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UK must defend peace in Ukraine as conflict 'will wash up on our shores' Keir Starmer unveiled plans to set up a 'coalition of the willing' to defend Ukraine and to guarantee peace, backed with British 'boots on the ground and planes in the air www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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FACTS AND TRUTH MATTER NOW MORE THAN EVER youtu.be/HpmDquOkSCY?...

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If you are a queer and the first thing you though when you heard about Gene Hackman's death today wasn't "The Birdcage", do yourself a favor and go watch it.

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Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

submitted 10 days ago • 242 comments

FACTS AND TRUTH MATTER Trump has suggested Ukraine started the war with Russia. That is not true. We all need to call this out

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“Trump is wrong; the world must say so. He’s taking US down a disastrous path…favouring Putin’s gangster state over democracies of free Europe.He’s standing alongside murder & tyranny against democracy & liberty. His is a historic inversion of America’s destiny” www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

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The US President's attempts to extort Ukraine for its natural resources, while abandoning its fate to Russia, is a return to the worst imperial politics of the past bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/t...

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Fun fact: Today is my 666th day on Bluesky. I've been having a devilishly good time since I've been here. To celebrate this sinister accomplishment, I have made a donation to Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Here's to the next 666 days! www.au.org

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⏩ So, @democracyforward.org is holding a Community Town Hall this Thursday, February 20th at 9pm ET (6pm PT) on their YouTube channel. Although I am not personally affiliated with the organization, they really won me over with their top-notch resources for #Project2025 information. Details here:

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planes with dei: fly me to the moon and let me play among the staaars planes without dei:

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A key to understanding this is that the people who were committing PPP fraud are the base of Trump and the Republican Party's support

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You know what’d be nice? If every bird that saw him took a shit on Elon.

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Although the shakeup at SDNY re: the Eric Adams dismissal is receiving a decent amount of coverage already, both the wordsmith and the beleaguered American in me wanted to highlight one specific resignation, that of the lead prosecutor in the Adams case, Hagan Scotten. That third paragraph? Art.

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Super glad we torched our reputation with one of our closest allies by continually dangling a self-destructive trade war threat over their head, brilliant 14 Dimensional Chess move here

submitted 16 days ago • 164 comments

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

submitted 16 days ago • 477 comments

After announcing she had a baby with Elon Musk, Ashley St. Clair deleted this.

submitted 16 days ago • 279 comments

This friggin' monster should be in prison for the rest of us life instead of threatening our nation, terrorizing our people, and endangering the world.

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There are many reasons to be concerned about a mediocre white man who used heroin to treat his ADHD and his family name to avoid consequences for his actions, but this assault on antidepressants — based on misinformation and shoddy science — should certainly be on the list. Fuck this guy.

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The Trump administration’s move to fire thousands of federal employees could have a swift and severe impact on public services, staffers warned, as a beleaguered workforce struggles to cover for lost colleagues.

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No reasonable adult human feels this isn't going terribly.

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This says it all

submitted 20 days ago • 1633 comments

the level of corruption unfolding right now will stagger future generations. it will stagger people a month from now.

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The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

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US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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From TikTok to USAID - The Perfect Storm Paul Niland dissects the lies and outright skirting of the law being perpetrated by Trump and Musk bylinetimes.com/2025/02/10/f...

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Senate Democrats have set up a whistleblower complaint portal for federal workers to submit any reports of what they see as unlawful activities in their respective agencies in response to Elon Musk and his group’s efforts to downsize the federal government.

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Absolutely @analisaswan.bsky.social

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Trump's Latest 'Wish' About Canada Has Canadians Saying 'Not Now, Not Ever' www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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The European executive has announced that it would retaliate against US tariffs on aluminium and steel if they are confirmed, considering them unlawful and counterproductive www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

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The White House’s destruction of USAID is a callous, catastrophic mistake that will damage America as well as the world www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-w...

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Palestinians displaced from Gaza to neighboring countries under a U.S. proposal would not have the right to return to the enclave, President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News about his proposal to “own” the Gaza Strip and develop real estate there.

submitted 21 days ago • 70 comments

Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining

submitted 21 days ago • 354 comments

Sure. Everyone uses social media differently and that's as it should be: It needs to fit into your life, not the other way around. For me, having more than one social media instance, each doing slightly different things, makes me happy.

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I’ll say it again. What makes this platform different is that it’s moderated. And, The Terms of Service are enforced. Bluesky is not like Twitter The world needs a platform where people who disagree can have a real discussion.

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This energy.

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Absolutely

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It's been discovered (in a non-derogatory fashion) that I post differently on Threads and Bluesky, and it's true: I do more political kvetching on Threads and more being goofy here, it's not that I'm not goofy on Threads or not political here, just that the proportions are different and I like that.

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