“Guys whose only tactic is ‘punch harder’” versus “Problem made worse by punching,” the story of America in 2026

Excellent news for people who think cutting bits off children is bad

you know I hate to side with a bank but I think these people have a potentially terminal case of "needing to get a grip"

Is anyone aware of any orgs offering help to actual Iranians on the ground that aren't just IRGC covers? Or orgs supporting a free and secular Iran?

To be clear here, attacking a war ship under a hostile ensign is not a crime. The requirement to assist survivors doesn't exactly apply to submarines either. Morally awful? Yes. Hors de combat? No. Legal? Yes.

This is the kind of stuff that the Lords should be. A panel of experts. Not a retirement home for lobbyists. It should be mostly ex officio, but we can't have nice things.

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

from today's popbitch, a lesson in how to politely remove any dignity from any of these asshats you might encounter. love this. imagine the joy of "and how do you spell Cameron?" and still getting it wrong. no managers can tell you off, is the joy of it

Despite religious lobbying, new prosecutorial guidance correctly maintains that #circumcision may be child abuse and child cruelty. Those who perform unanaesthetised circumcisions – which the CPS call ‘gratuitous infliction of pain’ – should take note. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Are you enjoying the multipolar world yet? It's only going to get worse.

it's sad the the 'before' picture is so commonplace (and so accepted as normal) in ireland if they were displayed the other way around, you would think something cataclysmic had happened

“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”. Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US... But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?

"Amateurs talk of tactics, professionals talk of logistics..."

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Launch a war that jeopardises the safety of over half a million Americans from Jerusalem to Dubai? ✅ Send a histrionic alert after the fact telling them all to “DEPART NOW?” ✅ Pause to ensure that we have the capacity to evacuate our own citizens? ❌❌❌ Clown show.

You people are insane. The U.S. government did it because it wanted to do it, not because Israel manipulated us to do it. You are absolutely delusional and normalizing terrible views that could lead to terrible things.

Trying to understand what trump is talking about is a challenge at the best of times, but I read this as the regime's leading candidates, not Trump's? Which if you're targeting regime change, is part of the idea?

People who live in the West and praise horrific anti-Western regimes that brutalise their own people, no matter if far-right or far-left, do so because they want to brutalise you. Always remember that.

While we analyze the situation in Iran, let’s stay aware of the influences on public opinion expressed here by @ryanhayden. There IS a propaganda network here that’s controlled by the Islamic Regime. See it. Reject it. It doesn’t help us understand or steer through this crisis.

I still can't understand why we're apparently supposed to hate Will Stancil, this is objectively correct? Does he murder kittens with his teeth or something, I just don't get it

I don’t think this registers as hypocritical to them. “War” is something that the libs and neocons do with soldiers who die because they aren’t as cruel as they are. War’s for suckers who don’t have the stomach to rain death until the enemy surrenders. This isn’t war to them, it’s projecting force.

Americans.

How Hard Could Getting Voter ID Be? Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry

Hat tip to @nivcalderon.bsky.social for being the first on bluesky to report Khamenei's death.

The Iranian people have taken to the streets to celebrate the death of Ali Khamenei.

My stance on Iran is very simple: The regime deserves to pay for all the crimes it has committed, starting with the recent massacre of tens of thousands of opponents. The Iranian people deserve to live in freedom, dignity and peace, and to choose their own leaders.

Hello USA listen just to remind you that the Ides of March are on the 15th

If someone bad does something good, even for bad reasons, that's still a good thing.

the primary function of an army is logistics, they exist to move materiel closer to the enemy. they only get in fights in order to clear space for more supply lines

When you say “no war” but stay quiet when the regime opens fire on unarmed people, you’re not defending peace, you’re demanding that the dying stay quiet. Stop pretending that being neutral means peace.

Two things can be true. Trump is bombing Iran for horrible reasons. The Islamic Republic must fall and strikes may be the only way to achieve this. If we have a free Iran by the end of this then whatever the cost will be worth it. Iranians must be free.

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

Well, it’s difficult to describe this one as a “mixed reaction.”

My dad told me he never thought he’d live long enough to see Poland free. May you live to see free and prosperous Iran. Where people argue over silly things

Iranians worldwide are united in one goal: ending the Islamic Republic regime in Iran.✌️ We will stay united and relentless until we turn the page and reclaim a free and democratic Iran. 🕊 Join the nation. Raise your voice with ours. Invoke the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) for Iran. 🙏 💚 🤍 ❤️

These people walk amongst us folks. Their vote is worth just as much as yours. Words can't convey how ignorant and insulting this shit is to the people of Iran. Stop violence, unless it's done by mullahs I assume.

Tell you what Labour ought to notice: It’s a sign of how desperate left-of-centre folk in this land are to hold onto something they consider progressive that they’re prepared to ignore the fact the leader of the party they’ve landed on claimed he could hypnotise women’s tits bigger. I mean.

Excuse me, I'll be carving this into my front door

To be absolutely clear here - this is utter horseshit.

the “reasonable concerns about women’s spaces” to hard right pipeline continues to pump them out

Archivists are heroes

Steam's "games like this" is laughably shit

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Would absolutely devour a series of mystery books featuring a lightly fictionalized Gordon Brown analogue about a former UK Prime Minister who goes about solving crimes based on archival research and their international network of connections.