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🇺🇸 House Democrats have introduced a new Ukraine Support Act to boost military aid and slap tougher sanctions on Russia—days after Russia’s deadly missile strike on Sumy. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Vance has just realised that the UK has decided to return to dynamic regulatory alignment with EU food standards. This will preclude the UK from accepting US hormone-fed beef, chicken pumped with antibiotics and washed in chlorine, and farm produce sprayed with carcinogenic pesticides.

submitted 18 minutes ago • 2 comments

lol Commerce posted today that they’re looking into tariffs on the machinery used to make semiconductors This will just make it harder to make semiconductors in the US. It is so unbelievably stupid that I cannot put it into words.

submitted 8 hours ago • 55 comments

Important piece from @simonfraser00.bsky.social. Message weakened a little by being too supportive of current gov’t that he knows has a very difficult job. But still a very significant call for a gradual foreign policy pivot away from dependence on the US. 👏👏 www.ft.com/content/b6b7...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

submitted 9 hours ago • 50 comments

Next month (19 May) the UK will host a first 'EU-UK Summit', a major moment in UK government's desired 're-set' to relations For background, @stefanofella.bsky.social has produced a very useful research briefing for House of Commons Library researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Note that the question Trump is answering was about Patriot missiles: those for the air defence systems. They are not used for striking Russia, they help to protect Ukrainian civilians from Russian missile strikes. Like the one in Sumy just yesterday that killed 35 civilians, including two children

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

Trump is talking about shuttering publications and networks he disagrees with. He's talking about deporting and imprisoning Americans who dissent. This is unprecedented and undemocratic. Wake up America.

submitted 12 hours ago • 341 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 13 hours ago • 601 comments

Trump full-on accusing Zelensky of starting the war Russia launched against Ukraine in 2014, before Zelensky was even president, and escalated in 2022 with it unprovoked, full-blown invasion. Not a single criticism toward Putin, a day after the deadliest single attack of the war by Russia this year.

submitted 13 hours ago • 64 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

The most horrendous example of this so far. It's never Putin's fault if you're Donald Trump.

submitted 15 hours ago • 22 comments

Nato acquires AI military system from Palantir https://www.ft.com/content/7f80b1bc-114c-4a00-ad06-6863fb435822

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 hours ago • 67 comments

🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

submitted 19 hours ago • 74 comments

Switzerland will be rejoining several EU programmes following an agreement with Brussels. Meanwhile Labour act like a drowning man refusing to grab the available lifeline. www.worldradio.ch/news/bitesiz...

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Here's where 'national conservatism' gets you: a corrupt government presiding over a collapsing nation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

Chilling warning from Fiona Hill - let's not forget, Putin's biographer before she went to work for Trump in his first term. She knows the signs of growing authoritarianism, and she sees them in the US now.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

In which a large consulting firm finds that bending the knee to King Donald and meekly following the US descent into fascism means Europeans don't want to do business with you. https://archive.md/WQGpQ

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

⚡️Trump extends Biden's sanctions executive order against Russia. U.S. President Donald Trump has extended the national emergency and the associated sanctions against the Russian government for a further year, according to a document from the U.S. Federal Register.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

One month ago, Ukraine agreed to a full 30-day ceasefire in the U.S.-mediated talks in Jeddah, and Russia did not. Russian attacks on Ukraine have killed over 160 civilians in March alone.

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Billionaire Ray Dalio of Bridgewater points out why America is increasingly failing to compete with Europe and Asia: “60% of the US population has below a 6th grade reading level. “It’s tough to be productive.”

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Travellers arriving in Great Britain face import ban on EU meat and dairy

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Who's feeling confident that Starmer will have the nerves to stand up to US bullying? Hope you like chlorinated chicken, Britain!

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

For Trump tariffs are a cure-all. For countries that want to reduce them, that offers no solid basis for talks. There's no masterplan.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

❗️🇨🇳Chinese military officers toured near 🇷🇺Russian fronts with Beijing's approval to learn lessons and tactics of war. About 200 Chinese mercenaries are fighting alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, Reuters reports.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Not only should we be boycotting American products and #BuyEuropean, but people should be doing everything possible to not travel to the United States.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people. Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much. Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?... Just wow, please listen to this brave warning!

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

"if you also look at the enormous decline in consumer sentiment, in business optimism, and the enormous extent to which markets have fallen.. I think there's a second crisis: it's a crisis of confidence in the competence of this administration."

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments