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India is Done Playing Nice: A Not-So-Subtle Approach to Diplomacy
In what can only be described as the diplomatic equivalent of flipping the table during a chess match, India has apparently reached the end of its legendary patience following the tragic Pahalgam attack in Kashmir. World leaders like US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have condemned the massacre that claimed 28 lives-a statement so obvious it barely qualifies as news. The timing of the attack during US Vice President J.D. Vance's visit to India seems almost theatrically convenient, as if terrorists consult international diplomatic calendars when planning their atrocities.
By The INFORMER11 months ago in The Swamp
The Police Should Go Nuclear!. Content Warning.
NOTE: This article is purely satire. In the news, there is this talk about defunding the police. It would be bad on many counts because criminals can get off Scott Free for their crimes. Should the bureaucrats get their way, the police will be helplessly undermined by severe budget cuts. Now, this would put cities and towns all over America in peril. However, I have to say there is a solution to this defunding of the police.
By Halden Mile11 months ago in The Swamp
The Gristle – Issue 3
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Whistleblower Confirms Corporation's Government Bias LONDON — A BBC insider has told The Gristle that Senior News Editors rate stories with a colour-coded 'Threat Level Matrix' based on the likely level of government embarassment.
By Addison Alder11 months ago in The Swamp
The Gristle – Issue 2
BREAKING: Independence Day As Reeves Plans To Sell Scotland For Tariff Concessions LONDON — Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled radical plans to sell the UK's northernmost nation to the United States in exchange for tariff concessions.
By Addison Alder11 months ago in The Swamp
The Gristle – Issue 1
NHS Replaces Mental Health Services with Hug from Holographic Wes Streeting Facing a mounting mental health crisis, the government has unveiled a bold new therapeutic initiative: a soothing, three-minute embrace from a hologram of Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
By Addison Alder11 months ago in The Swamp
Shocking Footage: Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk Handcuffed by U.S. Authorities
A shocking video has surfaced showing Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk being handcuffed by U.S. authorities in what many are calling an unjustified arrest. The footage, which quickly went viral on social media, captures the moment plainclothes officers restrained Ozturk on a Somerville sidewalk as bystanders watched in disbelief.
By Bevy Osuos12 months ago in The Swamp
Kelloseppä. Top Story - January 2025.
Time was a thing Toivo Virtanen understood—not as young men did, as an endless river of possibility rushing forward, but as an old man does—something slipping through the cracks in his arthritic fingers, slow and relentless.
By L.K. Rolan12 months ago in The Swamp
The Ethicist - If Donald Trump Does Something I Agree With, Do I Need to Change My Stance on that Issue?
Dear Ethicist, My father worked for a small, unprestigious government agency, and often talked of the absenteeism, favoritism, and corruption that was rife amongst the middle management there.
By Scott Christenson🌴about a year ago in The Swamp
