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His mother, father, wife & son were all killed in Trump's 1st strikes.

In this case, revenge is a dish that he may think best served nuclear-hot.

09.03.2026 06:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

wild that we spent years with a debate in Europe about whether governments can make the case to their populations to endure higher energy prices as part of collective solidarity against Russia etc only to watch Trump say "fuck it" and skyrocket energy prices overnight with no justification at all

09.03.2026 02:35 👍 185 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 0

Dumber than Suez yet or no?

09.03.2026 04:07 👍 160 🔁 16 💬 20 📌 0
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Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

09.03.2026 05:24 👍 440 🔁 228 💬 17 📌 17
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Pentagon removes senior official from Joint Staff post, sources say U.S. Vice Admiral Fred Kacher only took the post in December.

Trump has dismissed Vice Admiral Fred Kacher, deputy director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for issuing warnings to him about what might go wrong in a new war against Iran, Reuters report. www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

27.02.2026 21:19 👍 608 🔁 406 💬 63 📌 88

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

09.03.2026 04:28 👍 498 🔁 137 💬 5 📌 5
Tweet from Daniel Pipes: "The uprising in Iran in early January suggested an even greater insurgency would then follow on the U.S.-Israeli campaign to erode regime power. Yet, the populace now appears cowed into near-silence.

This ranks as the most surprising and disappointing development of the past week. Without a new uprising, the regime will likely remain in power, less powerful but more awful than ever. 

(The picture below is from Jan. 10 in Tehran.)"

Tweet from Daniel Pipes: "The uprising in Iran in early January suggested an even greater insurgency would then follow on the U.S.-Israeli campaign to erode regime power. Yet, the populace now appears cowed into near-silence. This ranks as the most surprising and disappointing development of the past week. Without a new uprising, the regime will likely remain in power, less powerful but more awful than ever. (The picture below is from Jan. 10 in Tehran.)"

Amazing how quickly "We're fighting this war for freedom of the Iranian people" becomes "The Iranian people are at fault for not rising up."

08.03.2026 18:44 👍 1911 🔁 363 💬 136 📌 188

This is what ecocide looks like.

08.03.2026 17:41 👍 4090 🔁 1517 💬 82 📌 36
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I'm out of words here

08.03.2026 12:44 👍 3096 🔁 1206 💬 93 📌 142

BREAKING: At least 394, including 83 children, killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Health Ministry says

Trump dogwalked into an escalating global war by Netanyahu and Christian nationalists.

What could go wrong?

08.03.2026 15:14 👍 951 🔁 345 💬 34 📌 12

BREAKING: The US has confirmed those 168 school girls and staff were liberated by a Tomahawk missile and their rescuers were liberated by a 2nd Tomahawk in a "double-tap". That's two liberations for the price of one. If you don't support this, I can only assume you hate freedom.

08.03.2026 20:13 👍 332 🔁 112 💬 15 📌 5

One of the greatest ironies of Putin's war is that an operation intended to "demilitarise" Ukraine has completely militarised Ukrainian society

08.03.2026 20:25 👍 131 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 0

It sounds like there’s a sort of low-level war going on in Iraq that hasn’t been fully reported

An Iraqi friend tells me that Iranian-backed militias are attacking various targets across Iraq, and U.S. and Israeli forces are hitting back. They say this is happening more widely than what‘s reported

08.03.2026 19:35 👍 34 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1

As if I couldn't love Jessie Buckley any more, then she goes & does one of the most beautiful, raw, honest & heartfelt #desertislanddiscs of the decade 💞

#did #DesertIslandDiscs

08.03.2026 11:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

08.03.2026 08:52 👍 3032 🔁 964 💬 90 📌 41

Turns out all the Brexiters shilling for Trump really hate British sovereignty.

08.03.2026 09:13 👍 1007 🔁 196 💬 36 📌 2

It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love

08.03.2026 07:09 👍 830 🔁 218 💬 25 📌 5

She was also a dreadful, mendacious MP. Did an extended commission in an LA in her constituency: she & her team wasted hundreds of hours of scarce staff time on fatuous accusations, and were v rude to them in the process (esp the more junior LA staff). Didn't do a single +ve thing for constituents.

08.03.2026 09:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you want to see what a society that really does ban its residents from exercising the most basic freedom of speech, as online racist liars like to describe the UK, have a look at what various British ‘economic migrants’ are posting about the attacks on Dubai.

08.03.2026 09:00 👍 784 🔁 150 💬 27 📌 2

Exactly. And Trump can’t cope with Starmer’s probity because it makes it harder to hide his own culpability re the war in Iran.

08.03.2026 08:16 👍 1021 🔁 182 💬 34 📌 2

I'm sure it's just a massive coincidence that they used all the same words, ideas and punctuation.

08.03.2026 09:15 👍 1380 🔁 368 💬 88 📌 6

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to President Trump’s latest outburst.

“The job of the British PM is to take decisions in the national interest of the U.K., not in the interests of other countries… we don’t outsource foreign policy to other countries”.

#bbclaurak

08.03.2026 09:10 👍 914 🔁 216 💬 55 📌 27
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This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts.

Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently.

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

07.03.2026 10:01 👍 1353 🔁 521 💬 81 📌 17
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was
debris from a successful interception
Everyone is ok.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was
debris from a successful interception
Everyone is ok. Stay calm, everyone is safe.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok. Stay calm, everyone is safe.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was
debris from a successful interception

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was
debris from a successful interception.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception.

I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just
debris from a successful interception.

If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.

07.03.2026 23:00 👍 2180 🔁 518 💬 208 📌 86

Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?

08.03.2026 09:08 👍 1643 🔁 402 💬 121 📌 14
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BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

08.03.2026 01:10 👍 9353 🔁 5640 💬 957 📌 1034

Western countries backing what the US and Israel are doing in Iran aren’t just going to lose legitimacy in the eyes of their domestic publics, but are shredding any notion a new alliance of middle powers or whatever can defend any semblance of an international order.

08.03.2026 03:57 👍 526 🔁 142 💬 8 📌 5
The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is
finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East.
That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer -- But we will
remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won!
President DONALD J. TRUMP

The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer -- But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won! President DONALD J. TRUMP

History lesson.

Our once great ally didn't come to our aid until 1917.

Our once great ally didn't come to our aid again until 1941.

07.03.2026 21:58 👍 1531 🔁 452 💬 134 📌 20
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Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

07.03.2026 21:59 👍 1743 🔁 473 💬 73 📌 47
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07.03.2026 22:15 👍 294 🔁 30 💬 6 📌 2