Showing mercy to her ex small council after they betrayed her

Not taking her new small council in hand from the first

Making enemies of the King's Landing upper class

Setting a precedent she can't keep up by feeding the poor and presenting herself as their champion

Giving her spy mistress the chance to install a staff who will answer to her first and foremost

Pissing off her Hand/navy admiral/one of her biggest allies/one of the proudest and most influential lords in the realm

Not kissing the pope's high septon's ring/committing idolatry in front of the archbishop of King's Landing/reminding the Faith that the Targaryens are a family of blaspheming incestuous aliens and the only reason they ever tolerated their unholy reign was because they had sentient nukes pointed at them

Continuing to take the dragonriders (i.e. the people who control the sentient nukes) for granted

Looking to her father (the guy who caused this war) as an example

Showing mercy to the main enemy combatants, Ormund Hightower, Daeron and the Green army

Brushing Helaena off instead of trying to earnestly engage with her and her needs and the contributions she can give (to be fair this is a mistake pretty much everyone makes)

Being hopelessly in love with Alicent Hightower Showing favour to the Hightower captives

You know it. You're no fool and yet you choose not to see it.

Aegon Targaryen in 2.01 "A Son for a Son" and Rhaenyra Targaryen in 3.03 "Rhaenyra Triumphant"

There's an intentional parallel between this scene and Aegon sitting the throne in episode one of season two where they have a very similar first experience dealing with their public. They both want to provide and are being counseled by their Hand at the foot of the throne that, well you can't really do that right now.

From a 9th century Irish manuscript, the phrase ‘massive hangover’ (Latheirt) written in the ancient Irish text Ogham. The monk must have been having a very rough day…..

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

The first photo is from 1956. It shows a Black woman watching members of the Ku Klux Klan (a terrorist, racist, far-right organization focused on white supremacy) walking along a sidewalk in Montgomery, Alabama (USA). I couldn't find the photo's author, but most sources state that it was taken in 1956.

The second photo shows members of the Patriot Front group (a white supremacist and nationalist group, formed in 2017, that openly advocates what they call "American Fascism") traveling on the subway during the 250th anniversary of the U.S. independence in Washington D.C., while a Black woman watches them. The photo is by photographer Cheney Orr, taken on July 4, 2026, 70 years after the first photo.