Tea Junkie

A minute ago, Trump said the war with Iran would take as long as necessary. "I don't get bored." He is now discussing the drapes he selected for the East Room.

Congrats, America. We just spent tens of billions of dollars, three fighter jets, four troops killed in action, and more than a dozen countries bombed to assassinate an 85 yr old as if the regime didn't already have a succession plan waiting.

Nothing has changed.

Relevant to this concern: A polymarket user named "Magamyman" made more than half a million dollars with a last-minute bet on the demise of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Which makes it seem highly likely that the bet was made with some kind of insider knowledge.

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Might surprise people to know that in the latest British Election Study, Muslims are more politically fragmented than CofE Christians (measured by effective number of parties)

Before today, no F-15 had been shot down in more than 35 years — since January 19, 1991, during the Persian Gulf War.

Before today, the U.S. had never had more than one aircraft shot down by friendly fire in a single day, let alone three.

"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.

House of Commons today:

Sir Ed Davey 👍👍👍👍 Outstanding
Sir Keir Starmer 👍👍 Good

Kemi Badenoch 👎 Leader of the Criticism
Richard Tice. 👎👎 Give it a rest!

Is Farage still in The Maldives, or just too lazy?

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

I think we should send ICE agents to fight in Iran. No one else goes until all the ICE agents have been been obliterated by the enemy. If even one of them is standing, no new troops can be sent. They should be happy to do it. After all, they’re so patriotic.

Hannah in a green jacket and pink top, with Carla Denyer MP to her right and Ellie Chowns MP on the left. All v colourful.

Hannah Spencer being sworn in as a Green Party MP this afternoon, after winning the Gorton & Denton by-election last week. Photo: House of Commons

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries

False economy

lmao he’s finally done it, we have hit peak McKenna

Pete Hegseth came to national prominence and to Trump’s attention specifically for his defense of men accused of war crimes by their fellow American soldiers.

I'm sorry the rich guys can't literally escape the real world. ☹

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

this will be a public health disaster.

We could end the transmission of HIV this year. That has been true for a decade. That we have not done so is a public policy choice.

New transport assessment sparks hope for Wisbech to March rail revival The Wisbech to March railway line, opened in 1847, was once a vital corridor for passengers and freight

The railway first opened in 1847 and closed to passengers in 1968. Freight ran until 2000.

The route still exists – which makes revival far more realistic than starting from scratch.

John Elworthy reports

a man is standing in front of a crowd of people and looking at the camera with a surprised look on his face . ALT: a man is standing in front of a crowd of people and looking at the camera with a surprised look on his face .

trump seeing stocks go up after setting off world war 3

Pete Hegseth really is an astounding idiot who truly does seem to believe that the way to win wars is just to war crime harder than the other guy.

Just an endless 'taking the gloves off' until your hands are reduced to bloody stumps because it turns out taking the gloves off usually doesn't help.

“I can just kill or kidnap the leader and then someone else will take over and they’ll give me whatever I want”

I don’t know if anyone even bothered trying to explain that these are different countries with different internal dynamics but there’s no way it got through if they did

god fucking dammit

Starmer: "I will not permit, I will not commit our military personnel to unlawful action. That is not what they would expect and deserve. They are entitled to better than that."

Donald Trump's theory of regime change is underpants gnomes logic

1) Kidnap/kill current leaders, blow stuff up
2) ?
3) Profit! (literally, because Trump and his allies seek personal gain from all of this)

Crow: "Friday night, Trump filmed this tough video where he talked about the cost of war & how hard it's gonna be & how we're gonna lose troops, then he literally went behind the curtain & hosted a million dollar a plate dinner & dance party at Mar-a-Lago. That tells you everything you need to know"

Pamela Brown: "President Trump just told my colleague Jake Tapper that the big wave is yet to come, so clearly things are gonna be escalating, not deescalating"

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Map of the Middle East with a drop pin on Dubai

Dubai, located in the famously peaceful regio— ohhh

The migrant workers/slaves who built the city is geopolitics. The dirty money, the sanctions evasion, the uneasy relationships with neighbours, the war UAE funds in Sudan... Anyone living there is exposed to geopolitics. Just now they can't pretend otherwise.

There's "fuck you" money, and then there's "geopolitics is for the rubes" money

As the price of natural gas spikes across Europe for the fourth time in the last five years remember those extremely clever people in Reform and the Conservatives who want to abandon renewable energy and rely even more on gas 🤡 🤡