Here’s my cliff notes summary of Pete Hegseth’s big military address today

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

Strange that it should be a revelation. It was simply an extension via secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which was always notorious for carving up Eastern Europe.

An article I’ve done for @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/since-wwii-i...

"Charlie Kirk called Britain a “totalitarian third world hellhole”. Among Maga influencers it's common to talk of the UK's coming civil war. By all means Britain should deliver fruits to the Trumpian volcano. But it would be wise not to live in its shadow." My column. www.ft.com/content/37b4...

Failure to ugly cry over a dead podcaster now a Federal offense.

“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.” www.adl.org/resources/re...

While any western soldiers in Ukraine would be legitimate targets, they'll be safe from Russia if they stay away from hospitals, kindergartens and apartment blocks.

💥Viktor Orbán bashing Russia in 2008, after it attacked Georgia: "The peoples of Central Europe have a duty to speak out... when an independent country is under military aggression." A year later, he met Putin one-on-one for the first time. Everything changed. The rest is history.

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to stop my simpleminded nephew from destroying your country."

The internet is forever!!

Everyone asks if Putin is winning. Wrong question. He's won for himself while losing for Russia. 🧵Let me explain

OTD in 2008, soon after I invaded Georgia, I was interviewed by Germany's biggest TV channel ARD in which I said I recognize all of Ukraine’s borders, including Crimea. 3 days later we claimed a “sphere of influence” that includes Ukraine.

Take a moment to appreciate Harry Truman‘s negotiating skills. He got Hitler to surrender everything, agree to Germany’s occupation and then shoot himself in the head.

I spent weeks researching and writing this article, and I’d be so happy if more people read it!

Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.

July 8, 2023

‘Delay is catastrophic’: how instant antibiotics could save thousands of African children in comas

Russia attacked #Ukraine with 537 aerial strike weapons last night: • 477 Shahed drones&drones-imitators of various types; • 4 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles; • 7 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles; • 41 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles; • 5 Kalibr cruise missiles;

It was a tough week

This means Iran has retained 400 kg of 60% HEU, the ability to manufacture centrifuges, and one, possibly two underground enrichment sites. That is also to say nothing of possible secret sites, which opponents of the JCPOA used to invoke all the freaking time. 11/17

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

In grim "there's always a tweet" news.

Trump to Zelensky in February "You're gambling with World War Three!" Trump in June “Anyway, I just bombed Iran’s nuclear sites spectacular strike, tremendous success.”

“This is rapidly becoming Trump’s war.” - Meaghan Mobbs (Keith Kellogg’s daughter)

I think Green Day summed it up well.

Engagement with a government account dropped by half in one year.

Merz's 'dirty work' remark is appalling (as is the apparent quiet approval by other Europeans). It's like people openly admit that this whole 'rules-based thing' is just a pretense.

“US officials briefed by the Israelis weren’t convinced that the information pointed to a decision by Tehran to build a bomb, according to a senior intelligence official, another U.S. official and two congressional aides familiar with the discussions.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

North Korea called and they want their talking points back

Did we hire her from North Korea?

A powerful message to opposition leaders, dissidents, cooperators, operatives and allies in Iran, Russia, and around the globe. After you are done risking your life to help us, we will sell you out and screw you over. Because the current govt will use you and discard you.

Nobel Prize in Physics? President Trump claiming Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine had it not been kicked out of the G8 for invading Ukraine is a revolutionary idea that challenges the very foundation of our understanding of reality itself - that time flows in one direction.

Look who's talking about violating the UN Charter, lol.

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

Did you ever think you'd live in a time when a KGB agent turned a Republican President of the USA into his press secretary?

I need to start a Quincy Institute version of the New York Times Pitchbot: "The U.S. Navy just destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers at Midway. But that won't win the war, and it might lead to escalation by Japan."

It's Monday. You might hate your job but at least you're not a Russian general about to explain to me how 1/3 of my strategic aviation got blown up in a morning by some cheap Alibaba drones.

The US is about to become the first Western country to introduce sanctions against most of Israeli citizens

"If you were the Russian authorities, what would you do for victory?" "I would stop the war altogether." Russian "Z-blogger" Maksim Kalashnikov went to the frontline in Russia's Kursk region&interviewed a Russian officer who said that the war must be stopped,it makes no sense

I'd bet President Trump has not been made aware of the fact that Russian fascists murdered around 100,000 Ukrainian civilians in Mariupol and dumped most of the corpses into mass graves.

Seriously, no comments allowed?. And that is a silly explanation. Most people are indifferent to what’s going on in the world. Others are influenced by pro-Israeli media. Others find its not black and white given the Oct 7 attacks and Hamas’s stance.

An article I penned summing up a recent conference held at the ANU. theconversation.com/australias-k...

“If you don’t engage in good faith we’ll have to abandon our support for your adversary” is quite a negotiating position.

Trump: "Every time Zelenskyy -- I think he's the greatest salesman in the world. Far better than me. Zelenskyy, he comes to Washington, he walks away with $100 million every time he came. Now his abilities were shrinking."

Hell, they won’t even allow us to get criminals out of the Oval Office