The face you make when you realize you’re trapped in the room with a babbling buffoon.

The stages in MAGA responding to a negative story:
1: It's all lies
2: Most of it is lies
3: Some of it's true, but it doesn't matter
4. It's all true, but it's fine when we do it
5. F**k you

Actually, quite flattering.

Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:

So after all that, we end up with a perfectly tolerable deal which has almost no connection to the vindictive bullshit Trump was saying about it.

DOGE = Department of Gross Errors

The Zelensky-Vance meeting at the Munich Security Conference on February 14 has been postponed as Ukraine finalizes a key partnership memorandum for the US side.

Who the fuck does Trump think he is? Telling Ukraine about its territorial concessions without involving it in talks. Telling Europe about its responsibilities without providing any assistance.

From the Premier of Ontario.

If you elect the school bully as class president, he'll continue being a bully.

Retaliatory tariffs from both Mexico and Canada.

Trump says he’ll raise tariffs to 50% if they retaliate.

Naturally, they’ll retaliate again, and every day Americans (and Canadians) will pay for this crisis entirely of Trump’s making

Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

Today's Poll: Which of these four methods to fund the BBC (TV, news, radio, online) would you most favour. Which is CLOSEST to your view?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/ARlDdu/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">TV License (as now)
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/ARlDdu/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Subscription 4 BBC users
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/ARlDdu/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Via general taxation
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/ARlDdu/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Via advertising

📊 Show results

I may be wrong, but I seriously doubt The Carter Center “accidentally” covered up Trump by a marble pillar in this photo they released from President Carter’s funeral. 🤣

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Why #sophiefromromania is leaving Twitter- welcome to BlueSky new followers!

My cough has become bronchitis and will be treated with Laphroaig and possibly honey. I am sufficiently dulled to watch Marvel and unsubscribe from every spam email coming my way today. Send good vibes.

🤡

Read the Gaetz report in full:

“There is substantial evidence that Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress.”
ethics.house.gov/wp-content/u...

It's working! Keep calling him Vice President Donald Trump!

Great letter in this morning's @financialtimes.com

Syria, Sunday morning:
- rebels are in control Damascus & Homs
- video shows Syria’s prime minister taken into custody by gunmen
- celebrations have erupted across many liberated areas
- an Israeli report suggests Bashar al-Assad fled to Russian controlled airbase last night

Bad Ass Georgian girl confronting the Russian scum.

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree.
Ate it.

Says a lot that about 90% of the traffic I’m seeing on X right now is absolutely convinced the British govt is about to embark on a mass programme of state murder of the elderly and vulnerable. What was until recently the town square of politics has become the preserve of the bad, mad and deranged.