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Political Scientist. Retired from over 25 years in local government. Enjoying my new life in South West France. Fully vaccinated gardener. Woke and proud to pay my taxes.
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Thread of Pro-Palestine Protests, 2nd June 2025 🧵👇 Activists disrupted Palantir's AI summit in Washington, D.C, to protest against its role in powering the Israeli genocide in Gaza. (Kuffiya)

SERIOUS QUESTION: What is going on with all these “officers” in tactical gear for a routine traffic stop—with no clear identification? They seem like imposters. And what’s up with that ball cap?

🚨 New poll! 🟢 Yes: 54% 🔴 No: 46% As the UK under Labour lurches to the right with welfare cuts for those most in need and demonisation of minority communities, the case for Scotland taking its own path is stronger than ever.

Failed pandemic-era PPE contracts cost the British taxpayer £1.4billion. The Covid counter-fraud commissioner uncovered the figure in the first phase of his probe into wasteful Tory spending during the pandemic www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Your occasional reminder that in two years' time, Nigel Farage will be taking his gold plated £73,000 annual EU pension.

This Republican Senator - a pro-Israel zealot and Trump ally - is openly threatening the life of Greta Thunberg and others on the Gaza aid ship. Why? Because they're trying to bring aid to a Gaza starved by a key US ally. The world is run by gangsters.

When is this ever acceptable 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Dr Assal Rad— “𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 is NYT’s euphemism for crimes against humanity.”

The spurs don't fall far from the bones.

IT IS A GENOCIDE www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

More TACO distopia

World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...

This is on TACO and his controller the Czar of Russia www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

TACO still hasn’t done any homework on tariffs.

🔴NEW:The dark money behind UK's anti-abortion backlash - Key US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union - Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars Warnings of “obvious danger” of “importing America's toxic far right politics” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

Tweeter. And. The. TACO. 😎✨

Pure AWESOMENESS…👇 Pass. It. On. 😎✨

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Musk being an avid drug user is unsurprising, but doing so while hugely impacting the president’s policy is very troubling. Sources close to Elon Musk say his drug use was so bad it affected his bladder. https://trib.al/vU1iLwf

Should the UK Government have bailed out Nat West at the of £75billion to tax payers?

For the record: The way the Right is talking about Turkish barbers is going to lead to attacks on those shops. There is going to be a lot of broken glass. (This is just the modern version.) And people like Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick will be responsible for it.

He is certainly TACO. Trump Always Chickens Out. Come and get me Blondie

“Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use.” Remember when right-wing media went crazy over one baggie of cocaine being found in the White House?

@kristiNoem has really awful skin. As well as no moral compass

Did anyone tell JD Vance?

Common herbal supplements taken by millions of Americans could be linked to deadly liver damage

Is TACO playing golf today with his fellow Klansmen?

Gotta love the TACO! ❤️ Enjoy. 😎✨

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

I would think that if a party *wasn't* a Nazi Party, they wouldn't do things like open Nazi offices during a reorg. Interesting corollary, if they *were* a Nazi Party, they would.

Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year

Data firm is building 'detailed portraits of Americans' on Trump's order: report https://twp.ai/4imsQt

This morning, like every morning, US President will wake up: paint his face orange, clip on his comical wig, put on a big floppy tie & oversized suit & weird platform shoes, and will go out in the world to steal as much money has he can while undermining US national security & economy & democracy.

NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I think this points up some of the failures of coverage of Trump's lawlessness: You could've read dozens of articles on Trump's tariff policy with no inkling of how unprecedented & legally dubious was the legal authority he claimed to impose them. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

Nice explanation from Faisal Islam. www.bbc.com/news/article...