it's funny how anyone with a linear concept of time is aware Trump started demanding Greenland first and then backfilled the 'uhh... to protect from Russia!' thing later but it's considered unacceptable for neutral media to mention this

when you hear about guys who had two families in the 50s and 60s, I do always just think my god, you really never did a thing around the house did you because there's no way anybody has the energy to do that

I feel obliged to share this masterpiece from my brother:

This is a shit show and this guy should be fired tbh

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if the only response to an ICE agent shooting a woman in the face in front of her wife and child is the president saying 'he shouldn't have had to deal with how rude she was' YOU ARE ALREADY UNDER MARTIAL LAW. This is the 'well Congress didn't declare it so we're not at war with Venezuela' of takes

Ah ha, yes, perhaps, BUT, I asked ten people aged 78-96 who live in incredibly rural hamlets who do nothing but read the Daily Mail and THEY say it's a violent lawless place with no-go Sharia zones. So it's hard to know which is accurate isn't it?

'Khan said addressing the causes of serious violent crime, such as the effects of poverty and lack of opportunities, had been key, as had the work of the Violence Reduction Unit covering London that was set up in 2019, which took a longer term approach.'

[EXTREMELY LOUD *WRONG* BUZZER]

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“We’ll Have Our Home” again is a song that’s extremely popular with white nationalists. It’s all over Telegram. I think the first time I heard it was from a video of a secretive group called the Mannerbünd.

There honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides

My god that must be a hot ladder.

I KNEW IT. I knew that was gonna make him identifiable. Well done, Secretary Noem, you doxxed Jonathan Ross.

UK readers double-taking, dropping their phones, spitting out tea etc

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

if you joined ICE I don't think you just get to melt back into society ever again. I think it should be the albatross around your neck for the rest of your life. I sure as hell won't hire anyone who worked for ICE. hope that signing bonus lasts

banning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world this is not a difficult call to make

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Facts. America in a nutshell is “we as a society can’t have nice things because Black people would also have them”. Our entire history has been this, and it’s far past time for all of us white people to wake up to these facts.

This is not who we are. I became an ICE agent because I truly believed in the value of getting a $50,000 signing bonus to violently assault and terrorize anyone I wanted while never getting in trouble for anything. Being held accountable conflicts strongly with my deeply-held personal beliefs

Why are united not winning? They're playing a back 4!

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yeah that's fair

Love the guy’s work, and he sure could turn an epigram, but outside a broad liberal humanitarian impulse, his ideas were decidedly leaky. Eg - “All countries bigger than Belgium are doo-doo” Belgium famously harmless in its rampage across Africa, of course……

Welcome back to 2003. Some of us have been writing for a decade that MAGA & neoconservatism were united in supremacist militarism with the differences being a struggle for internal power and if you want to know more I can recommend a pretty good book:

always! always! there's always this! i fucking hate nightclub fires so much it's always the same fucking mistakes and it's young people who pay the cost of it. just terrible every damn time.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

People are reposting this complaint about child porn by Elon Musk's Grok - "This problem + exploitation of children could be fixed in a matter of minutes " - without noting the relevant context. The person charging Musk with enabling chld exploitation is the mother of one of Elon Musk's children.

Step 1 - meta and X to be regarded as publishers Step 2 - bans when they don't comply with the consequent legal obligations Step 3 - a happier country

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Back we go again at United. Players from four (five?) different managers, players shipped out at a loss, no identity, no cohesion, and pundits talking about how actually Jason Wilcox should be picking tactics

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

"Der US-Angriff auf #Caracas ist ein klarer Völkerrechtsbruch. Dass laut US-Angaben Präsident Maduro gefangen genommen & außer Landes gebracht wurde, ist eine weitere gefährliche Eskalation und mit Recht und internationaler Ordnung absolut nicht vereinbar." - @pellmann.dielinkebt.de 1/2 #Venezuela

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Europe really could do with getting its head out of its arse huh? Not gonna happen of course but it needs to.

The joke here is that Putin made considerable effort to provide some (flimsy and entirely wrong) veneer of legality for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

there are a bunch of individual americans I like on a personal level but let’s be serious that entire country must go, we must be done with it

If Maduro is in custody my expectation is the admin will try to hold Dumb Nuremberg. They'll make it a judicial referendum on fentanyl and try to blame Maduro for the deaths from the opiate crisis.

Every single person involved in this has committed a crime, the earliest statute of limitations for which runs in 2031

Trump: LEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEEENKIIIIIIIIIIINS! CIA: Oh my god he just ran in

100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.

There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.