Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
"The co‑host of the Fifa World Cup finals this summer is currently bombing one of its participating nations. The co‑host of the tournament has murdered the head of state of the third‑ranked team in Group G." www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Eisenhower
This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.
Just wait until FIFA and the Board of Peace hear of all this!
"A Gallup poll last year found 40% of American women, ages 15-44, would like to permanently move overseas, if possible. By comparison, in 2023, the same pollster found that a slightly smaller proportion of sub-Saharan Africans—37%—wished to do the same." www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
it's molting season for RFK Jr
It’s ski season in NYC
Guardian US is hiring a new climate justice reporter. If you think you are able to join me and Dharna in covering the most important beat on this unusual planet of ours, the job listing is here workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
it used to be peerless
“Exposure to nature can lower our blood pressure, slash the risk of diabetes, improve our mental health & treat ADHD in a way that’s similar to a dose of Ritalin,” @olliemilman.bsky.social writes.
What could it do on a larger scale for society as a whole?
#nature #society #wellness
I truly feel sorry for every American smart enough to realize that this makes the United States look like the dumbest nation on the planet.
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
I was wondering when nessun dorma was going to pop up. The legacy of Italia 90 never ends
Number of petrol (gasoline) powered cars sold in the whole of Norway last month:
7
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Incredibly, the first high level politician to offer an apology to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein is...Keir Starmer www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
Junior Walk is one of the most interesting characters I've ever reported on - raised in a coal mining family in West Virginia but now a one-man watchdog of a coal industry that is blowing up mountains.
He has written a book on what such a life is like - mixam.com/print-on-dem...
2026 to be record year for new gas-fired power globally - thanks to AI and the US.
In the US, a third of all these new gas plants will be situated on-site at data centers.
The lifetime planet-heating emissions of all this new gas will be 12.1bn tonnes of CO2. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Sepp Blatter - the voice of conscience!
Obviously this is a setback but I think it's important not to let it discredit the concept of building a long, extremely narrow glass city in the middle of the desert. www.ft.com/content/036b...
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
makes sense
New meat-heavy dietary guidelines released by RFK Jr would require 100m acres of additional agricultural land each year, an area about the size of California, and add hundreds of millions of tons of extra planet-heating pollution, experts say.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
RFK’s dietary guidelines will wreak havoc on the planet. Even a 25% increase in protein consumed would need 100m more acres of farm land each year, about the size of California — plus hundreds of millions of tons more pollution writes @olliemilman.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National parks staff have told of chaos and anger at parks as foreigners face new $100 entry fee.
- Long lines at parks, many visitors flee rather than pay
- New annual pass has Trump's face on it and costs $250
- Green groups claim this is all illegal
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
