And the backing of Peter Thiel, a billionaire with a surveillance empire just ripe for use in political oppression.

You never know whether a stranger on the internet is dyslexic. It might be preferable to let a spelling error slide rather than attack someone for what might be a disability they can’t help. Plus there are plenty of people for whom English is not their first language. And then there are people who are just bad at spelling, but it doesn’t really matter.

To be fair, things that blow up do go boom.

That’s such a feeble criticism: a socialist, living in a capitalist society where everything costs money, needs money to do things, therefore they’re not really a socialist. There’s no logic to that. Why would anyone imagine that a socialist doesn’t need money to do things in a capitalist society? Is he a fraud because he hasn’t transformed New York into a moneyless society since yesterday (despite not even being sworn in yet)? When did he promise to do that, or is it just right wingers having no clue what socialism is again?

The DHS has alleged that the 32-year-old “exited his vehicle wielding a hammer and threw rocks at law enforcement while he had a child in his car”.

I assume every single one of ICE’s self-jusitfying stories is false, until proven otherwise.

This will surely reinvigorate the US economy.

Netanyahu has already done that by so diluting the word “antisemitic” that it means “criticizing anything Israel does, including genocide.” Being called antisemitic by his gang is a badge of honor. By ruining the word he has made it far harder for people to raise the alarm about actual antisemitism.

Unless the left can find some way of reaching them, right-wing media will convince Trump’s followers that “radical extremist Democrats” are causing all this trouble in the USA and only more fascism can fix it.

and making 10 of the richest men in the U.S. $7 billion richer in less than 1 year.

It was a hundred times more than that: $700 billion, or on average $70 billion each.

Air India has offered an interim compensation payment to Mr Ramesh of £21,500, which has been accepted, but his advisers say this is not enough to meet his immediate needs.

The family fishing business in Diu in India, which Mr Ramesh ran with his brother before the crash, has since collasped, his advisers said.

Spokesman for the family Mr Seiger said they had invited Air India for a meeting on three occasions, and all three were either “ignored or turned down”.

The media interviews were the team’s way of reissuing that appeal for the fourth time, he said.

Mr Seiger added: "It’s appalling that we are having to sit here today and putting him [Viswashkumar] through this.

"The people who should be sitting here today are the executives of Air India, the people responsible for trying to put things right.

“Please come and sit down with us so that we can work through this together to try and alleviate some of this suffering.”

Poor guy. It sounds like he’s really struggling. Air India needs to do right by him and pay him enough for some good mental and physical care. The amount they have paid him isn’t nearly enough, as he could have lifelong problems from the crash.

There’s a history of the USA’s bombings of other countries being clothed in “we’re helping” rhetoric while doing the opposite of helping. I don’t trust at all that this will help, especially when led by incompetent white supremacist fascists like Pete Hegseth.

All generalisations are great.

If the line is trending higher all the time, that’s going to happen often.

How would a massive political upheaval make it rain? Seems more a matter of climate change than regime change.

*Intermittently sweaty.

I feel bad for their kids.

I remember when the USA used to gloat about how in the USSR people had to stand in line for food.

Every time you think you know how dumb people are, they surprise you. And not in a good way.

But it is supposed to be discriminatory.