Moughlies

Mum of 2 sons and 2 cats.

[Moughlies @soozem]

@branthansen From a UK perspective my suggested line up for the America 250 celebs would be
1. Marge Simpson and Miss Piggy entering a stadium on AI surfboards to the Hawaii Five O theme tune.
That’s it. They are your best work. (Although Astronauts, Otis Reading, Motown…)

[Moughlies @soozem]

@PaulHeatonSolo Still an absolute favourite of mine. And you came to Belfast to play it which was a rarity. Always been v grateful for that. It was the first concert I was allowed to go to - was in 5th Form at school

[Moughlies @soozem]

@TheTrawlPodcast It’s really pissing me off how #Reform have co-opted one of my favourite colours - aquamarine. The colour of swimming pools and tropical seas. The colour of joy and hopeful holidays. They should instead be diarrhoea brown 💩 for down the pan

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

“We all see what is happening to Ukraine now. But it all began with Ukraine’s attempt to join the European Union,” Putin said.

And with that single phrase, he essentially admitted the real reason for the war himself.

Not “protecting Donbas.”
Not “fighting Nazism.”
Not “defending the Russian language.”
Not religion.
Not any of the endless horror stories invented by Russian propaganda.

There was only one real reason:

Ukraine dared to make its own choice.

The choice not to live under Moscow’s control.
The choice to become part of Europe.
The choice to build its own state, its own language, its own politics, and its own future.

For an empire, the greatest threat is not foreign armies near its borders.

The greatest threat is when a former colony stops being afraid and starts living independently.

[Moughlies @soozem]

@Dominic2306 I’d have thought your ejection from political life might have brought a little humility, some self reflection, a repurposing of the contribution you might usefully make going forwards. But no, just more of the same old same old arrogant twaddle

[Moughlies @soozem]

@meara72 @MickPuck Because it might have been sunny outside? And you’re entering from the street. Because you fancy it. Because you love hats. Because you love sunglasses. Why should it matter. It’s an idiotic rule.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Actual quotes from President Trump:

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully.
March 10: practically nothing left to target
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 6 :a whole civilization will die
April 7: total and complete victory
April8: objectives were met

A true disaster

[⚡︎ @_sorrengailll]

They might find something new on the moon now they’ve sent a woman up to look.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

It has gone largely unnoticed that the chief enforcement official, for the SEC, Margaret Ryan, left suddenly last week.

She had been restricted from investigating sketchy trades and investments involving the Trump family and close associates.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

If you’re writing the laws, you shouldn’t be playing the market. This is basic stuff. I have a bill that finally bans members of Congress from trading stocks. No loopholes. No exceptions.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is what passes for international diplomacy and leadership today. An all caps misspelled rant from a sundowning old man is posted by the Department of Defense as an official order. 35 years ago I had just fought the last battle of Desert Storm and GEN Schwarzkopf met our enemy in a tent in the desert to lay out their withdrawal from Kuwait as thousands of coalition troops waited for our orders. Today a mentally unstable narcissist posts on his personal social media company his brain dump and our troops are left scrambling to decode it all. This is the most incompetent leadership I’ve ever witnessed at any level.

[Moughlies @soozem]

@mgtruth @Dli_ODoir The music and score are superb. I thought it was a great film. Unusual and genre defying.

[Moughlies @soozem]

@RichardSE23 @DBtodomundo @EventimApollo Hard agree. Was there too. So joyful. Like being inside a Hockney Painting

[Moughlies @soozem]

@BBCPolitics @bbclaurak Is he going through his Liam G phase now? Pathetic specimen

[Daniel Hussey @DanielHussey2]

Can’t stop watching

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Something very sinister is happening in the UK:

25% of voters believe people crossing in small boats are the largest share of migrants

Truth: 2%

44% think refugees/asylum seekers are the majority of migrants

Truth: 16%

48% believe most migrants here are “illegal”

Truth: 4%.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons

[Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman]

Wow.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Reform are a reverse Trigger's broom: pretending it's new while in reality it's entirely made up of failed parts that should have been discarded.

[Matthew Herper @matthewherper]

I don't know how to ask for a moment of silence amid the madness that is X.

But please take a moment to reflect on the heroism of William Foege.

Foege, who died Saturday at 89, was a key architect of the eradication of smallpox using the vaccine. This is one of humanity's great victories over a terrible disease and a triumph of science. If you haven't, go order or download his book, "House on Fire," which chronicles that epic fight. He was head of the CDC from 1977 to 1983.

He was a towering, six-foot-seven reminder that rationality can win against scourges that have beset mankind for all of history.