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Dad, husband. Interested in politics and current affairs (should say very). Was centre right but not sure where I am now that in the UK the centre right party has lurched right - and finding left of centre ok so far!
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You may have trouble with Agent Orange in the U.S. but the U.K. has its issues with political grifters as well. Facts speak, but so does this revealing photo of Farage…

Democracy musk style: he bought the election for trump and now he plans to deprive voters of choices at the ballot box. Musk doesn’t care about democracy he just wants to get his way.

They gave him immunity for many of the crimes he commits. And helped him slow walk his other criminal cases until moot. But that's not enough for Donald. Nothing is ever enough for a spoiled man who expects unblinking fealty, for which he gives fickle disloyalty. www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/p...

Did trump lean on you to change the story again?

One of the very few times I agree with Mike Pence.

Trump is keeping up his track record of appointing people with no skills qualifications or competence for the job then.

"The fact that the country has to constantly be in court to fight its own president is really wearying" -- anon

On the second thought, losing $7 bln worth of war planes you can’t produce, all in 1 day, after claiming you gonna win the whole thing probably is embarrassing

Bad news for lardass: Zelensky's demolition of 41 Russian bombers! Putin puppet in Poland who right wingers endorsed for president lost! Where I come from, we call this a "two-fer"!!

The Ukrainian SBU releases that 34% of all strategic cruise missile carriers of the Russian Air Force were struck during the operation. Hardware worth $7 billion was destroyed. The worst part for Russia is that it has zero capabilities to reproduce any of its strategic bombers.

The Ukrainians deserve to win. And they will.

Notice how Zelensky conducted his strike in Russia WITHOUT using Signal chat.

It's a good day......💙💛

🇺🇦 “This was truly a unique operation. And now I can say: the ‘office’ for this op inside Russia was located right next to an FSB headquarters. 117 drones were used, striking 34% of Russia’s strategic cruise missile carriers at key airbases. Our teams were safely extracted in advance." — Zelensky

Brilliant news! Slava Ukraini

The Russian military has suffered damage worth more than $2bn as a result of the operation Web strikes. The aircraft hit reportedly includes the A-50 radar surveillance plane, as well as Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 strategic bombers — key to Russia’s air assault operations against civilians in Ukraine.

Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...

Now that's funny...😂

Bring it on!

And it will keep getting worse for Russia.

Overheard: Apparently Zelenskyy had some cards, and he didn’t need a suit.

Western democracies can’t trust trumps with confidential information. We need a new alliance of nations that works together in spire of trump and without trump. Because trump cannot be trusted. His only motivation is making himself rich (corruption) and he’ll throw anyone under the bus for that.

There is no way Ukraine could trust the current US government with info that they had operatives behind enemy lines in Russia to execute this operation. Telling that to the Trump admin would put their lives in even greater danger than they already were.

This is the root of the argument. One part of society respects people to make choices; the other part wants to control and restrict.

Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t get married to the same sex. Don’t like gender-affirming care? Don’t have any. Don’t like Planned Parenthood? Don’t go there. Don’t like abortion? Don’t get one. Just because *you* don’t like it doesn’t mean *others* shouldn’t be able to it.

#Bernieanders: “I’m #Jewish. I detest #Antisemitism. But to be critical of #Netanyahu ’s #RightwingExtremist government, who have killed some 53k people in #Gaza already, mostly women & children, that is not antisemitic. That’s taking on an extremist, ugly government that is doing terrible things.”

Early rumors are that up to 40 Russian strategic bombers were destroyed in one of the most audacious operations I’ve ever seen. Get fucked, Vlad.

That’s pretty tame - I’d say much of the world has a much lower opinion of trump than that 😂

Doesn’t trump look old?

Ah so it was never about DOGE? It was about corruption? Understanding government data that could be to his personal advantage and stopping any investigations or challenges that were trying to hold musk to account according to laws passed by congress?

This should be put in front of Robert Jenrick during every interview

If only there was some way of knowing what caused all this…

"“Some of the technologies that Ukraine is developing, I think, will be very useful in terms of the Canadian Arctic and protecting the Canadian Arctic or everyone's Arctic,”" www.ukrinform.net/rubric-defen...

Defence Secretary John Healey tells the BBC: “Russia is attacking the UK daily.” Thousands of cyber attacks are taking place. There is “growing Russian aggression in today’s world”.

The spurs don't fall far from the bones.

“We strongly regret the announced increase of U.S. tariffs on steel imports from 25 percent to 50 percent,” the EU executive said on Saturday in an emailed statement.

Starting to look like a major Ukrainian offensive. Now explosions have been reported in Severomorsk, where the Russian Northern Fleet, including subs with nukes, is based. #explodey

Stage n in the trump Play book: 1 tell lies about a policy 2 ignore criticism of the policy 3 tell more lies 4 implement the policy 5 ignore feedback on implementation 6 blame Biden for the policy 7 reverse the policy 8 more lies 9 reverse again 10 claim the policy is a success in spite of evidence

Dear Members of the Press. P0TUS bragging that his tariffs are "already" bringing TRILLIONS of $$ into the US. Beyond the fact that it's not true, will you please ask him, "If that's so, then there's no need to even discuss cutting social services, medicine, education, air safety, etc etc. Right?"

Yes.

The entire point.

"Let cash registers ring!"

Ouch 🌮

Welp. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...