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Please repost this report alleging Trump was recruited by the KGB decades ago. Attempts are being made to scrub it from the Internet.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to prepare plans to make drastic budget cuts over the next five years, with an exception for border security, according to a new memo obtained by CNN www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/p...

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Donald Trump again mimics Putin and calls for an election in Ukraine - falsely claiming Zelensky’s approval rating was “at 4%” Recent polling in fact shows that Zelensky’s approval rating is better than Trumps Lets make sure everyone knows the truth youtu.be/QDagM0WWEP4?...

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Reagan-era Republicans aghast as Trump turns Russia policy on its head

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1933 - Adolf Hitler signs a document saying only he can make the law. 2025 - Trump signs an executive order saying only he and his Attorney General know what the law is.

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HSBC is delaying part of its net zero goals by 20 years, while watering down climate targets in a CEO bonus plan that’s worth up to 600% of his salary More details from its climate progress review are due later this year www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Breaking news: historians believe that they've uncovered a cache of pencils that once belonged to William Shakespeare. A spokesperson said, "They're so badly chewed on the ends, we can't tell if they're 2B or not 2B."

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This picture of April 2022 will haunt me forever. New sneakers, blue snowsuit, this 2yo was very loved. His mother tried to bring him to safety, but russians shot their car w/ a heavy machine gun. The entire family gone. How come in 2022 this crime outraged everyone while in 2025 doesn't anymore?

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🔴Like Brexit, Trump and Musk's Agenda is 'Ideologically Incoherent and Ultimately Self-Defeating' The disaster of Brexit is now being replicated on a global scale by a US administration determined to shoot its country's own interests in the foot, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall

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Very good piece by @lewisgoodall.com Europe can no longer rely on America at all. Europe needs to defend itself and Ukraine from Russia. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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

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Time-lapse from today. Day 80 non-stop. #GeorgiaProtests

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Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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This is a MUST READ

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The almost complete absence of coverage of protests against the Putinist fake government in Georgia in the UK media is striking, and worrying

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The full understanding of just how Trump is now allied with Putin is dawning on people. Zelensky calls for a European army as the only way to defend the continent and states clearly that the USA can’t be trusted. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Saying ‘women’ is not allowed, but ‘men’ and ‘white’ are OK? I’m (not) shocked | Arwa Mahdawi

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Minsk II paved the way for Russia’s full-scale invasion — another weak deal today will invite an even bigger war, writes ISW Non-Resident Russia Fellow Nataliya Bugayova in her op-ed.

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15 February 1830: #MaryAnning tells her friend William Buckland that she is still seeking a buyer for a strange new fossil fish she had found, having declined an offer of £30 from Bristol Institution. She has now sent a drawing to Cuvier in Paris, but she'd prefer the fossil to stay in England.

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Here's how the Conservatives managed to spend £715 million of taxpayers' money on the failed, inhumane Rwanda scheme. https://buff.ly/41bZLrx

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Across the country, thousands of people in hospital are fit enough to go home, but are stuck awaiting care packages. You can’t fix the NHS without fixing social care. @alisonebennett.bsky.social

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In 2007 we hired the first member of the Scottish Trans team & it was officially established as a national project working to improve the equality & human rights of trans people! As far as we are aware, this was the 1st role working on trans equality that was funded by a European govt.! #LGBTHM2025

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Sent this piece out yesterday. Calling Trump's policy towards Putin "appeasement", in unkind to Neville Chamberlain. Its closer to Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

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If private prayer inside someone's home really was criminalised under this legislation an Art 9 ECHR challenge would seem to be a slam dunk, yet AFAIK no challenge to the competence of the Act has been raised. Ask yourself why.

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📡 On BBC Scotland discussing the shameless misinformation Vice President Vance is spreading about Safe Access Zones in Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Today and every day I will stand with the millions of people across the US who oppose the misogynistic and anti-choice agenda of Donald Trump and JD Vance. 🇺🇸

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What concessions should the West make to russia to prevent escalation?! NONE! ZILCH! ZERO! This mindset is exactly how the world sleepwalked into WWII. It’s how the invasion of 🇬🇪 in 2008 led to the invasion of 🇺🇦 in 2014, and the full-scale war of 2022 thehill.com/opinion/inte...

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Trump’s transnational criminal klepto-fascist regime has been years in the making. In 1987 Newsweek did a story in which attorney John Moore said of Trump’s Presidential ambitions: “He is a dangerous man… he’s the type who’d make the trains run on time.” (From HiPS by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social)

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Freedom of the press news

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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#LectionaryPrayers for the next two Sundays

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Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

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UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring." Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.

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This article is, yet again, trending on The Atlantic website. For good reason. If you still haven't read it, please do yourself a favor and do so. Gift link below. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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#Newsnight 1030pm LIVE • BREAKING - assisted dying cases wld no longer have to be signed off by a High Court judge under changes suggested by the bill’s supporters; what happened to the promise that it ‘would have the strictest safeguards anywhere in the world’? BBC 2 BBC News

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President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Office of Government Ethics, the agency announced Monday. The small office is an independent agency responsible for setting policies on preventing conflicts of interest for federal employees.

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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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excellent explainer of what direct, indirect and overhead costs are in academic research

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This is a rather telling statement. Nearly a third of women in Louisiana are Black. www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...

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who is this hero journalist we need to protect at all costs?

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Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

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1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.

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Ooft.

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PERSON OF THE DAY. 5 February 1938. Jewish lawyer Hans Litten died in Dachau concentration camp (aged 34). He cross-examined Hitler in a 1931 trial. Hitler was so rattled by the experience he sent Litten to a concentration camp in 1933. Badly treated for years, he committed suicide in Dachau.

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Found on Mastodon. No idea who made it.

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