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It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.

submitted 12 hours ago • 152 comments

I do think it’s hard to sustain a narrative of “America first” when the main beneficiary of your actions is an adversarial foreign state that offers you basically nothing in return.

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

worth saying again that this was a bait and switch. if trump had openly announced he was running on allowing companies to discriminate against women and minorities he would not have won wapo.st/43aVQg1

submitted 17 hours ago • 254 comments

I know. They’re not going to stop. They’re sociopaths. It’ll keep getting worse until the nation collapses. Increasingly I see other historians, biographers, and attorneys coming to the same realization, after years of scoffing at those of us who have long called Trump a clear and present danger.

submitted 14 hours ago • 78 comments

I'm struggling to get over what we saw today. The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office. That's traumatizing.

submitted 14 hours ago • 633 comments

So, America. How many of you who voted for Trump are happy to be on Putin’s side?

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Republicans should just rename themselves RePutinCans at this point. GOP stands for Good ol’ Putin, doesn’t it?

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Withdraw the state visit invitation to Trump. Offer one to Zelensky instead. With bells and fucking whistles.

submitted 20 hours ago • 110 comments

Zelenskyy is by far the better man. Trump and Vance, by comparison, are petulant, craven juveniles.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

You have to hand it to Putin, Russia’s foreign policy has been very successful. Sowing division in Europe, and getting an invitation to a UK state visit for one of his agents.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

It's so good: eloquent, tightly argued, gracious and ultimately quite damning.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Continuing a long pattern of saying precisely what Vladamir Putin wants him to say. (The statement of course is totally false as a historical matter.)

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Having seen the recent Trump clips (I’m thinking of his weird Gaza one (which, if nothing else, is a salutary warning of some of the potential problems of AI) and the ones featuring the giggling jester Lutnick and RFK looking as though he was regretting selling his soul (assuming he still had one/1

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Former leader of Reform Party in Wales in court, accused of taking Russian bribes as MEP www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 7 days ago • 489 comments

Striking that everyone I know who actually likes President, er, “Krasnov” have stopped posting about their love/acclamation/support of him.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

At this point, I think it’d be best for everyone concerned (i.e. the world) if, in the name of governmental efficiency,that DOGE should now to sack the President and, next, itself and its leader.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 10 days ago • 1149 comments

We’re going to have to face it: our chief ally has gone across to the other side.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

submitted 9 days ago • 3381 comments

If you’d asked AI to write a piece of Russian propaganda in the style of Donald Trump, this is what you’d get. Well done America, you’ve elected a Russian asset as your President.

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

Feels a bit like Jan 6, except this time without the naïve belief that everyone would abandon Trump once his depravity became undeniable.

submitted 9 days ago • 68 comments

I hear Nigel Farage is declining interview requests. First time for everything, I suppose. I suspect he’ll eventually speak to whoever is least likely to challenge him properly.

submitted 9 days ago • 340 comments

Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead. Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth.

submitted 10 days ago • 90 comments

Did you hear about these 20 government actions? No? That’s the problem. The media aren’t telling you what’s happening. @stephenmcnair.bsky.social reports

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 13 days ago • 2046 comments

How wonderful to be in a special relationship when your significant other is on the other side.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Quite clearly, the Labour WhatsApp group was horrendous and the people involved should have known, and behaved., better. But I do wish the people commenting, and criticising, had better memories. Labour has acted, suspending and sacking as required. I can remember Tories not even suspending MPs/1

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Keir Starmer says Kemi Badenoch in eight years as an MP never mentioned grooming gangs in the House of Commons - not once - even when she was children’s minister Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs

submitted 52 days ago • 27 comments

Stewart Lee, Ladies and Gentlemen: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Just had a wild experience I'd like to share. I tool the bike out for a while around the back roads of the Franklin district in Auckland to get some throttle therapy and fresh air. I was going at a decent, but legal pace, when I came upon a car stopped pretty much in the middle of the road 1/

submitted 70 days ago • 20 comments

"Like many other parts of the world, the UK is in the firm grip of an epidemic of disinformation and misinformation"

submitted 70 days ago • 36 comments

“We only have one more chance left to save the West and we can do great things together.” Ugh. These dickhead-egomaniacs are out of control. They shouldn’t be able to threaten our democracy like this. Not everything is for sale, you loathsome bastards. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 73 days ago • 38 comments

Last week, the government undertook some of the most wide-reaching policy initiatives we've seen in years. And hardly anyone seems to know a damn thing about it. inews.co.uk/opinion/fina...

submitted 74 days ago • 76 comments