Caroline Jackson

A note on the 10-minute speech Trump gave tonight: anyone with any degree of knowledge of the Middle East knows every second of it was horseshit. I couldn't locate one true statement, not even on low-hanging fruit like Iran's naval assets. The man isn't just ignorant but living in a delusion. Scary.

Three brothers, including two of the US' most successful luxury real estate brokers, were convicted of sex trafficking charges after a five-week trial over accusations they used drugs and force to rape scores of women they had dazzled with their wealth and opulent lifestyle. https://cnn.it/4cJpy0x

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TAPPER: Do you think Stephen Miller should go?

TILLIS: Of course I do. He's a big problem in this administration and has been since the beginning

Liverpool and Manchester United want offensive posts on X by the AI chatbot Grok that reference Hillsborough, the Munich air disaster and Diogo Jota's death to be removed.

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Really intrigued as to how the politics of 'everything is more expensive, I really hate the PM, but I look over and the leader of the opposition is going "we shoulda bombed them, this war is great"' play out, but I wish we were conducting this experiment when I were, say, 80.

Your periodic reminder that if you are an elected Republican in Washington you can get respect and national attention by VERY OCCASIONALLY not doing a terrible job. Tilis is on TV right now because he briefly did what Dems do all the time.

The search for me in Clacton enters its 87th week.

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

"The nine big retailers account for 94.5% of all retail food. That’s nine companies, using just 131 distribution centres. In drone war, that’s a sitting duck.” - Professor Tim Lang, the doyen of UK food system studies for 40 years

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This is one result of the 7-year-long, £10 million Chilcot Inquiry: a comprehensive, detailed & crucial guide to avoiding another disastrous war like Iraq. You can understand why Tony Blair ignores its lessons, but every other warmonger in the UK?
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The way the government is doubling down suggests they are confident they are on the right side of a) the law and b) British public opinion.

It’s possible that Trump’s temper tantrums strengthen Starmer’s position.

Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?

Somebody, please ask all these Trump-fluffing British politicians exactly what their policy will be regarding the Iranian refugee crisis they are so desperate to create.

I'm sure it's just a massive coincidence that they used all the same words, ideas and punctuation.

The King is supposed to be visiting the USA *next month*. This is the definition of a diplomatic nightmare. In all seriousness, I would urge him to pull a sickie.

Get ready to be annoyed when petrol prizes go up and a) a bunch of politicos declare the government's poll ratings have gone down because Starmer didn't go in with the US on Iran and b) a bunch of politicos who support the war blame the government for increased energy costs.

The gulf between what people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East & what Tony Blair thinks people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East is positively Badenochian.

Liars both!

Obama is giving a truly inspirational eulogy at Jesse Jackson's celebration of life.

It's Shakespearean. Supreme. @barackobama.bsky.social

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show Sarah Kendzior Sounds Alarm on Trump’s Calculated Iran Move

"Trump is not the architect of the Iran plan. He wants it over fast; he wants his 'one and done'. Maybe the murder of Ayatollah Khamenei will suffice for him. Because otherwise, what Trump’s talked about since the 1980s, is using a nuke."
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Russia is helping Iran to target US military assets in Middle East Tehran using intelligence shared by Moscow to launch retaliatory drone and missile attacks

FT exclusive:

Russia has shared targeting intelligence with Iran, including locations of American military assets in the Middle East, as Tehran unleashes a barrage of drone and missile strikes against the US and its allies, said people familiar with the matter.

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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

composite image of 2 photos side-by-side of Kristi Noem's original face from 2018 and the 2025 plastic allergy face so many Trumpy women have forced on themselves

South Park profile page shown Donald Trump and JD Vance as the white-suited hosts of Fantasy Island and their profile picture is Kristi Noem's melted face

The account of Cricket’s death shows up in Gov. Kristi Noem’s political memoir. Noem was using Cricket, just 14 months old, as a hunting dog. But when Cricket got loose, attacked a neighbor’s chickens, and nipped at Noem as she retrieved him, she decided to take him to a gravel pit and shoot him dead. “I hated that dog,” Noem wrote, who used the same occasion to shoot a goat that she also didn’t like. The goat lay there wounded and suffering, while she walked back to her truck to reload her gun and returned to finish him off.   https://www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/kristi-noem-puppy-killing-scandal

Kristi Noem is annoyed that South Park mocked the extensive facial cosmetic enhancement she's inflicted on herself, but doesn't seem to take issue with their relentless depiction of her as a puppy murdering xenophobe 🤷

Fiona Bruce: “Can I have a show of hands - how many of you think this is a war that Britain should be involved in?”

*barely anyone raises their hand*

#bbcqt

What we see here is Donald Trump, acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator.

The further we stand away from that, the better off we will be.

Well said @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏

#bbcqt #IranWar

Operation Epic Fury on the Epstein Files

New Ayatollah just dropped.

Must read piece.

'The US has started a war without any legal, moral, strategic or political basis whatsoever. And yet instead of raising the alarm about it, the British press’ main question is why Britain is not more involved.' And 'Is Iraq really that long ago?'