Tom Breen

’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.

Khamenei's body has been found and he's confirmed dead, per Reuters

You don’t see very many generalissimos around anymore

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

The back cover of a beat up copy of Rod Serling's Triple W: Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves (c. 1963). It says: "Rod Serling's Triple W: Would you rather be a WITCH WARLOCK WEREWOLF ?????????????? Witches have fun! Warlocks have privileges! Werewolves have the last word! WHICH ??????????????"

When you grow up, people stop asking if you would rather be a witch, a warlock, or a werewolf.

They don't even care.

Lauren Boebert is asked to define “inflation.” It does not go well.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Senator calls for DEA to provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation Federal drug enforcement investigators targeted Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others in a yearslong probe first reported by CBS News.

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

Video shows suspect in plot to kill Trump lay out scheme on a napkin Asif Merchant thought he was speaking with a comrade-in-arms, a fellow Pakistani man who knew how to find hired killers, according to the feds. Instead, that comrade was actually a government infor…

I must once again signal-boost my story about an alleged Trump assassination mastermind who would up getting tricked by a confidential informant into hiring two feds as hitmen.

The CI said he met the hitmen “in Bronx, in Harlem, that’s the place of all filth.”

www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/26/v...

Now that MAGA vampires are scooping up the US's cinematic legacy, it's a good time to start stocking up on physical media.

Warner Archives puts out some of the most pristine prints of its library on Blu-Ray. Who knows if the greatest villains in US history will allow this to continue.

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Nationally, Labour is losing twice as many voters to Greens and Lib Dems as they are to Reform. (John Curtice on BBC)

Pre-election polls pointed to a Green victory of ~4pts

They ultimately won by exactly 12 percentage points 🟢

Labour were reduced to third place, with their vote cut in half

Non zero chance that the Labour take away from this is that they could have halved Matt Goodwins votes by being more racist

“Sectarian voting” is when Muslim voters cast their ballots for a non-Muslim woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

Steven Swinford @Steven_... • 52m Sir Keir Starmer will face growing pressure to move to the left in the wake of the Gorton and Denton by-election defeat But some are urging him against doing so, warning that if Labour retreats to its comfort zone it will get 'shellacked' Here's a Labour source: "We must not learn the wrong lessons here. When labour tried socialism, we got shellacked - with our worst result since 1935. "When we campaigned in line with the mainstream of where the British public is, we won our second largest majority ever. "Some will want to retreat to their comfort zone - and that will be the long-term damage today's result could deliver." "The idea that we are losing Muslim voters over immigration is plain wrong. It's Gaza again, just like it was at the last election."

I’d remind you of that pollster saying Sir Keir’s Labour “has no floor”. She meant: there was a constituency for dirty hippie labour that would loyally turn out, but *almost nobody* likes this Fuck You, We’re Doing Crackdowns! version. Which means there really is no bottom to how bad this could get.

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Yes hahaha yes

It’s a fantastic book

Ironically, Durbin would outlive most of the people in that camp, dying in 2013 at 91

How Jeffrey Epstein sought to infiltrate the justice system New Epstein files emails show how Epstein tried to cultivate relationships with prosecutors and others involved in his case

NEW: (gift) A Miami Herald Investigation: How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social and @clurhealy.bsky.social
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Oh boy, some delays with the ol bsky today eh?

In “Wartime,” Paul Fussell writes about an American POW in the Pacific who cataloged every rumor he heard in camp. By the end of the war, he had collected more than 2,000. The most common was that Deanna Durbin had died. At this, in parentheses, Fussell writes “Why? Why on earth?”

4Chan knew about Jeffrey Epstein's death 38 minutes before the rest of the world. The FBI tried to figure out how. The Epstein files address a long-running side plot of Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 death while in jail on sex-trafficking charges.

Great pull from the Epstein files. FBI tried to figure out who on 4chan had scooped all news outlets on Epstein's death, but the trail went cold when they couldn't find who had that IP address.

A newspaper comic from 1942. The more things change, etc

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country.

www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

it's a still from dawn of the dead

who remembers the breakfast club