Pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran War assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wishcasting. This whole shitshow has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goal posts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we’ll know that it’s been achieved.
Iran has masterfully played Trump.
He has to bomb them to have any leverage in negotiations, but if he bombs them, oil goes sky high, markets tank.
If he deals, he turns on Israel & loses every special interest donor that put him in office.
It doesn’t matter if Palantir eliminates all crime.
We don’t want to live in a dystopian surveillance state.
When Patrick Henry said ‘Give me liberty or give me death,’ he wasn’t just talking about the British.
He was talking about all tyrants. Foreign or domestic.
@RepThomasMassie@ky_statesman@BasedMikeLee@JaniceWill47400 Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt. It's a past time political tool to keep the populace occupied and not questioning their leaderships poor governance.
@WhiteHouse@mevans5729 Zero investigations, indictments, arrests, or even so much as a parking ticket for Epstein’s coconspirators. As Melania said, Epstein did not act alone.
@jeffreytucker This sounds like some sort of social justice for tick's?! Like: "Don't be tickophobic they're part of the normal human experience. Just let them bite you". No people are concerned about them because of the more and more diseases they continue to carry. Not because we're bugphobic
I love that Trump is putting his face on the $250 bill. It'll be a constant reminder that it costs $250 to get what used to cost us $100. Let that be your legacy you narcissistic imbecile.
A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.
His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.
He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.
In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.
The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.
Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.