Simon Wookey

Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.

Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol

@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”

Who ???

We’re so fucked

Cory Doctorow, the gatecrasher at the AI party The writer coined the word ‘enshittification’ to describe how useful tech inevitably gets worse. Now he’s turning his sights on AI

“AI is a collection of moderately useful tools being billed as a supernatural being, something being created before us by shovelling extra words into the word-guessing programme until it wakes up and turns us into paper clips.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-c...

Is avoiding responsibility part of the warrior ethos ?

Asking for a friend

Laura Loomer V @LauraLoomer X.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost and Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe used to occupy this desk inside the Pentagon Press room. Now it's mine!

Oh goodness.

As you read about service members' response to being underbussed by Pete Hegseth, consider how this will play as Trump tries to start an illegal war with Venezuela.

I didn’t realize the warrior ethos was to throw people under the bus to cover one’s own ass

That’s a very attractive red shirt you’re wearing Admiral Bradley

Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug

Leavitt attempts to bend reality by saying the same thing over and over.

He looks like a corrupt accountant

The Kremlin butcher, 25 years into his reign, turned up at a command post and called his own invasion, launched to keep himself and his corrupt oligarchs in power, and costing hundreds of thousands of Russian lives, a “tragedy of the Ukrainian people”.

Tsk tsk MSNOW

@citywestminster.bsky.social

Did you go to a quarry and buy every off cut ?

We need public lavatories but what the hell ?

Trump’s Fury at NYT Explodes amid Fresh Concerns about Mental Decline As Trump’s rage at the paper of record reveals too much, the author of piece on Trump as “lame duck dictator” explains how devastating it is for him that his carefully-cultivated illusion of strength ...

"Trump has been functioning as a dictator...but it’s a vulnerable dictatorship. Virtually none of these abuses are popular with the American people...and it’s coming home to roost for Trump."

On the pod, @davidrlurie.com is good on Trump as weak, failing autocrat:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...

2014: “I admire Putin as an operator”
2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times
2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT
2022: blames EU for Russian invasion
2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse”

Is this not dodgy?

5/9
Earlier, the same bot network posted >5000 replies to influence Wisconsin's Supreme Court judge election—a race with a record budget.

Elon Musk heavily funded the GOP candidate's campaign, including two $1M cheques awarded to voters.

They’re part of the same mafia - they’re thugs who wrap themselves in the flag

🚨Not a suicide, a lynching. Case not closed, it has to be opened. 1/2

Jebus

London buses are unbelievably shit - infrequent, late, and overcrowded

london is dying a death of a thousand cuts - our mayor is useless but the opposition is worse

We’re fucked

"Which export destination should Canada prioritize for energy exports?"

Europe: 35%
Asia: 24%
US: 19%
Mexico: 10%
Central/South America: 3%
Africa: 1%

Nanos / Oct 30, 2025 / n=1045 / Telephone/Online

I see the latest Jubilee video is "Piers Morgan vs 20 Woke Liberals", so rather than watch that, watch this video where I explain why I despise Jubilee "debates".

Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this