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“…. we have confidence in good over evil. Fight the real enemy!" #SineadOConner 1992 SNL

Anonymous My 13-year-old son just said, “Mum, I think I have a good idea. The people in America protesting ICE should call themselves LAVA — Local And Very Angry. And lava melts ice. You should post that and see if it's a good idea" We’re about as far away from the United States as you can get, here in Perth, Western Australia. But I hope the people over there know that even a young boy on the other side of the world can see when something isn’t right.

@allenanalysis Why would they advertise it? These people are idiots.

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: A retired Navy SEAL is confirming on camera that US Special Operations Forces — SEALs and Green Berets — are operating deep inside Iran on a rescue mission for the downed F-15 crew. This is American boots on the ground in Iran. Not a ground invasion. A rescue operation. But American special operators are inside Iranian territory right now.

@utijerry1 Alex’s exit from Grey’s was awkward and unsatisfying. An end without an ending. At least they didn’t kill him.

Imagine having this level of friendship with someone 😍 But I always thought getting someone out of bed was a Cristina thing.

#BREAKING: Sen Whitehouse: “…today Donald Trump issued an executive order to the postmaster general and DHS, his DHS, ordering the postmaster general, who he appointed, to seize control of mail-in ballots and invent a method with DHS, for delivering mail-in ballots only to people Donald Trump’s DHS believes should receive mail-in ballots. Yes, you heard that correctly.”🤦‍♀️

The Army Chief of Staff, a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked Pete Hegseth why he was blocking the promotions of two Black officers and two female officers who had earned them. Hegseth refused to answer. Then he fired him. Nine U.S. officials told NBC News that Hegseth has blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military. Hegseth has now fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals. He is an out-of-control, unqualified former TV host and nobody in the Republican Party will say a word about it because they don’t want to make Trump angry. nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

Pete Hegseth repeatedly mocks "rules of engagement." But now that a US pilot is missing and possibly capture, a reminder, rules of engagement don't just protect people we go to war against, they also protect OUR troops.

@TweetingTjStyle @EnergyMix_UK @GSGB01 I automatically block people who use that word. It is cruel not to mention discriminatory.

@Statebird2 @EnergyMix_UK @GSGB01 Retard alert!👆Imagine thinking that the pathetic useful idiot word 'islamphobia' works anymore! & then the useful idiot throws in Hate & Aggression for some drama🤣 charles is a leftard & is compromised! Needs to step down! We see his traitorous, pro-islamic behaviour! He's a 🤡

🚨BREAKING: British citizens are calling upon King Charles to ABDICATE amid huge backlash following the announcement that he will not be giving an Easter message this year. Should Charles hand over the throne?

@utijerry1 I don’t think I will ever not be mad they killed off Derek or the way they killed him. It was like fans of the show were being punished for imagining doctors/surgeons like those on Grey’s were real to life by letting his death be caused by a doctor’s malpractice. Screw them all.

That was one of the scariest scenes in Grey’s Anatomy, Izzie's memory kept slipping and she was forgetting things moments after they were explained.

@mbonce161 @rushicrypto When were boomers handed the country? When was any generation handed America? Last I looked we are in the current situation cause in Nov 2024, a record breaking number of 18-29 year olds turned out to vote for Donald Trump.

@Statebird2 @rushicrypto Probably because they were handed the country at its strongest and under their stewardship let every single institution decay into collapse

People who are older than I: Does it really feel like end times or is this just a temporary dip? Because it really feels like end times.

@mbonce161 @rushicrypto That’s happening today, right? I didn’t vote for that. What have you done to stop it?

I don't think people realize just how extraordinary what we're witnessing with Iran is. I was arguing with a dear journalist friend of mine yesterday who was telling me that Iran was winning, yes, but only on the strategic level, not tactically. The type of thing a skinny kid getting stuffed in lockers in highschool tells himself to make himself feel better: "These people will BEG to work for me in ten years. Everyone knows jocks peak in highschool. They'll literally beg." 😏 I think that's precisely wrong, and that's what makes the Iran war different. As of now, Iran is in fact holding its own tactically too. Think about other U.S. wars of aggression these past few decades. Take Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Serbia, etc. (the list is unfortunately very long). The pattern was roughly always the same with an immense power differential between aggressor and victim. These wars were, by and large, imperial: the empire attempting to crush a much weaker people whose only realistic recourse was guerrilla resistance. And that is when they actually had the will to resist: some - like Libya - barely even bothered, just resigning themselves to their fate (despite being, at the time, the richest country in Africa). As spectators of these wars, if you had any moral sense, the dominant emotion was a kind of helpless disgust: you were watching a giant stomp through someone else's house. Sure, the U.S. actually lost many - if not most - of these wars, famously replacing the Taliban with the Taliban or being expelled with their tail between their legs from Vietnam, but the power differential was no less real for it. It's just that power doesn't always guarantee victory: sometimes the giant can't kill everyone, and eventually tires of trying. But the “victories” won this way were always pyrrhic at best: the people endured, yes, but what they were left with was a country in ashes that takes decades to rebuild. Meanwhile, in the grand scheme of things, the giant walked away with little more than a bruised ego. Iran is - remarkably - proving to be an entirely different beast: when others were merely surviving a giant, Iran appears to be able to compete with one. What just happened over the past 48 hours is the best illustration of this. You had the President of the United States issue a formal ultimatum: reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours or we "obliterate" your power grid. Iran's response was essentially: we dare you, if you do this we'll make all your Gulf allies uninhabitable within a week. And, as we saw, Trump backed down: pretexting non-existent "VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS" with Iran, he said his ultimatum no-longer applied (or, rather, became 5 days). Adding he now envisaged the Strait of Hormuz being “jointly controlled by me and the Ayatollah.” To the amusement of Iran’s diplomacy (x.com/IraninSA/statu…). That, folks, is a textbook tactical victory. It is, remarkably, Iran demonstrating in this instance that it had escalation dominance over the United States of America. That is, the ability to credibly threaten consequences so severe that the US - for perhaps the first time since the Cold War - found it preferable to stand down. That's no skinny kid being locked in a locker dreaming of revenge fantasies. That's the kid grabbing the bully's wrist mid-shove and watching his face change. And it's not the only tactical victory in this war so far. Take the episode over the Israeli attack on Iran's South Pars gas facility. Iran had warned that if that happened U.S. allies in the region - including Israel - would face a symmetrical response. And they delivered: famously devastating Qatar's Ras Laffan facility - which produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply - and leading, according to Qatar themselves, to a $20 billion loss of annual revenue for the next 5 years (oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-…). Not only that but they also managed to hit Israel's Haifa refinery (aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/19…), one of the country's most strategic and protected sites. The result was Trump distancing himself from the South Pars attack, saying that Israel had "violently lashed out" unilaterally and that "NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field." Israel then said it wouldn't strike Iran energy sites anymore (bloomberg.com/news/articles/…). From where I stand, that's another tactical victory. It is, at least, Iran demonstrating that is can fight back **symmetrically** against the U.S. and its allies. Not through asymmetric resistance with IEDs hidden in the roadside or traps hidden in the jungle, but eye for eye, and against some of the most heavily protected sites on the U.S.'s side. That's qualitatively different from any other adversaries the U.S. has directly fought in recent wars. There's plenty more, such as the pretty relevant fact that Iran has gained control of the single most strategic energy chokepoint on earth and the U.S. is finding it impossible to break that control. To the point where Trump has been reduced to publicly begging China - of all countries - for help, which given Trump's ego mustn't have been easy to do. Only to be told no. By China. And by everyone else he asked. This is the topic of my latest article: how this is, in fact, the first genuine "multipolar war." First, in the narrow sense: because Iran is revealing itself to be a genuine pole of power - not a superpower, but an actor that cannot be submitted, which is all multipolarity is. And second, because the war itself is accelerating multipolarity everywhere else: the U.S. has never been more isolated, never looked weaker and its security guarantees have never been more hollow. In my article I lay out the full scoreboard - military, economic, political - and explain why this war has already changed the world, regardless of how it ends. Enjoy the read here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

@fashionistaera Any skiers out there who can tell me why we don’t see as many amateur skiers using ski poles anymore?

Princess Diana took her boys skiing & u can clearly see her guiding, helping, & actually skiing with them. U can clearly see them 👀 Harry says they are hounded by the press, yet there’s not a single video after? No ppl around, no crowd shots, nothing. Very interesting.🤨

@ZandiSussex It’s all speculation, right? How do any of us know how any of them are in private. We aren’t personally observing their behavior. I can’t imagine how any of them get out of bed everyday considering the public animus towards them. I have been critical too but I am cognizant of it.

@Statebird2 Not normal for one to be throwing tantrums and stomping off. Willy has been throwing tantrums for everything Harry has including his wedding.

“The sporting star of the family is definitely Harry and it always has been, and that used to really irritate William because he’d see his younger brother better on the skis than he was. And Harry was fearless. You see, Harry is fearless!” - Ingrid Seward

@mbonce161 @rushicrypto That’s why the bulk of No Kings protesters are 62-80 years old. You know, the boomers. Geez. What are you doing? Why are you so antagonistic towards people in their 60’s+?

@rushicrypto Boomers want it to be end times so they don’t have to face their mortality without validation

@mikjcal @BrendaWeese Aren’t government offices in uk closed on Maundy Thursday too?

I’m actually really surprised to learn that for the United States that bangs on so much about Christianity that Good Friday and Easter Monday are not federally mandated public holidays for the whole country 🤔 Here in Australia the whole country gets a 4 day long weekend, and those who have to work get paid penalty rates for it.

NASA releases first stunning Artemis II photos of Earth from moon mission aje.news/cq0cc7

U.S. intelligence assesses that Iran still maintains a significant missile launching capability, including roughly half of its cruise and ballistic launchers, as well as thousands of one-way attack drones, despite daily strikes against military targets across Iran for the last five weeks by Israel and the United States, three sources familiar with the assessment told CNN.

@ZandiSussex Are you sure? I may not like it but it seems fairly common to me. Lots of parents out there trying to sort out poor loser syndrome. (My word.) why do you think there are so many pub fights after football games?

@Roseypo59725089 @ChrisCoons Call or write the White House to state your opposition to Secretary Hegseth. During business hours call: 202-456-1111 or write to: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500. Thanks!

@ChrisCoons Hegseth needs to be removed. His thirst for violence is dangerous. He is a twisted and dangerous man. He gets off on hurting others. Utterly unqualified for his position. He’s a disgrace!

During Holy Week, and for the first time in our nation’s history, Secretary Hegseth fired the head of the Army Chaplain Corps, Major General William Green, without explanation. General Green is a decorated leader who tended to our military’s spiritual health with honor and distinction.