waco

nosiness is next to godliness

[waco @wacotoaster]

what are you supposed to do if you are in a band and your lead singer pulls up to the studio with these lyrics

[Bloc Party @BlocParty]

Pigwig is out now.

[waco @wacotoaster]

uncurable london brain

[thelefttake @thelefttake]

Doing this made me realise how utterly unappealing large swathes of this country are.

[waco @wacotoaster]

an entire politics based on petty grievances

[Restore Britain @RestoreBritain]

A Restore Britain Government will not interrupt your Friday evening to tell you it’s hot outside.

[waco @wacotoaster]

sir, another RE- prefix party has hit the british political spectrum

[National Rebirth Party @Natrebirthparty]

More to follow...

[Stephen St🏀ne @StephenRStone]

It’s so weird that conservatives constantly say they’re concerned about men disingenuously pretending to be trans so they can infiltrate women’s sports, but that’s not really a thing, so the only time it ever actually happens is when they do it themselves

[waco @wacotoaster]

surely the take away from this is that student housing should probably be better

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Southport killer Axel Rudakubana will stay in a university-style room and have access to a gym, cafe and TV at Broadmoor Hospital

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

The work

[waco @wacotoaster]

a. b. c.
always be campaigning

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

May her soul rest in peace.

[waco @wacotoaster]

i would obviously love to see nigel farage lose this by election. but i dont think we are all prepared for how reddit-coded everything will become around the binfacw campaign

[waco @wacotoaster]

first bit of proper scrutiny he has every received from the media and he has crumbled😭😭 so embarrassing

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage threatens a Sky News journalist who asks about his undeclared gifts from convicted criminal George Cottrell

"You harass my family anymore, there will be serious consequences"

[waco @wacotoaster]

its capitalism or the earth

[The Mirror @DailyMirror]

UK weather maps show 41C heatwave is days away as 18 counties surge past 40C #UKweather #Heatwave
https://t.co/JJkLMpLEss

[freetofic (on 💙🌌 ) @freetofic]

It’s crazy to think I’m gonna live through the greatest extinction event our planet has witnessed in millions of years* & it will be the fault of 30 billionaires who brain damaged themselves into believing they don’t need the other 7 billion of us

*or die in it, who knows

[Bubbles (they/he)🏳️‍⚧️ @Monkey2Bubble]

the earth is literally boiling fish alive but its ok because the shareholders get money and elon muskrat is a trillionare and billionares get richer.

[waco @wacotoaster]

when i discover how the british tv industry works

[Emma Szewczak @EmmaSzewczak]

did a casting director on SNL UK go to Cambridge or is it just a coincidence that every other cast member went there too?

[waco @wacotoaster]

found time for an interview tho😭😭

[Talk @TalkTV]

Builder Cameron says he "would have voted Restore" if he could get time off work.

"It has always been a two-party system. Voting for Labour or the Conservatives will get us the same insanity."

@mrmarkdolan | @SamaramGill

[waco @wacotoaster]

????

[El Borto @bortinez_]

“We can always tell” 😂😂😂

[waco @wacotoaster]

i assume that if burnham pledges his allegiance to israel the labour party would allow him to enact maoist land reforms for all they care

[waco @wacotoaster]

this sounds great, but i thought we learned from corbyn that the labour party is rotten to the core and would self-destruct before entertaining a vaguely left wing idea

[Tory Fibs @ToryFibs]

Andy Burnham: “I don’t blame anyone who left our party. I don’t blame anyone who voted for other parties”.

“We need to renationalise water, energy and housing.”