English clubs stroll through Champions League group phase but fatigue tends to take its toll by the spring
Has there been a great game in the Champions League group stage this season? Probably not. Even if there had been, it almost certainly didn’t mean all that much. But that’s the way of the modern game: an extremely protracted clearing of the throat before the real business begins.
Uefa will proudly tell the world that only six teams have nothing to play for in the final round of games on Wednesday, but whether it was worth 126 games to get to the mild peril of Napoli or Club Brugge possibly going out, or the questionable thrill of finding out whether Tottenham or Atalanta will have to endure the playoff round, is debatable.
Continue reading...All government departments and local authorities will get real-terms funding increases after Plaid agrees to abstain
Cardiff Bay’s Labour administration has managed to pass the Welsh budget after striking a deal with Plaid Cymru, releasing a real-terms funding increase for all government departments and local authorities before May’s Senedd elections.
With 100 days to go before the contest, in which polls suggest the pro-independence Plaid Cymru will end more than 100 years of Labour hegemony in Wales, the government has allocated £27.5bn in spending for 2026-2027, up £1.2bn on the previous fiscal year.
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Een gezicht en een naam, en nu 2 gezichten en namen, en het is moord. Politiek strategische moord. Om macht te laten zien, terreur te zaaien. Chaos en afleiding. Niks meer over de Epstein files.
En om nog iets kunnen voelen, dat zijn die afgestompte losers bij ICE. Nazi’s zijn het die een harde krijgen van macht en god weet wat er in die ICE detentiecentra afspeelt.
Het enige wat we nu zien van Palestina zijn foto’s, een skyline van architectuur. Geen namen of beelden of gezichten van al die vermoorde mensen. En het gaat maar door. Soedan, ook zo anoniem. En wij schieten niemand te hulp. Oekraïne dan wel maar dat duurt ook maar.
Dit had zo’n andere wereld kunnen zijn.
ShinyHunters says it stole several slices of data from Panera Bread, but that's just the yeast of everyone's problems. The extortionist gang also claims to have stolen data from CarMax and Edmunds, in addition to three other organizations it posted to its blog last week.…
The Geneva Convention disintegrated. The Founding Fathers wept. Somewhere, a federal HR manager clutched their chest and whispered, "No. Not like this." [...]
Across the barricades stood a row of cops in riot gear. Helmets. Batons. Armor. Gas masks. High-vis jackets. The full authoritarian cosplay kit. They looked like they were guarding nuclear launch codes. They were guarding a hotel lobby full of ICE agents who were about to be spiritually obliterated by a box of clearance-bin dicks.
We opened the box.
The first dildo flew through the air like a rubber prophecy and skidded to a stop directly at the boots of a state trooper.
And that's when the United States government lost its entire fucking mind.
Before anyone could even laugh properly, before a second dildo could achieve liftoff, before reality had time to process the absurdity of what had just happened, the cops panicked like Victorian men seeing an ankle.
Tear gas.
Pepper balls.
Instant chaos.
The very first rubber dick to touch government-issued leather boots triggered a full-blown chemical weapons response. That is not metaphor. That is not exaggeration. That is a literal sentence that happened in America in 2026. [...]
ICE agents peeked out of hotel windows like scared children witnessing a public execution, except the execution was their dignity and the executioner was a $5 clearance dildo. Arianne was still smiling -- not because it was funny, not because it was cute, but because she knew, in her bones, that we had just cracked reality in half.
We didn't even get to the full distribution phase before they freaked out. The mere presence of one dildo at their feet was enough to trigger chemical weapons. That's how paper-thin their authority is. That's how little it takes to make them go full riot-cop meltdown mode. [...]
We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock.
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