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A busy garden: Pruned Bromley branches are trimmed while Starlings’ wings whir past #DailyHaiku

🇺🇸 TIME cover when Trump first became President. Unfortunately, fits current events…

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

Obviously his support message isn’t new. Obviously it’s bad in any case that the world’s richest man can use the platform he owns—and manipulates—for this. But Musk is now effectively (at least) co-President of the USA. You tell me what that makes his ongoing interference in the German election.

The U.S. now wants to lay claim to Ukraine’s infrastructure, gas transportation system, and nuclear power plants, as they realize Ukraine doesn't have large reserves of rare earth metals and minerals, says People's Deputy Honcharenko.

In 2022, russians killed the mayor of Motyzhyn village, Olha Sukhenko, her husband and son. Before being kidnapped, she was evacuating village residents, delivering food and medicine. Their bodies were found in a mass grave after the liberation of the Kyiv region. russian occupation is not peace.

Against all the odds Each year, these small joys persist: Crocus-spears break free. #DailyHaiku

Here we go. Certain generals must be removed before any martial law plan is put into action—as Trump and Hegseth are worried there may still be some generals out there who support the Constitution rather than his proposed dictatorship. This is a political purge intended as a precursor to far more.

Winterspell Jeff Dillon 2020

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

I think Zelenskyy just played Trump beautifully. Let me explain. Full video here as Bluesky only does 1 min —> vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1pHNqv/

🔥 Has Zelenskyy just played Trump? Yes. Yes he has. 🇪🇺🇺🇦

🇺🇸❗️🇪🇺 European diplomat tells Politico: "The transatlantic alliance has broken down, and now there is an alliance between the Russian and American presidents to destroy Europe."

Donald Trump is the President of the United States and the Spokesperson for Vladimir Putin. Only we in the UK and Europe will protect Ukraine.

This picture probably perfectly reflects the latest scandalous news…

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23

Trump is on Putin's side. That's it. That's the story and if you are on Trump and Putin's side then you're on the side of murder, fear, war and autocracy. Find it absolutely staggering that some people who you'd expect so much more of are cheering this nightmare on

Erdoğa just threw down the gauntlet—Turkey backs Ukraine’s FULL territorial integrity. Turkey ain’t just some side player in this. They control the Black Sea. They control NATO’s southern flank. And now, Erdoğan is making it clear: Russia’s land grab is not up for negotiati

Allowing Thames Water to take on £3bn of extra debt is not in the interests of their millions of customers in Surrey and beyond. ❌ #ThamesWater #Debt #Surrey

"If Ukraine is forced to surrender its sovereign territory to Russia, it will be the greatest betrayal of a European ally since Poland in 1945," says UK MP Edward Davey.