Dr Tom Hill

This is terrifying

Trump Advisers Urge Him to Find Iran Exit Ramp, Fearing Political Backlash Some of the president’s advisers privately encouraged him to look for an exit plan amid spiking oil prices and concerns that a lengthy conflict could spark political backlash.

Tactics without strategy*

*aka “the noise before defeat”

There’s a clear thread between this stuff and the culture of violent gangsters. E.g. the immortal line from the gangster movie, Layer Cake: “f***ing women is for p**fs”.

Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified The newly corroborated details suggest the woman was truthful about numerous aspects of her life.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

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Richard Haass in the FT. Striking reminder of how disloyal MAGA is to American national interests.

I do not like this hellish cocktail one bit.

Both Iranian and US Evangelical millenarian extremists are rubbing their hands together with glee about this conflict heralding the apocalypse. And both have significant influence over their government.

Combine with breakdown of singular Iranian command and control and all that nuke material.

as far as i can tell the ADL believes that antizionism is antisemitism, which i suppose is defensible as an overcorrection, but also that literally nothing else is antisemitism, including heiling hitler

America’s unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA, against all evidence, was an egregious act of self-harm.*

*The nuclear risks are now so high and so hard to control that Trump is - against all domestic political incentives - very seriously feeling the need to authorize boots on the ground.

Trump grieves with families during return of soldiers killed in war in the Middle East President Donald Trump joined grieving families at Dover Air Force Base for the dignified transfer of six U.S. Army Reserve soldiers killed in Kuwait.

Yes, he comes across as positively overflowing with grief

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Was the poll unanimous as well

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

So clear

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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Talarico has poor odds of winning Texas, but his campaign is going to elevate politically crucial messages on Christianity and liberalism that will be heard nationwide.

Like Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Trump Follows His Gut. His National Security Advisers Try to Keep Up.

What’s the line from Nicholas Hornby?

“I’m pretty sure my gut has shit for brains”

I think he does. Because he really is that stupid.

No matter how many times they stab themsleves in the front they will always claim they were stabbed in the back

Never thought I’d miss Donald Rumsfeld

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

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About to say the same thing

Maybe Starship Troopers was too subtle

No more forever wars, just forever war

“And we shall vote to rubber stamp this war as soon as we get a vote”

Hate to be pedantic, but SNL didn’t mock her for being a “scary mom”.

They mocked her for being “the craziest bitch in the Target parking lot”