After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:

“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

Imagine how incredible it must feel right now to be 252,757 miles away, passing behind the far side of the Moon without any way to communicate with Earth, knowing that for 40 whole minutes, you won't be able to even vaguely know about anything being said by Donald Trump.

new yorker headline: THIS EASTER, AN AMERICAN POPE CONFRONTS AN AMERICAN WAR

*movie trailer guy voice*

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

Need one more Joani Reid treasonous relationship to set us up for an incredible Mamma Mia in 20 years

you can go into actual *space* but you'll never escape ms outlook.

If I were on that ship, I bet I could talk all the others into agreeing to just going ahead and landing on The Moon by, like, Day 6 at the latest. Really get them with the "let's just do it and be legends" approach.

Feeling a bit like this right now, except I'm glued to a much smaller screen. #artemis2

The Americans are about to fling a group of people towards the moon, if you're still up.

UK submarine captain steps down after link to Chinese spy case Navy previously conducted investigation into senior officer to examine potential blackmail risk

extraordinary FT scoop via @lucyfisher.ft.com

captain of a UK nuclear-armed submarine has stepped back from his role this week after being investigated over his relationship with Joani Reid, the Labour MP whose husband has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China

www.ft.com/content/93be...

Thousands march against far right in London in biggest ever multicultural protest More than 100 charities, campaign groups and trade unions marched in a show of unity against far right politics * Together Alliance march – live updates Tens of thousands of people have gathered in London to march against the far right in the biggest multicultural demonstration in UK history. Organisers claimed half a million people had travelled to the capital for the Together Alliance march. Police estimated the turnout closer to 50,000, although they admitted it was difficult to judge due to how spread out the crowd was. Continue reading...

Thousands march against far right in London in biggest ever multicultural protest

oh, this has South African Twitter written alllll over it.

Matty z Birmingham | Peaky Blinders: Nieśmiertelny | Netflix YouTube video by Netflix Polska

Wait, what? #avfc

youtu.be/tJP2-jZX_9c?...

Reminder that Nick Timothy was Theresa May’s special advisor at the Home Office when the “hostile environment“ policy was implemented, leading to the Windrush scandal, in case you were wondering how much of an accident all that was

a soccer player wearing a green acorns shirt Alt: Gif of Emi Martínez dancing backwards in a green shirt.

Well, this feels... nice? #avfc

GOALLL BAILEYY

Watkins unselfish by squaring the ball

2-0 #AVFC (3-0 on aggregate)

Uh, don't think whatever Perraud just did should be allowed. #avfc

That celebration from Martínez was so joyful. #avfc

The full text version of Rayner's comments on Mahmood's "earned settlement" proposals is very good indeed.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Barcelona's goal-scoring rate clearly inversely proportional to the quality of the typeface on the back of their shirts.

Ex-Belgian diplomat to stand trial over 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba A Brussels court has ordered a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat to stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba.

A Brussels court has ordered a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat to stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba.

rfi.my/CXEW.BS

😶😶😶

I am not in any sense a lawyer or legal expert of any kind, but my distinct impression is that, when the transcript of a real-life courtroom proceeding before a real judge reads like the climactic scene of a Grisham novel, your case probably isn't going too well.

We needed this

Surely this is the moment we were born for as a nation.

Time to think outside the box about reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Now hear me out...

oh here's a fun thing about the french class I'm taking: in the unit about marriage, divorce, separation, and "libre unions" there was an exercise where we compared and contrasted nicolas sarkozy's and francois hollande's womanizing. this was in the textbook

Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...