Exceptionalism, meet brick wall.
Brick wall, meet exceptionalism.

Tweet from Pete Hegseth: "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately."

In World War I more U.S. soldiers died of influenza than from combat. In America's first 145 years of war more soldiers and sailors died from infectious diseases than from enemy action. In every single war in human history more combatants have died of illness and disease than bullets and the blade.

248 US military flights over Ireland went unreported due to ‘administrative error’ Irish Times investigation finds almost 250 more overflights than previously disclosed by Department of Foreign Affairs

248 US military flights over Ireland went unreported due to ‘administrative error’
Well that is some admin error - get the US military out of Shannon #USoutofShannon

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

The man who raced Paris-Roubaix 7 minutes faster than Peter Sagan… only to miss the time cut Alastair MacKellar enters the Roubaix velodrome to a polite smattering of applause from the fans who haven’t yet turned their attention away from the track to the women’s race finally unfolding on the...

Alastair MacKellar completed this year’s Paris-Roubaix in a time of 5:46.11 – almost eight minutes faster than Peter Sagan’s effort in 2018, when the Slovakian won the race in 5:54.06.

But it wasn’t even enough for him to finish in last place, the Australian missing the time cut by almost 4 minutes

Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for data processing driven by AI could derail climate targets

Irish far-right are making speeches about migrants at their fuel protests.. meanwhile:

'Ireland’s energy-hungry datacentres consumed more electricity last year than all its urban homes combined, according to official figures.'

Amazon AWS, Google, Equinix, Microsoft, Digital Realty, Edge Connex..

Trump says he's asked Benjamin Netanyahu to be “more low-key” in Lebanon.

Please do your illegal bombing, ethic cleansing and genocides more discreetly.

over 250 confirmed dead in lebanon today so far.

orders of magnitude bigger than anything we have seen in the past 40 days of israel’s war there.

Polish Prime Minister Donald
Tusk:

Victor Orbán’s minister offered Sergey Lavrov to send him EU documents through the Hungarian embassy in Moscow. It’s really beyond shocking.

Screenshot of a tweet by Harry Sisson summarizing comments from Dr. Vin Gupta criticizing Trump’s behavior and suggesting signs of cognitive decline. Below it is a tweet from Dr. Vin Gupta listing symptoms such as erratic speech, confusion, and difficulty finishing sentences, concluding that the president is exhibiting signs of dementia.

Listen to the doctors. He's simply not all there.

JD Vance comes to a foreign country to openly campaign for a candidate ahead of an election, and then accuses other countries of interfering in those very elections

When we survive all of this, there are going to be a lot of people who will not just need to become unemployed, but unemployable. There are people who should never be allowed to work in a position of public trust again, largely because they took for granted that they were in one to begin with.

For those of the 77,302,580 Americans who are telling themselves they didn't vote for this—no, you actually did vote for this.

I just saw this.

Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman named a newly discovered moon crater after his late wife, Carroll, who died in 2020 following a 5-year battle with cancer.

#ProudBlue #ArtemisII

MTG Unloads On Christians Who Still Support Trump After His Unhinged Easter Threat To Iran

I hate to agree with her, but...

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (Live Newcastle 1982, HD) YouTube video by dexbam

At this very moment, they were the greatest band in the world. No contest 🙏

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8NL...

Americans really should reflect on the road that led them to the Easter Sunday tweet. Impossible to imagine any other nation electing someone like Donald Trump as a leader. Why is that? What has happened? When did it start happening? Will it ever stop?

Remco, Red Bull and Flanders Denials: Why the Truth Matters

Remco Evenepoel and his team made repeated denials about planned Tour of Flanders debut. That’s not clever. bit.ly/3NXRG63

Any European or Canadian who thinks Trump’s America would come to the aide of a Russian invasion of their country (and that really would fall within the NATO ambition, unlike Iran) has not been paying attention.

He’d be applauding from the sidelines.

😡

‘When the Last Worker Is Cut Down, the Last Piece of Truth Destroyed, and the Climate Is Fucked, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Data Centres.’

To be clear with how I feel about it. Anyone in the military who directs or carries out strikes on desalination plants should be in prison when this is over.

A brief round-up of developments in Gaza and the West Bank while the world looks elsewhere ⤵️
www.instagram.com/p/DWgrLNhjCZE/

"Ah come off it!"

I've only got through around a third of the responses to the legal costs consultation - but there are literally hundreds of responses calling on the government to abandon the proposal - I've copied some below

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars Pope Leo said on ‌Sunday that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month.

Reuters: Pope Leo said on ‌Sunday that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month.

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

It's already far too much money for an out of control agency like ICE, which is despised by most of America.