THERE’S A WORD FOR NATIONS THAT RELY ON OTHERS FOR THEIR DEFENSE: COLONIES:  Brexit undone for a defence deal we don’t need.

TAKE A LESSON FROM HER EXPERIENCE: WATCH YOUR MOUTH AND MIND WHAT YOU TWEET:  The appalling treatment of Lucy Connolly.

Or if you prefer: Great Britain has fallen in all but name.

CHASER:  Lucy Connolly appeal denied. Her barbaric two year seven month sentence stands.

BECAUSE NOW WE CAN JUST DO THINGS:  Trump Shows South African President Video of Officials Calling for Murder of White Farmers.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SO SHOCKED:  Buffalo Public Schools Continues to Cover Itself in Infamy.

YEP. “SCIENTIFIC GOVERNANCE”:  What Nobody Tells You About Apartheid and Jim Crow: The Policies of South Africa and of the USA’s Southern States Were Neither Rightist Nor (Primarily) Racist; What They Were Was “Socialism with a Racist Face”.

THEY’RE THE CULT OF ORANGE MAN BAD:  Three National Wins that Reveal the Extent of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

POINT:  There’s a Difference Between Being Pro-2A and Anti-Gun Control.

CBS FAILS AT ECONOMICS:  “Most Americans Don’t Earn Enough To Afford Basic Costs Of Living”.

THEY’RE COLLEGE PROFESSORS, FROM YALE; THEY’RE SMARTER AND BETTER THAN YOU:  Even Nate Silver Couldn’t Take What These Yale Professors Did Seriously in Response to Trump.

YEAH. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  House Republicans investigate Harvard’s ties to Chinese and Iranian governments.

BEST SERVED COLD. AND HARD:   South Africa courts Starlink; Musk says no.

IT’S HARD TO TAKE THE “ALLEGED” SERIOUSLY WHEN THERE ARE RECORDINGS:  Trump admin terminates $60 million in Harvard grants over alleged antisemitism.

SOME OF US RECOGNIZED THAT FROM THE START:  Net Zero: Unachievable, dangerous and pointless.

WHAT CAN BLUE DO TO YOU?  Welcome to the State of Taxington.

IF THE WORLD ENDS IN AI, IT’S THE STUPIDEST OF ALL THE PREDICTED ENDS: AI Thievery and the End of Humanity by Ing.

Like dying from a pinprick.

THIS CAN’T STAND:  Fish & Wildlife has expanded its regulatory rule to every tree in much of the U.S..

I’VE DISAGREED WITH HIM OFTEN, BUT ON THE WHOLE, MAY WE ALL DO AS WELL:  A Eulogy for Scott Adams.

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HE WAS BUSY RECOGNIZING PEOPLE WHO WEREN’T THERE:  New Report Reveals Biden Couldn’t Recognize People He’d Known for Decades.

EMBEDDED JOURNALISM VERY EMBEDDED. COMPLICIT IN FACT:  Reporter Arrested With Pro-Hamas Group That Took Over Columbia Library.

WHAT ELSE IS HE GOING TO DO?   Top Democrat Doubles Down on the Biden Cover-Up.

ACCOUNTABILITY – IT’S NOT JUST FOR THE PRIVATE SECTOR:  Pete Hegseth Just Launched an Investigation That May Change Everything We Know About Afghanistan Debacle.

THEY CAN’T FIGURE A WAY TO (SEMI-CREDIBLY) BLAME IT ON RIGHT-WING, MAGA, PRO-LIFE, EXTREMISM:  Why the CA Fertility Clinic Bombing Is Out of the News Cycle. It’s Not Hard to Figure Out.

GIVE HIM A WEEK AND HE’LL TOP IT. COFF, FARTSWELL:  Eric Swalwell’s Latest Anti-Trump Tantrum Might Be His Most Embarrassing Yet.

THE UK, CANADA AND FRANCE SELF-IDENTIFY AS BAD GUYS:   UK, Canada, France Gang Up On Israel, Demand Ending IDF Operation as Hamas Stalls Hostage Talks.