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Anglo-Italian. EC official. Bit of politics, mostly Brexit but also general EU stuff. Bonus points for knowing where I Say, Porter! originated.
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Supposed to be flying to the US next month. Bricking it already.

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Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 3 days ago • 1195 comments

Just because "government of the people, by the people, for the people" has perished from the USA is no reason to fear it will perish from the earth.

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What is it that binds us together as Americans? It’s the very thing that Trump is trying to dismantle.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

On reflection, destroying 80 years of American soft power worldwide in the space of 4 weeks is an impressive achievement. It took Cameron and his successors fourteen years to cut the UK off from any semblance of global influence.

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A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.

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The teen saved up her Xmas and birthday money and bought a handbag from Zadig and Voltaire. My brain's a bit weird,because the first thing that brought to mind was the Amazing Kargol and Janet.

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The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

submitted 12 days ago • 455 comments

Visit me in the camps

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One of the most important websites in America right now.

submitted 16 days ago • 395 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

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We’ve been watching Wolf Hall, a fascinating study of how the fragile male ego of a fickle, greedy despot creates a culture of deep cruelty and mistrust, where everyone lives in fear of saying the wrong thing. Thank goodness we’ve moved on from those times.

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🚨🚨 So five years since #brexit and I think it is time reshare Daniel Hannan's absolutely insane and delusional vision of grandeur and hubris that characterised the true engineers and believers of #brexit. Here comes the #brexit insanity No 1 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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Sir Keir said that there *are* celebrations of the fifth anniversary of #Brexit today, but that they are happening in Moscow.

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Well, it turns out there *was* a worse President than Donald Trump just around the corner, after all.

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