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9,342 - that’s how many times you could wrap dollar bills round the world to match how much money Donald Trump cost shareholders and their associated pension plans with his tariffs announcement.

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Another must read from the ever excellent Carole Cadwalladr open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

If a company with say 140K employees and some powerful links to defence contracts faced a 30% stock drop, what tools might the Fed theoretically use to stabilize it?

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Who stands to gain from crippling the UK? Was a bad actor responsible for the substation fire that has closed Heathrow - and probably for days? Where are the triple redundancies for an event like this? BIG lessons will need to be learned!

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Political Sadism and Defying the Power of Cruelty www.commondreams.org/opinion/defy...

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Has Peter Mandelson, our ambassador to the US divested from Global Council yet, as he said he would? Is this a professional conflict of interest or just real Politik? Or as I suspect - a bit of both?

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

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And as Jeff Bezos, owner of the blushing Washington Post, announces that they are, from here on in, going to sidestep politics in their editorials, the irony of their slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is clanging like the bells of the Notre-Dame

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Are you now or have you ever been a non-supporter of MAGA? Musk’s new digital McCarthyism inquiry, where non-compliance gets you blacklisted

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Make it stop H Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: Donald Trump “looks forward to watching the game tonight — and we look forward to the United States beating our soon-to-be 51st state, Canada."

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Pres Trump: ‘I think Europe has given $100bn [to Ukraine] and we’ve given, let’s say, $300bn plus.’ The most reliable figures show the EU has given $138bn to Ukraine, while the US has given $114bn. In 2024 Europe and Canada provided nearly 60% of NATO’s security aid to Ukraine.

submitted 109 days ago • 26 comments

Even Grok doesn’t support Trump’s obvious lies: “The war in Ukraine was started by Russia when it invaded Ukraine in February 2022. This invasion is widely recognized internationally as an act of aggression by Russia against a sovereign nation.”

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For avoidance of any doubt regarding the Paris meeting Monday

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Emergysse What if all the six tech leaders were standing on Trump’s podium because they were all nudged to do so by their respective AIs? Asking in response to an unconscious prompt.

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Top tip. Don’t have insomnia in the middle of a coup. An executive order has now given DOGE oversight of all government departments. It’s a complete takeover of the federal government by Musk. A Musk ‘team lead’ will now make all hiring decisions according to a ‘data-driven’ model

submitted 117 days ago • 83 comments

How utterly dysfunctional that in Trump’s Oval Office there isn’t an aide capable of addressing a poor little boy’s urgent need to pee. He tried telling both the primary adults there, his Dad and the President - and neither of them knew how to handle it or even seemed to care

submitted 116 days ago • 2 comments

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What is the official webpage for the Dept of Government Efficiency? I can only get either a page that seems like an official page but is a front for crypto and another where it says I am blocked - doge.gov - any idea what’s going on?

submitted 117 days ago • 5 comments

It's over 100,000! That means a debate in Parliament. Let's keep it rolling.

submitted 117 days ago • 4 comments

Anyone else finding the idea of the world’s richest man using his muscle and legalised bribes to the Trump campaign, to illegally prevent the poorest in America getting money they are legally entitled to by acts of congress, utterly unpalatable

submitted 123 days ago • 2 comments

Have Musk’s six musketeers been arrested yet?

submitted 125 days ago • 2 comments

The world’s richest man who no one elected just walked into the US Treasury, stole your Social Security number, and Trump let him. You deserve to know why this is happening - call your member of Congress and Senators (202) 224-3121 and ask why.

submitted 125 days ago • 344 comments