Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
How much of a Christian was he if he didn't know how to pronounce 'Christendom'? Or as Kirk had it, Chriss-ten-dom. Ugh.
Exactly right.
Iran's Samson Option: Gulf Oil Reprisals for Kharg would Crash the World Economy www.juancole.com/2026/03/sams...
Wonder how long it will be before North Korea, Russia, Iran, China ... all must look at what's happening by the US and think, 'and we're the bad guys?'.
Can't help wonder what all the techbros are thinking now after giving him hundreds of millions to win the WH v2. (Sachs' interview doesn't count; he's just plagiarising what experts have already written.)
They need fuel to run their promised data cities, and the global economy is crashing fast.
Sacks is not prophetic in the least. He merely reads news reports like the rest of us with interests.
My son is one of those who, with a post-grad in biotechnology, has to move back home because rent's unaffordable.
My deal? You cook all dinners for rent.
Works brilliantly. What a great mum he had to have brought him up like that!
The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social: Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social and Alastair Campbell’s @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social interview with Finland's President Alexander Stubb.
As 1/2 🇬🇧 and 1/2 🇫🇮 myself it's good (hyvää) to see intelligence in politics. youtu.be/ubZeguAk0fM?...
David! Just saw you and your bio here and ... Arctic?
Iran’s long-term planning is crippling the globe esp GCC and Europe: US bases, oil refs, airports, shipping, bank/ins cos, airlines, cargo (fertiliser/metals)—Iran long warned this would happen.
The US and Israel are fast depleting weapons, as Trump and Netanyahu are amateurs.
We pay the price.
Hard to disagree with this strongly worded, accurate take by @sanders.senate.gov
With alt text
I am shocked. Shocked.
This is what Israel is doing to Beirut, Lebanon right now.
The 2 most dangerous men on the planet right now are Netanyahu and Trump.
Full stop.
I had a Compuserve dial-up for so many years! Taught myself how to use the first Macintosh. And oh those floppy discs: it meant we only saved what we needed to save, no more and no less.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNa...
Just hung the phone up (yes, talking!) with a friend, addressing exactly this. We want to go back to iPods or Walkmans, landlines and LPs, 3 TV channels with good programming, and a packed-house cinema on the weekends.
She drew the line on shag carpets and flower power wallpaper. Me? Cool.
What are our options? I'm a dual citizen so vote from overseas. My registered state has my party affiliation logged (always asked) so it's in there.
Do we just not bother? Join a class action? Sit on hold with a useless SSA to make a strongly worked complaint?
Where is academia/higher education in this chart?
No AI can lecture nor write as some of us can!
'Boogeyman mullahs': How decades of anti-Iran hysteria set us on the path to war
Very interesting read by Nura Hossainzadeh at San Francisco State University.
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-...
They're in for a very rude awakening then.
Iran's been planning this for 40+ years, and the Middle East thinks long term. America can't plan policy for more than a month in advance.
Because Trump is clearly off-the-charts raving mad, I can't help think China, Russia, Iran, and all the other states are thinking of Napoleon Bonaparte: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Hearing Parliament reframe this war in real time — 'Iranian attacks in the region' and 'Iranian attacks on the West' — is like living inside Orwell's head.
"Beware the man with nothing to lose".
The new Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei lost his wife, son, father (the last Ayatollah), and mother to the American bomb on the first day of this war.
He's won't fear death. He has rage — as any human would.
And now he's in charge of Iran.
His father, mother, wife, and son were all killed in the first attack.
Beware a man with nothing to lose.
Disagree. MAGA will simply say 'it's worth it to kill Muslims if Trump says so!'.
It is a cult.
Good! We don't want to get involved in this war.
And Tony Blair can just go and F-off.
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b82029e...
Saudi military downs wave of drones near capital - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/saudi-military-downs-wave-drones-near-capital
Cuba next.
Trump told CNN Friday that 🇨🇺 “is gonna fall pretty soon...I’m going to put Marco (Rubio) over there and we’ll see how that works out...I’ve been watching it for 50 years, and it’s fallen right into my lap because of me"
edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...
Glad @georgemonbiot.bsky.social got a little of the important history of Iran in; it's so essential.
I wrote a 🧵on this here:
bsky.app/profile/alia...
(Single page here: skywriter.blue/@aliagvr.bsk...)
This would be me. I'm genuinely concerned because ME politics (inc energy) is my specialty.
And I know this war isn't going to end quickly at _all_. The knock-on effects are going to be 2-3x worse than the 1973 oil shock.
