YouTube video by British Pathé Dramatic low level flying bomber footage (1943)

This is a hell of a thing. A terrifyingly low level attack on a power station near Paris in 1943 by Free French crew flying RAF Bostons (the British A-20 Havoc bomber variant). The A-20 was not the most agile aircraft ever, so this kind of flying under radar is a real feat.
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Those tree tops were... Not distant.

The “I have more medals” and “I’ve seen more combat than you” MAGA bro responses to Mark Kelly’s post most are the most pathetically hilarious things on social media today, aside from Candace Owens claiming that Macron ordered a hit on her by French legionnaires.

Macron says that Russia has not shown any 'willingness to discuss' an amended version of US peace plan The French president's comments have come amid renewed attempts to broker an end to the nearly four-year war in Ukraine. He said 'continued pressure' would be put on Russia to negotiate, adding: 'We will continue to support Ukraine with force.'

Macron says that Russia has not shown any 'willingness to discuss' an amended version of US peace plan

It’s such an obviously egregious and unprecedented ruling that FIFA gave Ronaldo…

Hell, the DSGE might even have shared it with the Élysée this time.

Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...

This is just terrible: a US official advising the Russians how to play Trump.

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Your loss… 😉

Parboil; sauté in the oil from some rendered chorizo with the chorizo, some almonds, dash of soy, good squeeze of lemon juice.

You can’t fully enjoy Wodehouse without the allusions to the Bible, for example.

Whitaker says the "rules based order works" by allowing authoritarian states to conquer their neighbors. The rules based order begs to differ.

Former Greek PM Tsipras savages ‘celebrity’ ex-finance minister Varoufakis in memoir Alexis Tsipras says that during debt crisis Yanis Varoufakis was more interested in promoting his books

massive LOL: "Yanis Varoufakis, the firebrand economist who rose to fame at the height of Greece’s debt drama, was not only egotistical but ultimately more interested in testing out his game theories on the nation than winning its battle to keep afloat." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Bondi really wants to go to prison when this is over.

Rather better than five out of every six officers became a casualty.

When you see a professor of journalism directed to the portion of a judgment that shows their take is wrong, yet they decide instead to persist with the take because they know better, you understand why American journalism is as it is. Comment is sacred, facts are free.

226 officers in the assault; 190 casualties.

More than 5 in every 6.

The Middlesex and the Newfoundland particularly.

Sir, Hegseth is the type who’d think an aviator is a large bird cage.

Both can be, and likely are, true at once.

Yes, but: Poland and "happily ever after" aren't really what you'd describe as natural soul-mates, you know...?

I just want people to read the judgments. I just want them to read them before having takes.

I'm tired, Jakub. I'm. *Tired.*

The Courts go to an awful lot of effort in a load of jurisdictions to make sure that it is easy to read the reasons for the decisions of Courts, and the evidential basis for such, almost immediately.

There's no excuse not to read what the Courts actually say before giving out about the Courts.

See, if I see you complaining that someone is described as something *which a judgment says they self-decribe as*, then you are just telling me you haven't bothered to read the judgment before sounding off on it.

And, yes, I very much will judge the quality of your opinions from that fact.

What it reveals, to be blunt, is that nobody reads the judgments.

Parliament greenlights first-ever European defence industry programme | News | European Parliament The law adopted on Tuesday is designed to strengthen the EU defence industry, foster joint European defence procurement, ramp up defence manufacturing and increase support for Ukraine.

🆕 The European Parliament greenlights first-ever European defence industry programme.

Security and Defence Committee rapporteur: Raphaël Glucksmann

Industry Committee rapporteur: François-Xavier Bellamy

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For a given value of Border. The precise location of it isn’t settled, there.

Which, having sailed events there, raises some interesting questions about who has jurisdiction over any collisions.

The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen

Correct me if I’m wrong, but as a full USN Captain and a US Senator, doesn’t Kelly dramatically outrank Hegseth in every field?

Sigh. Yet again:

Parliament sounds the alarm over Hungary’s deepening rule of law crisis | News | European Parliament Parliament has adopted its second interim report on Hungary’s persistent undermining of the rule of law and its continuous breaches of EU values.

🗳️ Parliament sounds the alarm over Hungary’s deepening rule of law crisis

Parliament has adopted its second interim report on Hungary’s persistent undermining of the rule of law and its continuous breaches of EU values.

Details ⤵️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...