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Ex-🇬🇧diplomat. Now an 🇺🇸. Resigned over Brexit lies. Frmr Ambassdr to 🇬🇪 . Writer Byline Times. Co-host Disorder Podcast. Patron, European Movement. Advisor Eurasia Foundation. Member, Commission on Political Power looking at how to strengthen UK democracy.
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This is a recipe for hideous abuse.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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I didn’t write the headline, which implies (wrongly) I think Starmer is an idiot. I do think he should act w courage and conviction; not be pushed around by Trump, continue to stand up for Ukraine, and make sure UK brings something concrete to the table.

My thesis here is that it’s presumptuous and deluded to claim UK can still be “bridge” between US/EU. Real task is to avoid burning bridges w either. But, balance moving decidedly towards weaning ourselves off US dependency, and moving closer to EU, as US interests/values diverge from ours.

This reporting keeps being taken down throughout the Internet. Hit a nerve....

This is beyond fucking despicable. Threatening to shut off Starlink to Ukraine, a raped pillaged country (invaded by a dictator that this headcase and his bitch president refuses to condemn) unless they give up their natural resources is the most grim act of coercion I’ve seen.

What a fucked-up framing from the #BrokenPost. Trump is surrendering Ukraine and the West to Putin but here the burden is on Zelensky to "salvage his relationship." Can Zelensky salvage his relationship with Trump and save Ukraine? wapo.st/4it7ZS3

Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

If you want to get rid of all "DEI hires," you'd fire everybody, then rehire blind, based upon qualifications only. But if you're a racist POS, you fire all the Black people and call them "DEI hires," while appointing less qualified white people. Not that hard to understand. #DEI #racist

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

đź‘Ťđź‘Ťđź‘Ťmore of this, please.

Fearless and independent investigative journalism is needed more than ever in these times. Attempts to suppress this story on Trump and the KGB demonstrate this ⬇️ To help fund the stories you won't read in the established press, and to keep honesty alive, subscribe: subscribe.bylinetimes.com

Just trying to think of a country with massive bot farms that is desperately trying to suppress this story. Please read and repost 👇🏼

Please everyone repost and share on as many channels as you can. Forward to as many people as you know.

Wild seeing this article disappearing from all US publications

Though our @bylinetimes.bsky.social server has been hit you can still read this on our substack www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...

Keep reposting. US attempting to block apparently

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A former senior KGB spy chief says Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman

More of this, please!

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

There is still time to go to the SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE protest in London on Saturday starting at 12 noon. Please repost to get maximum coverage.

Is this confirmed? I’m running out of adjectives . If it’s true, and I sadly find it very plausible, this is absolute rock bottom. united24media.com/latest-news/...

Hard to describe what it's like being in Kyiv, surrounded by brilliant, unshakeable, brave Ukranians, and reading Trump's comments. The free world deserves a better leader, the hill deserves a better city upon it, and these people deserve better friends.

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

Elon Musk proposed closing Radio Liberty. Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Liberty, I can say that Europe is far from free. The work of the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty is one of the main elements of ... 1/2

Overnight news: Trump has again raised the idea of a third term in office. Bannon has given a Nazi salute. No need to worry obviously- they’re just trolling the libs

Can we just seize the Russian assets already and give them to Ukraine? Good lord just do it

This is a poor headline from the BBC. The US aren't offering a "deal" - they want the minerals in return for support already given. It's straight up extortion.

The US President's attempts to extort Ukraine for its natural resources, while abandoning its fate to Russia, is a return to the worst imperial politics of the past, argues Aleksandar Djokic

Zelensky is the first leader, and Ukraine the first nation, to face such an impossible position since Czechoslovakia in 1938 bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/t...

@bylinetimes.bsky.social Keeping it real.

This Byline Times story on Farage pictured with far-right activists has not been picked up by any established media outlet - including liberal/democratic/left publications. Why? Because people like being comfortable in their own power and status. The newspaper I edit will keep sounding the alarm.