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@smithybhoy07 @StephxnL @Teddy1780642 @The_Forty_Four Running into someone's elbow gets you a foul, does it?

@StephxnL @Teddy1780642 @inthe3rdpersona @The_Forty_Four Learn the rules ya retard. Clearly handballs and it elbows trusty in the process. Justice for the one that wasn't given in the first half.😂😂😂 Keep crying.😂😂😂

CORRUPTION IN SCOTLAND❌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 CELTIC HAVE JUST BEEN GIVEN A PENALTY IN THE 93RD MINUTE FOR THIS?!😡🤬 Heartbreaking for Hearts💔 x.com/jeremydokubelg…

@BIssahary @joan_ant192 @LivEchonews Just because it can be true, doesn't make it true. You appear to be the one complicated by this logic. Anti-Zionism is prevalent on the left. This is not anti-semitism.

@joan_ant192 @LivEchonews I imagine you find life very complicated if you can’t understand that both can be true at the same time. Antisemitism is both on the Left and the Right. In the UK it is more prevalent on the Left while in some countries it’s more common on the Right. Get it?

Reform UK candidate who said Holocaust was a hoax wins seat in local elections liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…

@Bitcoin_Teddy The guy speaks slowly. Maybe if Joe gave him time to finish a sentence, we'd all know what he was actually trying to say.

Joe Rogan & Google AI Researcher Ray Kurzweil Get Into an Awkward Exchange Over Protecting Data from Intelligence Agencies KURZWEIL: "We have the ability to keep total privacy in a device...We know how to build perfect privacy." ROGAN: "How do we do it?" KURZWEIL: Long pause...

@SG_EFC @BenAVFC1874 @sufferingspurs Calm, reasonable and researched responses are now classified as "getting angry". While, "PGMOL are only biased against *insert your team here*!!!" aren't. Hmmm.

@BenAVFC1874 @sufferingspurs because its hilarious and you getting angry at me laughing at you makes it even more funny 😂😂😂😂

I hate conversations about corruption in the premier league. I don’t think they are valid. Especially on the pitch. I wholeheartedly believe in the integrity of our game. But when you see a two footed challenge on Bissouma today that doesn’t get a red. And then the most blatant handball you’ll ever see in the West Ham game. Explain it to me? There is no argument on the planet that can explain away that handball. The VAR have seen what we’ve seen, and decided it isn’t a penalty. What is their reason?

@fstrom @shanaka86 4 nations have tried to trade oil in currencies other than dollars. Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Libya under Gaddafi, Venezuela under Maduro and Iran. Notice any themes?

@shanaka86 You should inform the Trump administration what the war is really about.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger brokered a deal with Saudi Arabia: price your oil in dollars, recycle the surplus into US Treasuries, and America guarantees your security. The arrangement was never a formal treaty. It was a handshake backed by aircraft carriers. For fifty years, every barrel of oil sold anywhere on earth created demand for the dollar that financed America’s debt. The system required two things to function: Gulf oil priced in dollars, and an American navy guaranteeing the strait through which that oil flowed. Both conditions held until February 28, 2026. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. Not physically but operationally, by mining approaches, attacking tankers, and establishing an IRGC toll booth that vets vessels, charges in yuan or stablecoins, and escorts approved ships through the Larak corridor. Traffic collapsed 95 percent. The oil that still flows does not flow in dollars. It flows in yuan, settled through CIPS, paid to an organisation the United States designated as a terrorist group. Iran has exported over 11.7 million barrels to China since the war began, all in the currency of a country that claims neutrality. The petrodollar is not being challenged by a BRICS policy paper. It is being challenged by a toll booth. The United States holds $39 trillion in gross national debt. That debt is serviceable because foreign governments buy Treasuries. Foreign governments buy Treasuries because they accumulate dollars. They accumulate dollars because oil is priced in dollars. If oil stops being priced in dollars, the demand that finances the debt weakens. Saudi Arabia’s Treasury holdings fell to $134.8 billion in January 2026, down $14.7 billion in a single month. The Saudis let the 1974 agreement lapse in June 2024 without renewal. The recycling loop that Kissinger built is loosening at the same moment that the strait through which it operated is controlled by a hostile military collecting tolls in a rival currency. This is what the war is about. Not the nuclear programme, which was the stated justification. Not the missiles, which are the visible weapons. The war is about which currency buys the molecule that powers the global economy, and the answer to that question is being determined at a 34-kilometre chokepoint by an entity that charges admission in yuan. Every American strike on Iranian infrastructure degrades the capability to maintain the toll. Every barrel of Iranian oil sold to China in yuan during the war demonstrates the toll’s viability. The strikes and the sales are running simultaneously. The petrodollar and its replacement are being tested in the same theatre at the same time. Trump’s Tuesday deadline is the enforcement mechanism. “Power Plant Day” is not about punishing Iran for closing the strait. It is about ensuring that when the strait reopens, the oil flows in dollars and the $39 trillion remains financeable. The F-35 sales to the UAE and Saudi Arabia are not arms deals. They are petrodollar anchors, binding Gulf security to American hardware that requires American currency. The rescue proved reach. The strikes prove capability. The F-35 contracts prove commitment. And the toll booth proves that all of it might not be enough. The 1974 handshake held for fifty years. The 2026 toll booth has operated for five weeks. The question the deadline answers tonight is whether fifty years of dollar dominance or five weeks of yuan experimentation determines what comes next. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

The USS Gerald R. Ford is not parked near Iran. It is parked off Israel. And nobody is asking the only question that matters: why. The $13.3 billion crown jewel of the US Navy, the largest warship ever constructed, just positioned itself off Haifa. Not in the Arabian Sea where the Lincoln sits 850 kilometers from Iranian shores loaded for offensive operations. Not in the Gulf where strike range is optimal. Off Israel. Defending Israel. This is not redundancy. This is architecture. Two carriers. Two missions. Two entirely different strategic functions. The Lincoln is the sword, positioned to launch strike packages into Iranian airspace within hours of an order. The Ford is the shield, its Aegis missile defense systems creating an umbrella over Israeli population centers against the retaliation that follows the first Tomahawk. America just split its carrier doctrine into offense and defense simultaneously. That has not happened since the Pacific theater in 1945. But the positioning reveals something deeper than tactics. When Iran retaliates, and every wargame says Iran retaliates, its missiles and drones fly toward Israel. They will fly through the same airspace where a US carrier strike group is now stationed. Every Iranian missile aimed at Tel Aviv or Haifa must traverse the Ford’s defensive envelope. Shooting at Israel means shooting at, around, and through an American carrier group. Iran cannot retaliate against Israel without engaging American naval assets. The Ford’s position makes that physically impossible. The carrier is not defending Israel as a favor. It is positioned so that any Iranian response to American strikes automatically becomes an attack on American forces, triggering the full unrestrained weight of US military response without a single additional political decision required. This is escalation insurance written in steel and seawater. If the campaign goes longer than planned, if munitions run thin in 7 to 10 days, if allies hesitate, the Ford’s position ensures that Iranian retaliation does the political work Washington cannot do alone: it transforms a limited American strike into an act of self-defense that no ally can refuse to support. You do not park a $13.3 billion carrier where the enemy’s return fire will hit it unless you want the enemy’s return fire to hit it. The Ford is not there to prevent escalation. The Ford is there to guarantee that if escalation comes, it comes on terms that make American restraint politically impossible and allied participation politically unavoidable.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@JillFilipovic As long as we're all laughing at the clown we're missing the circus. Bush Jr was a good clown, but he was nothing compared to Trump.

It was correct for the media to report on Biden's mental state and his decline. It is correct for the media to report on Trump's mental state and his decline. But this is where radically lowered expectations and "flood the zone with shit" wildly benefit Trump: The public expected competence from Biden; they expect chaos and frankly some degree of mental incapacity from Trump. Plus Trump does so much insane shit on a daily basis that the list of newsworthy events is larger than what the public can actually metabolize in a day. Of course the news media holds some responsibility here, but I don't think it's the case that "everyone is pretending this is normal." It's that Trump has acted to insanely so many times that the bar for insanity that breaks through has been raised ever higher.

The problem isn’t that Trump is the “Most Unamerican President” - it’s that he’s the MOST American President. He’s the true face of empire, just without the mask.

@teamwedge999 @StanCollymore * Australia lead by...

@StanCollymore Same with the cricket over in Australia. We would say England lead by, they say England leads by.

The answer is, is. But it highlights something interesting in modern football too. In England, for decades a football club announcement would be, "Aston Villa ARE delighted to announce ". Now, due to American ownership and influence, the same sentence would now be, "Aston Villa IS delighted to announce ". Is, in this context is actually grammatically correct as a football club is a unitary body ( in grammar although a club has many players, staff and supporters it's seen as unitary, 1, like a person, "Dave IS", not "Dave ARE") but form many Brits, ARE is still widely used. Check it out on club feeds. They'll mostly use "is".

Choose your oppressor.

In 1990, the US kidnapped the President of Panama, Manuel Noriega and charged him with drug trafficking. The real issue were tensions over the Panama Canal. Noriega was openly anti-US. He was charged and convicted on trumped up drug trafficking charges. Hugo Chavez warned that the US will do the same in Venezuela and accuse him of drug trafficking in order to access the oil. It is Maduro who has been accused of drug trafficking and will be convicted in a kangaroo court over nonsensical charges.

@silvergoatish @clara_ish If you bothered to read the thread from met police themselves, you would know that it's to do with a protest outside HMP Pentonville in solidarity with the hunger strikers.

@clara_ish I suspect it's because (unsurprisingly) that it's NYE celebrations and everyone's out getting off their tits in central London, as usual.

@scotball_ The 2 big clubs should buy their opponents' best young players rather than develop your own. Wonder why it's the least competitive league in Europe?

Ex-Scotland captain Barry Ferguson is adamant his former club Rangers should be targeting more homegrown players in pursuit of success, with Hearts’ Lawrence Shankland a “prime example” of one who got away: “It’s something that’s been grating on me for a while now. “Call it snobbery or ignorance - whatever you want. But it can’t go on. “Lawrence Shankland is the prime example. “It’s not just Shankland, though. It’s a bigger issue than that. “There are definitely players who could do a right good job for Rangers or Celtic. “I’ve always maintained that. I experienced it in my own career at Rangers when we signed guys like Neil McCann, Steven Naismith, Kris Boyd, Billy Dodds, Kirk Broadfoot. “I could go on and on, the list is endless.” The Rangers legend namechecked Josh Mulligan, James Penrice, Josh Doig, Lewis Ferguson and Aaron Hickey as homegrown players his boyhood club ought to have snapped up in recent years. (@Record_Sport)

@SFlipp @jbarro So, why did he drop Epstein?

It's such a funny brag -- "other people stopped hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein because they found out he was a pedophile, but *I* stopped hanging out with him for other reasons"

Crypto was initially sold as an alternative to the centralised monetary system. Trump's cronies have proved that it is even more open to manipulation and control by powerful interests than the banks ever were.

@OunkaOnX When Trump goes down, the Republican party doesn't go down at the same time. Instead JD becomes president and the PayPal Mafia have their man in place. Staying quiet and waiting is their best strategy right now.

For someone who never shuts up, Elon's silence on Epstein is loud.

@HaraldNordgren @mixedgrass666 Sounds great to me. (My wife would hate it.)

@mixedgrass666 It’s a French film from 1985, about a female drifter. Feel-good? No, she dies in the beginning and then we retrace her steps. Also, it’s only available on a obscure streaming service and the picture quality is so-so.

Small hiccup in our household media consumption—gf prefers to watch movies that are enjoyable whereas that doesn’t really come into play for me

@SweeperPod Since the Scottish league was first founded in 1890, the longest it has gone without Rangers or Celtic winning was 3 seasons, from 1982-83 to 1984-85. This was also the last time another team won it.

🏆 There are only five football clubs worldwide that have won 50 or more top-flight league titles: 🍀 Linfield (Northern Ireland, 57) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Celtic (Scotland, 55) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Rangers (Scotland, 55) 🇺🇾 Peñarol (Uruguay, 52) 🇺🇾 Nacional (Uruguay, 50)

In 2005, Hugo Chavez explained how the US would use a bogus “narco” designation to justify toppling Venezuela. He was told, “They’re going to end up accusing you of being a drug trafficker — you, directly, Chavez.” “They’re going to implement the Noriega formula.” 20 yrs later, the US has accused his successor of running a drug cartel, parked a massive armada offshore, and threatens to start another regime change war over so-called “narco-terrorism.”