Chris Rivers

Trump said this week that Iran was 2 weeks away from having a nuclear bomb. This is what he said in July.

He won’t. That would make him even more unpopular.

Far right, not hard-right, FFS!

“We’re in a Schrodinger’s tariff right now.” One proclamation says “a 10% tariff on the rest of the world,” the next post says “a 15% tariff literally effective immediately,” then the White House pretends he never said it.

The crack team who brought you the trade war are now in Iran.

A ‘Reform petrol station’?
Petrol has now been politicised.

He’d maybe check with Putin too… TACO can’t make decisions unless other dictators first give him the nod.

The Trump administration keeps repeating they “totally destroyed Iran’s nuclear program”. It’s a line that’s designed to deflect.

What really matters is Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium which is enough to make 10-12 nukes.

The bombing last June failed completely. It’s still there.

Texas, which already leads USA in electricity generation from natural gas, coal & wind, has passed California to become the leader in utility-scale solar. But California continues to lead the country in electricity from small-scale solar, (any project with capacity less than 1 megawatt).

Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes The bill abolishes the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles through their families.

The government is offering life peerages to replace hereditary peers, to the Tories. As a result, the Tories have withdrawn their opposition to the bill. Up to 92 hereditary peers will leave the Lords when the current session of Parliament ends in May.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

“As head of the beyt for many years under his father, Mojtaba Khamenei built very close ties with the Guards, particularly second-tier commanders who have replaced the top generals killed in the war.
The Guards finally have what they sought for years: full control.”

All due to Trump.

Tien (25) beats Fokina (16)

Front page of the Miami Herald yesterday. As it should be.

Philippines & Czech flags: it was confusing when two tennis players were on court!

Sánchez: "Feijóo and Abascal say 'no to everything', except for the war"

The tension between PP and Vox is evident in the second electoral debate of Castilla y León.

Ukraine retakes territory as Russia’s buffer zone strategy falters, official says Officials say Ukraine has regained almost full control of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Ukraine says it has regained almost complete control of its eastern Dnipropetrovsk region and recaptured several hundred square kilometers of territory in recent counterattacks.

37 missing children rescued, 7 suspects arrested. That is some operation…

And more detail on the post-24 rebellions

Rebellions of 7 and 10 tonight mean that these benchmarks are not required...

Good Lord, Trump seems to have forgotten that in war, your enemy gets a vote. If the Iranians read this, they will understand he is terrified and desperate, and probably speed up the mining of the straits. Worst war leader in US history.

His mom moved heaven and earth to find him, Sasha's photos and this story was all over social media. She hoped despite everything to find Sasha alive.

Finally, Sasha's body was found.

The worst part is that Russia killed so many Ukrainian children after that and continues doing so.

So they were trying to escape by boat together with their neighbors. Boats with civilians were attacked by Russian troops.

The boat where Sasha and his grandma were turned over after a Russian strike. Grandma drowned, Sasha was missing (he was wearing an inflated vest).

This is a story from 2022, the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion. I remember it well.

The boy is the picture is Sasha, forever 4yrs old.He was killed by Russia on March 10,2022.Sasha was staying with grandma when Russia invaded.They couldn't evacuate by land⤵️

“The sole purpose of that lie is to justify Operation Epic Mistake, a misadventure engineered by Israel and paid for by ordinary Americans.”

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Rob Ford - Leaving aside the troubling attacks on the legitimacy of a decisive election result by Goodwin & his party leader, Reform’s latest strong showing on opposition territory suggests it is on course for another major wave of gains in May.

swingometer.substack.com/p/gorton-and...?

Gorton and Denton Postmortem The biggest ever shake up to the party system may be on the way in May

Prof Rob Ford - “The anti-Reform vote in Gorton and Denton was so large that even an exact split between Greens and Labour would have put both parties 1,500 votes ahead of Reform’s Matthew Goodwin”

swingometer.substack.com/p/gorton-and...?

California Governor Gavin Newsom says he wants the Democratic Party to be an "inclusive" big tent, spanning the spectrum "from Manchin to Mamdani". Newsom has expressed interest in running for US president in 2028. He’s 58 so it would be a generation jump.

Reckless is the only way to describe Donald Trump's war with Iran.

He’s a wrecking ball president.