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It’s called Gleichschaltung. And German history shows us where it can end. Again: we have the knowledge; we have the right words. That the US could still get to this point is such a terrible failure.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

'provocative' is a fascinating euphemism for 'racist' here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

submitted 2 hours ago • 10 comments

"Pro life" folks at work

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

America will have to live with the shame of what's happening here for years. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

submitted 5 hours ago • 53 comments

The UK / Europe should make it as easy as possible for American academics & businesses to move here. Asap.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

“Food is now rotting near starving people”.

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“Far from being dismissed as a useful idiot to hostile foreign powers, the British press continues to allow Farage to portray himself as a true British patriot, while he spends as much time as he possibly can outside of this country telling lies about us for money” open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

He nails it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1160 comments

From the headline I assumed he'd finally noticed that ethnonationalism might have its downsides as a strategy, but reading it, it's actually more "Leopards ate my face. Here's why we may soon not require faces"

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

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.

submitted 11 hours ago • 92 comments

“America has turned” www.ft.com/content/1511...

submitted 12 hours ago • 22 comments

From a DoD statement released yesterday, about the thing the Pentagon has been calling a threat multiplier for like three decades www.defense.gov/News/Release...

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

Extortion, pure and simple.

submitted 13 hours ago • 641 comments

Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

This is a brilliant article which I am glad someone has finally written. It's clear that the value is in the data and the potential to coerce is part of that value. Normally you can rely on governments to honour their side of the bargain. But when a third party gets in, all bets are off.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Shocked not shocked

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This is how many hours per week a person needs to work in order to escape poverty. The US is dead last. #Poverty #USA

submitted 2 days ago • 318 comments

Whether in the courts or by way of pressure on the Trump Administration, DEMAND evidence of these claims of fraud and waste. You’d think Trump would be running to Congress & to court to show what they’ve found, and yet…crickets 🦗

submitted 1 day ago • 230 comments

America is quite obviously moving in an authoritarian direction. Fascist rhetoric, attack on judges & now this: ‘President Donald Trump on Thursday again raised the prospect of serving for an unconstitutional third term.’ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

French media publication Le Point are reporting that quite incredibly Trump will join Putin for Russia's May the 9th Victory Day celebrations. Are we witnessing America's final downfall on the world stage as we know it?

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

The Trump regime is trying to pressure Zelenskyy to leave Ukraine and force him into exile in France, this is part of an ongoing US / Russia ploy to force a surrender and plunder the country's resources. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 1 day ago • 317 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

Zelensky is perhaps the defining figure of our age. Brave, ingenious, pragmatic and defined by his convictions. They hate him because he kills fascists.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

At some point global leaders are going to have to start acknowledging that Trump's America can't be worked with. His Presidency has made neo-Nazis so emboldened that even Bardella is put off. That should be a sign to stop pretending it is business as usual. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Well worth reading. I’ve just read “Nomad Century” by Gaia Vince which is also a great contribution to understanding migration.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is also the logical conclusion of decades now of slow mainstreaming of far-right talking points Islamophobia, transphobia, anti-immigration discourses were never "legitimate grievances" that deserved to be aired. Their purpose was to prepare the way for this

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to cut 84% of staff at the office that funds the U.S.'s disaster recovery, raising questions about how the country will rebuild from hurricanes, wildfires and other calamities made worse by climate change.

submitted 2 days ago • 180 comments

They're saying the quiet parts out loud now.

submitted 2 days ago • 204 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 852 comments

The world is being torched by a guy who can't even be trusted with a basic level of parental responsibility.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

For those countries, including mine, that are having national elections soon, let this all be a stark reminder that, in fact, politicians AREN’T “all the same.”

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Walk away.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Important report showing how Texas law has harmed women. 🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

We work to ensure that false or misleading information doesn’t diminish public debate or cause harm. Free speech matters, but so does protecting people from harm. ✍️ Read more:

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I posted this was a lie right after Musk said it. This is the Commander of the ISS. Musk responded to this post by throwing a temper tantrum and calling for ISS to be defunded.

submitted 2 days ago • 392 comments

Not all university presidents are cowards. This, from the pres of Wesleyan, should be mandatory reading for leaders. “It's 1 thing to be reminded that "elections have consequences," but quite another to insist that the best response to the abuse of authority is to be restrained, demure, neutral.” +

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Also I don't know who needs to hear this, but GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ARE SUPPOSED TO OPERATE AT A LOSS. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS. WE ALL PAY IN. GOVERNMENT DOES THINGS THAT AREN'T PROFITABLE BUT THAT WE NEED. LIKE MAIL. AND ROADS. AND MAKING SURE AIRPLANES DONT LAND UPSIDE DOWN YOU MORONS

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

I recorded I quick video explaining a broader strategy for #TeslaTakedown, why Elon Musk and his empire are so vulnerable, and how attacking Tesla can get dramatic results. If this video helps you see the opportunity to hit back, please share it with as many people as you can! youtu.be/L-Imw_s1aaI

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Posted minutes after the Commander of the ISS said Musk lied about the stranded astronauts in his Fox interview with Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 920 comments

There are 3 types of people since Oct 7th. Those who condemn only the killing of Israeli kids. Those who condemn only the killing of Palestinian kids. And those of us who condemn the killing of both. Don’t be in the first 2 groups - the 1st one dominates our politics & media.

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

If this doesn’t scare you, you need to wake up.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I regret to say there has been a lot of foolishness on some sections the left about #Ukraine, echoing Russian and far-right talking points. (Just as shamefully, the same people supported Assad in Syria). Now is the time to put that foolishness aside. We should all stand with Ukraine.

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

They did this with the federal workers overseeing our nuclear weapons stockpile, too. Starting to sense a pattern in this kakistocracy.

submitted 3 days ago • 221 comments

Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet. Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

Am old enough to remember when Trump was going to strengthen the Western alliance. Those who said that are weirdly quiet tonight.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Yes, this does feel like the last blissful summer of 1914. Without the summer. Or the bliss.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments