Rachel Boxall

Congratulations, you just passed Political Science 101. 🙄

Be glad of Starmer’s caution over Iran Bellicose critics of the UK prime minister have learnt nothing from the recent past

Spot on

www.ft.com/content/eaee...

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

Media must stop normalizing the far right
Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences

www.politico.eu/article/medi...

"Tell me something you don't like about Keir Starmer, Mr President?" isn't journalism it's muckraking.

"Taxes..?TAXES?!? Boo, taxes! There is no 'society', only me and my gloriously tax-free existence! Why should I pay MY MONEY into this 'society' you speak of? 'Society' sounds like 'Socialism' to enlightened people like me!"

*shit goes down*

"WAAA WAA I WANT GOVERNMENT HELP NOW WAA WAA WAAAAA!!!"

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

I miss the good old days, when people said that Trump couldn't be a fascist because a defining feature of fascism is that its leaders inevitably start wars.

BLUMENTHAL: Have you met with any of the American citizens who have been detained or arrested by your agents?

NOEM: They could've been instructing law enforcemen--

BLUMENTHAL: You haven't met with them. I'd like to introduce you to 3 of them. Will you please stand?

It's not Roosevelt we're dealing with. Hell, it's not even Nixon.

Tom Tillis has been DESTROYING Noem for the last five minutes.

International Law is what sprang from that war you're obsessed with Nigel.

The one you think was all Victor Comics and Where Eagles Dare.

The one - like pretty much everything in history whose important legacy you singularly fail to understand

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

Starmer along with Mark Carney and their allies are planning life without the US.

You keep the insults coming, you thick orange piece of shit.

I get the strong sense that the bulk of media are calling Starmer's position on Iran entirely wrongly right now. I simply don't believe that most people out there are either as hawkish as the Tories or as anti-everything as the Greens. Being conflicted in the middle seems about right to me.

Tillis: You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to say it’s a leadership lesson. You killed a goat and said it was behaving badly. You’re a farmer — you don’t castrate a goat, they behave badly.

Wow. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem tells Americans they’re on their own.

Go @hillaryclinton.bsky.social. Absolutely 💯 percent correct.

DURBIN: How does taking dad from child dying of cancer qualify as a violent crime?

NOEM: I don't know what you're speaking of

D: Ruben Torres 2 weeks ago buried his daughter. When he was arrested at Home Depot, he said, 'Please. My daughter is dying.' They deported him. Was he a violent criminal?

Trump has no endgame for his war, which may be his undoing. Some thoughts...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-has-no-fcking-idea-what-hes

The money behind the new Iran War In private calls over the last several weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged President Trump to attack Ira

Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to strike Iran.

Both countries have major financial ties to Trump & his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

War gives dictators like Trump (and his family) more power and more wealth. Period.

https://popular.info/p/the-money-behind-the-new-iran-war

Poems for Lent (Day 12)

• John Clare •

Daily Mail headline: IRAN WAR: DAY FOUR U.S. lambasts 'hand-wringing, pearl-clutching' Starmer as Kemi says he's 'scared' of his own voters

The Sun: INACTION THIS DAY PM wont hit Iran back Rift grows with US Prez

Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.

Newspapers that told their readers austerity, Brexit, Johnson & Truss would be brilliant are attacking the British Prime Minister for not unquestioningly following a lunatic President into an illegal attack. And on social media, he gets attacked from the other 'side' for doing the precise opposite!

A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'

Thames Water sewage spills set for record high Thames Water is on course to dump more raw sewage into its polluted rivers than at any time this decade, according to the stricken supplier's own data.

Unbelievable.

Despite promising to change their ways, Thames Water is still on course to dump record amounts of sewage this year.

This can’t go on. Water companies and their regulators must do their part to clean our waterways.

Pretty obvious that over all the years none of these smug gits ever once looked at a map and thought: golly, Iran is pretty close to my luxury penthouse in the gilded-autocracy that rests upon a foundation of washing dodgy money and exploiting slave labour.

Good grief. I’m not sure she’s thought this through. Unless, of course, she actively *wants* allies & enemies to believe that she would happily order the British military to commit war crimes.

Jesus. F*cking. Christ.

"Pentagon officials acknowledge Iran was not planning to strike US
Now, Iran’s political future remains unclear, as Trump conceded that individuals he had considered as potential new leaders are dead
The Pentagon is worried about depleting military stockpiles"
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