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Fun fact: In 1970, astronaut Ken Mattingly was supposed to be the Command Module pilot on Apollo 13 But he had been exposed to the measles & wasn't allowed to fly; he was replaced at the last minute Measles hasn't become "less dangerous" since then, but thankfully there's a safe measles vaccine 🥳

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NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

submitted 7 hours ago • 112 comments

Of all the things Elon Musk has said, this is the worst. We cannot rely on Trump and his shadow president Musk. The UK must boost defence spending and take the lead in Europe.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

Already had six points, crashed in to someone, left the scene and drank wine to calm her nerves, gets another eight points (so, 14 total). Still allowed to drive - only has to pay £370.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

New — State Department employees have been instructed not to reply to OPM’s 5 bullet email, per an email I reviewed, saying leadership “will respond on behalf of the Department.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 111 comments

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 13 hours ago • 125 comments

This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

submitted 1 day ago • 724 comments

another Nazi salute at CPAC

submitted 1 day ago • 1163 comments

Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Judge Dale Ho Says NO to Trump's DOJ Trying to Dismiss Eric Adams' Criminal Case.

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BBC News on hour reporting straight that Trump has got rid of military chiefs because ‘they’re too mired in woke culture’ 🤯🤯🤯 Traditional liberal democratic media still hasn’t learned how to report on authoritarians, even now when it’s almost too late

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

A new website created by about a dozen federal employees, called “We the Builders,” aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share stories about how their workplaces are being impacted by DOGE, and a place to explain the real-world impact of its access to government tech systems.

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

Hard agree

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Pleading with people to understand exactly this:

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 2 days ago • 1867 comments

BREAKING: Trump loses the first emergency plea of his second term at the Supreme Court. The case concerns Trump‘s removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Nice place [Ukraine] you got there. Be a shame if something [ongoing Russian war crimes] happened to it [unless you give us half of your mineral wealth].

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The absolute insanity of appallingly stupid laws passed by technical know-nothings. Just wait. As soon as this new vulnerability starts being exploited, firms such as banks will restrict or remove services for UK users, because they're on the hook for losses. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

The Commission has just released its new action plan on protecting undersea cables. A lot in there on deterrence (sanctions on bad actors, amped up presence, investment in monitoring tech) as well as the need for investment in more redundancy and repair capacity. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Justice Dept. to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 265 comments

Sweet Baby Jesus, Why did you take our brains from us? Was it the Trump bibles? Was it worshiping a golden oaf? How can we make amends?

submitted 3 days ago • 169 comments

Great letter. But Musk tries to weaponise the concept of generational trauma AGAINST Elias. Yet it is he (Musk) that is displaying the characteristics of a very damaged human being. Elias has turned trauma to the good.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

We tolerate this, as an acceptable price of motordom. Put up speed cameras, and drivers will cut them down. Find someone guilty of dangerous driving, and a judge will let them walk free. Take away someone's licence and they'll be given it back. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

You never imagine the descent into despotism being quite this embarrassing, you know? You expect liberal democracy to fall to a Palpatine, not Biff Tannen.

submitted 3 days ago • 333 comments

In other words, a group of law-abiding citizens had their doors smashed in by the Border Force at night, because the Prime Minister wanted some "man of action" pictures for the telly. And this is regarded as a political "F-up", not an abuse of state power. It's like we learned nothing from Windrush

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

submitted 4 days ago • 160 comments

Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent… A relentless, ruinous stupidity. (Private Eye)

submitted 3 days ago • 133 comments

Cowardice. Their legislative bodies have sent men and women to DIE for ideals they’re too scared to vote to defend? Get the fuck out of office then and let someone with a spine take your seat.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

This agency is the place that stops hackers from shutting down the power grid

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Acosta: When Trump was out there on the campaign trail, he said, ‘On day one, I’m going to start lowering prices in this country.’ That hasn’t happened. And what is he doing? He’s going to the Super Bowl. He’s going to the Daytona 500. It’s like he’s on the StubHub Rapid Rewards program.

submitted 3 days ago • 83 comments

“In the past six months Russia has been humiliated in Syria, failed to dislodge three Ukrainian brigades from the Kursk region, and taken more than 200,000 casualties in advancing roughly the distance from central London to Heathrow airport.”

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments

I think this might be the most BS-laden post Trump has ever published, which by his gutter low standards, is extraordinary. And frankly very scary.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia. These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.

submitted 4 days ago • 195 comments

Some of the most shameful comments uttered by a president in my lifetime. Trump is siding with the aggressor, blaming the victim. In the Kremlin they must be jumping for joy. I’d like to hope Republicans, who used to believe in resisting tyranny, would disavow the things Trump is saying & doing.

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

Time to stop calling it a negotiation. This is two autocrats, looking to leverage as much as they can from a sovereign country, lying about Ukraine, posturing without Ukraine. Europe has to step up fast. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

submitted 5 days ago • 157 comments

They are the lens to what is to come.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1064 comments

I don't think Trump is being blackmailed or bribed by Russia. I think he genuinely believes that a richer, bigger country should be able to do whatever it wants to smaller neighbours, and that Ukraine's defiance of Russia spits in the face of some imagined gangster-capitalist proper world order.

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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