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I haven't been able to follow the classified Signal chat debacle without thinking of Airplane.

submitted 96 days ago • 176 comments

This was not a "one off" incident. It was in the Heritage Foundation's training videos on how to evade the FOIA and any accountability of their actions. The first question Congress should ask on ANY matter should be if they had used Signal or any "disappearing" communications network.

submitted 95 days ago • 5 comments

"We’re deeply concerned the government is targeting disabled people and their carers, instead of taxing US billionaires and tech barons." @libdemdaisy.bsky.social

submitted 95 days ago • 7 comments

100% this!

submitted 95 days ago • 923 comments

"Airline Demand Between Canada & United States Collapses, Down 70%+".

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

This image will go down in infamy: Kristi Noem using abused El Salvadoran prisoners—some of whom she illegally deported in the dark of night, without due process—as props in a Trump ad in which she sports a $60,000 Rolex These men have already been left in a hole to die—was that not enough for her?

submitted 95 days ago • 506 comments

Tuned in to #BBC #Today for the first time in a while and rather enjoyed listening to the presenters quite rightly ripping into government policies and ministers. It's just a shame they didn't show the same rabid enthusiasm with the last Tory administration...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Diane Abbott is correct that living on benefits isn’t a ‘lifestyle choice’. Good to hear at least one Labour MP confronting the Starmer gang’s ongoing attacks on the poor. #r4today

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Voice of America is shut down. It played a key role in promoting goodwill for the U.S. worldwide and was translated into almost all major languages around the world. Now, I guess people abroad will be forced to swallow the lies and hate of Fox News.

submitted 105 days ago • 12 comments

Trump has effectively shut down the Voice of America because it broadcast some things he didn't like. Meanwhile, Fox News carries on as normal...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

"Four in 10 Gen Z workers consider quitting to live on benefits" crow the Daily Torygraph and the Daily Wail. However, far from living a leisurely life at the taxpayer's expense, as they would like you to believe, this says far more about the poor wages on offer in the UK today.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Can someone with a military background explain why this isn’t an act of war? The victim is a “US-flagged” vessel “at anchor in the North Sea and carrying huge amounts of jet fuel for the US military.” The deliberate attack’s aggressor is a Russian captain.

submitted 110 days ago • 858 comments

I'll tell you who knew: every Jeremy Corbyn supporter who warned you that Starmer was just going to continue with the Tory shit-mill we've been wrung through for years, you 'centrist' fuckwits. www.dumptheguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 116 days ago • 21 comments

🔴‘I Asked Nigel Farage’s Supporters What They Really Want and the Answers Were Alarming’ My time spent mingling with Reform supporters online revealed a lot about where the UK could be heading next, argues David Goff bylinetimes.com/2025/02/20/r...

submitted 115 days ago • 20 comments

RFK Jr

submitted 115 days ago • 538 comments

I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.

submitted 118 days ago • 8500 comments

Let this sink in.

submitted 118 days ago • 940 comments

This.

submitted 117 days ago • 626 comments

Dad died 40yrs ago, at 61, Mum 48yrs ago, at 53. What would I tell my young self? Ask your parents about everything - family, old photos…and on and on… At 71, I still see/hear/find things & think “Wish I’d asked them about that”, because there’s no one left who knows.

submitted 117 days ago • 26 comments

Tufton Street reporting for duty…

submitted 117 days ago • 447 comments

Today is the first day of Lent. So, for the next 30 days I am giving up Brussels sprouts...

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Truth hurts MAGA 😂

submitted 118 days ago • 4 comments

Catherine and her cat from Zaporizhzhia. She spent 5 hours under the rubble of her house, destroyed by a Russian missile. All this time she has been hugging her cat. P.S. Sorry she didn't wear a suit.

submitted 118 days ago • 412 comments

In addition to being wrong, this is against our own self-interest. If Russia is not stopped in Ukraine, they will simply continue to advance. Increasingly, that seems to be the point: Trump/Musk/Vance are aligned with Putin's interests & not ours.

submitted 119 days ago • 234 comments

That’s right. 🇺🇦

submitted 119 days ago • 329 comments

submitted 118 days ago • 735 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 118 days ago • 1185 comments

Rail fares go up. Again. On the promise of future investment. Again. Water charges go up. A lot. Again. On the promise of future investment. Again. Electricity prices go up. Again. On the promise of future investment. Again. Company profits go up. Again. Nothing changes. Again.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

The projected cost of HS2 is £80bn. For a similar investment, instead of shaving 35 minutes off the journey between London and Birmingham, it is estimated the UK could develop fusion, promising limitless clean energy. Just a thought. @addyspectreai.bsky.social @rachey.bsky.social

submitted 120 days ago • 8 comments

Elon Musk says Italians should stay in Italy and the Japanese in Japan. Then why the hell is this White European South African in North America?

submitted 120 days ago • 153 comments

Repost if you agree.

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submitted 120 days ago • 651 comments

Chris Murphy: "It appears as if America is trying to align itself with dictators, that Donald Trump wants us to have our closest relationships with despots all around the world, because that makes it easier for him to transition American into a kleptocratic oligarchy."

submitted 120 days ago • 414 comments

Posted by @vatniksoup.bsky.social on another platform.

submitted 120 days ago • 1133 comments

The orange manbaby didn't get his deal. Toys out of the pram. The USA is officially a rogue state. Just like Russia. It's time for the grownups to take charge.

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

Long day driving. If my experiences are anything to go by, "Rent an Idiot" has run of product...

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

Oh dear oh dear....

submitted 122 days ago • 1 comment

This is big. Far-right troll site Guido Fawkes has always claimed it isn't subject to UK libel law as it's officially offshore. Today it conceded that it defamed Dale Vince, making clear it it's subject to UK law. No more dodging scrutiny. Staines will have to play by the rules like the rest of us.

submitted 124 days ago • 56 comments

Baroness Mone's Covid enquiry testimony to be held in camera. A few cross words over Grenfell, but no criminal prosecutions. Anybody seeing a pattern here? The untouchables untouched... as usual. 🤬

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently, the UK government expects people to rip out all their gas and oil boilers by 2040 and replace them with heat pumps. So when is the Labour government going to make it MANDATORY for all the developers building the new 1.5 MILLION homes to fit heat pumps?

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 130 days ago • 4 comments

Spot the telling addition to Mar-el-Lago

submitted 130 days ago • 2 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 130 days ago • 4891 comments

20 years later, they’re still hunting, so we’re still sabbing. The 18th of February marked the 20th anniversary of the hunting act coming into force, and even after all this time hunts up and down the country are still continuing as if it never happened.

submitted 131 days ago • 9 comments