Can't Republicans just impeach him? Unless they don't want to.

Ascent of Farming From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1436, January 2017.

Oh, so it's all been down hill since 1989? This seemingly contradicts Hannan's peroration during the 2016 referendum that we were big enough and powerful enough to detach from the EU. (Video from 6 mins in) youtu.be/FZRuIhtC9Mo?...

What a difference a year makes.

Ah, Russian Patriots

Hilariously, they've put this exact statement out word for word on Facebook. At least on Twitter or on here, the 'there's a lot of noise' opener is bizarrely combative and aggressive, but on Facebook it is just gloriously out of pocket in how pointlessly belligerent it is.

I think European leaders in failing to condemn the US invasion of Venezuela out of some fear of provoking Trump’s ire are missing the point that (a) Trump clearly doesn’t care what they think anyway, (b) Trump couldn’t hold them in more contempt anyway. /1

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Trump IS a mob boss. This is the worst of all worlds. Whether Venezuelans themselves will go along with his scheme remains to be seen. I somehow doubt it, meaning this is going to turn ugly very fast, while Russia and China laugh at American hubris.

This chart shows the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. As you can see, AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed the site. It is only a matter of time before the site shuts down completely. The golden age of independent web is over.

When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.

NB this piece is from a couple of months ago - published in October - but certainly it’s very interesting context.

Truly Trumpian grift. Insider trading on an illegal invasion.

On his first day in office, the Mayor of New York toured the crumbling apartment of one of his constituents. On his 348th day in office, the President of the United States shops for marble and onyx for a ballroom nobody wants.

This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.

Colombian President Petro on Epstein’s collaborator Donald Trump: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil." #OpDeathEaters

Trump's face starts drooping as his eyes keep closing

One by one, European leaders are tossing their remaining credibility on Ukraine into the bonfire of Trump appeasement. Unbelievable hypocrisy.

"Don't hurt us Daddy Trump, we can bomb too!"

The guardrails are gone. www.axios.com/2026/01/03/t...

If only Venezuela hadn't poked the Russian puppet bear

This is what happens when you recklessly extend BRICS right up to America’s borders and ignore America’s legitimate security concerns.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Been watching the BBC coverage for 15 mins and there's no mention yet of the illegality of US intervention under US law [let alone international law]. Can't help think that Trump's lawsuit is causing them to feel unable to report what is happening properly.

None of us are safe. Nobody. And that includes Americans. Not all leaders are the same - and it matters who sits at the top so a big screw you to the people who elected Trump and the people who are still saying that Harris would have been just as bad.

the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams

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The European response to US intervention in Venezuela is a reminder that until we have an independent European defence industry, no country in Europe is sovereign

Trump claimed Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, agreed to help the U.S. run the country. Looks like he was lying because she just went on TV to express support for Maduro and say "we will never again be slaves ... we will never again be a colony of any empire, whatever its nature.”

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THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.

Good morning to all the "I voted for Trump because I wanted America out of all those wars abroad" people.

Venezuela now, because he wants the oil. He wants the oil under Greenland too. And under Canada. He's openly called for them to be part of the USA. How long before he decides to bomb a couple of NATO members to get his own way? The USA is a rogue nation.

A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Where do I go to get my apology from all the folks on both sides and center of the political spectrum who insisted Trump wasn't a warmonger or imperialist and would be different to the Democrats and Republicans and (especially) neocons who came before him?

Amazing record for the FIFA

Basically, we are going to do what we want. Try and stop us.

Nigel Farage uses em dashes now, it appears. Got ChatGPT writing your international relations statements, Nigel?

However unlikely, it’s now feasible that Trump could decide Starmer is an illegitimate leader and seek to install Farage. Feasible.

Mice

The Epstein files are not in Venezuela

For those who have to use Windows 11 but don't want AI and ad filled crap. Look for LTSC version. It's Windows but no other apps, reminds me of XP and 7.