Yes, this is an excellent piece of investigation, narration, and accountability, by Mike Baker and Steven Rich in @nytimes.com Very much worth going back to read.
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Yes, this is an excellent piece of investigation, narration, and accountability, by Mike Baker and Steven Rich in @nytimes.com Very much worth going back to read.
Aside from the major cruelty in Iran, the regime is finding time for some side cruelty. And people say they're not hard-working!
@hopedickle.bsky.social I'm not sure about this new L&O spinoff....
Oooh! Oooh! Can we play "Guess The Country"?
Lovely.
Most likely Trump and his Administration are being blackmailed by a foreign country to cover up the Epstein Files.
www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
With Russian help, Iran is targeting American radar installations in the Gulf and, in the process, blinding America's missile protection systems. Satellite images indicate severe damage to systems, some of which are estimated to cost several hundred million dollars. www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
Oh FFS! I know the received wisdom is Boomers are responsible for all the evils in the world, but the likes of Hegseth and Miller and Jared are NOT Boomers. Way too young
real alpha male stuff here
🔎 From the archive: 'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions' — by Iain Overton and Max Colbert
🔁 Relevant again: Worth re-reading in light of new revelations that Mandelson had not divested his Global Counsel shares
BECAUSE...
THAT is what's IMPORTANT!
WARFIGHTING
It's all there. All of the bullshit claims about emergencies and national security threats. The goal all along was to give Trump the power to deploy the military domestically to suppress dissent and crush MAGA's enemies.
These are dangerous people. They're now in the highest levels of government.
More to the point, I think we're going to have to make them reckon with it, voting doesn't seem to be getting the job done.
Finally, social resilience, essential in a time when cyber attacks and hybrid warfare are a reality, rather than a theoretical possibility, is almost entirely neglected
www.isdp.eu/total-defenc...
Tufton Street think tanks, the Atlas Network, the same pool of wealthy donors, and the same lobbying firms appear repeatedly across NHS privatisation, austerity, climate obstruction, local government collapse, and far-right amplification
It does feel like Britain and Europe are like drivers slowing down to watch a crash on the other side of the motorway. Meanwhile a Ukrainian car on the hard shoulder is waving for help as the engine is on fire.
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Russia preparing the legal framework for global military action.
A new bill would allow Putin to deploy Russian forces outside Russia’s borders to “protect Russian citizens
abroad.”
Same pretext used in Crimea.
Same language used before Georgia.
Same playbook again
Ah, he's been studying at the Mike Johnson School of Executive Leadership.
The EPA claims that it closed more cases in Trump’s first year of his second term than in any year of the Biden administration, but the actual data tells a different story.
Truly The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
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This page is starting to look like battle reports from WW I.
Bobbi Boudman’s win over Republican Dale Fincher marks the 28th seat Democrats have flipped since the 2024 election
UK junk food ad ban so diluted it may be largely ineffective.
It is because govts succumb to pressure from corporations and hobbyists. How many legislators on industry payroll?
Game of impression management. Exceptions manufactured to create ineffective laws.
The drone technology didn't say "Thank you" enough.
Hey, it's only (massive amounts of) money.
Nigel Farage told us Brexit would give
£3 billion more a year to our NHS
He now says Britain is so broke,
our NHS needs to be scrapped
replaced by US-style healthcare insurance
bankrupting thousands, leaving thousands more to die
He lied before
He hasn't apologised
He's still lying
Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
Noem's one-minute $220 million ad cost more than nearly every film nominated for Best Picture at the upcoming 2026 Academy Awards:
* Frankenstein
* Marty Supreme
* Sinners
* Bugonia
* Hamnet
* Train Dreams
* Sentimental Value
* The Secret Agent
This is the guy who likes to downplay non-fatal injuries suffered by US service members in combat.