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americans are noticing peter mandelson and immediately clocking him for the weapons grade danger he is.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Through my first set of meetings in Brussels. The praise for Starmer is overwhelming: “What he has managed to do is not just good for him. It's good for all of us. Absolutely top notch. This is the UK at its best. The UK we have always admired.

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

it does not escape notice that all the military officials being ousted by pete hegseth are more qualified for his job than he is

submitted 3 hours ago • 27 comments

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2735 comments

Trump: “So that we don’t end up like Europe”. I wonder how many Americans actually think the US has less crime than Europe

submitted 4 hours ago • 24 comments

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

submitted 2 days ago • 1725 comments

“This is going to be a massive loss of life overall,” a surgeon who formerly led USAID’s global health initiatives tells TNR. “Children are likely already dying, and will clearly be dying in large numbers” newrepublic.com/article/1921...

submitted 13 hours ago • 29 comments

Trump’s enthusiasm for “reciprocal tariffs” reflects a flawed understanding of reciprocity and fairness in international trade. PETER-TOBIAS STOLL on how to respond to this assault on a multilateral, rules-based system of international trade. verfassungsblog.de/reciprocity-...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It seems Moscow's quite pleased with how the last few days have gone. Today's Russian papers: · “Russia can't conceal its malicious pleasure…” · “The Western system is crashing like a house of cards.” · Kremlin “New US foreign policy configurations largely aligned with Russia’s” #ReadingRussia

submitted 2 hours ago • 18 comments

Pretty radical analysis tucked away in @economist.com this week on the rise of an assetocracy, especially through inheritance, leading to a bigger rentier class and a disenfranchised group locked out from economic success and open to more populist parties economist.com/leaders/2025...

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

submitted 11 hours ago • 190 comments

Imagine having the mass shooting record of the US, and lecturing any other countries about public safety

submitted 2 hours ago • 25 comments

People who claim Zelensky was at fault yesterday and should have been more “diplomatic” or “respectful” are either deliberately propagating the Trumpist attack line – or they fundamentally misunderstand what the Trumpist project is and who is now in power in the United States.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

At the point on our timeline where millions of lives are put at risk because one person must insist on the truth of lies the internet taught him.

submitted 14 hours ago • 39 comments

"Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats" www.science.org/cont...

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

NEW: "America is your enemy," I interviewed Jason Stanley for this week's newsletter & podcast. A Yale professor, who's a leading expert in fascism. We're normalizing what's happening & we urgently need to stop. Please read/listen/share. 🙏 broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-united...

submitted 2 hours ago • 25 comments

Trump’s overnight comments on the US fearing Putin less and being more afraid of becoming like Europe underline @nixonsimon.bsky.social ‘s point. I don’t think it’s wrong to try to get Trump back on the same page as Europeans (incl Ukraine), but Eur support for UA cannot be made dependent on Trump.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

If the US wants to opt out of the modern supply chains that have brought down prices and increased choice then the cost to consumers and producers will be huge. That difference again between political rhetoric and reality in globalisation. www.ft.com/content/fb55...

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Dear Humans, Your great-grandparents prayed for a cure for measles. You have it—and yet some of you want to 'research' your way back to the 1800s.

submitted 10 hours ago • 197 comments

Elon Musk says that as long as you aren't "committing genocide and starting wars" you are "not a Nazi" www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-te...

submitted 16 hours ago • 534 comments

Brilliant analysis of how the US under #Trump has become a 'gangster state' and what its means for everyone living in the West. With @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Intro: @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/1747192337/e...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

submitted 11 hours ago • 128 comments

If you will boycott Netflix if they make a Documentary about Andrew Tate. Like this post.

submitted 12 hours ago • 182 comments

Elon Musk says Italians should stay in Italy and the Japanese in Japan. Then why the hell is this White European South African in North America?

submitted 16 hours ago • 143 comments

This is it. The plausible scenario is not that the 2028 elections don’t happen. It’s that they happen with every financial oligarch and major corporation backing the GOP. And every major media organization backing the GOP, except for The NY Times which is trying to be neutral.

submitted 9 hours ago • 39 comments

Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

Trump is unambiguously embracing Putin under the guise of peace. Because everyone is for peace. DOGE is a power grab under the guise of eliminating government waste. Because everyone is against government waste. Don't fall for this basic con.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

The rallying cry means, "Glory to Ukraine." cnn.it/3F36vPN

submitted 8 hours ago • 34 comments

A senior official with the USAID in an email warned that the Trump administration's dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths -- only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say that he had been placed on leave reut.rs/4kl8K18

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

Incredibly stupid way to make markets distrust all the data they release. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 11 hours ago • 33 comments

The US has suspended operations and planning for offensive cyber operations against Russia, a senior US official told CNN.

submitted 7 hours ago • 141 comments

My trousers stayed up and no one rushed the stage and slapped me, so all things considered… a pretty good night. #Oscars2025

submitted 7 hours ago • 1072 comments

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submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

3 March 1936 | A French Jewish girl, Ida Fistel, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 30 March 1944 in a transport of 1000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 472 people selected by SS doctors and murdered that day in a gas chamber.

submitted 5 hours ago • 26 comments

Eric Adams' case embodies a national disease, or rather a growing national immunity, to what should be a vital human emotion: shame. ✍️ Lee Siegel

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

If the test of a theory is its predictive power, then Trump-Russia is the most robust theory in all contemporary political science.

submitted 7 hours ago • 137 comments

When you see JD Vance in full flow, you suddenly realise how much you miss Dan Quayle. #AmericaComeBack

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Read this by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk: “Russia does not care whether there is war or peace — it seeks the destruction of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. It will gleefully pocket every concession from the Trump administration and then continue fighting.” on.ft.com/4bn2uSs

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

A reminder: life expectancy in the EU is 81.5 years, in the US 77.4. Apart from Lithuania (2.21) the homicide rate in the EU is below 2, for 16 countries including Italy, Spain and Germany below 1. It is above 6 in the US.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Tucker Carlson is now repeating unfounded allegations that weapons sent to Ukraine are ending up with groups that include Hamas. The Hamas claim originated from a fake BBC-Bellingcat video created by a Russian disinformation campaign mimicking news organisations and was debunked months ago.

submitted 4 hours ago • 36 comments

The only thing I care about the Oscars last night is Wallace and Gromit didn't win best animated feature so it's clearly all shit, and they are all a bunch of idiots.

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Good morning folks! The phrase that pays today is one you'll use a lot this week: "Yer aff yer heid!" | You're acting crazy.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

European leaders have shown that they grossly under-estimated Trump. In an FT editorial his morning, that paper reveals that the media is similarly guilty. When are neoliberals going to realise we are facing fascism, and react accordingly? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

Sadly, Bylines Scotland didn't win at the Oscars but we went to Elton John's party. Greggs catered and we got our photo taken with Al Pacino and Meryl Streep's stunt double! What a night! #Oscars

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Labour MPs demand answers over Clearsprings’ mystery offshore payments

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 94 comments

Leaving aside corruption... establishing a crypto reserve is a terrible waste of money. It will involve the Treasury issuing debt and using the proceeds to buy the crypto. Existing holders get a windfall at the expense of the Treasury.

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

One HSBC banker paid £16.6m in 2024 (50% rise), £14.8m at Barclays after the UK govt ended banker bonus cap. Banks speculate with other people's money, gains privatised, public bailout if crashed, customer charges hiked. Govt says pay rises are inflationary but not when applied to bankers.

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments