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Illinois Republicans like Rep. Mary Miller, Rep. Mike Bost, and Rep. Darin LaHood just voted to take away health care from 13.7 million people — the majority working people simply without insurance. Why? All to give Trump’s friends at Mar-a-Lago another tax break. It’s shameful.

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Blue Sky absolutely rocks! I just want to say thank you for the polite, thoughtful & intelligent interaction on here. It’s just so refreshing, reminiscent of the “other place” a decade ago. I really do believe that together we are creating something special here, let’s keep going! 🙏

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They wanted to pass this evil budget to take away healthcare from millions earlier today. It’s still stuck in the rules committee cause House Dems introduced over 500 amendments and we are lined up to debate on them. Delaying is important. Keep up the pressure on these Congressional Republicans.

submitted 3 days ago • 435 comments

The absolute disgrace taking place today in front of cameras in the White House is yet another reminder that for all the talk of Joe Biden's failures, the people who failed America the most are our citizens. Empowering this guy (again) was a foreseeable disaster we'll be lucky to survive.

submitted 4 days ago • 425 comments

Prices keep rising all thanks to Trump's disastrous tariffs. Americans need stability and certainty from their government, not chaos.

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

"It's the same kind of guy doing the same kind of politics for the same kind of reasons in all of these places. And when the people see through it, we see through it in the same way in every country."

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

Social media this morning is a zombie apocalypse of dinosaur Tory politicians and right wing hangers-on hankering after the nasty Brexit wars of the last decade. Our country has moved on!

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

Dear Keir Starmer, it is good to meet you in Tirana. The first-ever EU–UK Summit on Monday can mark the start of a new chapter in our relationship. So together let's make it a success.

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

It’s so much easier to tear something down than to build something better. Farage will only ever destroy. Because his ideologies don’t work. They divide, they harm, they cost, they isolate. He doesn’t want a better EU deal. He needs the failure. His power relies on the anger that creates.

submitted 9 days ago • 110 comments

The painful truth is that UK voted to leave EU, and entrusted negotiations to a dire team, led by Johnson and Frost, who agreed a lousy deal for ideological reasons. The EU initially offered better terms, and they rejected them. Now, we face the consequences of this self-inflicted disaster.

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

Former M&S Chairman Lord Rose, "Here we are, 10 years on now from Brexit" "The issues of immigration are caused by Brexit" "The issues of our poor economic performance ate down to Brexit"

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I welcome the agreement on our 17th sanctions package against Russia. We are further restricting access to battlefield technology. And we have listed an additional 189 shadow fleet vessels to target Russia's energy exports. This war has to end. We will keep the pressure high on the Kremlin.

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Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

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Someone called Alan who feels dreadfully uneasy in their own skin, changes his name to Alana, and most of the world wants to attack them for it. Someone called Robert, who enjoys wearing long frocks, decides to change his name to Leo… and the whole world doesn’t bat an eye. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

We should be grateful to the Lord to now be blessed with having an American on the world stage who embodies good and not evil.

submitted 17 days ago • 925 comments

In electing a serious and fearless progressive, the College of Cardinals looks like pretty much the only electorate in the world that hasn't had its brains boiled by far right propaganda & toxic social media. For a Catholic of my generation, this is an almost unbelievable development.

submitted 17 days ago • 88 comments

On this 80th Anniversary of VE Day, we remember all those who won the war against Nazis and remember the countless sacrifices they made to deliver it. The Greatest Generation stood up to evil to protect peace and freedom for generations. Now it’s our turn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pNl...

submitted 17 days ago • 109 comments

Reports that Labour will demand a higher standard of English from migrants, comparable with A level standard and able to write about complex issues. I wonder if they think the 240,000 Brits in Dubai should learn Arabic and discuss complex issues with it?

submitted 17 days ago • 97 comments

100% this. 👇

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Since the election win Labour have 1. Appeased the far right 2. Delivered otherwise good policy ideas in a bad way e.g. WFA 3. Targeted the disabled with cuts instead of the richest with a wealth tax The result? 808 Reform councillors Labour need to change direction and be less cruel, fast

submitted 22 days ago • 78 comments

Gullible idiots who voted for BREXIT on the back of ridiculous lies from UKIP & FARAGE are now going to vote for FARAGE & REFORM to clear up broken Britain, the Britain they broke. It’s beyond human comprehension that so many people are that stupid.

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

He fired our pandemic response team, went golfing, called it a hoax, went golfing, bragged 15 cases would soon be down to zero, and went golfing. — Trump was directly responsible for our skyrocketing death rate back then, just as he is today for the brutal murder of our economy.

submitted 25 days ago • 33 comments

Trump spent his first 100 days back in the Oval Office driving an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear among voters who’ve lost confidence in his leadership.

submitted 27 days ago • 24 comments

“The Chancellor sparked anger when she revealed that govt wants to enable young people from Europe and UK to work and travel overseas” FFS. What ‘Brexit freedom’ exactly is being betrayed here? The freedom to NOT be free to work and travel overseas? One of the stupidest front pages I’ve ever seen.

submitted 27 days ago • 356 comments

Right. It’s time to show those scumbags who Britain REALLY is. Show them that we aren’t racist, aren’t stupid, we utterly despise his mate Trump and that we won’t be bootlickers for billionaires. If none of that sways you, maybe the fact that he’d privatise the NHS, will. stopreformuk.vote

submitted 29 days ago • 37 comments

I have my own criticism but the one thing Labour’s getting right is the NHS, waiting lists down, more appointments, better pay, no strikes. Farage would sell the NHS. He’s not a man of the people, he’s a privately educated city boy who laughed as the economy tanked after Brexit. He is a traitor.

submitted 29 days ago • 67 comments

Donald Trump's flurry of pathetic, deranged posts this morning proves once again—that’s all he’s got. Republicans in Congress might still be scared of his mean tweets, but the rest of the world is laughing at him.

submitted 31 days ago • 224 comments

The elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Musk and Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

submitted 30 days ago • 34 comments

My eldest daughter Claudia once asked me why there isn’t a provision that says that convicted felons can’t be president and this was exactly my answer

submitted 31 days ago • 1069 comments

The UK has got to be the only country in the world that is politically held hostage by like 15 newspaper columnists that basically nobody reads

submitted 31 days ago • 108 comments

Trump and Musk are weak, small men. While Musk cowers in fear over his Tesla bleeding money, Trump is getting slapped around by China and Russia. They don't have the cards.

submitted 31 days ago • 207 comments

If these Ukraine peace terms are as reported, they are a historic betrayal. Nothing in American history would come near to it. It would side the US squarely and definitively with dictatorship inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

submitted 32 days ago • 60 comments

Surely the question isn’t simply ‘What is a woman?’… it’s more ’Why has any ability to live and let live been lost if no one is being (disproportionately) threatened or harmed?’ Miscreants and predators don’t come in transgender form… they come in people form. My two penn’orth. 🤷‍♂️

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Karoline Leavitt says that "the entire Pentagon" is working against US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth I mean, if the entire Pentagon is against you, could it be that you're the problem, and not the entire Pentagon?

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The cruelty is the point. The banal, vicious, performative cruelty. Turns out ‘anti-woke’ just meant anti-decency, anti-humanity & anti-rule of law.

submitted 36 days ago • 293 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 38 days ago • 1859 comments

American exceptionalism is electing a pariah government so repugnant that it tanks the electoral prospects of aligned right wing governments across the entire anglosphere

submitted 39 days ago • 244 comments

Turns out the self-styled ‘anti-woke’, Trump- excusing, free speech patriots don’t actually care about: a) free speech b) the rule of law c) the Constitution d) being hypocritical weapons grade dicks

submitted 39 days ago • 42 comments

Think you’re safe travelling to the US? Think again. The EU is (correctly) telling staff to take burner phones. I’d advise people not to go at all unless they’re prepared to end up detained. The data rapists are in cahoots with the dictator, they already know everything. It’s NOT a safe country.

submitted 40 days ago • 57 comments

Well he has a point.

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Here is where MAGA has gotten us to.

submitted 40 days ago • 75 comments

Trump has met this year in the Oval Office with the young leaders of two nations. One is a liberal democrat, leading a nation defending itself against a brutal dictator. The other is a brutal dictator. Trump much prefers the dictator.

submitted 40 days ago • 28 comments