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One Russian paper poses a “core question” about America, Europe and Nato. Another quotes a retired Russian general & former minister as saying that, when the war in Ukraine ends, Russia “must continue to build up its defence capabilities. I repeat, build them up.” #ReadingRussia

submitted 9 hours ago • 11 comments

This widely shared image of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Benjamin Netanyahu, which has also been shared by some major news sources, is AI-generated and fake. Among the sings of AI generation are distorted faces in the background, deformed fingers, and Trump's and Netanyahu's merging arms.

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

Books banned under Assad now on sale at Damascus shops www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Inspectors General are key public servants tasked with holding our government accountable. They’re independent, nonpartisan whose work is identifying fraud, waste, & importantly, abuse. Trump just fired them all. Make no mistake: he's purging those who will protect the rule of law.

submitted 29 days ago • 483 comments

Four years ago, officers of the law stood their ground to protect Members of Congress and staff as violent insurrectionists stormed the Capitol. These brave officers were beaten, crushed, bear sprayed, maced, and left to defend democracy with their bare hands.

submitted 33 days ago • 1036 comments

Trump pardons ex-Proud Boys leader Tarrio and commutes sentence of Oath Keepers founder Rhodes www.axios.com/2025/01/21/t...

submitted 33 days ago • 45 comments

🇺🇸 😕

submitted 33 days ago • 105 comments

UK 10 year bond yields have risen 14 basis points in the last month. Germany's have risen by 30 bp and the USA's by 21 bp, confirming both the fickleness of markets and the media. #soundmoney

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and profit” President Joe Biden

submitted 38 days ago • 154 comments

Yup.

submitted 49 days ago • 58 comments

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people & institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job..I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning.. “Democracy dies in darkness” 👏 anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 49 days ago • 38 comments

Very Trumpy

submitted 51 days ago • 174 comments

Taliban bans windows to stop women from being seen at home. The world is surging to the extreme right, and America is no exception. It's going to be a more miserable place to live. www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-a...

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

World’s richest man believes homelessness is a “propaganda”

submitted 75 days ago • 885 comments

Excellent thread on why Pat Mcfadden’s speech is v welcome, but the potential Whitehall barriers he must overcome to realise this vision

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Rebel forces closing in on Sayyidnaya Prison where thousands of people were incarcerated for years, brutally tortured and executed Known as the “Human Slaughterhouse” approximately 30.000 Syrians were brutally killed here by torture and executions since 2011

submitted 78 days ago • 3 comments

Syria's future will be complicated, but we should celebrate if Assad falls. (I can't help but add that Obama's failure to enforce his red line after Assad used chemical weapons in August, 2013, was a disastrous decision, with terrible consequences for Syria and far beyond.)

submitted 78 days ago • 25 comments

Here we go

submitted 80 days ago • 200 comments

Israel, Lebanon, & US are close to agreement on ending the fighting in Lebanon: - Israeli correspondent Nadav Eyal reports their cabinet will vote on the deal - today’s firing of 300+ rockets by Hezbollah looks like a defiant closing gambit, showing they can still strike Israel 1/2

submitted 91 days ago • 6 comments

Government is again reiterating “growth is the No.1 priority.” The OBR report its quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the country’s potential economic performance when every penny counts. We have to be able to talk openly about this

submitted 92 days ago • 23 comments

"let’s work together to end one of the most shocking, cruel, inhumane & monumental injustices of the past half-century by getting behind & supporting Lord Woodleys bill – before more lives are tragically lost" @peterstefanovic.bsky.social #IPP thecriminaljusticeblog.com/2024/09/04/c...

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Delighted to gave the esteemed John Kingman - formerly of Treasury - writing for Comment is Freed with his ideas for stimulating economic growth. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...?

submitted 92 days ago • 5 comments

“I think the [winter fuel payment] means testing was too tight..to set it at pensioners who have annual income of less than £11,400 is too tight” Martin Lewis says the winter fuel payment should have been extended to those pensioners with around “£20,000-25,000” annual income

submitted 92 days ago • 218 comments