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I don't know how you do it but it needs doing

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Relations with the US look irreparable if Trump remains president

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

submitted 19 hours ago • 154 comments

My 17yo daughter has just been explaining to me the concept of "first time cool" in which dweeby people finally get status and then behave like a master race because they can't bear to be dragged back to their prior, humiliating state. It explains the behaviour of Musk and Zuckerberg, also Vance.

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

Did I miss the public humiliation of #Netanyahu demanding the return of billions in US aid to #Israel in its war against #Palestine?

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On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Well, as America implodes from within, it’d be a great time for the EU to finally do official Eurobonds. It’d likely be very attractive as a safe haven given the destruction of US hegemony & spillover to US T-bills. Bonus: Eurobonds can finance a desperately needed European security build up! 🇪🇺💶 ‼️

submitted 23 hours ago • 16 comments

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

submitted 22 hours ago • 127 comments

We live in Britain, and there are now profound questions to ask our government. There's no conceivable bridge between Europe & this US administration. Whether we escape tariffs is a laughably parochial question. Yesterday is now an awfully long time ago.

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

JD Vance was the real villain of that piece. What a man.

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This has to be right. Starmer's summit on Sunday has become a potentially decisive moment. If Europeans don't throw their weight behind Ukraine and behind a massive and immediate increase in their defence efforts (& damn the deficits), Europe will find itself at the mercy of Putin & Trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Qanon basically came true. a cabal of pedophile sex traffickers has seized control of the state news.sky.com/story/andrew...

submitted 2 days ago • 183 comments

The fight I'd like to see is Katie Taylor vs. #AndrewTate

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Counterpoint, here in Spain, I can wear actual clothes and, checks notes, be married to another woman- without risking being flogged or beheaded. So there's that. www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

an opinion section that only has one person's opinion is just a blog

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Anyway since personal liberties are on the table I encourage Washington Post columnists to write about nothing but red state anti-abortion and anti-trans laws from now on

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Precisely. Today's defence announcement is a classic case. We face a major threat, and we can no longer rely on our most important ally. But spending can only creep incrementally upwards for fear of upsetting the Treasury gods. And we have to sacrifice the aid budget to placate them.

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

Where can I get me some more of that top-notch Wedbush investment advice? #Tesla

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#ElonMusk no longer the world's richest man, just the world's richest #nazi All articles about Musk should qualify him thusly: "Elon Musk, apartheid-era South African and world's richest Nazi..."

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Don’t ever let Starmer defend this Aid cut as ‘needing to make hard decisions’. It’s the reverse. Reducing support for the voiceless is the very easiest, most cowardly path he could have taken.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

submitted 5 days ago • 5198 comments

Thought some fundamental physics might be a good displacement activity right about now and am listening to Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time, and he goes and quotes that well known #woke medieval Persian poet Saadi Shirazi...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Killer line: "Humanity cannot be placed into a hierarchy."

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Dear #elonmusk, here is what I did at work this week: - doomscrolled - contemplated the collapse of the post-war Western order - laughed and cried - worried about my children, about Ukraines, about Gazans - hit refresh on the Tesla stock price index #doge

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

NSA Mike Waltz: “What better could you have for Ukraine than to be in an economic partnership with the United States” as a way to ensure Ukraine’s security. Well, let’s ask Canada, Mexico, or the EU how they feel about their economic partnership with the US today.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1484 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 7 days ago • 30 comments

I keep seeing DEI being called an ideology when it is not, and the white supremacy that is replacing it not being called an ideology, when it really is. That shit goes back centuries.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

submitted 7 days ago • 146 comments

So many EU defence initiatives were blocked by people saying it would undermine NATO So now we have neither

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

submitted 8 days ago • 80 comments

Britons tend to say it is more important to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with the US More important to support Ukraine: 48% More important to maintain good relations with the US: 20% Neither: 14% yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

I'd like to invite you to imagine how much revenue each of the individuals cut in this latest purge would have brought in for the US this year alone, and then tell me again how this is about "efficiency"

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

It’s a stock social media retort from Anon Gender Criticals to say “Show me just one thing (there are literally thousands) that JK Rowling has done or said that’s transphobic.” This is a great list, compiled by GLAAD glaad.org/gap/jk-rowli...

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Think I preferred the end of history

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"How do you go morally bankrupt?" "Gradually, and then suddenly." #trump #ukraine

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