Trump running Venezuela didn’t last long

Oops. “US citizens in Venezuela should leave the country immediately… “There are reports of groups of armed militias, known as colectivos, setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for evidence of US citizenship or support for the United States.”

Crazy Northern Lights tonight!

I would normally have said yes: older cars were built to lesser safety standards. But for the newest cars that make you tap a touchscreen five times to turn on the fog lights, I don’t think that’s true any more.

Hungarians in 1956, Iraqis in 1991 (and probably others) responded to US-sponsored encouragement to rebel. Went very badly. For them, I mean. The Americans did fine.

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Probably an illustration of shrinkflation, as well as gouging by Kraft/Cadbury and supermarkets. Three years ago the standard bag of Mini Eggs weighed 90g and cost £1. Now, it’s 74g and costs £2. The ‘family pack’ weighed 296g three years ago and costs £3. Now it’s 256g and £5.50.

Possibly the most important discovery since Piltdown Man's cricket bat

Three Members of Congress showed up to inspect the actions of federal officers in their state and the federal officers drew their weapons?

I dont thing we’ve properly realised that they aren’t going to be satisfied with “crankbrofascism in one country” They intend to force this on everyone

ICE really is freaking everywhere, not just in Minneapolis, but all over Minnesota, and it's fucking horrifying. (A lot isn't posted about on here.) Grateful to everyone reporting in and doing patrols and being observers and helping in whatever way they can.

Can't help but notice I've not been included in several starter packs

Just had a guy going door to door among the businesses along Minnehaha Avenue drop this off. Hell yeah.

If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement

Cell phone footage shows that Renee Good tried to drive away from the ICE agent who shot her. But an AI video shows Good pledging allegiance to ISIS before plowing her car into a crowd of blonde Christian children. For busy presidents of the United States, it can be hard to know what to trust.

This might sound a little wild to some people, but I actually don't think it's a good thing that the senile, dementia-ravaged president of the United States believes in so many ridiculous lies that his basic grasp of reality is questionable.

New column today: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...

Lying about the election in order to lie about a murder.

The death penalty: the ultimate censure. To be reserved for high treason, premeditated murders that shock the conscience, and of course for those mildly inconveniencing or in any way emasculating a federal agent.

“Cleanup in aisle 3. Cleanup to aisle 3.” 🤮

Can’t help thinking they’re teeing themselves up for the mother of all all Find Outs

Repressive occupying forces often believe that a few acts of horrifically unjustified violence will get the public to forfeit freedom and kowtow to them, especially if the violent is well publicized. But it usually does not work that way.

Analysis | Joe Biden would not have invaded NATO allies, cut off child welfare, or sent armed forces to kill Americans. But he would have given very few press conferences and spoken in a halting voice. The voters got it right.

RAM wholesalers right now

I think it's very important that Rupert Lowe's "Million Nonce March" gets widespread media coverage. Critical to amplify diverse voices.

4/ An air traffic controller warned the pilot that if he did so, it would be “at your own risk.”

Jan. 16, 2025: A SpaceX Starship rocket explodes over the Caribbean. Suddenly, dozens of planes in the area must scramble to get out of a newly designated FAA "debris zone." Their passengers are now unwitting participants in a test run gone wrong. (THREAD)

This entry serves as my cutoff for the start of my Saturday coverage of Iranian developments. 35/

AI is just Clippy on drugs. Pr0n-making Clippy. Evil Clippy.

It’s not just turning 50 about feeling your age a bit more. It’s the constant cremation ads on Now 80s TV.

Contrary to popular belief, Whitby was never chiefly a fishing port, but a place of significant maritime consequence. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries its shipyards and fleet were deeply engaged in especially European trade, bringing the town notable prosperity. Favoured 1/3

So ICE and the White House have been scrambling to pump out meme videos of clashes with protesters and "epic takedowns" and then an ICE agent recording video with his phone shoots a woman dead www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

When the Melanogaster Mob comes, you fight or you cave. And these people caved faster than a Republican senator.

normal person: chatbot output is shit AI bro: look just try it yourself!! normal person: (tries it) still sucks AI bro: you're trying it *wrong*

I’ll stop ranting about the gun safety course I took last summer but as a note, the first thing our very MAGA instructor said was: never ever point a gun at something unless you intend to shoot it

Some soothing wintery sound for you. Sound ON! Thanks to @paulietandoori.bsky.social for sharing this with us.

Human art has been around for nearly 100,000 years, it’s going to be around long after we’re gone, long after all our concrete and steel monuments to our supposed ingenuity crumble.

Bizarre how regulators have assumed the role of policing. If a gang breaks into a bank and makes off with all the safety deposit boxes, it's now the FCA that investigates. Sadly, they only operate 9-5 Mon-Fri so if the robbery takes place at the weekend then there's no-one to secure the crime scene.

In olden days people really committed to a practical joke, and in most large towns there was a joke shop that sold a comedy rubber radiator.

"In the red corner, we have almost the entire UK population, in the blue corner we have an evil billionaire who owns a child porn factory. Who do you want to win, minister?" "It would be wrong to pick a side. I shall wait for the criminal investigation to complete. Except I told the police not to."

The Leader of the House of Commons has now advised that the idea of carrying the bill to the next session is not possible, so I urge the Lords to enact the will of the elected chamber. That is the constitutional convention. 👇 www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Very soon we’re going to have an island of not-enough-strangers.

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

“Vance revealed that Trump had paused a “really important” discussion with him and Rubio in the White House to castigate the pair for their “shitty” shoes.” You’d have thought that Americans by now would have noticed that their president is insane.

Very interesting podcast on future fighter aircraft and how GCAP/Tempest could be a massive winner from the Trump torching the US’s alliances The consequences of Trump will reverberate for decades throughout the non US western world podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

It's fascinating and disturbing to see how the British media are going out of their way to placate the Trump admin on this. I'm not sure if they're feeling cowed or they're serving a primarily US audience now

1 Governments can reduce net immigration substanstially. The UK (and Sweden) is doing exactly that 2 The results will be shit 3 The governments will blame immigrants for (2)

So in Indonesis child porn is illegal *even* it the perpetrator is a billionaire. Is this thing of applying the law also to billionaires this "Sharia law" people are talking so much about?