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Pope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, dies aged 88. R.I.P.

#Zelenskyy Slams US Embassy for 'Weak' Reaction to Deadly Strike 💬 "Such a strong country, such a strong people - and such a weak reaction" -Zelenskyy 💬 “They are even afraid to say the word ‘russian’ when talking about the missile that killed the children” -Zelenskyy www.kyivpost.com/post/50239

Ukraine-Russia: attack on Zelenskyy’s home city kills at least 18 www.channel4.com/news/ukraine...

Salt Lake City showed up

Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country.

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Former WTO head Pascal Lamy observes “I think Mr Trump learned to do business in the New York mafia-influenced real estate market and that his tactics are based on extortion." He's not wrong.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming state capital

I’m in a rural town of 23k people (Freeport, IL)

Let's go Chicago!!!! Thousands of protesters showed up for the Hands Off! protest! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

MP arrested on suspicion of sex offences, Labour whip suspended www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

First major opposition protest since Trump took office in January: Around 1.200 demonstrations planned in all 50 states plus Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Mexico and Portugal www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Ouch

NEW: BOSTON HAS TURNED OUT! Thousands join the #HandsOff protest against Trump & Musk on Boston Common. #FiftyFiftyOne #Resist @youranoncentral.bsky.social handsoff2025.com (🎥 Activism Works)

STORY Reform UK forced to suspend ANOTHER candidate www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Trump opponents ready to take to streets with nationwide protests

• This is what democracy looks like — in Boston, Massachusetts. • “Hands Off!” protests against the Trump regime are off to brilliant start — all across America.

Trump’s 50% tariffs are gutting Lesotho’s garment industry, wiping out tens of thousands of jobs—mostly women—who make clothes for US brands, such as Levi’s, Calvin Klein & Walmart. Entire communities face collapse so he can play strongman. He’s exporting chaos & calling it policy.

Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem

It is really hard not to feel utterly disgusted by these people. Just horrible, charmless, people.

Nigel Farage at his Birmingham rally: "I tell you what, we are vetting our local council candidates to a level that no party has ever done before" Literally one week later:

Meanwhile, Myanmar faces a 44% tariff. Its main exports to the US are trunks, cases and mattresses. Its main import is soybean meal. oec.world/en/profile/b... www.aljazeera.com/program/news...

A simple explanation of the lying extortionist's "tariffs" in nine minutes www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

NEW -- President Donald Trump skipped the return of four soldiers who died in a training exercise to Dover Air Force Base Friday and instead spent $4.2 million of taxpayer money to attend a dinner for one of his business interests and to play golf. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics

Measles cases continue to rise in USA- this is the reported cases as actual figures almost certainly higher

“If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat, and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.” - Abraham Lincoln

#TrumpTariffs: “In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it” George Orwell - 1984 www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Trump tariffs: This is the biggest change to global trade in 100 years, acc to BBC's Faisal Islam www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jesus. 3 dead already. 1 cup of water a day. Surely SURELY not? Concentration camps in America today