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submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

House Republicans who were willing to hold town halls back home this week got an earful. At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, many of them faced hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts & mass firings of federal workers that Trump and Musk’s DOGE is carrying out.

submitted 21 hours ago • 217 comments

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

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I just cannot imagine this kind of thing ending well for the popularity of the Trump administration or of a certain head of DOGE

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THIS is what we’re/you are facing. Some of us have known our lives depend on it and this is not hyperbole. You better act like this is war and you’re going to die of you don’t attack back, because that’s exactly what it is. Don’t believe me, do nothing and find tragedy.

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This is horrific, and indicative of gross mismanagement by the executive board against the backdrop of years of neglect of #HigherEducation institutions by successive UK governments. Hardworking staff and students will pay the price.

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Breaking my heart! I spent years of my life not only studying at Cardiff but also supporting academic staff to make the most of their research in the face of an increasingly ambivalent senior management. Feel like it was all for nought... but I genuinely cared and I genuinely tried. Now this...

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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

submitted 2 days ago • 690 comments

the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

Byline Times is facing major DDOS (malicious traffic-flooding) issues on our site apparently after this article went live... bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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A former Soviet intelligence officer has claimed Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename "Krasnov" Who would have guessed www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 1 day ago • 479 comments

Don’t fly any American Airlines.

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#SpotTheScammer @charliehunnam147.bsky.social - impersonating actor Charlie Hunnam. www.instagram.com/charliematth...

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Turns out the Dow doesn’t love it

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

#SpotTheScammer @steveharley.bsky.social - exclusively following women, posting "motivational" quotes and referencing god, this one is using stolen pics of author Richard Godfray Hoare, whose images are in prolific use by scammers. www.instagram.com/richardgodfr...

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

I’ll be speaking at this rally tomorrow. ✊🇺🇦 If you’re anywhere near London - come along! Let’s make some real noise!!

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Rep. Jason Crow: “The purge of senior officers at DOD is deeply troubling, but purging JAG officers worries me the most. “JAG officers interpret law for our commanders. They help determine what's lawful and constitutional. “Replacing these military lawyers with Trump loyalists is so dangerous.”

submitted 1 day ago • 214 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 23 hours ago • 836 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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The US are vacating the world stage not for Russia, but for China. This today on Germany's main news program: "China is counting on a strong performance by the [far-right] AfD in the election. This would weaken the next German govt & Europe - & thus play into Beijing's hands."

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

The only acceptable alternative to #GulfOfMexico #TrumpIsATraitor

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

The news on the Youth Mobility Scheme is fantastic to see. It now feels like we could get some real momentum underway in the lead-up to the May summit.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Hard to describe what it's like being in Kyiv, surrounded by brilliant, unshakeable, brave Ukranians, and reading Trump's comments. The free world deserves a better leader, the hill deserves a better city upon it, and these people deserve better friends.

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I've had a lot of requests for it, so I will post it first tonight! Thanks, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social, for talking with us today about confronting MAGA, getting arrested in California, @protecthb.bsky.social, and fighting the good fight! #Spotlight Interview! soundcloud.com/user-5879035...

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

Fun fact: while Phony Stark and the DOGEbags are taking money from our veterans, the world’s poorest people and kids with cancer, Assistant President Poopy Pants has already spent nearly $11 million of our money… playing golf.

submitted 2 days ago • 482 comments

You have to give credit where it's due. Sunak got it when he rolled back several individual Brexit stupidities. So we rejoined Horizon etc. If the reports are true (The Times), it offers opportunities for other agreements, like Musicians Visas. www.bestforbritain.org/_government_...

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Where did Trump get the 4% number from? That’s what Putin told him in their recent phone call. The American president takes lies about our allies directly from Putin and asserts they are true to the American people without telling them he got those lies from Putin.

submitted 2 days ago • 277 comments

Massive protests in the US as the country faces an ongoing coup d’état by the Trump regime and his oligarch cabal headed by Musk. Countless people are standing up to fascism proving the US will not go quietly. #3E #USprotests #fiftyfiftyone #Feb17 (🎥 @vuralelibol.bsky.social )

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🎉 Wales has banned greyhound racing. 🪦 Greyhounds often die at the trackside from their injuries. ⏰️ Westminster now needs to call time on this cruel "sport."

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It is time to end the special relationship with Trump. We stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

"We had a rare earth deal, but they broke it two days ago.”

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The data could not be more clear: our public services will collapse without immigration. People desperately need to come here & we desperately need people, too. Me, for @metrouk.bsky.social metro.co.uk/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments