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Improved, convalesced, slightly less unpleasant

... featuring the lovely Gina #DogsOfBluesky
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I was impressed when he left Twitter on principle while others stayed. Less impressed when he drifted back.

To be clear, I like him, he's funny. But I have no vote in NY, nor any in America, and no social media following either in America or beyond, so he won't be wasting his time canvassing me.
January 19, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I see someone provided the link upthread.
January 19, 2026 at 1:48 PM
These are sounding like German Gaullists, a breed previously as rare as hens' teeth. At the end of last week Janan Ganesh was calling them federalists. He's wrong about that. An external threat will keep the European unity talk going. But if they end up running Europe it'll be from the Council.
January 19, 2026 at 1:46 PM
If you're on the downsized staff of the National Security Council, this is your job now. Taking the buyout was the best of a bunch of bad options.
January 19, 2026 at 7:43 AM
He has articulated it. Psychological need, constrained only by his own morality.
The same basis on which he sexually assaults women in department stores.
January 18, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The French response
January 17, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Just three days later and he's back to regular service with this honking dud. Janan Ganesh leaves no bed unshat.
The right will want a United States of Europe
Conservatives will come to see a unified continent as the only defence against America and China
www.ft.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:24 AM
"Pretty soon now you're gonna get older"
Turned out to be right about that.
January 17, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Trade policy latest.
Countries that oppose his Greenland takeover better hope their mortgages are on the up and up.
Trump Threatens to Hit Countries that Oppose His Greenland Takeover With Tariffs
The president said the U.S. needs to take control of the territory to protect U.S. national security.
www.wsj.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Or the Scotch Whiskey Association, whatever.
Feebleminded arse.
January 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Hand on heart, looking you in the eye, you're about to get evidence I can lie to your face because you're a chump.
January 15, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Remember that we vote via FPTP - this journo's headline is perfectly fine
expressing no view on other possible reasons to dislike him
January 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I love you David never doubt that but those teeth were a betrayal
January 15, 2026 at 8:48 AM
"Come to shithole country, where the flavor is."
January 15, 2026 at 8:05 AM
It's easy to miss stuff. A cavernous central hall with all the art stuffed into the walls on either side. Took years, cost a fortune.
January 14, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Essential stop on your Rijksmuseum visit.
January 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Broader conclusion: they'll get him for the corruption, but the reason they'll get him will be the incompetence.
January 13, 2026 at 5:48 PM