My cat sleeps all day and then keeps me awake all night so this gave me a good laugh.
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Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

Blundering Forward, Trump Style Trump’s big policy mistakes follow a familiar pattern, and we should expect the same with the war in Iran.

Many of the biggest policy decisions of Donald Trump’s second term follow the same script: move fast, ignore the experts, break things, then spin the disastrous outcome as a victory. From DOGE to tariffs to the ICE surge in Minneapolis, the pattern keeps repeating. The war in Iran is next.

I’ve never felt more disappointed that someone survived a stroke.

U.S. Air Force B-1 And B-52 Bombers Now Striking Iran From The UK The U.S. Air Force now operates three distinct bomber aircraft, all of which can trace their development back to the Cold War.

US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran.

Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it.

When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war?

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I'm starting to think that the oil lobby shouldn't have been allowed to buy politicians in order to block action on climate change for decades while they continued to destroy the Earth.

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.

Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.

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From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms:

It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment.

We must protect jury trials.

Republicans are going to try to use Kristi Noem's firing to deflect from ICE's cruelty ahead of the midterms.

Don't let them. She didn't design the agenda. Stephen Miller and Donald Trump did.

Firing the face doesn't absolve the people who built the machine.

Trump is a traitor. Plain and simple. He supports Russia who is giving Iran intelligence against our military. Trump is absolutely detrimental to the future of the U.S.A. Fly your flags MAGAts.

Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.

A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

This l’il fella is a gold amulet from Roman Egypt, possibly representing the Egyptian god Anubis as a defender of Osiris-Dionysus. He wears a military tunic and breastplate, signifying him as a defender of Osiris; he also holds a thyrsus of Dionysus, equated with Osiris. 🏺 1/

📸 me #MetMuseum

america announces it has already lost this war. No walking back from this one, leavitt…Your asinine BS can never detract from trump’s declaration that his endgame is the unconditional surrender of a nation of 90million who will never bend the knee to your child-raping leader
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We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

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There have been some very bad developments today.

Will Ukraine ever forgive the US for betrayal?

Oh.

“We have agreed” — how nice of them! Surely they’re doing this work pro bono right?

Fuck Trump
And all who support him

I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.

This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.

these politicians and american executives are not bothered enough by killing children or heads of state

Iranian agency Tasnim:

The drones that attacked Nakhchivan turned out to be "of the Azerbaijan Republic's own production,"

The latest purge of the Shoigu clan – Riddle Russia Andrey Pertsev sums up the political week (March 2−6)

The closest associate of Sergei Shoigu, Ruslan Tsalikov, has been detained and placed under house arrest. Is the former minister of defense Shoigu the next one?

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I’m seeing a ton of this floating around.

It’s true, we’re bombing the hell out of Iran, but this war isn’t as one sided as they’d have you believe. In a week, the US has lost at least two (possibly more) AN/TPY-2 radar.

We have less than 15 of them and they take years to make.

James P. Carse warns that treating war as a finite game leads to defeat against an infinite game player

Trump’s demand for unconditional surrender marks the US endgame

Iran, vast and with a resolute population, can outlast tactical “FoxNews” wins & MAGA’s patience

The US has already lost this war

Actually, it's only War if it comes from the War region of France. Otherwise, it's just…

… sparkling executive overreach

… sparkling epstein Fury

… sparkling forever criming

… sparkling cover-up for corruption

… sparkling Christo-fascist Armageddon triggering

… sparkling incel maga-rage

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