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“Eighty per cent of the things that are said, or are written, or are accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today’s Britain are things that [before Brexit] would have been totally unacceptable, totally ridiculous, totally shameful" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

submitted 4 days ago • 1117 comments

I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡

submitted 3 days ago • 1627 comments

Donald doesn't want to be on the phone for too long when ordering unprovoked strikes on sovereign nations—just in case he misses the call from the folks who hand out Nobel Peace Prizes.

submitted 3 days ago • 149 comments

Vance goes on TV this morning and says it’s not about regime change. Then his boys Trump and Lindsey pissed all over him.

submitted 3 days ago • 362 comments

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

submitted 3 days ago • 402 comments

Facing the possibility of losing control of the House next year, Republicans are weighing aggressively redrawing congressional districts in Ohio and Texas in the hopes of ousting several longtime Democratic lawmakers. Sounds like cheating to me www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

In my former industry (contracting) it's said that safety regs. are "written in blood". Public health mandates are written in little tiny coffins.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

I read this article certain that it would say that DHS had determined that the wife and kids were in the United States illegally or that DHS has already developed probable cause to believe all of them were involved in the attack or its planning. Nope! They were just disappeared. Like that's normal.

submitted 22 days ago • 25 comments

We've just watched Keir Starmer participate in a genocide for 19 months. Why the fuck would anyone be interested in going to war for him?

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Seriously misleading headline - the figure relates to families that include one non-British national. Total benefit spending per month is £26 billion. Completely unsurprising that of 26 British families one of them has a non British citizen member. (Every one of Nigel Farage’s families did!)

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

The man on the left is defending his nation's capital. The man on the right plotted an attack on his.

submitted 23 days ago • 336 comments

A program officer [said that Trump’s NIH Director Bhattacharya] “is in over his head but lacks the self-awareness to know that.” Another staffer said he came across like someone who “never learned how to be called out for being incorrect.” Exactly. Great piece. Must-read. 🧪

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

A brutal 2–1 decision from the 5th Circuit forcing the removal of a young girl to Venezuela even though she has lived in Texas for years and it is the only home she can remember. The dissent verges on incandescence in its fury and despondency. Incredibly bleak. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 23 days ago • 48 comments

Imagine what this woman and her family went through. All for what?

submitted 23 days ago • 459 comments

FANTASTIC column by ‪@angierasmussen.bsky.social‬ "Cancelling Moderna’s contract to develop mRNA flu vaccines is a stupid, self-serving move that benefits RFK Jr, not anyone else" substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Eisenhower was a Republican. He helped America win the war against Nazi Germany. His Republican Party does not exist any more. End of the party began in the 60s with Nixon. Every GOP president after that added to the decrease if the GOP. Today it is 100% gone.

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submitted 26 days ago • 53 comments

This is important for science, medicine, and universities: Is the Trump admin complying with court orders? No. And it’s legalistically obfuscating what it’s doing, so the press has trouble saying it is defying court orders. Good piece from @dtdeacon.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social 🧪 #medsky

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

What is a nation supposed to do when its leader is publicly committing impeachable offenses on a daily basis and the impeachment process is utterly broken due to slightly more than half of the nation's Congress being members of a cult dedicated to destroying rule of law

submitted 33 days ago • 602 comments

'Worst food I've ever had': Underwhelmed Trump investors slam private dinner https://twp.ai/4imlyf

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

🔴The Broligarchs' Algorithmic Coup: How Musk and Zuckerberg Are Killing the News Why Byline Times is launching the #BigTechFightBack to help rewire the reality-based independent news ecosystem broken by Facebook and Twitter/X www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-brolig...

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

The same people who went apoplectic when asked to wear a mask to protect people in a pandemic eagerly wear one to kidnap people in Gestapo cosplay.

submitted 46 days ago • 793 comments

This would be Farage's Britain.

submitted 46 days ago • 10 comments

This right here......

submitted 46 days ago • 508 comments

This part

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submitted 52 days ago • 19 comments

According to multiple reports, 20 ICE agents raided an Oklahoma home forcing a woman and her three daughters out in their underwear; stole phones, laptops and cash. The woman was a FULL CITIZEN. This FULL CITIZEN should sue the US government for restitution and MILLIONS for traumatizing family

submitted 57 days ago • 12 comments

The ridiculous Pamela Jo Bondi claims that fentanyl seizures since Trump retook office have saved 258 million lives (the US only has a total population of 340 million.) The truth is that from Jan 2025 (Biden) to February 2025 (Trump), fentanyl seizures were DOWN 41%.

submitted 56 days ago • 281 comments

800 air strikes by USA on Yemeni targets since Trump took office. Now UK has joined him. While still arming #GazaGenocide www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

The success of a Presidency is now judged by new criteria Lowest approval rating ever Failure in Ukraine Economic & Trade misery Allies walking away Courts ignored Constitution ignored Russian asset in the Oval Killing America is now the plan

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s Poll Numbers Are Historically Awful https://twp.ai/4ilwoD

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.

submitted 59 days ago • 282 comments

Perils of privatizing the NHS and chase for profits Botched cataract surgeries, lack of after care. People blinded. Performing unnecessary operations. Inflating costs for the NHS. Profiteering Serious concerns about patient safety. Expand NHS capacity, don't privatise. archive.ph/a94C2

submitted 60 days ago • 15 comments

" I also hope each person reading this will do something to help get public health research back on track in this country. Everyone benefits from it — including you." Powerful, gut wrenching must read personal essay. Read. Share. Don't look away! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK. THIS IS WHY youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...

submitted 70 days ago • 238 comments

"Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion" who "makes Liz Truss look like a politician with integrity." Excellent summary. @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

It was a good week for democracy in court. Take a moment to read some good news. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 60 days ago • 125 comments

'He's really flailed': MSNBC Maddow grades out Trump's 'botched' first 100 days https://twp.ai/4ilxbi

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments