Should have known: the Trump regime lies about everything

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

Anne Applebaum: This war has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them decide how to build a legitimate Iranian state. This lack of coherence has plagued the Trump administration’s policy for many weeks. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“Or as long as necessary”

There are incentives, relationships, and potential conflicts that warrant scrutiny, and they can shape the political environment in which decisions are made. Whether there was direct payment: who knows?

Opinion | The Folly of Attacking Iran

Nicholas Kristoff: "The point of military action is to make us safer," but contrary to Trump claims, Iran's "missiles probably won’t soon be able to reach the US, and its nuclear program is entombed." By attacking Iran, Trump "increased risk rather than reduced it."

When anniversary of the worst day of your life comes again it's officially the 5th year of Russia bombing my home city

It’s 5th year of Russia bombing my home city. Every year , February feels like a bruise on a body of the year.

But this year there is something else: hope

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Watercolour drawing of Queen Street, Portsmouth UK from 1980 I think. The grey tower block is the Zurich building and you can just about make out the Guildhall on the right

Another old item. I was brought up in Portsmouth UK and it was a wonderful place for a painter though I haven't visited for some while. This watercolour drawing was done from the window of a friend's tower block flat in Queen Street in 1980 See alt text for more info
#Portsmouth #watercolour

@hillaryclinton.bsky.social: "I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is."

This is an important and frightening story by @paulthedogman.bsky.social

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

We’re Phoenixes, Motherfuckers. Hugging De Niro, Hosting The Siren, and Watching a Movement Rise in Real Time

MAGA really doesn’t like this picture 😂
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The three people most mentioned in the Epstein files are Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump.

One of them died in prison, one of them is in prison now, and one of them is president.

But sure, let’s depose Hillary Clinton.

Please read this in full. Brilliantly said. Now it’s Trump’s turn to testify under oath. TY @hillaryclinton.bsky.social

In the 6am ET hour tomorrow I'll be joining @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social to explain why Trump's possible emergency election takeover EO is illegal & why we will smack it down in court if he tries it like we did with his last one

Please join us👇

Clinton: It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate. One of the most vile bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet.

Sociopaths are terrific at spotting other sociopaths.

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it seems Russia decided to commemorate the day they invaded Ukraine full scale with terorrist acts . Explosions in Lviv, Mykolaiv , Dnipro. 1 killed, 32 wounded overall, 8 critical . Then again, russia always had sick sense of.. well, everything

Three days after reading the 170 pages of opinions in the tariffs case, I can’t help wondering whether (and how long) the Court delayed giving hugely important information to the world so that Justices could more extensively carp at each other, in dicta, about principles of statutory interpretation.

This is such a good point. This opinion could have come out months ago, halting the illegal tariff before more harm was suffered.

ABA calls out Trump for attacks on SCOTUS:

"The recent remarks by the president of the United States, leveling personal criticisms against members of the U.S. Supreme Court, are not acceptable and cross a dangerous line that threatens the safety of the judiciary and our judicial process."

WHISTLEBLOWER: ICE cut almost half it's training program, specifically the parts about the Constitution, the US legal system, use of force, proper arrest and detention, and WEAPONS TRAINING.

THAT is why US citizens are being murdered and agents are dropping their guns.

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

Shaun Walker gives us an invaluable second draft of history here, reviewing the months before Putin green lit the Russian invasion of Ukraine. How did US intel gain such remarkably clear insight into what was happening? What strategy did they settle on? www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

Third American death linked to ice uncovered by Newsweek While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

DHS successfully—until now—covered up the murder of a third US citizen on Texas' Padre Island, the sort of thing that can only happen in GOP-ruled Texas. ICE agents shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, last year, but DHS covered up the whole incident, Newsweek reports.