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So much winning.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yrpvggyyet South Korea's constitutional court has unanimously voted to uphold the impeachment of president Yoon Suk Yeol. Took a bit longer than expected/desired, but the right result in the end. Note to other nations currently dealing with highly misogynist and seemingly autocratic leaders; this (for the most part) is how you deal with it. It may be yet, Song-nim. It may be yet.

Following the decision to place tariffs on McDonald Island, not far off Antarctica:

The good thing about autocrats is that they get things done. The bad thing about autocrats is that they get things done.

The problem is that what starts out with legitimate concerns like this is appearing to end with figures in very high places saying - and working towards - the viewpoint that women should be considered homebound chattel of men without consent, as they have been in a great many "traditional" cultures and which many people have fought and died to overcome. That's not hyperbole either - the slippery slope is real, and provable.

I will say one thing: this current US administration has managed to do more for (mostly) global unity than any other in recent times. It's just a shame the cost will likely be the biggest global player sitting out while the rest of the world attempts to face the problems that need to be faced.

Yeah, he and his want The Gilded Age back. Socially as well as economically, in all its rather dubious glory.

Exactly. With all the associated price rises for American consumers that will result from such upheaval.

The usual media suspects lining up to downplay the effects of these tariffs on the UK and that a "deal is possible" with this administration. How more plainly obviously self interested do Trump and his lackeys need to be, so as if such a deal with him and them is even desirable. He'll likely be thinking of this as a massive opportunity to eat into more of the US advantage as the leading world power, and calling lots of other world leaders to work to that effect.

Bloody sects maniacs.

Look up the Quiverfull movement, if you dare. The above being 100% accurate (more's the pity) being said, there is however still time to stop the most damaging aspects of the discussed ideology from being felt in a great many places.

The issues it highlights are, sad to say, very real, have a tangible cost and need to be highlighted in schools and wherever else would be useful. Of course, a direct fact based documentary might be better for that purpose, but that's difficult to gauge.

https://www.midlandsmovies.com/a-batman-premiere-forever-in-leicester-hearts Yep. RIP Val.

And in other news, Cory Booker is starting to stand up and be recognised again. Maybe he can make a better tilt at the White House in around four years time.

On the recent discussed topic of population change: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ypdy05jl9o The US couple, aged 37 and 38, ardently believe that the world needs to have more babies or risk civilisational collapse. They have become the poster children for pronatalism, a movement that believes falling birth rates are a big problem for society. And that big families are the answer. ... these people do realise that the Earths resources are finite and that while population slowdown risks a lot of problems, continual population increase guarantees the exact civilisational collapse they fear, right? Another "would be hilarious were the beliefs not so sincere and the consequences not so dire" moment.

...or you can go for whatever you can and try not to make the perfect the enemy of the good.

I guess that's true. However, I wonder: - what would have happened if this scientist was from, say Honduras rather than France - where we'll be in, say, a year if a similar incident occurs

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained A French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration, said a French minister. “I learned with concern that a French researcher who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled,” Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde. How on Earth did it come to this? The nation with the biggest scientific resources in the world becoming hostile to scientists and the scientific method itself.

Think the French are still just about aware enough to stick by "Votez pour l'escroc, pas pour le facho".

Alexa, play "Push It To the Limit" by Paul Engemann. (And now let Amazon flood me with dozens of ads for 80's music and movies for the next year.)

No doubt. I'm sure that she committed a crime will entirely pass the majority of her supporters by.

If that applies, they should also have a filter for all such sport subdivisions, in the interest of fairness.

Rather sums up the mindset of such folks, I think.

On the topic of people belonging on the thread mentioned above, this just in from the official White House Twitter account: Cracking jokes at often disadvantaged and desperate people so far down the chain of power from you is such a good look.

WRT population and age demographic crisis incoming, it's a discussion that's popped up on here before, and IMO it remains an issue for which there is no good option, it's just a matter of choosing the least damaging one.