Robert Newton

He’s a psychopathic sadistic liar.

oh my goodness -- watch Mike Johnson, Scalise, Emmer, and McClain clap like seals for Trump for nearly two minutes straight. None of them want to be the first to stop!

Who is demanding the imposition of sharia law in America?

I can't think of anyone calling for that, much less enough of a groundswell that it warrants an actual response from Congress.

Who's pushing this, Mike? Name names.

Blumenthal after getting briefed on Iran: "We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. There's also the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives ... China also may be assisting Iran"

It’s like not a single person surrounding Trump studied one thing about Afghanistan. When a bombing campaign intentionally makes life this miserable for civilians, all it does it make hardline leadership more attractive and become bulletin board material for extremist groups.

Trump's illegal Iran War is destined to end in failure. Already, hardline leadership is emerging that will be more hostile to America than the leaders we killed. And there is no way to eliminate their nuclear program with a bombing campaign. This whole war is pointless.

A group of us in the Senate are demanding public hearings on Trump's disastrous war with Iran with Secretary Hegseth and Rubio. And we've introduced a half dozen war powers resolutions to force the Senate to vote every day on the war if the hearings don't happen.

Because of course he did…

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This week: WAR ON IRAN: AYA-TOLLAD YOU SO

Why did Trump declare his latest ‘very complete’ war? Why can’t anyone in the British press remember the lessons of last time? And is this all a distraction from the Gorton and Denton by-election?

Listen: pod.fo/e/3a3cc5

Left: Nigel Farage's leaflet says Reform will cut taxes

Right: Nigel Farage says he never said he would cut taxes

The worst cabinet in American history And it's not even close.

New in PN: The worst cabinet in history

"Even having one or two cabinet members as disastrous as Noem, Hegseth, Kennedy, or Bondi would be a stain on any administration; putting them all in one govt has created a kind of Bizarro World 1927 Yankees, an all-star team of incompetence and malevolence."

US Senator Richard Blumenthal,

“We’re on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran"

Joy Behar, “Every day I wake up and Donald Trump has created more chaos, more misery around the world"

Badenoch denies calling for UK to join US-Israeli war on Iran Conservative leader accused of taking confusing position after she said Starmer should ‘do more than catch arrows’

Oh, but she’s doing so much better now at being utterly incoherent. This is the kind of top shelf incoherence that’s been missing from the tories since 2016

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Odyssey Mindset: 7 Timeless Lessons on Resilience, Strength and Purpose 7 Timeless Lessons on Resilience, Strength and Purpose

Hugely enjoyed this by Dr Sam Akbar. A classicist AND a clinical psychologist, she has created a practical map to self discovery that doesn't shoehorn Homer into therapy or therapy into Homer, yet fits perfectly. Because The Odyssey IS above all an inward journey.

uk.bookshop.org/a/15177/9781...

It worked with huge amounts of help from the rightwing media. And a dogged refusal to make anyone really accountable for their failures and lies. Maybe we could stop doing that now and see how our democracy and national wellbeing improves as a result.

Why has the UK right failed to convince us to bomb Iran?

It worked with Brexit, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, austerity & most of Donald Trump but the right’s attempts to hoodwink the public into wanting war with Iran are failing miserably… open.spotify.com/episode/3XdO...

2024: Trump, "You're not going to have a war with me"

2026: Leavitt confirms around 150 US military personnel injured from Trump's war with Iran

Bryansk in in SW Russia, about 230 miles south of Moscow

I do hope we have seen Farage’s high watermark. And the thought that Jenrick jumped to join the ship that is slowly sinking is particularly delicious.

Farage delivers energy sermon at the pump – just don’t mention the war Reform leader’s Derbyshire petrol station stunt grinds to halt when questions on Iran leave him short-tempered

“While Nige has been brown-nosing Trump with his warmongering, he’s missed that most of the country doesn’t want to follow the orange narcissist into an illegal war with no fixed objectives other than continue till The Donald gets bored”
@mrjohncrace.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Eh?

Shabana Mahmood, the pound shop Priti Patel, strikes again

Cruel, heartless, outright disgraceful

Trump has now conducted 42 boat strikes, killing nearly 160 people.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.

Farage and Badenoch are absolute clowns: startled by the entirely foreseeable series of events they failed to foresee. A demonstration of their total lack of judgement.

Shocking from Senator Chris Murphy who suggests Israel made the US attack Iran,

"How weak are we if our allies can force us into wars bad for our interests"

Sen Chris Coons, "President Trump gives answers out of both side of his mouth in the same day"

"Clearest winner in war with Iran is Russia"

Men who live on ribeye steak and whiskey in Washington DC know NOTHING about the real world.
That is the place where WE live, and buy groceries, with baroque calculations as to cost which would be beyond the ability of a power broker.
How DARE he speak for “reality”!