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This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:

submitted 22 hours ago • 28 comments

- Napoleon-"He who saves his country, violates no law." - Hitler– “The good of the state stands above the law.” - Mussolini– “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” - Francisco Franco– “I am responsible only to God and to history.”

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

“Let's be clear, if not Brussels, it's Moscow. It's your decision. Putin will pull Europe apart if we don't trust each other. Europe needs a single voice, not a dozen different ones" The most pro EU speech ever from someone who knows what's at stake.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“The real “threat from within” comes from those fake British patriots loudly cheering on attacks on our own country by a hostile foreign power” @adambienkov.bsky.social 👏 www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...

submitted 7 days ago • 86 comments

Ninety nine USAID public servants gave their lives in the line of duty.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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From Kate Conger’s book “Character Limit” on how Musk ruined Twitter.

submitted 14 days ago • 484 comments

This is excellent. And another good example of why 'cold takes' are often better than 'hot takes'.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

ICYMI: Mediamacro melodrama mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/medi... Everything I say here about the irrelevance of very short term movements in data applies equally well to monthly figures on the deficit. We have the OBR so we don't need to be distracted by such things.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

A cautionary tale for the rest of the world that should be studied for decades. The country that imposed economic sanctions on itself.

submitted 49 days ago • 17 comments

$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.

submitted 45 days ago • 1204 comments

On the week of Trump's inauguration @timothysnyder.bsky.social's article is especially pertinent - and perhaps makes us feel a little better about our own political system? (Article republished by permission of the author)

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Musk likes to say X is “citizen journalism”… …it’s anything but. REAL citizen journalism is the Bylines Network of 10 local publications that edit & publish real articles written by citizens - all IMPRESS regulated. Follow us — and these other investigative & “for public good” media sources. 🙏🏻

submitted 31 days ago • 18 comments

More Britons would rather have the EU than the US as Britain's closest trading partner The EU: 53% (+2 from 2 Mar 2020) The US: 21% (+4) Neither: 7% (-3) yougov.co.uk/topics/inter...

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Too late!

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Can’t be repeated often enough ‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’ on.ft.com/42hzVmL

submitted 33 days ago • 27 comments

UK's Labour Govt is struggling to deliver promised economic growth. "Ruthless" cuts to govt spending won't do. It needs policy change. Without good purchasing power for the masses, a sustainable economy can't be built. It must redistribute income and wealth, leftfootforward.org/2025/01/labo...

submitted 36 days ago • 28 comments

I really think Grace Blakeley is on to something profoundly important. For decades on the left too many of us have sold papers, handed out leaflets and gone on marches in the hope that our ideas would magically get wider traction. What we need is to take actual action.

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments

Nu landstiger svenska Nato-soldater i Lettland – första stationeringen utomlands https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/nu-landstiger-svenska-nato-soldater-i-lettland-forsta-stationeringen-utomlands

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

The @UKLabour party is losing ground because it’s trying to please Brexit believers who likely didn’t even vote Labour. The majority want to rejoin the EU but Labour is intent on trying to continue Brexit and Brexit only ensures failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 35 days ago • 29 comments

In my native city this morning Russians has destroyed a church.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Donald Tusk: "I am aware this is a dream: that instead of a #Brexit, we will have a #Breturn. Perhaps I am labouring under an illusion. But I'd rather be an optimist and harbour these dreams in my heart. Sometimes they come true in politics." ~AA

submitted 36 days ago • 118 comments

Scholz: Elon Musk is a danger to European democracy Musk “endangers the democratic development of Europe,” Scholz raged. Scholz is right. Musk is colluding with Putin to destroy democracy. It is not politics. It is war. www.politico.eu/article/olaf...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

“A huge 68% of respondents in Britain see a benefit in reintroducing cross-Channel freedom of movement in exchange for access to the European single market” www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 55 days ago • 134 comments

This is Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy, appointed by Nigel Farrage. Nick Candy boasted to a FT journalist in 2010 "I don't pay tax!" (From his home in Monaco) He and his brother developed property in London through an offshore company to avoid tax. Patriotic? Anti-Establishment? It's a con.

submitted 55 days ago • 43 comments

This is so spot-on it’s scary.

submitted 55 days ago • 1169 comments

Just leaving this here—you know why.

submitted 55 days ago • 634 comments

The alleviation of women's abuse "is made less likely by the mandated subservience of women by Christian fundamentalists. What is especially disappointing...is the docile acceptance by so many strong Christian women of their subjugation & restricted role." - Jimmy Carter (RIP)

submitted 55 days ago • 414 comments

Still the best two sentences on climate action.

submitted 55 days ago • 51 comments

Mr. "Step Back and Go Fuck Yourself in the Face" has opened a Cyber Charm School.

submitted 55 days ago • 1559 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 7: The Demon Haunted World

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Well played. And frighteningly accurate.

submitted 85 days ago • 1602 comments

"Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers.” 💰🧐

submitted 85 days ago • 48 comments

The meme I didn't know I needed

submitted 86 days ago • 1006 comments

A gentle reminder that Kemi Badenoch admitted hacking into a website, which is a criminal offence

submitted 85 days ago • 64 comments