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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 90 days ago • 291 comments

How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance - “It is difficult to know who is more contemptible: those who wanted this or those who merely went along with it.”

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

To paraphrase Zelensky, 'I don't need reposts, I need bullets'. Please join me in donating to Ukraine. Please give any amount that you can. There are multiple options for which specific cause to support at the link below. war.ukraine.ua/donate/

submitted 92 days ago • 15 comments

Reposting this given the general state of the world as a dangerous authoritarian felon and his overconfident billionaire lackey deliberately play with existential risks. www.forkingpaths.co/p/we-dont-ha...

submitted 92 days ago • 3 comments

Three years on from Putin's barbaric and illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine facts and truth matter more than ever youtu.be/HpmDquOkSCY?...

submitted 97 days ago • 9 comments

French President Emmanuel Macron publicly interrupted Donald Trump to correct another of the US President’s falsehoods over Ukraine 👏

submitted 97 days ago • 106 comments

Putin planned to take Kyiv in three days, but he couldn't take Kyiv in three years. The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 97 days ago • 95 comments

The US just voted alongside Russia, Belarus and North Korea against a UN resolution to support Ukraine. This is a wake-up call for all those cheerleading Trump in our country.

submitted 97 days ago • 95 comments

Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

submitted 97 days ago • 140 comments

“Three years on from Putin's barbaric full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we face a once in a generation moment for our collective security and values. We continue to stand with Ukraine for a just and lasting peace. Slava Ukraini” Prime Minister Keir Starmer👏

submitted 97 days ago • 31 comments

French President Emmanuel Macron says US and Ukraine should be compensated by Russia, not by Ukraine. Russia started the war 👏

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submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

submitted 102 days ago • 156 comments

One of my experiences as a government official was that when the UK and France agreed on something, joint progress could be made pretty quickly. Reading between the lines, this is happening with regard to Ukraine and Trump. A small ray of hope in an otherwise bleak day.

submitted 101 days ago • 12 comments

“KKR has submitted a C4bn equity bid to take a majority stake in Thames Water, as the US private equity firm looks to position itself as potential owner of the debt-laden water provider” - Our water supplies sold off to a US equity firm…

submitted 101 days ago • 4 comments

Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet. Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.

submitted 102 days ago • 109 comments

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

submitted 104 days ago • 1058 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 104 days ago • 2355 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 104 days ago • 2243 comments

The Guardian view on new housing: Labour must not let builders dictate terms. Ministers must use ensure that new homes are built on terms as favourable as possible to the people who will live in them – not according to rules made by developers. 👍 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

President Zelenskyy: “At the Munich Security Conference, I emphasized that European policy must not just be promising — it must make America want to stand with a strong Europe. Europe must decide its own future with confidence in its strength so that others have no choice but to respect its power.”

submitted 106 days ago • 316 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 105 days ago • 2854 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):

submitted 105 days ago • 95 comments

To the right-wing pundits crowing over Vance's speech: if you are really "less worried" about a dictator-state that's invaded its neighbour, killed tens of thousands of people, reduced cities to rubble & engaged in mass rape and child abduction, than you are about "wokery", then you are truly lost.

submitted 106 days ago • 38 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 111 days ago • 3825 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 106 days ago • 1571 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 106 days ago • 2651 comments

Democrats are on the frontlines, defending democracy - a starter pack that is filled with powerful content influencers! Give them a follow! go.bsky.app/UQBKuX3

submitted 134 days ago • 105 comments

Freedom and democracy are under attack, but a relentless frontline of advocates and organizers is pushing back every single day. The fight isn’t over—we have the power to turn the tide, but only if we work together. Please give these folks a follow!

submitted 135 days ago • 143 comments

In the light of Trump’s unilateral negotiations with Putin on Ukraine, Lib Dem Leader Sir Ed Davey has called on the UK Government to launch emergency legislation to seize frozen Russian assets.

submitted 107 days ago • 15 comments

The Great American Robbery happening now.

submitted 107 days ago • 11 comments

I wonder if JD Vance is planning to lecture his boss’s buddy Vladimir Putin on democracy and free speech. 🤔

submitted 107 days ago • 73 comments

The German defence minister Boris Postorius just told JD Vance where to shove it! 👏👏👏 He basically said Vance's comments in a previous speech about a supposed lack of democracy in Europe were "inacceptable". The applause was loud and long, though it fades out here due to length limit. #MAGAmerica

submitted 107 days ago • 14 comments

Most of Britain won't be taking any lessons in British values from Trump/Vance It is a British value to oppose dictators in Europe, not to reward them. It is a British value to accept it if you lose. To turn up & congratulate the winner, not to sulk + incite violence to try to overturn democracy

submitted 107 days ago • 57 comments

SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

submitted 106 days ago • 256 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 107 days ago • 5980 comments

I made a decision long ago to not react to every thing that Trump says, because him saying anything doesn't mean something is going to happen. But for the avoidance of doubt, if you think a surrender deal can be imposed forcefully on Ukrainians, then you don't know Ukrainians.

submitted 108 days ago • 27 comments

When people ask what Putin has over Trump, remember the Spycraft acronym MICE which describe the four key weaknesses which allow someone open to be being recruited M - Money I - Ideology C - compromising material (Kompromat) E - Ego All four are probably factors in Trump’s subservience to Putin

submitted 106 days ago • 15 comments

I’m old enough to remember when Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil.”

submitted 110 days ago • 5 comments

got the supervillain finger tent down pat. all he needs now is a fluffy white cat in his lap.

submitted 109 days ago • 132 comments

REPORTER: Are you policing yourself for conflicts of interest? What are the checks and balances? MUSK: We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X

submitted 109 days ago • 662 comments

It’s #HeartUnions week Make Jacob’s day and join a union today youtu.be/jg0D2yNiqHM?...

submitted 109 days ago • 6 comments

A 10-year-old has a better plan for stopping plastic pollution than most politicians. Amaya Edwards discovered an Australian scheme that’s keeping rivers and oceans clean. So why hasn’t the UK adopted it?

submitted 111 days ago • 38 comments

Ah, genius! I too would like to decide most of my debts aren’t real

submitted 111 days ago • 5 comments

Lying liars and the lies that they told. There is no question that the leave campaign lied through its teeth. Legally, that means nothing now, of course: Brexit is settled under European law. But is there a moral case to say the British electorate were innocent? Let's look at the lies A 🧵

submitted 142 days ago • 27 comments