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Trump says he's "liberating" California by invading it. Isn't that what Putin said about Ukraine?

Another lesson from history - what a real leader does vs a wannabe dictator

My latest, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Apparently (R4 now) Israel can hit targets in Iran with surgical precision… begs the question - why is it necessary to destroy an entire residential block to kill one alleged terrorist, killing dozen of innocents in Gaza… ?

Remember, everything Netanyahu does is to keep himself out of prison. For the sake of one crook's liberty, tens of thousands of people have been murdered, and now a possible full-scale war has been provoked. Israel must rise up and unseat him.

Russia & Israel are the greatest threats to world peace and stability right now. The US might not be far behind.

Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

Factual accounts from the US shining a light on the disturbing progress of Project 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

We’ve all met the pathetic drunk ranting in the corner of the bar. Today, he got on the telly.

Systematic Fraud. "Connivance and collusion" between ticketing companies & touts, who buy up tickets for live events in bulk, sell them at inflated prices. Ticket touts had inside help from ticketing platforms. What kind of society have we created where fraud and rip-off practices are normalized.

MPs and peers urge govt to investigate how a US private equity company is funding £500m takeover of the Telegraph. Concerns about "Chinese state influence”. Why not the same concerns about the ownership of water, steel, auto, airports, banks, real estate?

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

There are now 1,800 anti-Trump rallies planned across the US on June 14 when he’ll be wasting $45 million on his Soviet-style military masturbation.

Mone doesn't just need to pay it all back, she needs to spend some time in prison reconsidering her life choices. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Far right logic

An apology. Yesterday, I suggested on this site that sooner or later, Reform's new chairman, David Bull, would make an absolute turnip of himself. I was wrong. There was no "later" to it.

The crazy Bull of David's world

Well, this one has certainly 'done the numbers'. -16k Likes etc. I thought the allusion to the 'Troubles' and indeed Bloody Sunday was too subtle, but it seems not. Troops are not civil police and have little training in public order. Deploying troops against civilians is never a good thing.

Trump appears to be engineering a situation in which he could invoke the Insurrection Act. Democracy (feeble and partial as it is) offends his every instinct, and he will do whatever he can to snuff it out.

The only people this benefits are Putin and Xi

US aggression versus EU membership: The UK must choose stability over Trump’s chaos 👏👏👏

Reform UK has uncovered the scandal of a “wasteful” £350m contract. Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal. Here’s how they got it completely wrong. 👇👇

In just 130 days, Elon... -Secured even more contracts -Derailed at least 40 fed investigations of his corporations -Gutted agencies that regulate his business -Installed loyalists throughout the government Elon has fallen out with Trump, but he got exactly what he wanted.

Zing!

Post the Epstein tweet, Trump has stopped poking the bear. There’ll be a reason for that and it won’t be diplomatic restraint. What else does Elon know?

While Reform has a mini meltdown and Musk/Trump tear chunks out of each other, maybe media could start scrutinising these grifting tossers who do nothing but harm and call it patriotism. They don’t even know how to behave, let alone decide policy. Time to start binning off these foghorns of failure.

Notes on the Musk v Trump spat & a timely reminder about D Day open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

While Labour is getting on with the job (investing £15bn in transport, extending free school meals, improving pension funds, strengthening our defences - all just this week), what are the Tories doing? Exploring ways to take away our rights and protections! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good letter in The Times from @enversol.bsky.social A refreshing antidote to the bile and ignorance of doomed and dangerous Tory/Reform anti-immigrant ideology. A reminder of the importance of cooperation and humanity.

Elon Musk's immigration status passed to an ICE team in 10... 9... 8... 7...

Fabulous analogy 👏🏻

No surprise Sheanderthal didn't know what was in the Bill. She can't read.

Trump and Musk were never friends. Trump needed Musk to fix his election; Musk needed Trump to make the federal investigations go away. Both faced jail if not. Now Musk wants to save the Tossla stock price. Everything else is leveraged on those shares. Shit gonna happen.

We’ve gone from 25% steel tariffs, to 0%, up to 50%, and now back to 25%. We’ve all seen this routine before. Trump causes chaos, Nigel nods along, and British workers pay the price. It’s time the government got serious about trade with our European and Commonwealth allies.

The Three Huge Lies Trump is Telling Republican Senators about his Medicaid Cuts — to finance a big tax cut mostly for the wealthy https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-three-huge-lies-trump-is-telling

Trump's attack on our minds reduces our capacity for self-government because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-attack-on-the-american-mind-1b0

The lessons from history when ideology triumphs over science. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

This is pretty amazing. A new study with robust clinical trial data shows regular exercise can improve survival rates for colorectal cancer patients. Colorectal cancer will become the leading cause of cancer death among adults ages 20 to 49 by 2030.

Oh the (lack of) joy of living in a 51-49% world, constantly balancing precariously between liberalism and illiberalism. One day, hopefully, there will be a decisive shift back towards liberalism. Perhaps.

Failed pandemic-era PPE contracts cost the British taxpayer £1.4billion. The Covid counter-fraud commissioner uncovered the figure in the first phase of his probe into wasteful Tory spending during the pandemic www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

“Controls were due to come into force on 1 July… amid warnings checks could add to inflation, damage food supply and put companies out of business because Britain imports nearly 80% of its fruit and vegetables from the EU” And the Tories, who had *no plan* for this, wail about ‘betrayal’. (The i)

This is happening RIGHT NOW... Ukraine launching massive drone attack. I will be talking with Caolan (in Ukraine) on my TikTok LIVE in 10 mins about this. Join us there. Come find me on TikTok.

Christ… red lines are so expensive. (Private Eye)

🧵1/ Farage: The Russia Links. With a pint in one hand and Putin’s dick in the other, Farage has built a legacy on Russian propaganda and a trail of bullshit faker than his tan. He might be popular, but Ted Bundy was a hit with the ladies and look at how that ended. Strap in 👇🏼

A voice from 1950s with striking relevance today 👇🏻

Our politics has become deeply unserious. Flags and gimmicks and stupid video clips and social media clickbait and lies. With very little serious challenge to counter the nonsense and the dishonesty. The consequences for our country and our democracy are dire. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/robert-jen...