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"Trump is an improviser. We're all in the dark." 100 miles from Moscow I talk to Russians about America's president and Russia's war in Ukraine.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1142 comments

Brilliant front page

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

British Antarctic Survey From the new Private Eye, out now.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

submitted 1 day ago • 2112 comments

America: how it’s changed. The 46th President of the United States called Vladimir Putin “a murderous dictator.” The 47th President called Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator without elections.”

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Be not afraid The UK’s GDP is 50% bigger than Russia’s and GDP per capita three times as great (as with most EU countries). The economic power of the EU alone (without the UK) is EIGHT times larger than Russia. The EU is a superpower. Russia is not. And should not be treated like one

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 3 days ago • 4564 comments

The week that shook the world. A few thoughts on Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and reaction in Russia to what's been happening.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Ukraine peace plan latest The new Private Eye is out now

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.

submitted 3 days ago • 922 comments

Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."

submitted 4 days ago • 1093 comments

Oh, I remember that, too. How dare Secretary Pete bring his husband along! The GOP and its mouthpiece are hypocritical bigots.

submitted 4 days ago • 213 comments

Don’t miss the latest from the Prime Minister’s group chat... IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK! New issue in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

We know where the US stands. It is now de-facto pro-Putin. We know where Britain stands. It will contribute troops to prevent Russian aggression. We need to know where Europe stands.

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

The calving glacier video is a stark wake-up call about climate change. For 75 minutes, Balog and his crew observed a massive ice section, the size of lower Manhattan, dissolve, with towering ice structures collapsing like they were made of paper. www.upworthy.com/largest-proo...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Seeing quite a few posts that start… Europe should.. Canada ought to… Mexico could…. Greenland can… Panama need to… Radical thought I know but instead of the rest of the planet having to pick up the pieces how about the US just stops appointing anal warts to your highest offices?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

JD Vance’s Munich Security Conference speech has gone down well…in Moscow. Komsomolskaya Pravda headline: “Humiliated Europe out for the count. Its American master flogged its old vassals.”

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

👇🏻👇🏻

submitted 7 days ago • 778 comments

The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

submitted 9 days ago • 504 comments

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

submitted 10 days ago • 702 comments

Biden on Putin: “He’s a murderous dictator.” Trump on Putin: “We agreed to work together, very closely, including visiting each other’s nations.” A few thoughts, after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone.

submitted 10 days ago • 48 comments

This says it all

submitted 10 days ago • 1641 comments

It’s the same picture

submitted 10 days ago • 282 comments

Did I just watch unelected bureaucrat Elon Musk stand in the Oval Office and tell the world how terrible unelected bureaucrats are?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Pro-Palestine voters for Trump:

submitted 11 days ago • 107 comments

The president of the USA needs to be careful. He is getting dangerously close to essentially declaring war on several Middle East countries and militias. When you combine that with Panama, Canada and therefore the Commonwealth and EU we aren’t a million miles from the US becoming a pariah state…..

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Best post of the season.

submitted 12 days ago • 194 comments

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The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. https://buff.ly/42NeEl6

submitted 13 days ago • 48 comments

Documenting the life of his community in Panama, the Guna - one person’s evocative story:

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

AND THIS!!!! A new era starts in the Baltic countries today. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are finally switching off their connection to the russian electricity grid.... Way to go!!!! #russiaISaterroriststate

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

This week Vladimir Putin signed a decree reviving the Intervision Song Contest, once the eastern bloc rival to Eurovision. In 2012 an ex-director of Intervision told me the show could be long. Very long. "One Czechoslovakian girl sang on stage 45 minutes. In the end she got tired and walked off."

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Having to fight Elon Musk at DOGE before we’ve even battled Trump feels like having to defeat the forces of Saruman first at Helm’s Deep.

submitted 15 days ago • 546 comments

In today’s Russian papers: “everything [in Russia] keeps jumping in price”. Plus, claims of censorship in a Siberian theatre.#ReadingRussia

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

Seen lots of posts that today is protest day in the USA The world is going to find out if you really value your country and constitution You aren’t going to post, meme or GIF your way outta this one. You going to actually have to get off your collective backsides and do something

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Oh Canada! 🇨🇦

submitted 19 days ago • 464 comments

So now we have it. Rachel Reeves's claim that a third runway at Heathrow Airport would boost economic growth comes from a report commissioned by .... Heathrow Airport. Instead of acting in the national interest, she's channelling corporate lobbyists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 19 days ago • 102 comments

The universe speaks in mysterious ways.

submitted 20 days ago • 1507 comments