What book are they reading‽

Mockler: No Nato allies that have been bullied by Trump are going to be willing to do this for someone that's kind of an asshole to them.

A US jury has found Elon Musk misled investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's share price in the months leading up to his $44bn (£33bn) takeover of the social media company. news.sky.com/story/elon-m...

If you want to accidentally snort tea down your nose or embarrass yourself on public transport, then read Sarah's review pieces on her lovely new site.

Urgh PLEASE STOP sending me the weird AF Heartbeat A.I. thing. I didn’t give permission for my image to be used and I don’t want to see old friends brought back from the dead with angel wings. It’s creepy

DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business copes with more bad inflation data "Thesssseeee numbers are much hotter than expected, guys ... this is not good"

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

@paulheatonsolo.bsky.social In MCR on Monday ... any recommendations for pubs? I was dismayed to hear reports of Peveril's decline ...

“Elite human capital” Fucking hell.

Great interview. Tony Judt was surely one of the greatest historians and public intellectuals of the turn of the century. His history Postwar is quite simply indispensable for understanding modern Europe (no wonder he thought Zizek is a joke!)

FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.

Trump spent the last year bullying allies, weakening the US globally, and insisting “everyone is screwing us.” Now he wants those same countries to send warships to help the US reopen Hormuz. So is everyone still a useless freeloader…or not?

One week ago. 🤡

It's almost like he's exactly as brainless as everyone already knew he was.

If only there had been some sort of clue that Trump is a grotesque idiot…

How Trump alone got the US - and the world - into a crisis in the Middle East. From the WSJ.

“You are all worse than each other!” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Trump: "We're being nice. I could take out things within the next hour, power plants that create the electricity, that create the water, they have desalinization all over the place. We could do things that would be so bad they could literally never rebuild as a nation again. We're trying to be nice"

Vance smiles as a reporter points out that Trump said he was relatively unenthusiastic about striking Iran

Trump: "You know what else I thought about a long time before it happened? Osama bin Laden. I said, 'You have to go out and kill Osama bin Laden. He's big trouble. Kill him.' Nobody did anything. A year later he knocked down the World Trade Center. It was in a book. One of my many best sellers."

Trump: "Mark Kelly is not a smart man. He's terrible. What he said is terrible about leadership. Leadership. Follow him. You follow him into a grave. He's terrible. He's a pathetic guy. But they're pathetic."

Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the US military can drop bombs on scores of children and face no serious media scrutiny for it. His vile claim that he can't wait for David Ellison to run CNN shows he pines for oligarchic control of media. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2077...

KILMEADE: Is it true you're telling your whole cabinet to wear the same shoes, these Florsheim shoes? TRUMP: When they tell me they have a problem, I say, 'let me get you a pair of shoes.' It seems to work out well. Now they look all spiffy & nice. I never liked cabinet members walking in sneakers.

Trump: "Wait until you see tmrw, wait until you see the next day. They're gonna be hit so hard. They're gonna be hit. They can talk all they want, but let's see. So they're gonna maybe do something having to do w/the Straits. I don't know. But they're being hit. It'll take them 20 years to rebuild."

this is beyond parody, folks. a complete mockery of the DOJ.

hold up aren’t these are the same people who thought getting rid of FEMA was a baller move

Back in their SNL days, Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon did their "Hans and Franz" bits, making fun of "girlie men." They would have a field day w Kristi Noem's cosplaying twin, Pete Hegseth. Colin Jost is acing it now. Ever hear Eisenhower whine this way? Any *genuine* tough guy?

The richest man in human history is a complete loser

Like everything else in our timeline, our version of "callow young white boys blithely fuck everything up, never appreciate the damage they did, and face zero accountability" is just so f'ing ham-handed & over-the-top. Not believable. Terrible writing.

Many of the biggest policy decisions of Donald Trump’s second term follow the same script: move fast, ignore the experts, break things, then spin the disastrous outcome as a victory. From DOGE to tariffs to the ICE surge in Minneapolis, the pattern keeps repeating. The war in Iran is next.

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this is unspeakable

Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.

Trump also said the war was "won" today so I guess that means the DoD doesn't need any more funds from Congress

It could not be more obvious that the president does not care about US service members and in fact regards their deaths as mere political inconveniences. He has more sympathy for Putin than Americans who died because he decided to wage illegal war. Just listen to him.

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

real life or a leak of tonight SNL's cold open? You decide

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Q: Why aren't there any student athletes in the room? TRUMP: ... Do you want to answer that question, Randy? RANDY: We have agents here. There's limited room.

"We have to understand him not as a fascist, though he is, but as a crazy person — a genuinely crazy person who wakes up every day & you never know what he's going to do bc he doesn't know" New ep of @davidnir.com & Rupar on Trump's illegal war of choice is live: www.publicnotice.co/p/trumps-ill...

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it. 15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

Hegseth: "The only ones who need to be worried right now are Iranians who think they're going to live"

this is explicitly genocidal

Q: Is the president satisfied with the pace of the investigation into whether the US military hit that Iranian school? LEAVITT: I don't have any updates

Leavitt on the faction of MAGA opposed to Trump's Iran war: "There is nothing more America first than taking out terrorists"

it's always nice to be reminded of how incredible a public speaker Barack Obama is. here's part of his eulogy of Jesse Jackson

Obama has the crowd at Jesse Jackson's eulogy hanging on his every word

you cant teach this. either you have it or you don't.

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

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