1. We don't need any help. 2.Why won't they help? 3.If they don't help there'll be consequences. 4.Why is no one helping? GOTO 1.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... As we say here in U.K. “what a wanker”.

April 12, 2026 By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns, was almost back to the Federal Reserve’s goal of 2%. Even so, during the 2024 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised he would bring prices down on Day One….

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson: “The Strait of Hormuz was already open before the war. You are the ones who created the war out of nothing and closed the strait to the rest of the world.”

Iran has threatened to close Bab el-Mandeb, the gateway to the Red Sea, in response to the US blockade, Fox reports. This would be carried out by its proxies, the Houthis.

Apparently couch fuckers are not popular and politically, infect those they endorse with election losses. ==================

How many ships are crossing the Strait of Hormuz? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If victory looks like this, loss must be truly devastating. Trump the winner.

It’s a first step. A long way to go - and that’s just in Hungary. Katya Adler: Jubilation in Budapest will be felt in Europe but leaves Moscow cold www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump has made the Iranian leadership into heroes. A difficult task. But in many ways they are. They are standing against a bully. People should take note.

2.5 minutes on how Trump administration has been undermining elections over recent weeks youtube.com/shorts/g4PaD...

“the head of Palantir UK, Louis Mosley, indicated that NHS data could be used for immigration enforcement. Mosley said that if Reform won with a “clear public mandate” for it, the company would execute plans for Reform to use NHS records.” #NoToPalantir www.thenerve.news/p/reform-dep...

Israel is a rogue state and is deliberately trying to break the ceasefire and use the opportunity to annex part of Lebanon.

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

Jesus. Really? Seems as if the deathblow was the US not providing the legally required letter of consent (which they had agreed to last year). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We have more details about NASA's planned Space Reactor-1, which will use nuclear-electric propulsion to travel to Mars. It will carry three Mars helicopters that will land via a novel "skyfall" technique. Science instruments on SR-1 are planned but TBD. 🔭🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Let's face it. It's got to be worth a try.

So Trump wants to open the Strait of Hormuz but is now going to blockade it. Run that by me one more time.

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2... Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live - BBC News

We already knew that Farage's Reform is filled with mega chancers & grifters. It is widely known that Richard Tice has aggressively avoided tax legally due. Now we find out his company failed to pay tax legally due. So much for public services & standards. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Big day for Hungary tomorrow.

Somewhere on earth. Good morning

Diana Malivani - Spring Garden. Oil on canvas, 2022.

Yes. The chance this happened by luck and skilled guesswork I’d rate as nil. It smells a lot like corruption. Worse. Making war to make money. But, surely there is a paper trail that should lead to the originator of those bids? So what is being done to investigate them officially?

USA - note how Ireland is reacting over gasoline & Diesel prices. On the streets. For days.

That'd be right. Authoritarian 101. Don't let him!

Bit damp this morning.

BBC News - Irish government finalising fuel package deal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News - EU's EES fingerprint and photo travel rules come into force - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#FlowersOnFriday 🌱 #JBCFlowers

Painting by Jacek Malinowski ‘Spring’ 2019. Acrylic on canvas. Size 120 x 80 cm.

This is an excellent interview with Heather Cox Richardson. Great way to get to know Maxwell Frost. 👏👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=10eO... @maxwellfrost.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

When Trump lets Putin sell Russian oil to fund murder in Ukraine, this is what you do:

Friday Friends #9 @billyjackliberal.bsky.social @palehorse.bsky.social @buzzardsoul.bsky.social @soul-soldier.bsky.social @shadowprofile.bsky.social @love4billyjack.bsky.social @suzzisulli.bsky.social @thepirateswife.bsky.social @blackheart33.bsky.social @dbraende.bsky.social

All these MAGA Red Hats that are saying "I didn't vote for this." Maybe you didn't. But you sure as hell voted for HIM. And he is following the Heritage Foundation playbook and appointing a bunch of tools to enact their shitty plans. You didn't own the liberals, but you own this.

Journalist hits back at the Trump administration 👏 "Our job as journalists is to report on what is happening in a war. "Our job is not to try and please the president or only report the statements he likes."

“I delivered bags of money from Mogilevich to the police chief, and more for Orbán": Former Budapest gang member László Kovács tells all Putin had kompromat on Orban theins.press/en/confessio...

Cuando eres niño, quieres ser adolescente. Cuando eres adolescente, quieres ser adulto. Cuando eres adulto, quieres ser gato.

So turns out the “London is collapsing” narrative isn’t grassroots at all. It’s being pumped out by bots, content farms, and foreign-aligned networks then laundered through politicians and media. Manufacture the fear. Repeat it enough. Turn it into policy.

Farage is not a leader. He’s an agitator that’s all. He’s good at it but he’s not a nice guy. A kind of lower deck malcontent ringleader.

Offered with Sniggering

Climate change. Amidst all the chaos, lets not forget about others, feet feathers or fins, we're all in it together. For future generations. All of them. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Karen Hollingsworth (American, born 1955) "Accuity", 2008. Oil on Canvas, 30 × 40 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Endstation. Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, 29 August 1962. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing.). #Berlin

I'm not a fan of this Zak Polanski. There. I've said it. Something, for me, just doesn't sit right.

“Why aren't you criticising Donald Trump more vocally? He is clearly now habitually lying, delusional and you're not standing up to him. Worse than that you're sending the King to play nice with him" - Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Or Jack Smith, Leticia James, any black or mexican woman reporter team, the epstein survivors who saw him...