To the Hague, those who give and follow illegal orders. Can't happen soon enough.

Americans need to read every word written by Spencer Ackerman in this column, and act accordingly.

Got my start as an overseas freelancer for CBS Radio (now gone, thanks Bari Weiss), Washington Post (diminished, due to Jeff Bezos), Baltimore Sun and Boston Globe (no longer have foreign reporters), and International Herald Tribune (poof). There are new digital outlets but it's tough out there.

Hard to believe that 23 years ago - March 19, 2003 - Bush announced the invasion of Iraq. I heard attack helicopters overhead and drove toward the war in darkness. The U.S. has learned nothing, still bombing and killing, hooked on violence. Photos: my SUV on the first and last days of the invasion.

Might be a good time to read a book titled, "Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil," which I've heard a lot about. www.amazon.com/Crude-World-...

What a flaccid Oscars that was. glad for the winners, but it shouldn’t be foreign and/or documentary filmmakers who speak to this moment. PTA a particular failure.

Why make movies that confront what is happening if you can’t speak to it.

When Israel says their violence is done to protect all Jews and make the world safer for us, we can only look at incidents like this and see that is obviously not true. They’re making it more dangerous for us EVERYWHERE.

John F. Burns, Prize-winning Foreign Correspondent for The Times, Dies at 81

A legend of my generation of foreign reporters. I knew John and tangled with him at times, as did most everyone of that era. But as the obit notes, few of his kind have gone before, much of his work was superlative, and his raconteuring was spellbinding. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

Latest from @alissaquart.bsky.social ...www.motherjones.com/media/2026/03/academy-aw...

We are the shithole nation.
We are the citizens of a rouge, murderous empire.
Our leaders are butchers.

Class struggle, but weird: The surreal politics of this year's Oscar nominees The Best Picture contenders reflect a mad world—and they're suitably lurid, pulpy, comic, and strange.

Class struggle, but weird: The surreal politics of this year’s Oscar nominees

"absolutely fucking hallucinatorily batshit"

I saw the same when I visited Pyongyang. Not kidding.

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

Seen this before -- Serb leaders in Bosnia also blamed their atrocities on the victims. Main difference now is that Trump & Hegseth are unlikely to face the justice that finally got Karadzic and Mladic, now in prison for war crimes.

Just listening to a Pete Hegseth presser and rereading the Wikipedia page for Ratko Mladic

Live Updates: Hegseth Says There Will Be No Letup In U.S. Attacks on Iran

U.S.-led bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 went on for 78 days before Milosevic buckled, but not for regime change (for control of Kosovo). Imagine the bombing of Iran, illegal from day one, going that long or longer. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

The Ahmed Chalabi of Iran, totally great call to platform him.

Our children and probably their children will pay a price for the evil and idiocy of Donald Trump and the GOP.

Thanks no thanks.

Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling

I've gotten these scam emails too, lol. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

A poem that stops you in your tracks, from @joriegraham.bsky.social.

That was me in Sarajevo ~35 years ago except the Post didn't have a cretin billionaire owner who laid me off, so I went on to write a book about Bosnia and cover Iraq, Afghanistan etc on the dime of news outlets that now do much less of this work. It's a rug pull of journalists present *and future.*

St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to be the first time local police...

I encountered paramilitary goons who looked and acted just like this in Bosnia, Iraq, and other conflict zones. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Cannot repeat the Obama-era dodge of saying "we tortured some folks" and not holding accountable the torturers and especially the chain of command. You want to stop state-sanctioned crimes? Trials not words are the only way.