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The natural world, animals & the arts both ground and lift me. Long legal career has interested, motivated and sustained me. Horrified by so much of today’s politics. Writing these kind of profiles does not come naturally…#FBPE
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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 5 hours ago • 484 comments

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 11 hours ago • 76 comments

🇺🇦Sources in the Ukrainian President’s Office report that the rare earths agreement will not be signed today. Despite working all night, the security guarantees remain a point of contention.

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

BREAKING: Associated Press is suing the Trump administration for violating the First Amendment. This is what needs done at every turn. Resist. Fight back. Well done AP👏

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

BREAKING: Canada defeats the USA to take home the #4Nations  Championship 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Canadian PM Justin Trudeau tweeted: “You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.”

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submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 1 day ago • 1968 comments

In these difficult days thank goodness for the Daily Star. Please share this with Trumpy friends

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Dear 🇨🇦, 🇦🇺, 🇳🇿, To be on the safe side I think we'd better make it the Four Eyes. Don't you? 👁️👁️👁️👁️ Love 🇬🇧

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 2 days ago • 1915 comments

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

submitted 2 days ago • 567 comments

Never forget According to the National Audit Office (NAO), as of June 2022 approximately £25.7 billion had actually been spent on the entire Test and Trace programme, with an estimated lifetime cost of £29.3 billion.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Kemi prepares for her questions at PMQ’s #PMQ’s #Kemi #Starmer

submitted 3 days ago • 8 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 2 days ago • 133 comments

The irony of #Felon47 saying #Zylensky is a dictator.....

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Department Of Government Embezzlement #r4today #wato #bbcpm #bbcaq

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

submitted 3 days ago • 527 comments

Trump will be remembered by future generations as the WORST traitor in American history, and his sycophantic political supporters will be compared to those who decades ago supported Hitler.

submitted 3 days ago • 582 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

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2182 comments

We, and especially the leaders of the democratic world must act on a scale and with a speed and resolve appropriate to a world war, because if we fail, most of us will live to see a world in which democracy, freedom, and human rights are but fading memories.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I hear Nigel Farage is declining interview requests. First time for everything, I suppose. I suspect he’ll eventually speak to whoever is least likely to challenge him properly.

submitted 3 days ago • 341 comments

Trump can’t handle the faintest criticism so, when he hears that Zelensky should have been invited, he lashes out saying “He started it”. When Zelensky mentions the disinformation that feeds Trump, Trump lashes out again. A monstrous spoiled brat wrecking the world with his dull-witted vengefulness.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments