JUST IN, designs for Trump's monumental arch

10th April 2026 06.16

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

Brutal.

Avignon or, as Sherlock Holmes put it, a three pope problem.

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order. Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not. For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

Now that’s what I call Bluesky

Seriously, what the fuck is this. This is completely deranged, and anyone who can’t say so is a coward.

You see the darnedest things on the tube.

Feels a bit ‘Let us share your spaces or else’ to me. But I expect I’m the unreasonable one here, eh, @therestpolitics.bsky.social?

From "you made up a guy to be mad at" to "you made up 500 guys to agree with you"

Slightly pursing my lips as I applaud President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner so everyone knows I'm not really supporting him

Excellent, thought-provoking (long!) thread

After the storm.

Shieldaig Peninsula, Village & Island with (some of) the Torridon Hills behind. Photo taken yesterday morning.

Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away!

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.

Huddersfield https://www.wikiart.org/en/l-s-lowry/huddersfield-1965

The @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon - Easter egg hunts in the style of great detectives. Smiley is chef’s kiss

Nope, not how this works www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Whether it’s Barrack Obama wearing a tan suit or it’s Donald Trump attending oral arguments at the Supreme Court for the first time in history, recent presidents are shaking up established norms as America approaches its 250th birthday

ooh decisions decisions

Has anything ever looked less holy than Donald and Melania Trump standing in a church?

The shape of ideas: Samuel Beckett (speaking to Harold Hobson during the production of Waiting for Godot, 1956) #GoodFriday

Truly one of the all time great takes

The Bar Standards Board sent the GLP a detailed determination rejecting the complaint of harassment on 27 March 2026. Yet it has taken the GLP almost a week to update its followers on this outcome, and to do so with redaction of examples of the complainant’s own abusive language cited by the BSB

A 3,200 year-old painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet. From an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus showing animals taking on human roles in comic situations where they act against their natural instincts. 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Watchin Bruuuuuuuuce with @gingin.bsky.social, who has the selfie skills to take this

Now France is denying airspace…

Translation: Trump is bluffing and backing down.

Sid Blumenthal linked to 2 columns Nate Swanson, Iran expert Laura Loomer got fired fr NSC, wrote b4 Trump attacked Iran. 2/19: Before striking Iran, Trump should answer these six questions www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/b... 2/24: Why Iran will escalate (Archive link) archive.is/WzMKU

Reportedly, this is a Ukrainian P1-Sun interceptor shooting down a Russian Shahed drone. This is so cool

Launch a war of aggression then conduct illegal attacks on civilian power infrastructure when the victim state refuses to capitulate. Where have I seen that playbook before?

This morning, the Israeli Police prevented Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, together with the Custos of the Holy Land, the Most Reverend Fr. Francesco Ielpo, OFM, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

When, at the armistice in 1918, Churchill’s private secretary declared that he was so grateful for the American contribution to the victory that he wanted to kiss Uncle Sam ‘on both cheeks’, Churchill had retorted, ‘But not on all four.’ #booksky

Your Money | As the US and Israel rapidly burn through their stock of missiles, here are five weapons manufacturers worthy of your investment.

Fascinating giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Most amusing/ tragic part of Goodwin defending accusations of his use of AI in tonight's GBNews debate is that he'd put the book through ChatGPT to check whether or not it was AI-generated (not that this was actually the allegation) and it had exonerated him. Truly, we have entered a hall of mirrors

The Cote Sauvage - 1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10669

We have to keep coming back with: “The female sex have human rights. We are half of all humans. If you do not support female human rights you do not support human rights you ONLY support the rights of male humans. Do not expect to be acknowledged as having any but the basest of misogynistic aims.”

America, 2026.

Confused old man yells at military alliance

Yes! 'Eligibility for the Female Category is to be determined in the first instance by SRY Gene screening to detect the absence or presence of the SRY Gene.' Thank you IOC for supporting equality & non-discrimination for female athletes in sport. x.com/i/status/203...

Chop Suey by Edward Hopper, 1929