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Monday's British Press. They get the picture clearly!

I agree that it's basic appeal is transgression. But wasn't that, in many ways, the basic appeal of Nazism? Not some coherent ideology, but permission to shed conventional morality and be as bad as you secretly desire to be?

Republican Congressman Don Bacon on the Trump administration’s UN vote against Ukraine alongside Russia and North Korea.

I’m telling you all blue sky.. the gold is marked at 42.22$ per ounce.. he is going to mark it to mkt and claim a windfall

I heard my friend Dan here give a remarkable brief talk about this last month. Thankfully, he’s written it up at length to share.

NEW LAWSUIT: An employee of the VA since 2006, who took law classes at night to get a promotion to the general counsel's office in 2024, was fired as a "probationary" employee because of her recent job change. She is asking a court for her job back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Bring it dafuq on.” American hero, Michael Fanone’s message to the traitors of American democracy. #myfuturehusband 😜 @libradunn1.bsky.social @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social @semperwry.bsky.social

💪🏼💪🏼 my guy

Is this real? ...Tell me it can't be real. The document is real. This is insane.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

Just cut federal cancer research & food for starving children.

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

With Trump saying the tariffs on Canada and Mexico will happen, this is a great tutorial on our energy use ans what we buy and sell Follow @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social. He cuts through the misinformation and spits out the facts

The richest man in the world has parasitically imposed himself on the federal government to insist that all employees generate content for his language-processing machine, conscripted the administrative state as monkeys at typewriters, all under penalty of dismissal should they refuse.

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

Thanks for posting here Chris. How do you think his peers and people that report to him will respond ? And if I’m asking this wrong, please correct me, but if he makes a ridiculous decision to bring charges, which court is it appealed to if he wins the case ? All insights welcome

NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

A personal note about the @katiephangshow.bsky.social:

It's nice to see, but honestly, this was "news" in 2015.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why are you not posting on here first ? You have some great things to say. You are trying some great things. Yet you post on X where 100pct of the replies are meaningless and hateful. It's not all roses here, but the engagement has depth and real convos happen

Damn @sanders.senate.gov. Just when I compliment you, I looked for info on the event. NONE HERE. But multiple posts on X. WTF. You obviously don’t care to engage. Just look at the quality of replies you get over there.

Unlike Twitter , @bsky.app has a public firehose that anyone can analyze. The numbers I posted aren’t from bluesky. They are from their party software. If you look at the post, it shows posts, follows, likes. All are real. That’s real transparency

They have two sets of books: One for the courts and one for PR. #CriminalOrganizations101

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

Strong statement by retired Rear Admiral Mike Smith, President of NSL4A: "National Security Leaders for America strongly condemns the removal of senior military officers without just cause. ... Removing experienced leaders with meritorious records weakens the force and emboldens America’s enemies."

If you know any military leaders — from junior NCOs to 4-star generals — probably a good time to reinforce the idea with them that their oath is to the Constitution, not the President, and certainly not the Secretary of Defense.

MORE NEWS: A federal judge has granted an even more extensive block of DOGE's access to Treasury systems, saying there is a "realistic danger" that the "rushed" process to access sensitive payment systems has compromised data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Steve Bannon whipped up the CPAC crowd by talking about the possibility of Trump staying in office for a third term—and concluded his speech by giving a provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month.

A Financial Times investigative documentary has found evidence that Russian executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war are not isolated incidents but are likely to be part of a broader pattern that points to a systematic policy. Watch the full documentary here: on.ft.com/3Qs7oDW

My dog and I found a nice mushroom in a snowy forest

83% (!!!) of Americans oppose Trump pardoning violent Jan. 6 rioters, according to a new WaPo/Ipsos poll.

Just to clarify: The “dictators” she’s talking about are the leaders of the country that got invaded and our NATO allies. Not the actual dictator who invaded a country and murders critics at home. Courageous stuff.

Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

With all due respect, Congressman, he’s not trying to distract from anything here. He’s a grandiose pathological narcissist. A narcissistic sociopath. A malignant narcissist. A psychopath. A megalomaniac. This is what he thinks of himself. And what he wants others to think of him.

"Why would you kill innocent Ukrainians?" @vicderbyshire.bsky.social challenges Russia's Ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, on Russian claims that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky helped to start the war between the two nations. #Newsnight

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

As long as critics persist in trying to communicate using the propaganda platform owned and controlled by Musk, they are playing a losing game.

NEW 👀: As predicted, Judge Ho has ordered a hearing for 2 p.m. this Wednesday to explore why the DOJ has moved to dismiss the charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Yes, booing the U.S. national anthem is disrespectful to Americans—but you know what’s worse? The U.S. president repeatedly and publicly telling the world that Canada has no right to exist and should be part of the U.S.🇺🇸🇨🇦

Peeps be growing brains.. will it matter