🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
‼️ Russia: “Significantly above-normal winter precipitation has led to snow accumulation in 16 regions of the country, creating a risk of severe flooding.”
This is something that might be worth watching 👀
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“We are trapped between the regime that is killing us with machine guns, and a foreign power has likely decided that we are collateral damage.”
I think there is a vg case for the Alternative Vote (pluralist majoritarianism) UK's evolving party system - not least as of balanced use for voters on different sides of political spectrum. It allows sincere voting by every voter + strategic choices by those who care
www.ft.com/content/38d8...
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Nigel Farage, the front runner to be the next British Prime Minister, is meeting with President Trump today. Time to sink Keir Starmer's ghastly Chagos surrender deal for good. @Nigel_ Farage
Nigel Farage is meeting Trump today, and you just know that he's going to fight Britain's corner and spell out our sovereignty and not desperately suck up to.... oh no, wait... that's the other Nigel Farage... the one I dreamed about when I got food poisoning from a slice of lemon sponge cake.
Its always unnerving to see people talking about war like its sports game, supporting their respective teams, like its not something with extraordinary destruction that, under the BEST of circumstances, those who haven't been obliterated, will need to spend many decades attempting to rebuild from.
“Patriot” Farage is off stabbing Britain in the back, as usual.
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
Probably worth remembering that countries like Saudi Arabia are holding up our sham bullshit tech economy and that something like a war that puts pressure on them and disrupts their operations could set off a chain of dominoes that a lot of people aren't really discussing.
But because of their suffocating conviction that everything is always Fundamentally Normal, that America is a place where nothing ever really happens or changes, those same people are incapable of recognizing the enormity of what we’re doing, when we’re the ones doing it.
The White House position is that it is no big deal that Putin is helping Iran try to kill US soldiers.
Always remember rule #1. Putin can do no wrong in Trump’s eyes.
Wonder why that is?
Lebanese authorities: Israeli attacks have displaced 110,162 people since Monday, representing 26,342 families.
Around 512 reception centers were opened by the state to host them.
Grammar are woke
Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London
Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Time magazine has released a new cover titled “Trump’s War.”
The cover features red caps styled after Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again,” but instead of the slogan they display the names of different countries: Somalia, Iraq, Venezuela, Iran, Syria, Nigeria, Yemen, and Ecuador.
Wigglesworth flags the audacity: SpaceX targeting a $1.75 trillion IPO despite sub-$20bn revenues and post-merger losses. FT Alphaville calls it potentially 'the biggest bagholder operation in history' - harsh but the maths looks wild even by tech standards.
17+ active territorial disputes with neighbouring countries, including the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan, India, and Japan, backing totalitarian oppression in N Korea & Burma, committing totalitarian oppression in Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, + much more. Hope that helps as a start.
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
"Trump is not the architect of the Iran war, only its vehicle."
On who's really in charge:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...
Paralympic chief says that injured Nazi soldiers should be allowed to compete in future Games.
“It doesn’t matter to us what they have done in the past in Poland, Czechoslovakia, or Belgium.”
Russia is helping Iran to target US military assets in Middle East ft.trib.al/gAtT8mJ
What are our teams witnessing in #Lebanon? How is Doctors Without Borders responding? Jeremy Ristord, Country Director, updates on the situation and our activities:
Depleting US stocks of arms on an illegal and unnecessary war is great news for our enemies, very bad news for places like Ukraine which will be finding it harder to get what they desperately need. (Note: Our ROI on arms to Ukraine is vastly greater than it would be in even best case Iran scenario.)
A story that is not being told enough about the Iran War is that the U.S. and Israel have totally different, incompatible goals. The U.S. says it’s targeting weapons systems. Israel wants regime change and a failed state. This conflict leads to total incoherence.
Watch closely. The Administration may seek to get in bed with the dangerous Iranian cult MEK. The MEK was tied to Saddam Hussein and was on the US terrorist list. Rudy Giuliani, Louis Freeh, Newt Gingrich and others supported and took money from them to get them off the list. Bad bedfellows!
War crimes update.
This is a really good blog summarising some of the issues with the UK Government's recent move to place a bar on students from 4 countries being granted visas to the come to the UK on the basis that they are committing 'visa abuse' by claiming asylum.
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sussex-centr...
Drone video showed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem empty at the start of the third Friday in Ramadan, after Israeli authorities restricted access to holy sites.
Also important to note that the Home Office's *own figures* imply that care workers/dependents are a fiscal *benefit* in terms of the government's fiscal rules (and on every year for next 30 years).
It is Mahmood who has a fiscal "black hole" to fill.
