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It's a masterpiece.

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Pope Francis hung on just long enough to tell JD Vance he’s a twat.

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A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.

submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

I gotta say, “women are going to space” sounds a lot nicer than “the ultra rich are taking hyper-polluting joyrides to space while the planet descends into climate chaos”

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'The dismal science'.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

submitted 22 days ago • 828 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 31 days ago • 330 comments

President Trump is lying about The Atlantic, calling it a "failing" magazine when in fact it's successful, profitable and growing

submitted 30 days ago • 92 comments

In any other administration of the past 80 years, the defense secretary and the national security advisor would, following an equivalent scandal, now resign.

submitted 31 days ago • 617 comments

“Sometimes I ask myself, is everyone else on the bombing Yemen group chat except me?”

submitted 31 days ago • 325 comments

Making economic growth the overriding purpose, to which all else must be sacrificed, not only trashes ecological and social values. It's also spectacularly bad politics. Governments can't control growth, but when it dips, this government, by its own criteria, fails. A rod for its own back.

submitted 40 days ago • 61 comments

On the upside, tiny violin stocks are booming.

submitted 46 days ago • 44 comments

Stalin blamed the kulaks for their own starvation. Anyone who blames Zelensky for Trump's decision to cut arms and intelligence has succumbed to the same logic.

submitted 48 days ago • 59 comments

ICYMI www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDV...

submitted 50 days ago • 88 comments

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

submitted 55 days ago • 459 comments

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

submitted 58 days ago • 476 comments

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

submitted 60 days ago • 539 comments

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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 61 days ago • 137 comments

“The UK didn’t have a general election for 10 years because of WW2 - that doesn’t make Winston Churchill a dictator. Zelensky has not banned opposition parties - just the ones openly pro-Russian, just like we banned the fascist party when Hitler was bombing the shit out of us on the nightly basis.”

submitted 62 days ago • 16 comments

Today's front page of The New York Post.

submitted 63 days ago • 708 comments

This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

submitted 63 days ago • 641 comments

You've got to feel sorry for Manchester City. Said nobody, ever.

submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

Ireland had the opportunity to be an egalitarian republic where the most vulnerable were always protected, and instead we got a partitioned country built for landlords and the corrupt, veiled behind a thin layer of bowls of shamrock and Aran sweaters so tourists don't notice the rot.

submitted 74 days ago • 21 comments

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

submitted 78 days ago • 410 comments