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very effective slogan and also a reminder to the forces arrayed against Trump that they have the whole American civic tradition at their disposal since Trumpism, especially with Elon and in the second incarnation has genuinely abandoned all of it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 15 comments

A regular reminder that everyone who admires Donald Trump is a twat. Everyone, no exceptions.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

They may want Berlin 1933 But we can make it Paris 1789

submitted 2 days ago • 279 comments

“The Ukrainian president was elected in free elections in Ukraine..he is an elected president of a free system. That's not the case with Vladimir Putin, who kills his opponents and has been manipulating his elections for a long time” Emmanuel Macron President of France 👏

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Terrific piece by @[email protected]. The dirty secret of Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent that it has never been independent. What would Britain do if America switched it off should be the starting point for any serious debate about UK foreign policy on.ft.com/4b9n4FP

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Britain’s least serious newspaper has more principles than most of Britain’s official opposition, or the entire US Republican Party

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

We're all just chugging through life hoping that the fat controller will find it in himself to call us really useful engines.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

I still can't believe that @lner.co.uk were allowed to simply do away with off-peak returns, basically doubling the price of an impromptu trip from Berwick to Newcastle for the day. The Orwellian double speak of this being "simplifying fares" & "improving customer experience" is infuriating.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's no understatement to say the Elon Musk is the most dangerous man alive. He's an existential threat to everyone on this planet if he's not stopped.

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

I feel kind of slow for just realizing this but... "Deep State" is just been a euphemism for "checks and balances."

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.

submitted 4 days ago • 297 comments

It feels like we're only a couple of news cycles from Trump threatening to arm Putin unless Ukraine & Europe surrender.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is not an intellectual point, bur I wanted to state that I am frightened by the situation in the US and I am becoming even more anxious by the extent to which most people I know IRL (ie: not politics addicts) are entirely unmoved

submitted 4 days ago • 151 comments

Bernie Sanders: "The struggle against Trump, the struggle against oligarchy, which is led by Elon Musk ... that's not gonna be won here in Capitol Hill. It's gonna be won by millions of people all over this country standing up and saying, 'we fought and died for democracy.'"

submitted 5 days ago • 397 comments

If you’d asked AI to write a piece of Russian propaganda in the style of Donald Trump, this is what you’d get. Well done America, you’ve elected a Russian asset as your President.

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

It's getting to the point where it looks like the only way the American republic will be saved is if the American people, or perhaps more realistically the American military, decide that Trump needs to be removed to enforce the constitution.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Unless Europe begins mobilization for war now, Russia will destroy it piece by piece, some through invasions, some through coups, assassinations, and active measures.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Imagine President Roosevelt saying in 1940 that Britain was finished, quoting made up numbers for US aid and then suggesting Churchill was stealing vast sums from the Lend Lease programme. Imagine him using lines - literally - written by Joseph Goebbels. This is the equivalent.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The United States is now without doubt an adversary to the free democratic World, an adversary to Europe & an ally of Putin and other despots. Trump is only interested in conquest & raping the spoils from what he sees as weaker nations. Reagan would be turning in his grave.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I think the EU should now be looking at building a coalition with Canada, Australia and Central and South American countries against US aggression - whether that is physical or economic.

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments

You cannot make this up

submitted 6 days ago • 134 comments

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 6 days ago • 818 comments

Spending a rather nice evening in Galashiels. First a gorgeous Japanese at Okome, & then seeing She Drew the Gun at Mac Arts.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is like if Roosevelt had met with Hitler to negotiate Britain’s surrender while Britain tried to hold out against Nazi forces invasion

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 8 days ago • 2978 comments

When JD Vance said "Trump is America's Hitler" I didn't realise it was an endorsement.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Spot on.

submitted 8 days ago • 1551 comments

The idea that Europe would be excluded from peace talks by the US and Russia is for the birds. Ukraine’s future is Europe’s future. So EU actors need to tell the Americans where they can stick their plans. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to cosy up to, or influence Trump is a total mug's game & will end in abject failure & electoral oblivion for Starmer. Our future is in partnership with the EU in particular but also Canada, Australia and other trusted partners, not America. It's time for Starmer to realise this urgently.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The best possible outcome of all of this would be the EU, Canada, Australia, NZ, the UK, Ukraine & others, building an economic & military ring of steel around the remaining liberal democracies left in the World. Isolate America. Let them have their 'America First' & never trust them again.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Right that's enough doom scrolling at the utter horror that is America's descent into fascism for one morning.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Quite literally, while JD Vance was over here lecturing our entire continent about freedom of speech? 😂🤣😂🤣 You could not make this shit up.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

You have to remember that when the populist nationalists say free speech what they mean is just speech they agree with. It is the classic opposite meaning. They hate the free speech of their opponents.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

I'd say the biggest forces "undermining our nation from within" are the fake patriots loudly cheering on these attacks on our country by a hostile foreign government

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

Free speech "is in retreat" in Britain, says JD Vance, who is part of a Government which is now targeting critical news organisations with politically-motivated investigations, while banning others from the White House for the crime of referring to the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name

submitted 9 days ago • 97 comments

Hat tip to @jonnelledge.bsky.social Bart Simpson himself would be proud of this one.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Starmer is proving to be the pathway to more Faragism.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Thought experiment for Labour… With over 4yrs and a huge majority, why not stir it up? Pitch your tent defiantly on the liberal lawn, loudly reject the epic failures of Brexit and rightwing immigration ideology and see how many liberal votes you gain instead of chasing Reform into a toxic dead end?

submitted 14 days ago • 128 comments

The idea the Labour government should now reinvent itself to become a form of Conservative government in order to fend off Reform is possibly the maddest thing I’ve ever seen.

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

Honestly it's hilarious that after centuries of "I need my second amendment so I can overthrow tyranny," America has degenerated into a country that shoots up elementary school with assault rifles but can't take out one South African trying to eliminate the department of education by fiat.