Graham Ramsay

Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.

[caroline wheeler @cazjwheeler]

Exclusive: Andy Burnham is being urged by business leaders to rejoin the European Union as new economic modelling reveals it could add at least £92bn to the economy and boost growth by at least 3.6 per cent - helping to fund the changes he is promising.
The study, commissioned by campaign group Best for Britain and carried out by Frontier Economics, a consultancy chaired by Dame Sharon White, the former chair of John Lewis, models the key benefits of EU membership and finds the prize dwarfs every other option on the table.
The report suggests that the UK would recover up to 90 per cent of Brexit’s economic hit to UK GDP - which the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has calculated at minus 4 per cent by 2030 - far eclipsing value of a customs union or all post-Brexit trade deals combined.
Crucially for a would-be Prime Minister who built his name as the champion of the North, the gains would be felt most strongly - outside London - in Britain’s former industrial and manufacturing heartlands in the East and West Midlands, Yorkshire and the North - due to an “outsized” boost to trade in goods.

https://t.co/6s2lguD1p2

[Benjamin Butterworth @benjaminbutter]

Moved to tears walking through central Kyiv and the sea of memorials to soldiers killed fighting to protect Ukraine. They are fighting for the their freedom and for the security of all of us in Europe.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

I know people who hate his guts -- people who live in a peaceful, free, and democratic country. I think I know why. He makes them "hold their manhoods cheap," to use Shakespeare language. They can barely tie his shoes, and they, somewhere, know it.

[Graham Ramsay @grahamramsay]

@kennylanglea @robertmdaws Charlie Cooke, too.

[Tom Lane. @TomLaneUK]

Despite the cold spring, 2026 is turning out to be a significant year of conservation success stories from our village here in Fife. Our latest update is the successful hatching of three Lapwing chicks after an absence of nearly twenty years as a breeding species @BTO_Scotland

[Graham Ramsay @grahamramsay]

@scotsawaydays Utterly pathetic.

[Gerard Baker @gerardtbaker]

Same administration that called on the Iranian people to rise up and rid themselves of their oppressors now offering prospect of $300bn to said oppressors to presumably oppress more lavishly.

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

It is literally insane simultaneously to think that 16 and 17 year olds are mature enough to vote but not mature enough to look at Instagram at 8:30pm. This is comically absurd.

[ДТЕК @DTEK_Ukraine]

Ви маєте знати про ДТЕКівця Олександра Косолапова, який загинув вчора під час обстрілу ТЕС.

Останні роки він ремонтував ТЕС після атак. Починав як слюсар, загалом присвятив енергетиці та роботі на підприємствах ДТЕК 30 років.

Справжній профі, надійний товариш, відданий своїй справі спеціаліст.

Світла пам’ять енергетикам, шахтарям та всім, хто загинув в боротьбі за світло під час цієї страшної війни.

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

OTD in 1941 Soviets started forcibly deporting 50,000 of the Baltic people we had ‘liberated from fascism’. 60% died. 75% were women & kids

Imagine mass deportations happening today..

[Graham Ramsay @grahamramsay]

@davepl1968

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

Une des meilleures vidéos que j'ai vu sur internet 🥹🤩🤩🤩🥰

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

This is from Norway, but it’s one of the most distinctive and evocative calls of the Scottish Highlands: the ptarmigan.

🔈 Sound ON for this.

Video link https://t.co/7INXNiZawf

[𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢 @ColdBrief]

It's almost impossible to fully take in, but as of today, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has entered its 1,568th day - one day longer than the entire First World War lasted. Let that sit for a moment!

The human cost has long since passed the threshold of the comprehensible. Conservative estimates put Russian military deaths at between 300,000 and 500,000; Ukrainian losses at over 100,000. These are soldiers only - the count excludes civilians killed, the hundreds of thousands wounded, and those lost to suicide and indirect causes. Taken together, these numbers already exceed the total military dead from all the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and surpass every armed conflict on European soil since the Napoleonic Wars - with only the two world wars and possibly the Russian Civil War as exceptions. This is not a regional skirmish or a frozen conflict. It is the bloodiest war Europe has seen in living memory, and it is still going!

What makes this especially difficult to process is not just the scale, but the proximity - geographical, historical, cultural. This is not a war being fought at a comfortable distance. It is unfolding on the same continent where Europeans built institutions, signed treaties, and told themselves, repeatedly, that industrial-scale slaughter between states was a thing of the past. That assumption has been shattered. And yet, more than four years in, there remains a strange collective numbness - a failure of imagination, or perhaps a failure of will - that prevents us from fully reckoning with what is happening.

Whatever name we give it - the Russo-Ukrainian War, the war in Ukraine, Russia's war of aggression - the reality is the same: a deliberate, sustained attempt to destroy a sovereign nation through overwhelming force. Over 1,500 days in, that attempt has failed to achieve its objectives. But the cost of resistance has been catastrophic, and the end remains nowhere in sight.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Costa Rica has outlawed recreational hunting, solidifying its role as a worldwide leader in animal protection and a safe haven for the remarkable 5% of global biodiversity it hosts.

Home to an astonishing proportion of Earth's plant and animal species, Costa Rica stands as one of the planet's most vital biodiversity hotspots. Yet this extraordinary natural heritage faces ongoing threats from human activities—including unsustainable wildlife tourism, illegal wildlife trade, domestic animal neglect, and organized animal fighting.

As encounters between people and wildlife grow more frequent, the country's fragile ecosystems require proactive safeguards to protect their most vulnerable residents.

Costa Rica has responded with groundbreaking animal welfare laws that reflect a deep national commitment to conservation. Building on its landmark 2012 nationwide ban on sport and trophy hunting, the country introduced stringent anti-trafficking measures in 2017 to combat poaching and biodiversity loss. By imposing mandatory prison sentences for animal cruelty and creating a national registry of offenders, Costa Rica demonstrates that effective conservation demands strong legal enforcement alongside widespread societal resolve to safeguard all living beings within its borders.

[Graham Ramsay @grahamramsay]

@saintjavelin Unfollowed for use of AI image

[TugboatPhil - America 250 Club @TugboatPhil]

If only a technology existed where the entire view of the aircraft could be visible throughout this clip.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

I stand with the brave women of Afghanistan who face guns, bullets, beatings and arrest, simply for saying no to forced hijab.

I tried to cover my face. I couldn't breathe behind that piece of cloth for even a few seconds. A total humiliation. And the Taliban is demanding Afghan women wear it for a lifetime.

To every Western politician who calls the burqa Afghan "culture" you’re better listen to Women, Afghanistan, and Iran, who lived under Islamic regimes. You're sitting in a parliament in a free country, with a salary and a vote and a podium calling this culture. This is a total betrayal to us who are wounded but unbowed to our oppressors.

Stop legitimizing Taliban. Be the voice of women of Afghanistan. Who wants to end this Apartheid regime.

#LetUsTalk

[The New Voice of Ukraine @NewVoiceUkraine]

🇺🇦👏 Ukrainian veterans, including servicemen with amputations, completed a 40 km endurance march in the Scottish Highlands during the Cateran Yomp charity event.

Despite severe injuries, they finished the challenging route in about 12 hours, earning praise for their resilience and determination

📷: Consulate of Ukraine in Edinburgh / Facebook