Tim Hedger-Gourlay

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.

Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.

A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

Not just in this moment - but from the moment he was “elected”. (If he ever really would have been without Putins intervention)

Here’s a thought for James Comer.

There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton.

It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein.

You know, just to see what she knows.

Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

CNN Braces for Ellison's Control With David Ellison poised to take control of Warner Bros. Discovery, a chill has settled over CNN as staffers fear for the future. "The panic at CNN right now is off the charts," an insider tells Stat...

Suffice to say, the mood inside CNN is not good tonight.

“We are doomed," one staffer texted me.

“The panic at CNN right now is off the charts,” an insider added.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cnn-david-...

Gov. Abigail Spanberger: "In his speech tonight, the president did what he always does — he lied, he scapegoated, and he distracted. He offered no real solutions to our nation's pressing challenges, so many of which he is actively making worse."

Tonight’s state of the union.

Royal family is considering removing Andrew from Succession.

He is 8th in line, so there are low chances he will live that long, but it's just on the Principle.

Armed Police rammed into his accommodation on his birthday, just to add salt to the injury.

Long Live the United Kingdom! #MainBastards

On the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the President of Poland called on democratic nations to maintain unity.

Only 2 explanations for trumps treachery:
1 Putin has kompromat on trump and he can’t afford for it to be made public
2 trump is only interested in extortion and corruption (ie making himself rich) and he’s happy for Ukrainians to die and to betray his country and its allies if it will make him rich

I don’t know. I can imagine quite a bit.

If he wants the war to end he should be leaning on his pal Putin who started it.

"Donald Trump is honest and trustworthy"

Disagree: 70%
Agree: 29%

Ipsos / Feb 17, 2026

How many examples do people need to understand that trump doesn’t care about other people - at all. He only cares about himself and opportunities to put money in his own pocket - which is presumably what’s behind this decision.

Most people in England & Wales are not Christian, and it’s axiomatic to a free society that religious beliefs - or the lack of them - are irrelevant to civic participation. Britain is a pluralist, not a Christian, society; and this is one more reason to fight Reform UK.

Yes we share that. I just think laughing at the orange man baby is perhaps what will hurt his tiny ego most.

Denmark sending ships to America

Thank you to Greenland for providing emergency medical care to a US sailor on board the submarine, since we did not have adequate resources in the area to treat him. I’m sorry that our president felt the need to cover up our shortcomings with a deranged ghost hospital ship post.

Including the idiot in the white house!

This is exactly how the world sees the us administration!

Outside the US we fall about laughing at the clown in the White House every time he opens his mouth.
No point negotiating with him - he’s unintelligible, he lies and he changes his mind every five minutes; so we’re all busy working out how to move forward in spite of him

GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity.

Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale.

www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/19/w...

To be fair - if trump didn’t find ways to waste money (like the ballroom or painting planes) there’d be a danger he’d have to spend memory on actual policies that might do some good in America. And there’s no way he’s ever going to do that (unless he can siphon off all the funds to his own pockets)

Trump curious why Iran has not 'capitulated', Witkoff says US envoy Steve Witkoff says the president is puzzled why Iran has not yet compromised in the face of a major American military build-up nearby.

Perhaps because TACO trump tells so many lies and keeps changing his mind?
Yet another situation where trump is totally unsuited to the challenge before him and making things worse.

Trump curious why Iran has not 'capitulated', US envoy Witkoff says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cartoon by Dave Granlund

Trump doesn’t listen. So he’ll carry on doing stupid things until he’s stopped.

It does - but doesn’t that mean 49% approval? And for 40% of people to support the batshit crazy orange man baby is worrying

Typical Trump, "We're not refunding tariffs, they can spend the next five years suing us in court".