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"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 3 days ago • 537 comments

French far right leader Jordan Bardella cancelled his speech at the CPAC conference after Steve Bannon made a nazi salute. When you're too far-right for the French far-right, you're not just cos-playing the nazis to 'own the libs'. You are an actual nazi. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 2 days ago • 247 comments

It is time to end the special relationship with Trump Donald Trump in the White House: a relationship with a dishonest sexual predator and convicted criminal isn't a relationship. It's abuse centralbylines.co.uk/opinion/it-i...

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

Companies behind Great Britain’s gas pipes and power lines pocketed £3.9bn "excess profits” over the past four years after Ofgem misjudged their costs. Will we get a refund - no chance. Ofgem doesn't protect people. Need customer elected directors on the boards of all utilities.

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1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 7 days ago • 2110 comments

Most Americans know what is going on.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

The 5th aviation incident since President Musk and deputy Trump fired 400 FAA senior officials, the TSA head & 3000 air traffic controllers. I’d advise people not to fly to (or in) the US for at least four years. They’ll probably say the pilot was a black drag queen. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 25 comments

👇👇

submitted 16 days ago • 1265 comments

Beyond everything else that Musk has done, nullifying the rule of law is by far the most consequential. This will have massive implications for decades to come, and the biggest question now is what it will take to restore rule of law again.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The events unfolding now are, in several material ways, worse than estimated. There are still major issues to address (budget; debt ceiling) but the capture of the treasury and dismantling of agencies by force is beyond even P2025. This is an attack by hostile foreign powers.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Perfectly captured.

submitted 20 days ago • 1489 comments

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

submitted 21 days ago • 741 comments

Create a life you can't wait to wake up to #goodvibesonly

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submitted 21 days ago • 275 comments

Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart

submitted 21 days ago • 638 comments

Jan 6 must be fully & conclusively adjudicated in a court of law if this country is to ever move forward. They can't just wish it away unless we let them.

submitted 21 days ago • 931 comments

Gosh, this is going to mean so many thought pieces about free speech, right? Right? RIGHT? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Can’t believe the updates from The US… Two emotionally detached narcissists engineering what appears to be a mass looting of the country Triggering culture, tariff and diplomatic wars …while rolling out orders that will hurt the pockets, safety & health of its citizens.

submitted 22 days ago • 822 comments

The same team who made ‘Mr Bates vs the Post Office’ is turning its attention to the phone hacking scandal. Journalists uncover amazing stories, but it’s dramatists that make us pay attention, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

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submitted 23 days ago • 1895 comments

🍿 Artist: #NaomiHaverland in City: #FortLauderdale Yellow Cab Building, USA 🇺🇸 01/2025 - Title: "untitled" 🎥(Detail) - #Art #Streetart #Mural #Artist #Movie #Cinema #AotaFest

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!

submitted 24 days ago • 4663 comments

They shall henceforth be referred to as swasticars by me too. 😂

submitted 27 days ago • 1068 comments

Making geography great again 🇲🇽

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

This is perfection.

submitted 28 days ago • 81 comments

✍🏼 @arusbridger.bsky.social found Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Rogan’s conversation so invigorating, he “walked into the Prospect office the following morning to announce that we needed to up the masculine energy. I was met with looks that ranged from pitying to solicitous.” www.prospectmagazine...

submitted 28 days ago • 26 comments