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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 22 hours ago • 418 comments

US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

submitted 6 hours ago • 237 comments

The government of the USA is openly racketeering. And that is not even the worst thing about them. ‘Owning the libs’ is doing a heck of a lot of heavy lifting right now…

submitted 13 hours ago • 111 comments

US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine doesn’t sign minerals deal. Starlink is essential for Ukraine’s battlefield comms. This is the equivalent of FDR threatening to arm the Nazis if Europe didn’t sign over half its resources. Extortion. And utterly unforgivable. Hell awaits.

submitted 12 hours ago • 113 comments

If true then the US is now a genuine Russia-style mafia state. Russia extorts with energy-, the US with tech-dependence. I trust the conclusions we draw from this will also turn into a semblance of policy.

submitted 17 hours ago • 44 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 959 comments

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

The very conservative NY Post takes Trump to task on Ukraine nypost.com/2025/02/20/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Peace talks in Saudi Arabia focussed on ensuring Ukraine will not defend itself when we attack it again.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Waking to this in a terrifying essay by US historian Heather Cox Richardson. But Matthew Parris in the Times says we should all stay calm and Trump is no Chamberlain so that’s all fine.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Not even six hours apart.

submitted 5 days ago • 1199 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 7 days ago • 2927 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5669 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 7 days ago • 345 comments

If only Farage and the plastic patriots were as exercised by their hero's big boats as they are about their scapegoats' small boats: www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2025/fe...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 7 days ago • 3195 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 8 days ago • 97 comments

Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity are unconditional. Our priority must now be strengthening Ukraine and providing robust security guarantees. In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role. Our Weimar+ statement ↓

submitted 10 days ago • 172 comments

Trump has now asked Elon Musk to examine US defence spending. Elon Musk’s companies have multi billion dollar contracts with the Department of Defense and are seeking more. The BBC’s Today Programme just reported the first part, without mentioning the second. Unacceptable

submitted 12 days ago • 66 comments

👇👇

submitted 15 days ago • 1264 comments

if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.

submitted 17 days ago • 134 comments

Just a reminder that Musk couldn’t get a top level security clearance. And he was under investigation for violating the terms of the clearance he did have. Now he has your Social Security number, your tax returns, and is unilaterally deciding who the government does and does not pay.

submitted 20 days ago • 155 comments

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

submitted 29 days ago • 812 comments

The Department of Justice has just DELETED its four-year-old webpage on the US Capitol riot investigations.

submitted 30 days ago • 1649 comments

submitted 31 days ago • 188 comments