South Park speaks truth: Hegseth is a douche

Department of War has no Defence.

New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street

"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #PWR Round 5 I truly feel bad for the Tigers. They are so spirited and passionate on attack, but their defence is full of holes and are SO outclassed. They are improving BUT. Loughborough looked like they where chilling half of the match, increasing the tempo a few times & it was more than enough.

A sad way for Eben Etzebeth’s career to end, but it must end there.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #PWR Round 5 Wasn't expecting this one to be so one sided. Good defence by Trailfinders but Kévin Rouet influence over Sarries is more and more noticeable. Their pace and ruck speed has improved so much the hosts had barely any time to play their own game. This Saracens are championship material.

The most worrying thing for other nations is that SA have been scrappy and occasionally rubbish this November. They are are so far ahead they don’t have to be great. The few times they have clicked they are unplayable.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #PWR Round 5 At Sale a tough fight in the mud ends with a draw, 2nd of the season for the Chiefs. Twice did the Sharks get a 2 try lead, and twice did Exeter got back on their feet. Sale maybe deserved the win a tiny bit more, but both teams can be equally (un)happy with how it ended.

GB7s Women’s squad is almost entirely changed from last season. Practically all the players are U20s with only two experienced players. No Scots involved. Lambs to the slaughter, I’m afraid.

So she is accused of lying by saying she might put up taxes, that her manifesto promised she wouldn’t, and in the end she kept her manifesto promise. She really is going to be accused of lying whatever she does.

This started pretty much immediately, I have already heard several examples, as well as people looking to withdraw change of conditions applications and decideling not to apply. Families will be left destitute

Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.

I just want free movement back. I want to know that me or my kids have a wider world we can call home if we want.

About time too!

They frame it as asylum seekers living high on the hog, but you click through and it turns out the people in question got arbitrarily moved to the other side of the country and the home office didn’t update their GP so they had to drive back. Layers & layers of cruelty and incompetence

Assuming every boat Trump and Hegseth blew up contained the amount of drugs they claim, Hernandez was responsible for bringing more drugs into the US than every one of them had combined. By far. And yet, Trump murders 80+ people and counting while pardoning the narco kingpin.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen James Brown with Maceo Sly Stone P-Funk in various formations, also with Maceo and including Bootsy with Deee-Lite Sun Ra Prince

I think I’ve solved it, what if the WRU shut down Leinster instead. That’s a win-win-win scenario. #Rugby

I abandoned bringing my wife and kids back to the States despite her green card application being accepted because there is no way I am bringing her into this volatile environment. Just the thought that she could get thrown into a detention center makes me shudder with fear and grief.

How could I see this as anything other than a direct threat to my foreign-born wife and children?

Leinster was it.

“That were diabolical! I can’t spake. You bottleless git, Campbell!”

@alicesoapbox.bsky.social is so good at this.

jfc. ht @cavandy.bsky.social

Not a robot

📺Here's your rugby TV guide for the weekend🛋️ 🗺️Quilter Nations Series x 1⃣ 🇫🇷Top 14 x 4⃣ 🌍URC x 8⃣ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿PREM x 5⃣ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Champ x 7⃣ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿PWR x 4⃣ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish Premiership x 1⃣ ☘️ AIL x 3⃣ 🟰over 44 hours of rugby 🏉

💯 this. Thatcher & Kinnock were probably no cleverer than most politicians today. But read their speeches: they made serious arguments about the nature of the state & the meaning of democracy. No one wants philosophers in charge. But you do need a compass if you're going to steer in a straight line

This is also taken from an online right wing American “christian” view. Another sign that’s where she does all her “thinking”.

There's something mesmerising about Badenoch's combination of supreme intellectual confidence and "Jesus? Didn't he play for Real Madrid?" command of detail. It's like somebody spliced the certainty of Margaret Thatcher with the work ethic of Boris Johnson.

Scotland is on the case, too!

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Cox in the Prem tonight, so a good game should follow. #Rugby #NEWvLEI

Aside from the tax, the lack of movement always interests me. I’ve never lived in a house for 10 years. My parents and their parents downsized a few times. Why don’t other people downsize.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind…” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Stephen Miller’s culture is not compatible with Western Civilisation.

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

New substack; how talk of "the country" often serves a right-wing purpose: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-country

As a measure of the weapons-grade idiocy, she attempts in saying there was no Roman state during the Principate to rely on the same 1st Timothy that states Christians should pray for those directing the state and that the rich should provide for the poor.

Badenoch is such a ridiculous person.

Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #PWR returns. Sale has gotten a bonus on every match. Let's see if they can keep it up. Trailfinders are on a high after smashing Bristol, but Saracens may be too much for them. Loughborough receives Leicester, who have yet to get any table point. And Bristol have a tough weekend ahead of them.

Her father is British. Her grandmother’s home was destroyed. Officials can allow this but choose not to.

abolish the Home Office

At this point I think they are relying on a cloning/breeding programme to get players. So they need just a little more time.

Me in the dairy section of Delhaize right now as 'Atomic' comes on.