it’s an administration of hearts of iron iv players led by a crusader kings ii player, if you will

Good news! Actual good news!

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died Saturday morning after being detained for less than 24 hours, while Daphy Michel was found dead outside a bus stop after being released to an ICE office an hour from her home. www.jezebel.com/ices-latest-...

mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

Viktor Orbán’s home village is swimming in cash. So we hired a plane to take a look.

People mostly didn’t pick up that Saltburn was about the upper class failing to defend itself against threatening commoners!

Dude, where's my Keminaissance?

Every time!

This is a plan that would have a 1% chance of working if done in private, and a -249% chance of working if done in public. There are limits to what you can make another country do by threatening to tax your own citizens purchases and 'join our dumb war' lies well beyond those limits.

He’s going to do something insane like threaten 100% tariffs on any country that doesn’t join the war isn’t he?

trump asking for international buy-in for a war of choice he started unilaterally

I say this a lot but Flemish Nationalists are probably the most annoying people in Europe. Just pure, unadulterated, chauvinism.

Ultimately, transphobia and reactionary nationalism are rooted in the same attempt to carve out hard borders between types of people, to avoid dealing with the anxiety of fluidity and boundary-crossing.

*An atomic nuclear cloud is seen over the primary export terminal of Saudi Aramco* "Lol, dw bro, TACO, priced in, buy the dip"

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An autistic 9yo was held with his mother at Dilley for almost 3 months. Without his familiar routine, school supports, and daily therapy, his mother says, he struggled to understand what was happening or why they couldn’t go home. He grew frantic, hurt himself, and had frequent meltdowns.

i genuinely wonder how much of this is because the green buildout was seen as too socially liberal coded to run on

Once again I come back to: the Government needs to yell *way more* about what its doing on energy and climate.

Anyway, on a happier note, the actual content of what the government is doing on energy is much better than the rhetoric. The only good thing about Trump's war is that it is at a time when the government can hopefully design a better energy support package than the Truss madness, too:

Yeah i think you really do have to be a stodgy stick in the mud about universalism because it’s the only way to avoid getting infected with this kind of thinking. You can’t have “as a treat” carve outs for why *this* ethnonationalism is different. No matter the context.

Dubai is literally neurodivergent and a minor.

"I used to think slavery was bad, because I saw what is was like for those experiencing it, but now that I don't I've changed my mind."

The Conservative tactic of running a campaign entirely targeting Texas Republicans may run into some issues if it turns out that, as has been leaked to me, it turns out that Texas isn't part of the UK.

a problem for "moderation won it for labour" is their freefall started *before* the election they had massive support as "not the tories" - but when the campaign started, their message *lost* them votes

This article is an evil celebration of am unfree state.

"The Epstein Class" is now a pretty obvious antisemitic dog whistle, even if people who started using this term certainly didn't mean it that way.

IWM holds footage taken in Malaya just before and during (!) the Japanese invasion: incredible stuff. Take a look if you have time

Aiui the thing we forget about pre war Europe was just how staggeringly common and basically socially acceptable it was to say these things - I believe Poirot says several antisemitic things in Christie's pre war books

This is a 10 million group (9.7 million) of Labour 2024 5 million Labour 1.75 million Green 675k LibDem (2.4m million to centreleft - probably > 2.6m given other) 675k Reform 300k Cons (1 million to right) 380k other (SNP, Plaid, Your Party, Ind, Fringe right. local) 900k Undecided/Wouldn't

How are voters moving between parties since July 2024? (Ipsos)

yeah, american century of humiliation

2026 is 20% complete.

No ,I'm sorry, the country where you elect county *coroners* and *judges* is a democracy, this one's on you

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One of the many many problems with this is all your directors and deputy directors would start leaving and looking for other jobs and there'd be no one to implement policies.

The problem with this genius idea is that unlike the US where political appointees are a big thing there are very few people outside the senior level of the Civil Service who understand how it functions

a surprising upset in the north korean elections today

The key to Reform's planning for power is that the strong view of party insiders that the model for a Farage government is "be much more like Trump's second term than his first' But its a significant political risk - because Trump is unpopular and Trump 2.0 is toxic observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The extension of the Gaza genocide to the whole of the Middle East

I think being this America-brained should disqualify you from being anywhere near the UK Government, tbh.

Khamenei was on death's door, an empty shell of a leader whose last years saw the collapse of the Iranian Axis with comparatively minimal direct intervention on our own part. Assassinating him guaranteed a changing of the guard under a banner of war and martyrdom. What could have been:

The UK's Trans+ healthcare system isn't broken, it's working exactly how it was supposed to: for gatekeepers - not Trans+ people

You don't get to paper over the fact that they are bigots. They knowingly wanted to strip minorities and women of any historical representation. They killed projects simply because they had ethnic identities and genders attached.

8 March: Trump tells UK not to send ships to the Gulf as "We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won". 14 March: Trump asks UK to "send ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat". It's a tragedy that so many lives hang on the whims of this angry child.

Two nights in a row.

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