Doesn’t matter if you’re in business or international relations. The guy cannot be won over with golden statuettes or bon mots. He will fuck you over and humiliate you for the sake of it.

« Польша - союзник Гитлера » is, err, cheeky.

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ORBÁN CONCEDED

Trump: "You want to see a stock market go down? Let a couple nuclear bombs be dropped on us, then you'll see a stock market go down. So the stock market has not gone very much at all. It's gone down a little bit. Much less than I thought. And frankly the gas hasn't gone up as much as I thought."

Dropping bowling balls on US cars is a great idea, we should start doing that www.ft.com/content/2e68...

Need the license fee but just to fund hipsters who spend their time digging through old crates to find 1970s Eritrean funk records

My life would be measurably worse if NTS didn’t exist

This is the gratitude Europe gets for helping America with its forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

don't like living in interesting times

Is Trump About To Nuke Iran? The fact we can't say "no" for sure should terrify us.

I've had a lot of conversations with national security-focused colleagues in recent weeks, and come to believe we are wildly underestimating the chance Trump goes nuclear against Iran. I think it's about three percent — which is an astoundingly high chance. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-trump-a...

I think Tuesday we get to find out whether the chairman of the joint chiefs, the CENTCOM commander and others are willing to carry out illegal orders.

Is it good when the Jewish space lasers lady is calling you nuts?

افتحوا الطريق المستقيم اللعين أيها الأوغاد المجانين!

Not according to traditional editorial standards!

it's not easy! you can't print "open the fuckin' strait you crazy bastards" but you also don't want to sanewash this lunatic

don't envy my colleagues working in daily news who have to write the web headlines today/print headlines tomorrow.

Bridge Day and Power Plant Day have lost their magic. Far too commercialised nowadays

Politics now just an endless parade of consequence-free promises for the state to never let anything bad happen while shirking the long term.

Just so done with it. I don't care that someone has 500,000 views for walking around Central Park with her duck wearing a balaclava. Leave me alone.

I don't pay for broadsheet papers to find out about short-form video microcelebrities. Sorry. The sooner editors figure out that what sets places like the NYT apart is precisely the lack of this crap the better.

kind of funny* to experience for the second time in four years a tinpot authoritarian leader with terrible information launch a stupid, self-destructive war that you thought would never happen because they couldn’t possibly actually be that moronic

If I was Iran I'd set up a website counter tracking how much money was coming in from tolls with a large "THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP" next to the total and maybe a couple of Ayatollahs doing thumbs up.

The 2025 numbers are really striking.

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Excellent conversation, learned a lot

Got good news for you lads

Think Love Island is bad? Wait till you meet the AI fruit version Like in Love Island, the characters - or fruits - compete for a chance to couple up and stay on the island.

I know the BBC is, on balance, good. But yet they don't make it easy. www.bbc.com/news/article...

MattGPT is so good

If the US war on Iran ends up with the Iranian regime still in power and Iran able to charge tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, it will be the quickest and most comprehensive defeat that the US has ever suffered—and alarms bells should start ringing loudly about the future of US power.