TIL that American law prohibits Venezuelans from being near a gun in Venezuela but doesn’t prohibit random people from carrying guns in schools in several states.

Netanyahu probably also is not a fan of the precedent this sets.

Five: Tibet in 1950 (to annex them), Taiwan in 1954 (captured a few islands), India in 1962 (border dispute that has had ongoing clashes after), the USSR in 1969 (border dispute), and Vietnam in 1979 (an attempt to deter them from overthrowing the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia).

This GIF would also work very well with the caption “High Seas Fleet discovers the Grand Fleet, 1830 31 May 1916”

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What happened to the audio in this clip?

“It’s a war on another continent” meanwhile these muppets are in the middle of starting a war in South America because they can.

Shortening “death review panel” to “death panel” is a bit confusing in light of how the latter phrase was part of anti-public-healthcare propaganda in the USA.

If Via is suggesting they have no back-up plan for situations where trains get stranded on a 400 km stretch of track other than to force passengers to sleep in their seats for 12 hrs, I don’t see why anyone in their right mind would pay to use this company’s services ever again

Air France and KLM even have a dedicated shuttle bus service that runs between the Ottawa train station and Dorval in sync with when their flights arrive and depart; you can book it as a through ticket with the flight. They won’t need it any more with a HSR connection.

On the other hand, picking Rudy Giuliani for 2001 rather than the more obvious candidate does imply that—at least some of the time—they deliberately pick a less influential recipient who they feel is more positive.

Starmer's Labour is worse than the Tories because there isn't a Labour party waiting in the wings, unless we see some astonishing magic from the Greens. People rejected the Tories and Labour came in to tell them, no, that's not allowed, this is the only policy there is. Fuck you.