Philip

First, Iran is not an imminent threat to the United States or Israel. The regime is brutal and repressive, but not suicidal. History and intelligence bear this out. There is no reason to do this now.

I've heard the Senate has some experts in Medical fraud.

President Nixon has with rare exceptions limited his analysis of campaign events. He judges President Trump's speech this evening to be a campaign event, and therefore will monitor it but refrain from live analysis.

37% is terrifying

Welcome to Marvellous Marmalade Monday

Every morning I wake up choosing to believe it will be a good day. Life is precious and unpredictable, so I refuse to waste it on a bad one.

As Dolly Parton said
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails...

so this dish isn't steerable?

On the way home from #fosdem

STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT NIXON

It is a founding principle of our country that all Americans should feel safe in their homes and free of government harrassment.

That principle is under threat.

Snap

Headline Daddy Fool

Trump, I've struck a deal for my big beautiful piece of ice

Dear US press, this is how you cover the Trump administration.

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Air Force One Required To Return To Andrews Air Force Base After President Suddenly Remembers He Left The Child Pornography Machine On

I think there is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.

First of all, good for her for calmly standing her ground and ignoring all the empty threats -- "we're gonna put you in the car and ID you!" -- until these goons give up and slink away.

Second, the irony of masked agents of the state with no name plates demanding *other* people identify themselves?

People fatally shot by UK police in 2024/25: 2
People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280

Republicans investigating fraud should call Rick Scott as a witness.

Always use the mic at a conference even if you’re loud. People who can’t hear you *can’t hear you * when you ask if you can hear them in the back. Some of us went to one too many hardcore shows in our youth without ear plugs and our hearing ain’t what it used to be 🥺
#SICB2026

lol "Blocked"

What the actual F?

If you are on Octopus Energy and have an EV then you might not know about their Greener Nights program where you get credit for charging on "green" nights. I wrote a little tool to generate a calendar feed from their schedule, rossburton.gitlab.io/octopus-gree.... Hopefully useful for someone else!

YouTube video by Michael Spicer The Liz Truss Show - Behind the Scenes

If this got more views on YouTube than the actual show, it would make my year.

youtu.be/Y54OJC0FtCs

Semi related... Reading Spraunce's bio. He must be rolling in his grave now. Along with Nimitz and King

French battleship Gaulois, with all the usual accoutrements of the type - obovoid obnoxious tumblehome, a wild assortment of gun calibres, a distressing tendency to ram ships on its own side... Up until now the French are widely believed to have built the dumbest and most aesthetically challenged ships of all time, but it appears the Yanks have now accepted the challenge...

"It's going to have all the guns. So many guns. Like you wouldn't believe so many guns. Beautiful guns..."

Use comic sans

Congratulations RP!!

Gonna be hilarious if as @patterico.Bsky.social suggests Trump's corrupt 1/6 pardon protects the pipe bomber

an orange cat is on the stairs near some christmas decorations looking a bit freaked out

I’m holly, I’m jolly. You’ve got believe me. I swear I am

When Biden gave the worst debate performance in history, my job as a neutral reporter was to write about it incessantly until he dropped out. When Trump gave the second worst debate performance in history, against Harris, my job was to lend credence to his claim that immigrants were eating pets.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING from your pals at CULT OF THE DEAD COW.

Reminding you: It's always important to Bow to the Cow, but sometimes, just sometimes, it's ok to Curtsy to the Turkey, too.

Thank you.