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Good approach. Starmer says ‘UK, France and others have agreed to work with Ukraine "on a plan to stop the fighting".That plan will then be discussed with the United States, he says, "and that plan will be taken forward together".’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

Excellent stuff. “Starmer announces that the UK government will allow Ukraine to use £1.6bn of UK export finance to buy more than five thousand air defence missiles. He says these will be made in Belfast, creating jobs in the UK's defence sector” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

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'Rathlin Golden Hares' by Angela Harding, UK artist and printmaker. In #folklore the hare is often associated in #March with madness, due to the antics of their wild mating dances #Spring

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Please please tell me this is AI-generated, like the Gaza video earlier this week… Please? youtu.be/MEv9WLPoa3I

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all these german electoral maps and no one getting down to the real issues:

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

submitted 7 days ago • 440 comments

Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

submitted 10 days ago • 349 comments

I watch Rutte speak of European NATO members as if they were USA’s vassal states that „may get phone calls from a very nice man in Washington” unless they do what they’re told - and what they’re told is to ramp up defense spending.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The US State Department is forcing all of its employees to cancel subscriptions to any Trump-unfriendly media.

submitted 12 days ago • 238 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 16 days ago • 138 comments

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.* So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?

submitted 15 days ago • 69 comments

Your dynamic guide to which place is getting most screwed by Donald Trump

submitted 17 days ago • 35 comments

350 Rabbis took out a full page ad in the NYTimes today opposing Trump’s plan for Palestine and calling it ethnic cleansing.

submitted 17 days ago • 42 comments

“Market forces have been stretching, squashing, spinning, and suppressing ideas for centuries. Realistically, the choice isn’t commodified versus free but which commodity form suits best.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Exclusive: President Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract reut.rs/4b7MUKt

submitted 23 days ago • 169 comments

Indeed. Except, the moral hazard is on a slightly different level…

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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

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Lithuanian artist Severija Incirauskaite-Kriauneviciene, known for her cross stitch embroidery on various metal objects #womensart

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Despite the usual NY apologetics for Israel, this piece confirms what local call and 972mag found 8 months ago, and it is damning. Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment