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How it started....... How it's going..... (a work in progress)

Abraham Lincoln got shot in the head and still managed to keep the country together. Franklin Roosevelt ran the entire Second World War from a wheelchair. Eisenhower defeated Hitler and then, just to stay busy, built 48,000 miles of motorway. Kennedy looked at the moon, said “we’ll have that,” and inside a decade they did. Reagan stared down the Soviet Union until it simply gave up and went home. Two hundred and fifty years. Forty-six men. Men who stormed beaches, split atoms, faced down nuclear annihilation over breakfast and then filed sensible paperwork about it afterward. And then, after all of that, the entire accumulated weight of American history, the most consequential democratic experiment the world has ever seen, produced this. A television review. No Mars landing. No cure for cancer. No Soviet empire dissolved before lunch. Just a man in the White House, in the year 2026, informing the internet that a CBS chat show host had no talent. That is what 250 years of American greatness built. America should be deeply, permanently ashamed of itself. If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/gandalv

This is actually illegal in nesting season and they must know this. When I lived on a smallholding we didn't trim hedges until autumn/winter.

Well, it would be cruel to repost this picture. But addiction is a cruel mistress.

A rural roadside verge along a quiet lane, no visibility issues, cut down in May (again) for no reason other than 'it's what we always do'. Why is this happening Essex County Council @Essex_CC Colchester Council @yourcolchester ? What happened to your 'nature recovery policy' ?

I don’t think people understand the gravity of what we are looking at in this photo. This should infuriate every single one of us.

@def_leppar20044 Ziggy Transformer All Mod Cons London Calling My aim is true Quadrophenia Down by the jetty Unknown Pleasures

@Gianl1974 EVERYTHING

Parts of Spain/Portugal will approach 40°C next week, and we are still only in MAY. This is not “just summer arriving early”. Europe is heating faster than almost any continent on Earth. European agriculture, ecosystems & infrastructure were not built for these extended extremes.

Today contractors from National Grid turned up at this farm ready to clear all of this vegetation, including the four oaks, without the required dawn bird survey. It is only because the land owner was on his toes and challenged them that they left. Plus National Grid has not explained why it is ‘not practicable’ to uphold their DCO obligation to avoid nesting season. They were not even able to explain why the oaks need to be felled for a bell mouth when they do not cause visibility issues. This is a horrific disregard for nature. (This is Bramford to Twinstead, ‘only’ 30km long. Imagine the destruction if Norwich to Tilbury at 180km goes ahead as proposed. We seek underground HVDC laid by cable ploughs for N2T)

@UnrealBluegrass @PaulMcCartney He’s a great songwriter!! But there is the small matter of the Frog Chorus… 😳

Just my opinion,the greatest songwriter in the last 75 years. @PaulMcCartney

When taking office in 2025 RFK Jr shut down - The team responsible for dealing with cruise ship outbreaks - One of the only labs in the world capable of Ebola research How's that workin out?

If the people robbing this delivery driver were of a different heritage it would be evidence their culture doesn't fit with British values.

The thing is (a) Esther is not the sharpest knife in the draw and (b) the facts don’t fit her agenda

@MrMutantes It will never be enough for the press and BBC who are run by Tories and Reform

LAUGHABLE front page from The Express… A newspaper that backs Reform whose leader and MPs voted against laws on: Stalking Harassment Drink spiking Upskirting …and sharing intimate images without consent. A pathetic excuse of a newspaper.

Chemtrails don't exist Turbo cancer doesn't exist Covid vaccines are vaccines and they worked Ivermectin doesn't work for Covid Ivermectin doesn't work for cancer Ivermectin doesn't work for Hantavirus Ivermectin doesn't work for Ebola Vaccines don't cause autism

This should destroy Nigel Farage’s entire political argument. Net migration has collapsed from 944,000 to around 204,000, yet voters still think it’s rising because Reform and Farage have spent years feeding Britain hysteria instead of facts. Asylum seekers are only about 9% of immigration, not the “invasion” constantly screamed about. The NHS was broken by underfunding. Housing was broken by austerity. Wages were crushed by corporate greed. Migrants were the distraction. Not the cause.

@jonnyrmitch Tomorrow never knows In my life A day in the life Strawberry Fields Penny Lane

This was pretty difficult, but these are my Top 5 Beatles songs; A Day in the Life Yesterday While My Guitar Gently Weeps Something I Want to Hold Your Hand What’s in your Top 5?

Huge win for migratory birds in #Malta! ✅ Our spring campaign is now complete: 👫 23 activists 🚨 28 poachers arrested 🛠️ 42 clap-nets & 12 electronic decoys seized 🕊️ 61 live birds rescued & released Spring migration is over, but the fight resumes in August!

Yo reform voters, your entire life is a lie. Migration has plummetted and we're all worse off than ever. Why? because 'small boats' has never been the problem. The rich always have.