Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Tucker Carlson: “I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. And I want to say that I’m sorry for misleading people.”

In a nutshell. 😊

Trump’s Hormuz blockade threatens piracy and risks outright war against China Trump’s threats to the Strait of Hormuz will make America a pirate nation and risk conflict with China, making Beijing seem like the grown-ups, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley

Trump’s Strait of Hormuz blockade threatens piracy & risks outright war against China.

There is no UN mandate for the blockade.

The blockade deprives China of vital supplies, boosts profits of oil companies.

Will unhinged Trump sink ships, cause pollution, more wars, destabilize world economy?

Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

Report: FIFA Plans To Ask Peace Prize Winner If He Would Maybe Consider Pausing Domestic Terrorism Program For One Month With just under two months until the start of the 2026 World Cup, it seems that FIFA executives have finally looked up at the horizon, seen the looming shitstorm, and are now scrambling to head it…

Report: FIFA plans to ask Peace Prize winner if he would maybe consider pausing domestic terrorism program for one month: defector.com/report-fifa-...

Trump Just Posted An AI Image Of Himself With Jesus

Trump is right: He is MAGA’s Jesus - Salon.com The president's blasphemy exposes the truth about the Christian right

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The Commission of Fine Arts reviews Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch at Arlington today—a gilded Lady Liberty twice the height of the Lincoln Memorial. Three Vietnam vets sued, saying the 1986 Commemorative Works Act requires Congress to authorize it.

I can't imagine why any tourist would come to the US right now for any reason.

There's also a decent chance of a weather related natural disaster occurring in the US during or around these games, and FEMA has been nearly incapacitated. A lot could go wrong this summer.

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

Slovak PM Robert Fico acknowledged Peter Magyar’s election win in Hungary, and signaled readiness for cooperation, backing revival of the Visegrad Group and joint energy interests including the Druzhba pipeline. #Slovakia

This no time to kick over the table and howl, “My way or the highway”!

This highway is a road to hell.

Vance et al are untrained, inexperienced idiots or saboteurs or both.

God help us! /end

And then you reflect with your team, think through options, sleep, and resume work with the help of the mediator.

Rinse and repeat as you do your best, when you are at your best, to reach a mutually acceptable agreement - especially in a matter this grave. /2

This is no way to negotiate! An exhausting 21-hour session ended with a “best and final” offer and a walkout??

Any beginning negotiator knows that you spend the early hours building a relationship and understanding the other side’s goals, concerns, and point of view . . . /1

“We have to get rid of this guy as soon as possible. Look at what he did with this war. Now he wants to go into business with the ayatollahs after threatening to basically nuke the country. This guy shouldn’t be in charge of a fucking ice cream stand”

Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it.

~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years.

Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability.

Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it.

This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification

In February, a group of Vietnam War veterans and a retired architectural historian sued to block the construction, citing that it would "dishonor their military and foreign service" by obstructing the Arlington National Cemetery view.

For the last 50 years, the goal of the Republican Party has been to delegitimize and dismantle the federal government in order to privatize services, resegregate the population, and diminish women’s rights in the states they control.

It’s all coming together now.

For over 8 million Americans, Trump wants to collect:

"Medical and pharmaceutical claims, diagnoses, treatments, visit length, provider information, doctor’s notes or after-visit summaries..."

All "with identifying information, such as names and birth dates"

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Repulsive!

A Strategic Defeat of Historic Proportions No amount of self-delusion can change that

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JD Vance: The Fucking Janitor With a Gasoline Mop JD Vance just stood on a fucking tarmac in Budapest and told the entire world that Iran, a 7,000 year old civilisation with one of the most sophisticated diplomatic corps on the planet, just...

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'It Seems Nothing Is Moving the World to Stop Israel’s Terrorism': Palestinian Poet Shares Photos of 9-Year-Old Girl Killed ​"Even when kids try to learn, after over two years of nonstop running from the bombs, Israel shoots them."

'It Seems Nothing Is Moving the World to Stop Israel’s Terrorism': Palestinian Poet Shares Photos of 9-Year-Old Girl Killed

"Even when kids try to learn, after over two years of nonstop running from the bombs, Israel shoots them."

Look at all that DEI sending astronauts around the moon.

Are Trump’s Purges and Calls for a Larger Military Budget the Setup for a Coup? As Trump demands sweeping new resources in the name of war, the scale of funding raises a chilling question: is this about national security or consolidating power?

Are Trump’s Purges and Calls for a Larger Military Budget the Setup for a Coup?
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By 2060, China will only be using fossil fuels for 9% of its electricity generation. 50% of total generation will be solar, 30% will be wind. That means China is not only killing big oil but also big coal. Renewables are currently outpacing demand growth so they will be retiring old plants from now

'Madman Theory' Fallacy: Trump, Iran and the Illusion of Strategy A recording from Jamie Rowen and Adam Klasfeld's live video

Excellent analysis:

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