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Ukrainians are confident that they can continue fighting—even without the same level of American support, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social reports.⁠ Read more: https://theatln.tc/O2j130pw

submitted 4 hours ago • 16 comments

Thousands of children and babies in #Gaza will die of starvation within the next 48 hours. Statements and condemnations will do nothing to convince #Netanyahu to stop his illegal blockades. Britain must: Halt all arms sales to Israel. Recognise the State of Palestine. and get aid into Gaza, now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.

submitted 1 day ago • 324 comments

GB News : "Brexit is a good thing?" Brexit Fisherman : "It's been a disaster" "But exports?" "Red tape is 100 fold, our main market is the EU" "But EU fisherman?" "They didn't come here" "But charge more?" "They can buy in the EU" "How would you vote?" "I'd vote for Remain in a heart beat"

submitted 97 days ago • 77 comments

"Why do you 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 talk about Pakistani grooming gangs? There are 𝙩𝙚𝙣 times as many white grooming gang suspects?" @maitlis.bsky.social asks ex-Reform MP @rupertlowe.bsky.social why he won't denounce all perpetrators of grooming gangs equally.

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall 👏🏽

submitted 6 days ago • 459 comments

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 14 days ago • 2304 comments

"Putin is the main obstacle to a ceasefire in Ukraine." - U.S. special envoy Keith Kellogg.

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

submitted 14 days ago • 182 comments

Orlin Roussev, Biser Dzhambazov and Katrin Ivanova, three Bulgarians all now convicted of spying for Russia, were present at a Brexit debate in a House of Commons committee room in May 2016. They. Knew. What. They. Were. Spying. For. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 41 comments

“There’s a growing, tribe of MPs & pontificators who mock Net Zero without suggesting any alternatives. This is just climate denialism in a posh suit. If the best you can do for our grandchildren is shrug your shoulders, history will not be kind.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

Election results: None of this really matters. Everything we know this morning we already knew last night iandunt.substack.com/p/election-r...

submitted 19 days ago • 58 comments

Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded.... Spoiler, it does not end happily www.ft.com/content/342d...

submitted 20 days ago • 30 comments

One day I hope we'll look back and wonder what the fuck happened to America at this moment and marvel at how it came back to its senses. Or we won't. But this is up to Americans.

submitted 21 days ago • 40 comments

Anyone Trump-aligned or Trump-adjacent is toxic to the rest of the world. We are the only country with enough people that think the malignant narcissist, criminal, and moronic two-bit con man should be in charge. It’s the same reason why televangelists have always thrived here.

submitted 22 days ago • 160 comments

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

submitted 23 days ago • 198 comments

Nothing to be scared of here in political terms. One of the least popular presidents is now even less popular than he was in his first term. People need to come out from under rocks.

submitted 23 days ago • 63 comments

Strategic genius, eh. Not only has Trump achieved nothing with his bullying of Canada, he has ensured the return of a Liberal government that will stand up to him. This is where day-to-day leverage-seeking gets him.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Spread this far and wide. Farage is Putin’s fascist in the U.K. He is not interested in working for the people of this country. Quite the opposite.

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

submitted 24 days ago • 24 comments

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

submitted 24 days ago • 398 comments

Bad math. The costs far exceed the savings. Therefore there are no savings. Combine that with the disruption of vital services and DOGE has been an unmitigated disaster and complete failure.

submitted 26 days ago • 53 comments

Approval of Donald Trump's handling of top issues, from YouGov/The Economist

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

The same shit, different assholes

submitted 27 days ago • 353 comments

Our cover this week.

submitted 27 days ago • 1339 comments

While claiming to seek peace, Russia launched a deadly airstrike on Kyiv. This isn't a pursuit of peace, it’s a mockery of it. The real obstacle is not Ukraine but Russia, whose war aims have not changed.

submitted 27 days ago • 54 comments

The Conservatives cut investment which led to higher costs. Our plan is to boost investment so that we can save on future costs. The government needs to understand that the sooner you repair crumbling hospitals, the more you save overall. www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/2511088...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This, by Tom Nichols, @radiofreetom.bsky.social is exceptionally good: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Shameful from the US. Watching our policy tilt towards Moscow must be truly agonizing for our serving ntl security pros. It sure is for us “formers.” We’ve lost our way ethically and morally, as the US allies with a terrorist state. It’s hard to comprehend that this is happening.

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.

submitted 27 days ago • 432 comments

If these Ukraine peace terms are as reported, they are a historic betrayal. Nothing in American history would come near to it. It would side the US squarely and definitively with dictatorship inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

submitted 28 days ago • 60 comments

So the dream here is that Americans have a lot less disposable income and work physically demanding jobs, while Chinese factory workers get to be management consultants with luxury SUVs and holiday homes? I can see why this idea is appealing to someone, just not sure it's Americans.

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

(WSJ) - The Trump rout is taking on historic dimensions. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

submitted 29 days ago • 43 comments

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 29 days ago • 251 comments

OMG. “After DOGE gained access to NLRB’s systems, there was an increase in attempted logins from locations outside the US, including a user with a Russian IP address. The person with the Russian IP address appeared to have a correct username and password, created minutes earlier by DOGE engineers.”

submitted 32 days ago • 139 comments

‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺 Elon Musk-led US DOGE department is suspected of organizing a large-scale leak of confidential databases to unknown recipients from Russia, - Militarnyi Cybersecurity expert Berulis informed US Congress about a covert cyber operation against his department, which was organized by DOGE.

submitted 33 days ago • 20 comments

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

submitted 35 days ago • 3469 comments

Awkward

submitted 35 days ago • 14 comments

This...

submitted 35 days ago • 17 comments

Someone with a Russian IP address used a DOGE account to attempt to login to the NLRB computer system.

submitted 36 days ago • 86 comments

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 36 days ago • 914 comments

Elon Musk is such a sad, pathetic little man.

submitted 39 days ago • 172 comments

Economic uncertainty update: The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.

submitted 41 days ago • 38 comments

NHS waiting lists fall 6 months in a row under this Labour government. 👏👏👏

submitted 41 days ago • 16 comments