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Opinion | The Signal chat exposes the administration’s incompetence – and its pecking order - The Guardian

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It is utterly fucking bonkers that the VP of the United States held a press conference on the soil of another country, declared his intent to take over that country, and implicitly threatened military force if that country didn’t comply.

submitted 2 days ago • 159 comments

The reactions from around the globe 🌎 have been remarkable. 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

submitted 3 days ago • 1990 comments

"It's something that can happen" US President Donald Trump responds to a question on how a journalist was added to a group chat where US officials were planning military strikes. Heaven help America

submitted 7 days ago • 86 comments

We're in a trade war with our allies. We're extorting a sovereign country for their minerals while they are being bombed every day. We're sending legal citizens to the hell prison in El Salvador. The state department is refusing to abide by lawful orders. If this isn't a crisis, what the fuck is?

submitted 8 days ago • 62 comments

These people lie so easily

submitted 8 days ago • 119 comments

UK taxes on big tech firms may be changed as part of a deal to avoid US President Donald Trump's next raft of tariffs, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has suggested www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 10 days ago • 75 comments

A good time to remind ourselves that President Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country, a hero who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator called Vladimir Putin youtu.be/HpmDquOkSCY?...

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

On the subject of people traveling to the US right about now: Fuck, if I were from another country and I didn't need to come, I sure as hell wouldn't, the current administration has made it clear traveling here isn't safe, and why not take them at their word, there's a whole world to visit

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"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." Hannah Arendt

submitted 26 days ago • 60 comments

Absolutely @deborahmeaden.bsky.social 👏

submitted 31 days ago • 43 comments

Trump keeps saying US spent 350 billion defending Ukraine Its actually 140 billion but only 80 billion has been delivered. Billions went to American jobs- we gave Ukraine our weapons and constructed newer weaponry for US arsenal Europe has given far more $ than the US

submitted 33 days ago • 79 comments

Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

submitted 37 days ago • 141 comments

Absolutely

submitted 38 days ago • 83 comments

“The occupant of the Oval Office – the leader of the free world – seems happier to side with the brutal tyrant Putin than to support America’s allies. It feels like we have fallen through the looking glass” Sir Ed Davey www.independent.co.uk/voices/ed-da...

submitted 38 days ago • 53 comments

“Was Churchill a dictator?- “The only dictator in the war is Mr. Putin, who poisons exiled Russians on foreign soil and banishes opponents to Arctic prison camps. Call us when he holds a free election.’ www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

submitted 41 days ago • 55 comments

This is true. @bsky.app is the app of the people. We may not all agree. We may not even all like each other. But we can engage and disagree and agree with our hate That makes the platform the future of social media

submitted 41 days ago • 1282 comments

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

submitted 46 days ago • 2373 comments

Trump says ousted Gazans will have no right to return. Also threatens to cut aid to Jordan & Egypt unless they host Gazas population. Also says Gazans cannot return. Gaza belongs to its people. It is a sovereign territory. His plan to turn it into the Riviera violates intnl law & every moral code

submitted 50 days ago • 152 comments

Tom Curry is the player of the Six Nations so far. Utterly unbelievable today, how anyone else got Man of the Match I've no idea.

submitted 53 days ago • 23 comments

If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts

submitted 57 days ago • 12 comments

The UK mustn’t let Donald Trump bully us or our ally Canada. We need to work with our allies in Europe and around the world to stand up to him. The Prime Minister should invite Commonwealth leaders to London to discuss a joint response to Trump’s global trade war.

submitted 58 days ago • 53 comments

Labour needs to end its “cycle of hesitation” over Europe and press ahead with an ambitious new relationship with the European Union, the party’s former leader Neil Kinnock has said www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 59 days ago • 31 comments

Rachel Reeves is all for growth; her party and the country needs it. But still we hear nothing about the most obvious solution… www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 59 days ago • 28 comments

Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart

submitted 59 days ago • 629 comments

Now is the time to defend our democracy. Its hard to resuscitate a democracy once it fails. Also i don’t believe he will leave after 4 years. Read Project 2025. My own hunch is that there will be a war with China and he will cite ‘wartime’ to legitimize another term. 🇺🇸

submitted 59 days ago • 118 comments

"We need closer ties with the EU and now they are letting us know the door is ajar. All we have to do is push it open. And yet we cannot even find the strength to do it” www.theneweuropean.co.uk/why-are-we-s...

submitted 68 days ago • 123 comments

• Get a library card • Use your library card • Support indie booksellers • Read banned books • Read diverse authors • Resist • Repeat #booksky #resist

submitted 69 days ago • 183 comments

UK will not accept EU offer to join pan-European customs union 'at present time', minister says Heaven help us www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

submitted 69 days ago • 254 comments

“This is the moment for Starmer to re-engage with the EU. On Feb 3 the PM will attend his first informal summit with other 🇪🇺 leaders in Brussels…and yet his approach is marked by a plodding cautiousness” www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

submitted 69 days ago • 45 comments

“It is alarming that the government is happy to negotiate with China but won’t even look at a better trading arrangement with our closest neighbours in Europe. This is an act of economic negligence” Ed Davey www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/econom...

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In other news the OBR report the government keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...

submitted 70 days ago • 97 comments

Imagine if the headline was, "Trump puts hundreds of violent criminals back on the streets"?

submitted 71 days ago • 195 comments

I always smile at this song from Monty Python's Life of Brian: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life!🌞 "If life seems jolly rotten There's something you've forgotten And that's to laugh & smile and dance & sing." 4 years will just fly by, right? Well, at least we have each other. 💙Love y'all!💙

submitted 80 days ago • 76 comments

Absolutely @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social

submitted 88 days ago • 14 comments

Tim Montgomerie, who has defected to Reform UK from the Tories, says he thinks Elon Musk will donate $20 million to the party All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations

submitted 104 days ago • 140 comments

“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs..” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...

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Kemi Badenoch tells viewers today that only the Conservatives can be trusted to negotiate trade deals which protect our farmers…so let’s take a look at those New Zealand and Australia deals they struck

submitted 108 days ago • 23 comments

Surely national rules about what physician associate’s can & can’t do, standard guidance on supervision & an agreed process for patients to give consent should be a given - it goes to the very heart of patient safety

submitted 112 days ago • 6 comments