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The right is starting to meltdown that the new pope has been vocally critical of Trump.

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you're welcome

submitted 39 days ago • 134 comments

Thank you!

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Considering writing an obscenely long essay on how the shift from naming sports venues from like Astrodome and Boston Garden to Smoothie King Center and Crypto whatever is a reasonable stand-in for the fall of American civic society, anyway let’s enjoy warriors-rockets game 7 at Toyota center

submitted 43 days ago • 14 comments

This is foreign interference in our election and we need to find a policy solution for it ASAP

submitted 50 days ago • 10 comments

😕🇺🇸💵💰

submitted 53 days ago • 86 comments

I hope Ed Davy finds a way to ban noise of transport… I’m tired of hearing people’s nonsense. Also one of those British customs I’ve wholeheartedly adopted.

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A new low, even for MTG 👀

submitted 55 days ago • 606 comments

"The Heritage Foundation was created in 1973 by Joseph Coors, Paul Weyrich and Edwin Feulner. Coors, of the Coors brewery dynasty known for its union-busting, anti-environmental and anti-equal rights stances, provided the finance."

submitted 55 days ago • 11 comments

An American citizen! They tried to deport an American citizen, detained him for ten days and lied about it to a judge, after badgering a mentally challenged citizen into signing false statements. What if he had been vanished to El Salvador, unable to return?! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

I don’t think US foreign policy land quite gets it. Trust was broken long ago. Whether it’s supporting coups and dictators, to false testimony leading to invasion or even the financial crisis - trust in America has BEEN eroding, probably since before I was born. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/21/p...

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They likely have no evidence of gang membership for anyone.

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Wild

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“EXCLUSIVE: Buttigieg, Booker, and AOC Lead 2028 Democratic Primary Field Without Harris in the Race” New more precise polling from Zeteo and DFP shows no candidate holds a dominant lead – a contrast with other surveys that have shown Harris ahead. @aoc.bsky.social is ahead of Newsom & Shapiro:

submitted 61 days ago • 298 comments

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

submitted 62 days ago • 267 comments

Which is astonishing because Washington just doesn’t care. The UK had actual say on issues in the EU and regularly utilised the force multiplying power of the bloc on the global stage. Closer relations with the US just means vassalisation by an empire in decline.

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Exactly

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This feels like a “no duh” point, but maybe that’s why it has to be said out loud.

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I mean just don’t do it. At this point there is nothing to gain. It’s being used to divide and conquer and it won’t help at the next election.

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Washington is trying to drive a wedge between UK & Europe! Paul Adamson chair of U.K. EU commission said: “You see American commentariat on social media to that effect. “The last thing Americans want is for the UK and Europe to be united and come closer together. 1/3 archive.ph/2025.04.15-1...

submitted 61 days ago • 26 comments

One of my other fears here is Starmer isn’t Mark Carney and I’m worried he won’t have the backbone that the Canadian PM has had over the last 90+ days. Unlikely to get a good deal for Britons.

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'Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society': bit.ly/4cRjK37 The Society's President, Lucy Noakes, writes today on the profession and discipline @historywo.bsky.social #skystorians

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Can’t imagine there’s a tremendous amount to gain for the UK except for further vassalisation. Angus Hanton has already shown how much of the UK is vassalised, maybe now more so. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

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Aaannndd that’s a good reason not to go home.

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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

submitted 63 days ago • 994 comments

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

submitted 64 days ago • 126 comments

As someone who has less than a breath’s interest in golf, I just screamed at my TV after that McIlroy putt miss. The dog has run off.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Love it

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This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.

submitted 65 days ago • 2555 comments

A German experiment gave people a basic monthly income. The effect on their work ethic was surprising Source: CTV News search.app/KB7Vb Shared via the Google App

submitted 65 days ago • 4 comments

i still find it incredible the Tories managed to steal defeat from the jaws of victory because they don't want to piss off Donald Trump or his minority Canadian fanbase

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The problem with forcing countries to create a new world without you is that once they've done so, they aren't going back

submitted 66 days ago • 66 comments

We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)

submitted 65 days ago • 543 comments

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

submitted 66 days ago • 247 comments

Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/

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In economics, as in geopolitics, Trump fundamentally misunderstands the limits of American power. It is at the centre of everything he does. The markets, the only real impediment to him now, may be about to teach him how wrong he is. New writing from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

submitted 68 days ago • 64 comments

One thing that will really help bring industrial production back to America is instability. Capital loves instability. Give it a wildly different and contradictory set of economic policies every 72 hrs and that’s when industry will be like, you know what let’s build some new production capacity.

submitted 68 days ago • 11 comments

THERE IS STILL 125% TARIFFS ON CHINA AND 10% ON THE REST OF THE WORLD, THAT IS STILL BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

Tariffs still in place: —125% on Chinese imports —25% on steel, aluminum and auto imports —10% on nearly all other imports Tariffs coming: —On copper, lumber, semiconductor and pharma imports —And maybe on other countries, depending on how the next 90 days go And the S&P 500 is up 9% on the day

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The leader of ICE said that this is "his dream for the agency": “We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.” michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/i...

submitted 68 days ago • 52 comments

Thank you for your attention in this pump and dump scheme.

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Economist Peter Schiff: “The crash that's now happening in the bond market has more dire implications than…the stock market. If these tariffs remain in place, the US could have a full-blown financial crisis by the fall that makes the 2008 Financial Crisis look like a Sunday school picnic.”

submitted 68 days ago • 102 comments

>bonds, stocks, oil, and crypto are all now tanking at the same time now

submitted 68 days ago • 26 comments

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social hope you’re paying attention

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I think it’s a great negotiating strategy to publicly refer to the people you’re talking to as groveling before you and kissing your ass while also announcing new tariffs on pharmaceuticals. It really makes it easy to sell any potential deals back to their own domestic audiences.

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Pentagon considering proposal to cut as many as 10,000 troops from eastern Europe, officials say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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