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Spain accuses Germany of acting like a 'vassal' to United States Friedrich Merz is criticised for betraying values of his Christian Democratic Union after refusing to condemn President Trump's threats to EU ally over lran Oliver Moody Tuesday March 10 2026, 6.05pm GMT, The Times Spain has accused Germany's leader of acting like a "vassal" of the United States after he failed to defend Madrid against criticism from President Trump.

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in catalan or occitan: 'pagat de reliar a ceste libre, I mosto bo' (paid to rebind this book: one good mosto (young wine)

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

they are starting at tet offensive unpopularity with only six known casualties.

I love this thing

I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.

DO NOT LET ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WALK AROUND THINKING THEIR CONSTITUENTS DON’T CARE

In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

This week's cover @thelancet.com

A paperback book - Nigel Townson’s “The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present”. The cover features a colour photograph of a Spanish street scene in the 1960s or 1960s

For this weeks #histbookchat, #photofriday and #booksky, “The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present” by Nigel Townson.

I don’t know a lot about modern Spain’s history apart from the Civil War. I’m just up to the start of the Second Republic, looking forward to the post-Franco period

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Of course isn’t just driving. It’s voting. Working. Travelling. Picking up a package. Applying for credit. Applying for a job. Renting a room. Filling prescriptions. Visiting loved ones in the hospital. Not expired either, but legally invalid.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Oh FUCK this is incredible.

my boss at the southern reach told me expeditions keep going missing in area x so i asked how many theyve sent in and my boss said they just find new people afterwards and i said it sounds like theyre just feeding people to area x and lowry started crying

"Only reason their country exists is because the USA allows it to exist" dawg you tried to annex us and we beat your ass. Twice.

have to endorse this important message. the mango flavor distribution runs from "mild upgrade on cantalope" to "proof of the existence and boundless love of God"

Wrong link, Dr P!

I was talking to Seth Moulton's staff about that this week with regard to the Burlington ICE office. One thing they said was that closing an existing facility is really hard but preventing a new one from opening is comparatively easier. We have to stop these camps now while we have the chance.

Gaming Saddam Hussein's hiding spot

Winds Suck Dicks

someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...

How do they get 24 from 54? This isn’t even an easy mistake to make?

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

George Washington YouTube video by unvmebad86

Every President's Day, we gather round and sing this old, traditional hymn www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

I need the sentence in this screenshot diagrammed. Girl the syntax.

Ddlouglass day cake

Happy birthday, Frederick Douglass! @douglassday.bsky.social celebrations start at 11 pm CT / 12 pm ET in the History Department here at Iowa. Come on over! douglassday.org