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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Trump: "Elon's really not leaving. He's going to be back and fourth, I think. I have a feeling. It's his baby." An unelected and unaccountable billionaire with no government position able to step into government to wield state power whenever he likes.

Reporter: Why would other countries continue trade negotiations given the ruling that suspends Trump's tariffs? Leavitt: "Because other countries around the world have faith in the negotiator in chief, President Donald J. Trump."

No government or group has the right to seize land because they claim god gave it to them. I subscribe to Jewish values of peace and tolerance, not the violent theocratic imperialism of far-right Israeli settlers masquerading as Judaism. Enforce a two-state solution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

King Charles III: "As the anthem reminds, the True North is indeed strong and free."

Farage: "Lucy Connolly should not be in prison... Understand, there were millions of mothers at that moment in time after Southport feeling exactly the same way. Connolly was imprisoned because she posted: “Set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards… if that makes me racist so be it.”

Farage: "We will scrap the DEI agenda, which is costing the taxpayer up to £7 billion per year throughout the public sector." Wrong. Diversity & inclusion initiatives cost the public sector approximately £557 million, based on a 2024 govt commissioned report that surveyed 6,000 public authorities.

Farage: 'At every PMQs, we see Labour MPs ask the PM... Is the honourable member for Clacton a rotter? I have to sit there and have no means of answering back in any way'. Has he tried actually turning up? He's missed several PMQs, including last week's, due to holidaying or fundraising for Trump.

Trump addressing thousands of veterans at Arlington National Cemetery on National Memorial Day: "We have the World Cup and we have the Olympics. Can you imagine, I missed that four years and now look what I have. I have everything. Amazing the way things work out."

Chancellor Merz: "There are no longer any restrictions on the range of weapons delivered to Ukraine – neither by the UK, France, nor us. There are no restrictions by the US either... That means that Ukraine can now defend itself, for example, by attacking military positions in Russia."

Trump & Ramaphosa clash after Trump shows a "white genocide" propaganda video. Trump: "You do allow them to take land... When they take the land, they kill the white farmer." Ramaphosa: "No... People who do get killed unfortunately through criminality are not only white. The majority are black."

Foreign Secretary David Lammy suspends UK-Israel trade negotiations and summons the Israeli ambassador over IDF actions in Gaza, which he says are "incompatible with the principles that underpin our bilateral relations" and an "affront to the values of the British people."

Fascist regimes are inherently sadistic. They dehumanise their opponents and scapegoats to convince publics that they deserve deliberate acts of state retribution. It’s no surprise that the Trump admin would want a public spectacle of cruelty & humiliation. www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-...

Moderates can never suppress the far-right by adopting their policies because the far-right will forever shift their policies to whatever outflanks moderates. All it achieves is legitimising far-right narratives, artificially shifting policy rightwards & facilitating radicalisation towards fascism.

Trump claims his anti-university and anti-student activities are to protect Jews. New polling shows US Jews overwhelmingly oppose him: - 74% disapprove of his presidency. - 61% say deporting pro-Palestinian activists increases antisemitism. - 70% say he’s a “fascist”. - 52% say he’s “antisemitic”.

Here’s an actual South African refugee in the US - my late grandfather Harry Schwarz. The US rejected his asylum as a refugee from Germany in 1933. SA accepted him. He eventually made it to the US in 1991 - as SA ambassador during the transition to democracy after fighting apartheid for 43 years.

Starmer can beat Reform UK through telling hard truths and utilising his huge majority to implement genuine & radical policies that actually address the socioeconomic conditions that Farage exploits to further his extremist and self-serving agenda. Moderates cannot beat populists through imitation.

Love the lil flex when they realise they just became the most famous bird in the world.

Reporter: Thousands of American dock workers and truck drivers are worried about losing their jobs because of tariffs. Trump: "That's good. That means we lose less money."

Trump tells Starmer via a conference call that it's pertinent to announce a US-UK trade deal on the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. The guy on the left called him "America's Hitler". The guy on the right said he was a “danger to the world”. Hell of a VE Day celebration.

Trump has designated 8 May as "Victory Day for WW2." Europe commemorates 8 May 1945 as "Victory in Europe Day" because it's the day that Nazi Germany was defeated. To proclaim it as America's "Victory Day" insults the memory of thousands of Americans who died fighting Japan until 2 September 1945.

Would MAGA and the right-wing media have stopped talking about Biden’s ‘cognitive decline’ if he won the election? No. So you don’t have to stop talking about Trump’s accelerating derangement and shitshow of a government. Elections should not be events that silence or gag people in a democracy.

Vance: "Which regime in the world has civil nuclear power and enrichment without having a nuclear weapon? The answer is - no one." Germany, Netherlands, Brazil and Japan all have civil nuclear power and the ability to enrich uranium. None have nuclear weapons.

Kargil conflict (1999): Major US diplomatic role in de-escalation. India-Pakistan standoff (2002): Major US diplomatic role in de-escalation. Post-Mumbai attacks (2008): Major US diplomatic role in de-escalation. India-Pakistan on brink of war (2025): Trump says "It's a shame" and does nothing.

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Trump incorrectly claims the US subsidies Canada by $200 billion per year and shuts down the press conference before Carney can respond.

Trump to Carney: "Have you ever heard of Gavin New-scum?" Trump showing the Canadian PM, who he wants to become a US governor, how much respect he has for US governors.

Trump: "You know I'm real estate developer at heart. When you get rid of that artificially drawn line... It would really be a wonderful marriage." Carney: "As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale... It's not for sale. It won't be for sale, ever."

His side lost the war.

This is so revealing of Trump's persona. The conscious sadism of an authoritarian.

Trump on image he posted dressed as the Pope: "The Catholics loved it." US Archbishop Timothy Dolan: "It wasn't good. As Italians say, it was brutta figura (embarrasing)."

Reporter: "Catholics were not so happy about the image of you looking like the Pope." Trump: "The Catholics loved it... My wife thought it was cute."

This confirms the worst fears that Netanyahu is exploiting 7 Oct for territorial expansion. This has been facilitated by inaction of the West & Arab states, who should've enforced a non-Israeli led security framework for Gaza. They've created a vacuum for Netanyahu to do whatever he wants to Gaza.

The White House are such big Star Wars fans that they gave Trump a red lightsaber while trying to claim he's the good guy.