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Yank in UK. #Maine voter. 💙 #DemocratsAbroad 💙 Mackem by marriage. Newly retired. Reading, precode film, needle arts, gardening, cozy gaming, medieval history, art, cats. Trying to get healthy.
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This is going as my homescreen for my next US trip.

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

CNN released a statement defending journalist Natasha Betrand’s report that the U.S.’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities last week cause minimal damage to the country’s nuclear program after Trump called on the network to fire her.

Co-op bans goods from 17 countries including Israel, Russia, and Iran bit.ly/46aI5iL for human rights abuses and violations of international law

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1973: The UpStairs Lounge in the New Orleans French Quarter is destroyed by an arson fire, killing 32 and injuring at least 15. At the time, it was the deadliest known attack on an LGBTQ club in U.S. history. /1

Got it.

If you plan to visit the US, don't. It is not safe to visit the US and you face being randomly detained, kidnapped, beaten, and / or killed by the regime. It's not worth the trip. Stay home.

And the kids they dance and shake their bones. The politicians throwing stones, singing ashes ashes all fall down.. ashes ashes all fall down..

The BBC’s decision to pull a documentary about Israeli war crimes in Gaza shows how its enforcement of 'impartiality' almost always benefits just one side www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-right-...

"Insanity is doing the same war over and over again and expecting different results."

Most voters now support referendum to reverse Brexit – YouGov www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

Gas is $3.50 a gallon, butter is $6 bucks a pound, eggs are $4 bucks a dozen, we’re at war with Iran, South African Nazis stole all our data, and ICE is throwing citizens in detention camps. But hey, at least those 3 trans kids can’t play volleyball anymore.

Ok, it’s settled. Britain is the world’s biggest US suck-up. Jesus, Starmer, the option to stfu was right there. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

BREAKING: L.A. TACO has confirmed that Job Garcia, the US citizen violently detained by ICE / CBP at the Home Depot raid in Hollywood and then transferred at Dodger Stadium was released this morning. ~ @eltragon.bsky.social

ICE agents attempted to enter Dodger Stadium on Thursday but were denied entry to the grounds by the team, a source familiar with the circumstances told CNN.

We got this instead of free healthcare…. Yay…🙃

Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget

With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of: TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!! Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!

Padilla was just asking a question. See a pattern?

BREAKING: MPs vote to decriminalise abortion for women in England and Wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I traced the origins of the insane conspiracy theory linking alleged Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter to Gov. Tim Walz www.kenklippenstein.com/p/how-minnes...

A British woman whose family cannot return to the UK because of Brexit visa rules has said she feels “forgotten and rejected” by the country of her birth www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump signed an agreement with the UK and bragged that he had a new trade agreement with the European Union, the UK is not in the EU.

Disabled people could lose more than £10,000 a year as a result of Keir Starmer’s benefit cuts, a group of MPs has warned. In a damning report, the APPG on poverty said some claimants who will be made ineligible for PIP face losing £886 per month www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Among Democrats - "Do you support Democrats like Sanders and AOC who call for a more aggressive stance towards Trump, or moderate Democrats who are willing to compromise with Trump issues important to their base?" AOC/Bernie: 70% Moderate Dems: 30% Harvard-Harris / June 12, 2025

My friend #NancyWilson from #Heart is not happy with the #OrangeMenace #NoKings #Parade #TrumpParade #BirthdayParade #Marines #Army #Airforce #Navy #FuckTrump

The attempted abduction of Gretchen Whitmer, the torching of Josh Shapiro’s home, the take down of Alex Padilla by puppy killers goon, the murder of Melissa Hortman and her husband, the Hoffmann’s. Trump means to take down opposing leadership. You’d better vote in every election.

Keir Starmer defends Canada as an "independent, sovereign nation" after Donald Trump's 51st state of America attacks www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Anyone who has ever lived in LA county will not be surprised it was the sheriff's department that escalated

'Not even close': MSNBC reporter shoots down White House parade attendance boast www.rawstory.com/trump-parade...

No kings! Anti-Trump, anti-ICE protest in Provo, Utah on Saturday, June 14, 2025. #nokings

This is Mr. Everett True, he is a big angry bloke who solves everything with a fight. But often he does it for good reasons. These cartoons appeared from 1905-1927 and were made by A.D. Condo and J. W. Raper. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Out... A 🧵of some of these century old cartoons:

#nokings #portland #maine

Belfast Maine, Pop.7000 #nokings #BelfastMaine #Maine

"...your executive order is nothing but bad graffiti on the Constitution, and we're going to wash it off today." Leave it to #Raskin to use graffiti against #Trump, something often associated with... gangs. Trump is a gangster, so *chef's kiss*

Kristi Noem is seen as a "delicate, beautiful, tiny woman" while leading DHS, yet Rep. McIver was arrested for protesting it, and Sen. Padilla was tackled for even questioning it. It's clear who gets to be “delicate, beautiful, and tiny,” and who is seen as a violent threat to law enforcement.

March on, my fellows!