March 5, 2026

Gavin Newsom Calls Israel 'Sort of an Apartheid State' And Calls For Stopping U.S. Military Aid To The Nation

https://prospect.org/2026/03/04/gavin-newsom-calls-israel-apartheid-state-democrats-primaries/


California Gov. Gavin Newsom gives an interview at the Munich Security Conference, February 13, 2026. Credit: Felix Hörhager/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

The Democrats’ ranking political weather vane has spoken. In a conversation with Jon Favreau on Pod Save America, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ventured onto what was for him new terrain, invoking the A-word—“apartheid”—to describe a nation that had once been the cynosure of American liberals’ eyes. He’d clearly ascertained, however, that this was terrain he could safely navigate.

In a Gallup poll released last Friday, more Americans (41 percent) said they sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israelis than the 36 percent who said they sympathize more with the Israelis. This marked the first time in Gallup’s years of polling when sympathy for the Palestinians outpolled sympathy for the Israelis. “From 2001 to 2025,” Gallup reported, “Israelis consistently held double-digit leads in Americans’ Middle East sympathies.”

For anyone aspiring to be the Democrats’ presidential nominee in 2028, this repudiation of the Netanyahu regime that has dominated Israel for most of this century is all but mandatory. Fully 65 percent of Democrats told Gallup they sympathize more with Palestinians, while just 17 percent said they sympathize more with Israelis. For anyone aspiring to win the November 2028 presidential election, that repudiation looks today to be a pretty good bet. Gallup reported that 41 percent of independents also sympathize more with Palestinians, which is 11 percentage points higher than those whose sympathies are more with the Israelis. Only Republicans maintain the pro-Israeli edge, by a lopsided 70 percent to 13 percent margin.

Newsom’s flip, in other words, has landed him square in the middle of Democrats’ worldview. That view and that flip will persist so long as Israel’s government maintains its overall policies. Newsom certainly didn’t repudiate Zionism as such; when asked about halting America’s longtime policy of providing military aid to Israel, he responded, “It breaks my heart, because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don’t think you have a choice about that consideration.”

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March 4, 2026

US and Israeli strikes are deliberately targeting Kurdish regions of Iran: border posts, police stations, military bases

This isn’t random. This is preparation.

The CIA is already arming Kurdish forces for an uprising. Now airstrikes are clearing the path for thousands of Kurdish fighters from Iraq to pour into western Iran.

They’re engineering a civil war inside Iran.

While Trump claims he “forced Israel’s hand” and Colonel Macgregor says our bases are destroyed — the US is quietly opening a fourth front.

This war is expanding by the hour.

March 4, 2026

Finnish Food is Not What I expected - Travel Helsinki 2026

In this episode of What’s Good to Eat, I try a classic Finnish meat pie, warm up with creamy salmon soup, taste juniper-smoked elk (yes, elk), and for the full Finnish experience.... go to an ice hockey game!

Helsinki is the second stop on my mission to visit 100 destinations, and over 5 days I’m exploring 16 food spots to see what the happiest country in the world actually eats.

Let’s see what’s good to eat in Finland!

Places that I visited:

📌 Meat Pie at the Euromanga Cafe and Bakery
https://eromanga.fi/home/

📌 Salmon Soup at the Ekstrom's FishMongers at the Hakaniemi Market
https://hakaniemenkauppahalli.fi/en/

📌 Smoked Reindeer Tongue at Kosmos
https://kosmos.fi/en/front-page/

📌 Snacks at the Ice Hockey Game
https://helsinginjaahalli.fi/en/

📌 Juniper Smoked Finnish Elk at Jason
https://www.ravintolajason.fi/en

March 4, 2026

Hegseth wrong to say 'first torpedo sinking since WW2'

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c62gg44d53xt?post=asset%3Aba4c3a07-1ea5-4844-a1ca-4f0dde57543f#post

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean with a torpedo. He claimed it represented “the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War Two”.

This is not correct. During the Falklands War in 1982, Argentina's only cruiser - the General Belgrano - sank in the South Atlantic after being struck by two Tigerfish torpedoes fired by a British nuclear-powered submarine.



Another sinking occurred in 1971, after Indian frigate INS Khukri was torpedoed by a Pakistan submarine, external.

However, if confirmed, the sinking of the Iranian warship would be the first time since 1945 that an American submarine has sunk an enemy ship this way.

March 4, 2026

worriedaboutsatan - I'm Not (2014) UK ambient techno

worriedaboutsatan (one word, all lower case) is an electronica project from Bradford, UK that formed in 2006 in Leeds as a side project for Gavin Miller. It became his main focus after previous band Johnny Poindexter (also with guitarist Tom Ragsdale) split up.

Their fusion of diverse forms of electronica and post-rock has been welcomed by fans and critics alike. Following several low-key EPs, debut album "Arrivals" was released in 2009. A sophomore album, "Even Temper", would not appear until 2015.

The band are also known for collaborating with BBC documentary film maker Adam Curtis, who featured the band's music heavily in his 2016 film 'Hypernormalisation'. Thomas left the band to focus on his solo career in June 2019 (he has been in the band since 2007).

Label: This Is It Forever – TIIF013
Format: CDr, Single, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Released: 17 Mar 2014
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient Techno

March 3, 2026

Finding the Top 10 TRADITIONAL English Foods

I spent the last 3 months of 2025 travelling around England in search of the best English dishes to showcase just how wonderful English and British food is. Here are my top 10 dishes and spots of the trip.

⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
01:37 British Seafood
06:11 Farm Sandwiches
10:30 Scallop English Breakfast
13:34 Pie & Mash
16:56 Pheasant & Blackberries
19:07 Sausage Roll & Teacakes
22:22 Steak & Ale Pie
25:14 Beef Dripping Fish & Chips
27:45 Knickerbocker Glory

March 3, 2026

r-Conservative adds a third super-poster making it even less diverse. 3 posters now account for 50% of all posts since

11/20/2025. Sometimes exceeding 60%.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1rfe0nh/oc_3_month_update_rconservative_adds_a_third/

March 2, 2026

Hours after Trump announced ban on Claude AI, US military used it in Iran strikes -- reports

US military said to employ AI tool to assess intelligence, identify targets and simulate battle scenarios; Trump has now banned it due to a dispute

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hours-after-trump-announced-ban-on-claude-ai-us-military-used-it-in-iran-strikes-reports/

https://archive.ph/YkPiW



The US reportedly relied on the artificial intelligence tool Claude to support its strikes on Iran, shortly after US President Donald Trump announced that the military would no longer use the tool.

The reports from The Wall Street Journal and Axios, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, came amid the joint US-Israeli military campaign against the Iranian regime. On the first day of the operation on Saturday, the strikes hit a range of Iranian targets and killed the country’s longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

According to the reports, US forces used Claude, made by the AI company Anthropic, to assist the strikes that day. The Journal reported that the military uses the tool to assess intelligence, identify targets and simulate battle scenarios.

The Journal report said the AI model is “embedded” in the US military’s operations, and according to reports, Claude was previously used during the US’s seizure of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in January. But on Friday, the day before the US and Israel began their strikes, Trump wrote a social media post ordering “every federal agency in the United States government to immediately cease all use of Anthropic’s technology.”

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March 2, 2026

US 'warplanes downed in Kuwait' as Iran conflict escalates

Multiple F-15s believed to have crashed, as the UK’s RAF base in Cyprus hit by ‘kamikaze’ drone

https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/iran-us-uk-cyprus-bases-israel-latest-news-strikes-bwjxg8jzn

https://archive.li/pwqJN


US fighter jet crashes in Kuwait

“Several US warplanes” have crashed in Kuwait, according to the Gulf state’s ministry of defence. The confirmation came after video footage showed what appeared to be a F-15 fighter jet crashing close to a military airbase where there was an American presence in Kuwait.

“Several US warplanes crashed this morning. Confirming that all crew members survived,” a defence ministry spokesman said, adding that the cause was under investigation.

“Authorities immediately initiated search and rescue operations, evacuating the crews and transporting them to a hospital for medical evaluation and treatment. He noted that their condition is stable,” they added.

At least one plane, geolocated by CNN, crashed close to the Ali al-Salem air base. The US air force maintains a presence on the base, which is owned by the Kuwaiti government.

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March 1, 2026

Only 4 Seats! Hidden Osaka Diner's "Manga-Size" Meat Mountain

Shop Name　

Charshu Egg Kamekichi

Map
　
Address　

4-8-40 Nagayoshi Rokutan, Hirano-ku, Osaka　

※ Please note that the information in this video is accurate as of the time of filming.

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