05.03.2026 21:18
👍 0
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell? Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
Time for 'that' quote from M.A.S.H.
MAHA’s Big Breakup
Trump promised purity, delivered glyphosate, and the crunchy coalition discovered what “America First” is actually made of.
Madness - an abandonment of soft power by a government with no clue.
"With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported"
“Perhaps Britain’s greatest gift to the world” as Kofi Annan once put it."
"America, it honestly feels like you are lost. Broken. Not any of you. Not the little people. It’s paedophile-adjacent institutions that are failing you. Where is the outrage? Where are the thundering op-eds? I’ve seen better headlines in Reddit than I’ve seen in the New York Times."
'Team USA's Erin Jackson led the delegation into a wall of cheers. Moments later, when cameras cut to US vice-president JD Vance, large sections of the crowd responded with boos. Not subtle ones, but audible and sustained ones. ...viewers heard them. American viewers watching NBC did not.'
Do you have any idea how awful you must be for Epstein to think this of you?
Scotland: demands for expulsion of US military over abductions www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
French Ministry of the Economy and Finance (Bercy) announced its plan to launch its own European videoconferencing tool by 2027, in order to reduce its vulnerability to potential pressure tactics.
Death Squads Execute Second Dissident
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
For Europe’s far right, Trump has become a liability
The U.S. president’s threats over Greenland have spurred national leaders to distance themselves from a figure they once praised.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
A rupture, not a transition.
Mark Carney’s speech at Davos yesterday really is worth your time. It made some of the front pages today but the news cycle moves so fast that it’s already yesterday’s news. If you have time to take in one thing properly, this week, I’d suggest it’s this.
He Can Command Troops. He Cannot Command Cheers.
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
'The United States is now juggling an unauthorized war, an oil grab, a naval standoff with Russia, open threats against a NATO ally, and the resurrection of the Big Lie, all while Congress stares at its shoes and Elon Musk retweets nonsense like it’s 2020 again.'
Not closed.
ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ DIDN’T SURVIVE BY ACCIDENT open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
As bad as the tabloids...
'Donny Convict is our modern-day Jesus? I’m pretty sure that if Jesus returned today, he wouldn’t be some racist kiddie-fiddler.
We know what'd happen if Donny decided to get into the fishes and loaves business.
Trump Fishloaves™. amazing, the greatest of all time. taking pre-orders for $499.00.'
Shabana Mahmoud announces that she is actually Nigel Farage wearing a latex mask
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Ex BBC Anna Ford narrating the dirty story of the right wing drive to wreck the BBC.
youtube.com/shorts/h5kF1...
"a portrait of a planet in two acts. In one, the U.S. president stands bragging about renaming oceans and freeing the toilets, reading economic charts drawn entirely inside his own imagination. In the other, an ancient city of millions contemplates the possibility of abandoning itself to the sand."
A graphic with a white and gray gradient background contains bold red text that reads: “BELIEVING THE REPUBLICANS WHEN THEY ‘PROMISE’ A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE IS LIKE BELIEVING TRUMP WHEN HE SAID PROJECT 2025 WASN’T THE PLAN OF HIS ADMINISTRATION.” At the bottom, it credits @kdnerak33.bsky.social, and in the corner is the logo BRIAN TYLER COHEN.
To the 8 senators who voted to give up the only leverage they had and trust the GOP:
"Isn’t it time that the media understood that Trump does not make decisions. Instead, he has moods."
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
