@stephenryanrathlin.bsky.social
Dubliner living on Rathlin Island, Co. Antrim. Recovering academic. Politics, history, sociology, music, Liverpool FC and some photos of an island. Was never a member of The Stars Of Heaven, sadly. #WeAreHopeDespiteTheTimes
a friend summarizes: We need 2500 marines for the not-war we already won that won’t have ground troops also please send ships, world. All of this was part of the plan.
BBC News - Michael Sheen to replace Richard Osman as House of Games quiz show host
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I think the President musing about killing people "just for fun" would have resulted in every major paper demanding impeachment in the before times.
Pretty staggering that the FT Trump interview opens with ‘if NATO doesn’t help us sort this mess, there’ll be problems’ and ends with ‘Russia might be helping target American soldiers, but really that’s sort of fair enough - we started it’.
www.ft.com/content/1ca6...
A point we make in this story is trump and his ruling party and minions like Vance, Miller, Hegseth, Rubio et al spent more than a year doing the most cartoonish form of being a dick to key allies and others as possible— tariffing insanely, threatening to invade a NATO ally for no reason, and…
“YouGov agrees to change poll results after Farage criticism”
(Times headline)
So, populist grifter MP who can’t be arsed to do his constituency work, has a full-on tantrum about polling, in case - by giving a more accurate prediction - it impacts donations to his party.
How is this democracy?
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Some contemporary news coverage of the Choctaw Nation's Gift from 1847.
The last piece mentions another donation from the slaves on a plantation somewhere south of the Mason Dixon line.
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
Dear Europe,
Please help me to unshit myself.
In return, I will harm your economy with tariffs, and insult your leaders, your cultures, and your military.
Kind regards,
A very stable genius
Days after declaring total victory and boasting that no other military could match the US, Trump is now begging other countries — including China — to send warships to stop his Iran war from spiraling into catastrophe.
A galactic humiliation.
Fearmhíniú (mansplaining), báinín (flat white) and other Irish words for modern life
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Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.
Puffin “wreck” on French/Iberian coasts getting zero media coverage. A major disaster. Needs to be covered by the mainstream media. @markavery.bsky.social @theguardian.com @birdtrack.bsky.social @steelyseabirder.bsky.social @jbfarthing.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social
Jeez. I thought I had seen everything but this! It’s almost impossible to believe it has actually just been posted by the White House. They’ve just presented the horrors of war as some kind of sick video game. Shameful, disgraceful, obscene and utterly horrific.
Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence.
Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry.
We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
"It's actually good when your monthly gas costs go up by 50% because that means someone else is making that much more money now"
Americans can all rest easy knowing that while this fresh Mideast war may lead to asymmetrical terror attacks throughout the world and on U.S. soil, and household budgets will be strained to a breaking point by doubling the cost of filling a gas tank, the suits at Exxon and Texaco will be just fine.
A Lane near Arles - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14236
Such beautiful woke designs
Not great when the only people in the free world who believe and trust Vladimir Putin’s word on critical things despite all evidence to the contrary are currently running the government of the United States.
A quite disgusting suggestion from the former First Minister 🤨
Brexiter Arlene Foster who now sits in the House of Lords wants to cut welfare support and spend the money on defence instead
Brexit costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax income every year,if we didn't have Foster's Brexit we could keep supporting those in need while also ramping up defence spending
When Robert Jenrick was Housing Minister, he rolled out a “Green Housing Revolution”:
www.gov.uk/government/n...
It includes Heat Pumps, reducing fossil fuels, solar, preventing climate change etc.
He’s now pretending he’s Mr Reform anti-Net Zero.
#BullshitBobby
Britain’s entire rightwing political classes being dragged around by whatever nonsense happens to have appeared on Trump’s Truth Social account in the past fifteen minutes is something to behold
"the Russians said they have not been sharing....we can take them at their word"
We are just begin to get an inkling of how deeply embedded Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair were/are with the sinister rich. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, something else emerges.
www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...
Great quotes in military history.
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