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(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):

submitted 6 hours ago • 364 comments

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.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1456 comments

It seems things will never be the same again - #UKGov #EU. Sir Alex Younger doesn’t think Trump understands the stakes here.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

This. 100% this. 👇👇👇👇

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the pressconference on release of the Russia report... Maybe PM Starmer will release the full, unredacted report? #RussiaReport www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMCm...

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

NEW: Trump has fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Chief Naval Officer & the second in command at the Air Force. He is also firing the top lawyers in the Army, Navy & Air Force. These are EXACTLY the steps you’d take if you planned not to step down peacefully in 2029.

submitted 15 hours ago • 28 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 470 comments

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social hits the nail on the head, Labour are using the law selectively. Equality under the law is a joke, the reality is that protest means prison, not for farmers but for climate protesters. The truth of the climate emergency is clearly a threat to Labour Party fossil donors!

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

This from four years ago... And back in the news this week.

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

Westminster came for our oil and gas – now it's coming for our whisky www.thenational.scot/politics/249...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This weekend's reading. The Byline Times website is reported to have been suffering from a DDOS attack. Someone doesn't like us reading their articles. So buy a copy. Or subscribe and they'll post it to you. 👇👇

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

This is why we need independent media outlets funded by the public. Our Byline Times story is still available to read despite attempts to suppress it.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

A strong article in the Verge. Seems like only @theverge.com and @wired.com are publishing honest analysis. The rest of the media has been cowed. www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

A sublime album. Do you ears a favour and give it a listen. 👇👇

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

might be worth reading.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

❗️Disgruntled staff at the Guardian have compiled an “exhaustive spreadsheet” of the paper “amplifying unchallenged Israeli propaganda…or treating clearly false statements by Israeli spokespeople as credible”. www.declassifieduk.org/battle-for-the-truth-pro-israel-bias-inside-uk-newsrooms-revealed/

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Drop Site’s Sharif Kouddous reports from Khiam in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military destroyed much of the town, including parts of its cemetery. The gravesite of Essam Abdallah, a Lebanese journalist who was killed on Oct. 13, 2023 in a targeted attack by Israel, has been badly damaged.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Meanwhile Musk has taken his MAGA chainsaw through the US Government. This can't end well. 👇👇

submitted 1 day ago • 0 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

Instead of a spurious so-called “Fair Isle” slipover from the corporate shower that is House of Bruar, get a genuine piece of #Shetland knitwear, made by a Shetlander, from Jamiesons in Lerwick. And much cheaper too.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

In the UK, privatised energy companies increase prices. In France, nationalised energy companies have just announced a reduction of 14% in prices… www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Internal Market act and Devolution Legislation passed at the Scottish parliament within the devolved settlement can be vetoed by Westminster with no recourse, appeal or justification. By legislating to themselves the power to do so 'because we can' archive.ph/Kks1S 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Ofgem’s epic cock-up hands the energy fat cats £3.9bn to swim in Scrooge McDuck style, while grandma’s left shivering and wondering if Mr Fluffy’s ‘poultry feast in jelly’ will be more edible with a spoonful of Bisto added to it. Cheers, regulators, you utter dicks.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Brilliant simple clear explainer by @sheridanflynn.bsky.social of the threat Russia poses to Britain youtu.be/M7O4Eh3Roe8?...

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

W.T.F. ???? ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I remember that, yeah.

submitted 2 days ago • 111 comments

This. And was the Scottish Indyref in 2014 used to test the methods used in 2016?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

In case anyone is still uncertain whether Trump and Musk are allied to Putin — @bylinetimes.bsky.social has been covering the Trump alliance for six years, and we cottoned onto Musk quite quickly

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

A quite brilliant comedy. "Oh, the banter" 😁😁😁

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

As detailed in Proof of Destruction—see below—the claims that America has sent hundreds of billions to Ukraine and that half of what America sent is missing were laundered by the Kremlin and the FSB through Tucker Carlson, who Canada calls a Kremlin agent. The actual figures: $56 billion and <2%.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Paid to fail. #ThamesWater

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

'The Neglect of Theatre in Britain's Creative Life is Costing the Country Dearly' – Byline Times

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Brilliant music. If you've not listened to it recently then go find it. It's well worth a listen. #MusicMakesLifeBetter 👇👇👇

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"Why is Thames Water in so much trouble?." Err, because the regulator is totally and utterly hopeless. Where do I collect my prize?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting thread below. Makes me wonder how big is the place where Trump keeps all his grudges? 👇👇👇

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Wake up Scotland 👇🏻 Scotland is being treated appallingly by successive UK governments. The withdrawal of this city centre regeneration money is nothing short of betrayal from Labour.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1215 comments

Run Scotland into the ground has been the WM aim since thatcher. Doesn't matter what colour tie they wear.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is what a colonial economy looks like. All Scottish electricity sold to Europe goes via England. Resource extraction with no direct route to market via infrastructure not owned by the nation. All prices and market access controlled by another nation. It's the colonial full house.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments