Trump on the stump, 2024: "I will tell you, you're not going to have a war with me and you're not going to have a Third World War with me."
Trump attacking Iran, 2026: "We projected 4 to 5 weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that" "Wars can be fought forever, and very successfully"
'The Kremlin said on Friday that the war in Iran had fuelled demand for Russian energy products, noting that buyers such as China and India were guided by their national interests.'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
alpha male update /s
Imagine an Iranian bomb had slaughtered 165 Israeli school kids.
Imagine the response of the Western media and politicians.
And note the lack of outrage and disgust here.
This is horrifying because it implies the Iranian school mistargeting was down to Claude layer in Palantir systems. What’s more horrifying is that if the rest of the article is accurate AI was a massive force multiplier for US/Israel strikes.
Ian Botham with Lou Ferrigno, the 'Incredible Hulk' at the LA Dodgers' stadium in Los Angeles in September 1981. Botham was in LA for an all-stars match (Paul Popper)
Top: Extreme #drought has developed very early… it’s one of the driest periods on record this early in season. If there’s a spark, the ground is very flammable.
Bottom: We are in dry season, and a dry La Niña, so prospects for meaningful rain are limited as evidenced by the model prediction… 1/
British values
I can't stop thinking about what Bezos has done to the Washington Post. But I also don't know why I & anyone else is shocked. I went undercover in an Amazon 'fulfilment centre' in 2013 and saw first-hand exactly who Bezos is.
We have all been SO naive.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament.
But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Guardiola can be both right to speak out and a performative hypocrite on Sudan from @barneyronay.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
#China’s solar capacity set to overtake coal in ‘historic’ shift. #Wind and #solar projected to account for half of China’s total installed power capacity.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
This is pretty much spot on!!
The plaintiffs are asking the court to declare the Gold Card program unlawful and to halt its implementation.
Unhinged
From VAR to generative AI, modern life is making me think more and more the luddites were right. Smash the machines. This is technology failing to make things better.
Why are the BBC *still* giving generous airtime to the multiply disgraced Peter Mandelson? #WATO
Deeply weird and menacing scenes in Minneapolis. ICE agents sat in masks and balaclavas in unmarked, often blacked out cars, watching local residents. They themselves being observed by a network of locals, trying to deter them from mounting raids. Profoundly abnormal.
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
Steven Skarsgård at the European Film Awards in Berlin on Saturday night, regarding Greenland:
“It’s absurd, isn’t it? It’s a little man who got megalomania, and he’s trying to take the world. He took Venezuela, suddenly, and that’s for Chevron. He’ll take Greenland for minerals. He’s a criminal.”
Anonymous Tory MP in 2018:
"If we try to cancel Brexit, we destroy ourselves. If we go ahead with it, we destroy the country."
They did both. And now the culprits are running from the wreckage.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, "It is the complicit silence of some, the turning a blind eye of others"
"We have not accepted the double standards when we talk about Gaza, Ukraine, Greenland or Venezuela"
London* gets its first Reform MP: Andrew Rosindell.
*Admittedly Andrew dislikes being part of London so much he has repeatedly campaigned for his constituency to be moved into Essex.
Nationalist, but not for your nation is usually a position that ends in interesting ways for those expressing it.
Lovely piece from @brewin.bsky.social on Macclesfield Town’s journey and what it means
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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