Russian forces attempted to shoot down a real stork with an FPV interceptor drone on the southern front. The stork narrowly escaped by entering a sharp spin at the last moment to evade the attack.

The decline has been fast, steep, and unparalleled.

I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh

Interesting: A Ilyushin Il-76 operated by Syrian Air has landed at Damascus International Airport, arriving from the Russian-operated Khmeimim Air Base. Former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly used the same aircraft to flee from Damascus to Khmeimim Air Base on the night of Dec 8, 2024.

Next they will be allowed to smoke and carry guns.

Reform UK candidate claimed COVID was a "staged event" by the US military, designed to control the population David Booth, who is standing for Farage's party in Croydon, said "powerful forces" in the Pentagon had seeded the virus Covid-19 bereaved families call on Reform to sack him

Reagan’s OMB Director:

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. What are we doing here? It’s not journalism, whatever it is.

When one of your last slivers of hope is the 25th Amendment… And then you remember Step 1 of it requires JD Vance and Trump’s sycophantic cabinet of compromised dipshits to invoke it.

I’m trying to re-home a poodle that barks A LOT. If anyone’s interested I’ll hop over my neighbor’s fence and get it for you.

youtube.com/shorts/aInlA... Priceless from @mrjamesob.bsky.social . I can not unsee it now.

Mueller was a decorated combat Marine who leaves behind a wife and two children. There is no defending this. Trump is scum.

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.

In the US you can have gold-plated health insurance and still find yourself out of pocket to the tune of thousands of dollars, or worse find you're not covered for your illness. We have to be ready to fight tooth and nail to prevent our NHS being dismantled. This is worth a read ⤵️

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Nigel Farage told us Brexit would give £3 billion more a year to our NHS He now says Britain is so broke, our NHS needs to be scrapped replaced by US-style healthcare insurance bankrupting thousands, leaving thousands more to die He lied before He hasn't apologised He's still lying

I still think about this a lot.

Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

Just as the established press in America largely failed to do its job with Trump in both 2016 and 2024, our media is similarly paving the way for Reform UK. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medi...

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

"Protecting the public" 🤬

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”

zombie hands clawing at a zombie world.

Chrissie's got a message for Wes Streeting. No more private finance in our NHS! ✍️Sign our petition today vist.ly/4f64x

Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.

Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government. Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Absolutely this!

Labour MP Simon Opher - "We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. "Measures that create bureaucracy and insecurity do not offer clarity or strengthen control – they cost money, waste time and weaken the system."

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2

America should be ashamed of itself.

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

#SLUFWednesday - A clean A-7D Corsair II landing at Nellis AFB. 008, my lucky number. Shot by @iamkevinj.bsky.social

It's been helicopters for the last 30 years or so at Gilze-Rijen Air Base - so it's good to see some fast jet action again at this local base. Photos by Roel Reijne.

A helicopter spiralled out of control and crashed into palms trees above a California beach. The Huntington Beach Fire Department said five people were hospitalised, including two who were in the helicopter and were “safely pulled from the wreckage.” No cause on the incident was released.

The dumbest possible people are making decisions that are causing incredible reputational harm to the US, and actual harm to its citizens.

Hideous, what are you becoming America?

#PhantomPhriday. Another interesting pair of shots by @iamkevinj.bsky.social of a QF-4E back in the 90's.

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Nigel Farage complained vigorously about “the UK’s readiness to criminalise merely unpleasant, challenging, or incendiary online speech" (discussing Graham Linehan and Lucy Connolly). But of course that was when violence was being urged against immigrants or trans people. A racist and a hypocrite.

Keir Starmer: “Think about it- when was the last time Nigel Farage said something positive about Britain’s future? He can’t. He doesn’t like Britain. he wants to turn our proud country into a competition of victims. “

What an embarrassment America has become.