"The chances that Dua Lipa would help raise funds for a vehicle for our unit weren’t high... but they were never zero!"
British singer Dua Lipa helped the Ukrainian First Separate Medical Battalion acquire a pickup truck.The vehicle will be used for evacuations&operational tasks in the combat zone
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... "Ty Cobb, an attorney who served as White House counsel during President Donald Trump’s first term, once again raised alarm bells at the president’s cognitive decline, claiming it has “accelerated” and that Trump now shows signs of dementia"
Can’t wait until he’s gone. Preferably to The Hague.
Latest in @theatlantic.com The Ukrainians are now longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift Link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
UKMTO says two IRGC boats opened fire on a tanker about 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman without a VHF warning and the ship and crew are safe. Reuters reports Iran fired on at least two merchant vessels trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
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"People in towns and cities in Britain are invited to submit their regional swearwords so researchers can preserve a “vivid, honest record” of contemporary speech at a time when regional words and phrases are at risk of vanishing" www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Typical Pope with his "holier than thou" attitude.
Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Go ahead. It gave the UK very little. Our future is back with our closest trading partners in the EU and not having subject to the whims of Trump.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... Tough luck Donnie, he's not on your side. "The pope, who is scheduled to leave on Monday for an 11-day trip to Africa, has previously said that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them”"
Hannah Waddingham as Septa the Shame Nun in GoT and in a rainbow dress presenting Eurovision.
X this evening vs Bsky this evening
I can't quite express the joy of seeing Viktor Orbán, the man who took my grandparents' native land to the brink of dictatorship, concede power after 16 years of autocracy and corruption. This is personal.
1/ A Russian politician's advice to fellow citizens to carry paper maps because they can no longer rely on online navigation due to Internet blocking has gone down badly in Russia. A Moscow science institute has advised Russians to navigate by the sun and stars instead. ⬇️
Little kids in Chernihiv greet our Defenders who returned from Russian captivity.
Their sign says "Welcome home"
“Join with us in choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law, lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption. Resistance over complacency, truth over lies, unity over division, and peace over war.”
-Bruce Springsteen in Los Angeles
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Presenting the reopening the Strait of Hormuz as a victory is like the Greeks failing to take Troy but celebrating the safe return of their wooden horse
"There's no guarantee that a successor to Trump will be able to restore the old constitutional norms…Former US allies would be grateful for a less deranged president, but cannot be sure that sanity would endure longer than any single election cycle. Trust is gone" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
in a stunning victory, Donald Trump has forced the Iranian government to profit tens of billions of dollars a year against their will
“After the tragic experiences of the 20th century, aerial bombings should have been banned for ever. Instead, they still exist, and technological development, positive in itself, is being placed at the service of war. This is not progress, it is regression" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
These strikes would be war crimes on a massive scale and any military personnel who carried them out would be subjecting themselves to possible prosecution. Of course Trump is approximately as concerned about those military personnel as he is about Iranian civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
Trump just openly stating his intention to commit genocide at this point: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."
A rear view of the Gobshite In Chief’s thinning cranium.
The far side of the mo(r)on.
edition.cnn.com/2026/04/04/m... "While Leo is not a confrontational pope, he is increasingly speaking out about the US-Israeli war with Iran. And he’s doing so as Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, frames the war effort as divinely supported, even using scriptural justification"
Last year, while the billionaire class became much richer as the working class struggled to survive, Trump gave a $1 trillion tax break to the 1% and paid for it by throwing 15 million Americans off the health care they desperately need. This year, while Trump and Netanyahu started a war in Iran, the president wants to increase military spending by $500 billion and pay for that war by reducing funding for childcare, health care, affordable housing and other domestic needs. This is what Trump’s agenda is all about: making himself and his fellow Oligarchs even richer, while decimating programs that working families, the elderly and the children rely on. That is an obscene set of priorities. Congress must reject this proposal and pass a budget that works for all of us, not just the 1%.
Trump’s obscene budget.
‘The 2026 #Iran #war has exposed a concentration of industrial dependency so extreme that a single geological formation, processed through equipment manufactured by five companies, shipped through one 39-kilometre strait, [ #Hormuz]…’1/
This is HUGE mistake. I would understand continuing with the visit, despite humiliating circumstances, if it had any genuine chance of restoring transatlantic relations. But it won’t. Trump will bask in the spotlight, and go back to slagging off the UK one day later. www.nbcnews.com/world/united...
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It's like Squid Game, but worse.
