Well, their country was founded on white supremacist genocide and slavery, despite the buttercream icing, so there's that.

You were nice to him again, so he's taken back his threat to burn down the house and kill the kids. For a minute you think "he's back to normal, everything is going to be all right". But you know this is a lie you tell yourself. Next time he might actually do it.

If you feel like you've been psychologically abused - you have. Imagine how much worse that is for the people of Iran and the wider gulf region. Draw a deep breath if you like, it won't stop. The lulls between attacks are part of the abusive pattern.

I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I predicted someone like Trump many years ago, in THE DEAD ZONE. So now I'm saying this--in the next 12-16 months, we're going to find out if the two machines for the removal of a man unable to fulfill his duties actually work. They are impeachment and the 25th amendment. He is deeply unwell .

If you feel like you've been psychologically abused - you have. Imagine how much worse that is for the people of Iran and the wider gulf region. Draw a deep breath if you like, it won't stop. The lulls between attacks are part of the abusive pattern.

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

I'm here because my Jewish grandparents escaped the Holocaust. Many of our family were not so fortunate. NEVER AGAIN is supposed to include Iranians. And Palestinians. And Ukrainians. And on and on. There are no exceptions based on religion or country of origin.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

You cannot negotiate with someone who is threatening to annihilate you.

Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.

Atrocity was pretty much the inevitable result of electing Trump. It is the nightmare nuclear scenario: that these weapons would fall into the hands of a madman who neither understands nor cares about the taboo on using them. This is the corner humanity was always going to box itself into.

Regardless of the outcome, the threat itself is terrorism and should result in him being removed from office.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

Regardless of the outcome, the threat itself is terrorism and should result in him being removed from office.

That tweet is a reality TV trailer for the upcoming season finale. Let's be clear: Trump's sickness is that of America. This is the culmination of a long, long decline.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Trump may not carry out the threat. But the fact he even made such a threat means he should immediately be removed from office. For that is the purpose of a constitution with checks and balances.

This is the most horrifying, psychotic, grotesque message Trump has ever posted—openly threatening to commit genocide. This is beyond reckless. It’s dangerous, dehumanizing, and utterly unfit for any leader.

After Trump's latest shocking threats, Keir Starmer faces a choice. Withdraw US access now to UK air bases, or risk letting British soil be used to commit war crimes.

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

He is insane. And this is an open declaration of intended genocide. If any other world leader said this, there would be sanctions and an arrest warrant, not just for him, but for his whole regime.

Our discussion about the possibility of global food system collapse, and what needs to happen to avert it. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

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The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Dumb as a fucking rock.

Irony died when Kissinger accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, but this runs it a close second.

Ushering in the end of humanity because a bunch of “alpha” white men are too scared to stand up to a demented old man who’s caked in makeup.

Again, I don’t see how you can read this as anything other than Trump trying to normalize the idea of using nuclear weapons

Periodic reminder that Markey has a bill to take away nuclear first strike powers from the president. Possibly the single most important piece of legislation a Dem majority could pass. No one should be trusted with such power.

Sick of these mad, bad old men Impotence that wants to kill everything out of vengeance Fuck them

I'm imagining a sci fi scenario where things go strategic by Wednesday as four astronauts aboard the Artemis II watch, helplessly, the human species self-terminate from their vantage point of 250,000 miles up. What would they do then? What could they?

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!" NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

Trump's threat against bridges in Iran made my stomach feel like I was plummeting down a lift shaft and then I realised why: it's because the target of the Hiroshima nuclear detonation was a bridge: Aioi Bridge in central Hiroshima. It's time for me to go outside, spend some time in my garden.

Fair point about the apostrophe.

Talk of US defeat in Iran is dangerous because Trump absolutely would use a nuclear weapon to save face. Here is the precise risk of electing a malignant narcissist to the role of Commander in Chief. Everything is personal. So his pathology becomes that of the state.

It cannot be ruled out that this is a threat to use a nuclear weapon against Iran

Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

Putin and Orban coordinating on a desperate false flag operation that everyone knew was coming.

This is why the 25th Amendment exists. This is the purpose of having the 25th Amendment. To not use this power to remove the president is not a passive act, a mere option: it is a positive decision to misuse the constitution.

Stewart Lee with the best marmalade sandwich joke ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDUe...

The Lord works in mysterious ways . . .

I'm vaguely aware there's some Brexity collective paroxsym over marmalade. Another manufactured moral panic by the insane right wing shit stirring corporate controlled rags in this country, probably. Too bored to find out anything more about it. Yawn.

There are so many everyday heroes in Ukraine, I lost count long ago. This is Polina who feeds displaced cats in Kharkiv, even in the winter cold. The Hachiko team brings her pet food to support her efforts. Happy Caturday! 😺

The only sliver of pleasure I get from the Trump regime is the deep schadenfreude that results from watching his loyalists get kicked to the curb, as they all do, eventually. I hope they all feel the desolation of having sold their souls to the smirking orange devil. There can be no redemption.