"The Peace President." [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]

"You cannot bring democracy by aerial bombardment. The sort of regime change that includes no preparation before, no help during, and no plan for after, is basically just rolling a dice, hoping for sixes."

'Isn't really that much evidence' is very kind indeed. The maths just ain't mathing, as they say.

Look, maybe I am already just in a bad mood, but it is ludicrous to me that we are having a really intense argument about sectarian voting when there isn't really that much evidence that it was why the Greens won. This is immediately just accepted wisdom, and we can scold using it. archive.ph/zqmKF

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

"MUSLIM VOTER FRAUD IN GORTON & DENTON 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨" Pitch perfect by Guz Khan @guzkhan.bsky.social 🔗 via IG instagram.com/p/DVQ3DK7DHgZ

Private Eye very good this week on Fleet St hindsight

This should be used as part of the evidence for treason.

Always loved Cards Against Humanity, both as a game and as a company. Even more so than ever after this.

Vital thread. Proper on-the-ground reporting beats tidy narratives any day. Voters are complicated!

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played (Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”…… /1

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

Summary: The electorate is restless. Labour is rudderless. Greens are hope. Tories are hopeless. And Reform’s silent majority has once again turned out to be a noisy minority.

I think the most interesting thing this by-election highlights in the current political landscape is all the activists switching party complaining of all the dirty tricks their previous party engaged in... ...as if they hadn't been engaged in those same dirty tricks on all the previous occasions!

(cartoon Rob Rogers) #trump #politics

Hybrid truck recharges from overhead wires in Germany. Original post

By-elections are the league cup of politics. Claimed as important by the winners, claimed as not important by those knocked out, a big day out for the finalists, TV and other media just happy to have something extra to cover.

All Hail, the patron saint of ‘Unhinged Headlines’ received g the respect he deserves.

So I started looking into this to outline the conspiracy theory. But what I found was a genuinely beautiful piece of practical idealism. A small, attainable progressive change that would hugely improve people's lives. I was inspired by it.

🆕 2.2 PANDORA: Worst. Unboxing. Video. Ever. 📦 Wicked troublemaker or the victim of history's longest smear campaign? This episode is one WILD ride. And it includes some of my favourite cinematic references. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4E7j... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

⏲️ New episode out 🌆 @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social are back with a bonus episode on 15-Minute Cities. How did such a sensible and benign approach to urban planning give birth to a wild conspiracy theory about authoritarianism? Listen / watch now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

People in the US being unable to tell the difference between Peter Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) is quite amusing. And the comments don't get any better... ...it will probably blow their minds to discover that more than one man is having consequences!

Fascinating stuff

My colleagues and I uncovered how Russia pays media outlets in West Africa as low $80 to publish disinformation that is weakening European security and undermining democracy in Africa. Soon, Europe could face a migrant crisis & Africa could be dealing with military dictatorships.

There's something about that haircut I can't quite put my finger on...

It was an honour to be asked to contribute to the Press Regulation Panel’s 10th Annual report into the state of press accountability in the UK a decade after the Leveson enquiry which was published today www.pressrecognitionpanel.org.uk/10th-annual-... 1/3

Activists from the anti-billionaire campaign group "Everyone Hates Elon" went to the Louvre museum in Paris where they hung a framed photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken by Reuters photographer Phil Noble on February 19.

Cool. Now do Boris, Gove, Truss, Hunt, Patel, Braverman and Rees-Mogg. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

@wulfhelm.bsky.social better stand @theselectfyrd.bsky.social to and hide the potatoes! #Wülferhampton

After Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, I guess it was only a matter of time...

BREAKING Lord Mandelson has been pictured being led from his home by plain clothed police officers

Evergreen.

While I absolutely argued this case vs May at the time, today, I'd argue Johnson was infinitely worse. I don't think the logic that "without Cameron there would have been no Johnson" holds water. Cameron was weak & foolish but Johnson took a wrecking ball to any standards/norms that got in his way.

Things Republicans HATE being reminded about: 1. Slavery 2. Native Americans 3. The actual words that Jesus said

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19

As ever, the question is not whether or not it fits some arbitrary definition of a concentration camp, the question is what the fuck are they doing there??? c.f. "fascism", "genocide"

Put this one in the lack of self-awareness hall of fame

Very powerful thread.

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

The US system at the moment can be imagined with the executive branch as a toddler on a chainsaw rampage, congressional parents watching the rampage in silent fond approval, and the judiciary reluctantly stepping in once a year to make him stop destroying one specific thing in one very specific way.

This one hits hard.

We Are Not Amused

It is for exactly this reason that often wonder whether it's not the Royals who benefit most from the system but the aristocracy below them who get so much of the benefit of the entitlement and privilege without nearly so much of the scrutiny.

NEWS! Trump supporters to continue with comforting misapprehension that other countries have been paying the tariffs in same way Mexico 'paid for the wall'

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