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80% of German VOTERS went for parties that promised to have nothing to do with the AFD... MEDIA: Huge win for AFD!

submitted 13 hours ago • 131 comments

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

submitted 1 day ago • 688 comments

Once more, Farage is claiming that he stood up in the European Parliament in early 2014 and predicted the Ukraine war. In fact, he stood up in September 2014, AFTER the annexation of Crimea, and blamed Europe for Putin's actions. I kept the receipts. Listen here 👇🏽 open.spotify.com/episode/77cz...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

There's a rumour that Nigel Farage is keeping his head down because he's off to a Trump cheerleading conference over the weekend. I’m afraid I’m being proved right- Farage is far more interested in Trump's success than British security. He is a bootlicker and a plastic patriot.

submitted 3 days ago • 271 comments

He's mad his lies about Ukraine were fact-checked by his own website so he wants to change the fact-checking system

submitted 3 days ago • 2066 comments

48% of Brits believe it is more important for the UK government to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with the US

submitted 3 days ago • 113 comments

The official White House account just referred to Trump as a “king” and posted an image with a crown on his head. They’re not even hiding it.

submitted 4 days ago • 1183 comments

5 hours apart.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

NEW: Trump’s USDA admits it "accidentally" fired "several" agency employees working on the federal response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak—and is now scrambling to undo the damage.

submitted 5 days ago • 539 comments

How about an election in Russia?

submitted 5 days ago • 265 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 6 days ago • 8253 comments

@sanders.senate.gov: "You're looking at enormous power & wealth in the hands of a small number of people who could care less about working class people... They suffer from the addiction of greed. You got $50 billion? Ain't enough. We got to cut SS so I can get a tax break and maybe get $55 billion."

submitted 7 days ago • 217 comments

For any Republicans out there-- don't you see what's happening? Your elected officials, drunk with power, are quietly and quickly getting filthy rich. And in exchange, they're cutting your Medicaid, cutting your education funding, cutting SNAP benefits, cutting medical research.

submitted 7 days ago • 703 comments

Starmer confirming the UK is willing to put boots on the ground in Ukraine. An immense moment. Hard to overstate how important this is or how impressive it is that he's done it.

submitted 7 days ago • 97 comments

Glad Trump had the chance to waste millions of taxpayer dollars to fly over the Daytona 500 and then ride The Beast on the track as parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee are underwater. Priorities.

submitted 7 days ago • 1018 comments

A lot of people who know very little about the US govt don't know that a big part of Dept of Energy's portfolio is nukes. That's okay. Not everyone has to know everything. But it turns out the people Elon put in charge of gutting the department's workforce didn't know that either.

submitted 9 days ago • 51 comments

Free speech "is in retreat" in Britain, says JD Vance, who is part of a Government which is now targeting critical news organisations with politically-motivated investigations, while banning others from the White House for the crime of referring to the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name

submitted 9 days ago • 97 comments

Well, Cummings’ broligarch treachery is at least decipherable in his otherwise arcane and self serving ramblings

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

James Watt: "Hey, I accidentally fucked the reputation of my brand of hipster piss by acting like a corporate monster. How can I fix this?" Marketing Expert: "Whatever you do, don't copy the incredibly stupid antics of a guy who only 12% of Britons approve of" James Watt 👇

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

There's been flashier clips of the current insanity, but this quietly demonstrates the current disintegration of US gov't standards like no other. - Did Musk meet Modi as CEO or gov't? - You talking about me? - Musk. - Dunno. Business probly. - Did Modi know which? - Dunno. I'll ask him. 😶

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for your meddlin' object permanence.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

This guy and Brewdog are such fascist suck up, pay less than living wage clowns. Boycott them like Elon Musk.

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

Centrist parties keep stepping on the same rakes over and over again. They let the right wing massively inflate a problem, then accept the premise it's an existential threat, then do milquetoast versions of right-wing solutions, then lose elections and Pikachu face.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Well that's not very dodgy at all

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

Justin Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

Musk totally humiliated Trump during their joint Oval Office press conference. Musk brought along his 4-year-old son — making Trump look like the kid’s babysitter — disrespectfully wore a T-shirt and baseball cap, and even interrupted Trump. It’s clear who’s really in control, and it ain’t Trump.

submitted 11 days ago • 1025 comments

I hate Putin with every single fibre of my being but I'll give him this... he's a million times smarter and wilier than Trump and his entire administration put together. And there's your problem world - right there.

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

Go to Google Search "Gulf of Mexico" Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" Choose "Send feedback" Click "Gulf of America" Click "Inaccurate content" Click "Incorrect" Tell Google the correct name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...

submitted 11 days ago • 2087 comments

Granting people refugee status but not allowing them citizenship. Come on Labour, make that make sense. Imagine doing this - harming people’s lives - to impress the bigot vote. But failing anyway. What a shameful abdication of responsibility and decency. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 75 comments

Fkn hell. Labour are throwing us to the tech bro wolves. #AI #Paris

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

So the USA wants it to be non inclusive and non sustainable? And the UK is too shit scared to get on wrong side of the Trump mafia. We (the UK) are truly pathetic www.politico.eu/article/uk-r...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

You reap what you sow, JD.

submitted 12 days ago • 286 comments

On LBC this morning, I spoke about why we should be far more worried the power Elon Musk is accruing, especially in light of his Open AI moves. The normalisation of his actions and activity by quite a bit of the US and even UK media is a big part of the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnt...

submitted 12 days ago • 86 comments

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

submitted 13 days ago • 1059 comments

The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country

submitted 12 days ago • 3441 comments

That's yer Ronnie Spector interview released into the wild. My new podcast series The Interviews is me reminiscing then playing some of my favourite interviews I've ever done. Available on all platforms. Tony Slattery coming this Friday open.spotify.com/episode/7lMh...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Watch what Trump says here. Then watch it again. "I would own it." Gaza. He would own Gaza. Not America. Him.

submitted 13 days ago • 126 comments

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 13 days ago • 170 comments

If ppl have been gaslit into believing that asylum seekers are the biggest threat to society they’ll vote reform. They won’t vote for reform-lite in the guise of the current Tory & Labour cosplay. So FFS other parties, give 3/4 of the electorate something other than this racist, populist nonsense.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

The only way this Super Bowl could be more surprising would be if Kendrick Lamar now declared Drake the winner.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Donald Trump hasn't succeeded because he is clever or charming or a great political speaker. He has succeeded because he has the relentless support of 90% of the American Fascist Media. This is the only way Nigel Farage exists either.

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

This is how the BBC are currently advertising their Sunday morning political program on their website. I don't want to be unfair, so I'll just say that I don't remember language like "faces grilling" when the Tories were in power. (But then, I didn't check every week so I may have missed it.)

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments

Banks raking in £30bn from interest rate ruse “As interest rates rose from rock-bottom levels, High Street banks profited. They put up mortgage & loan costs faster than they have increased rates for savers and pocketed the difference” Why can’t we stop this? www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving...

submitted 14 days ago • 47 comments

As being “free to make our own trade deals” has delivered the square root of jack shit and, as Brexiters still can’t tell us what EU regulations they want to scrap, closer alignment with the EU should be a no-brainer. Great work @bestforbritain.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

submitted 15 days ago • 75 comments

German court orders X to hand over election data A German court has handed Elon Musk’s X a legal defeat, ruling that the platform must immediately provide researchers with access to data on politically related content ahead of the country’s February 23 election www.politico.eu/article/berl...

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

Renting is killing the UK economy. More than 6m of the UK's 40m adults live in Private rented accomodation an increase of more than 200% from 25 years ago. Most of their free money goes on their rent often to companies located in tax havens. All of it is lost.

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

And there it is: "Att. Gen. Pam Bondi ordered a halt to a years-old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by China, Russia and other adversaries that try to curry favor and sow chaos in American politics." All you need to know #bbcpm www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment