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"How else can you see a person who came here and murdered our people, murdered children? We're inside a school bomb shelter right now. The bomb shelter of a school." Well said President Zelensky. 👏🇺🇦

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

One actual & one would-be fascist dictator together mocking the audience, insulting the press, trampling on democratic norms & planning mass abuses of human rights, and the BBC’s take is… “Yawn, no surprises here”. Yet again, totally useless as a source of understanding. Utterly unfit for purpose.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

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Israeli forces have killed or injured 1000 children - IN A WEEK. [Source: UN] 1000. All children. In one week. Rarely has a war crime of this gravity been met with such international acceptance and inaction. Historically shameful.

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

Our open letter response to the #USCommerceDept and #POTUS

submitted 30 days ago • 48 comments

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

submitted 30 days ago • 180 comments

✍️ Testing the boundaries: the incentives hidden in Trump’s chaos Donald Trump’s actions may appear erratic even as he consolidates power, but follow the money and a pattern becomes clear By J 'Masharubu' Strauss

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

The World Cup in 2026 should definitely be taken away from the US. ⚽️🏆 America is clearly not safe to travel to. 🇺🇸 ❌ Note that it was a joint US-Canada-Mexico bid that won… so Canada and Mexico have serious leverage here. 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 v 🇺🇸 Failing that - mass boycott will cost the US more than it earns.

submitted 36 days ago • 394 comments

Everybody Frieze. Newsday.com/matt

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

At a certain level of privilege some convince themselves that "annoying" is worse than "evil" - because they cannot imagine that evil, even if it were to manifest, would ever hurt THEM.

submitted 50 days ago • 42 comments

A lot of "I never thought the leopards would eat my face" going on right now. ~AA FA 👇🏽 FO 👇🏽

submitted 67 days ago • 9 comments

How We Know that Vaccines Are Safe www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social Reality: "Vaccine safety is studied in a series of larger and larger clinical trials before they can be approved, and surveillance continues after a vaccine is used to monitor for rare side effects."

submitted 69 days ago • 4 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 70 days ago • 2275 comments

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

submitted 74 days ago • 89 comments

Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience. It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day. If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

submitted 77 days ago • 13 comments

Brexit was pushed through by lies. The Sun lied about benefits tourism. Later, it printed this pathetically small apology. The government should force all news media to print apologies for falsehoods in a form that makes them as visible to the public as the original lie.

submitted 77 days ago • 45 comments

Our NHS is not for sale. Trade talks with Trump must not open the door to US healthcare companies profiting from our NHS. Keir Starmer must protect our NHS by keeping it off the table during negotiations. Join me by adding your name to 38 Degrees’ petition:

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1

submitted 78 days ago • 69 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 79 days ago • 518 comments

London. Next Saturday. I’ll be speaking. We are Europe. We are Ukraine. Be there. 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

submitted 79 days ago • 17 comments

NEW: Explosive new revelations from ex MI6 spy. Why did Boris Johnson block the publication of the Russia Report before 2019 Gen Election? Finally some answers.. Russian military intelligence - the GRU - targeted the Brexit vote. "Money changed hands" 1/ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

submitted 79 days ago • 71 comments

What do we do when working within the system no longer works? This is the great and for many, unaskable, question looming above Washington on this dark, cold February night. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 80 days ago • 94 comments

You know what we need to build, build, build? The grid, pylons, wind farms, solar farms and the rest that are essential to decarbonising our economy. If you’re serious about tackling climate change you have to be serious about building (not something the Green Party seem to have noticed)

submitted 89 days ago • 27 comments

Brilliant piece by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social on the false claims now being told about undocumented migrants and what lies behind them bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/h...

submitted 93 days ago • 16 comments

This is against international law. This is the very worst of humanity. This is evil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 97 days ago • 36 comments

What’s left of Gaza?

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Numquam putavi faciem meam pardis vesci.

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

And this is the man we're supposed to believe cares deeply about women's safety

submitted 103 days ago • 30 comments

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's adolescent energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

submitted 104 days ago • 681 comments

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "We're dealing with hurricane force winds that attach to a fire. At the same time, we're dealing with hurricane force misinformation and intense disinformation, not just by the president of the US, but guys like Elon Musk, that will platform all this bullshit as well."

submitted 106 days ago • 124 comments

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

submitted 109 days ago • 166 comments

See, here's what's happening: 1. Someone asks Grok a question and it invents a wrong answer 2. People post that answer in tweets. 3. People ask Grok the same question and it gives a more certain wrong answer with sources 4. The sources are the tweets from point 2. Grok is eating its own shit.

submitted 108 days ago • 44 comments