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Left of Centre. Artist. Retired Lecturer. Goldsmiths College. Lancastrian living in Cornwall. Self identifying as European. No Tories. No dms. I SAID NO DMs!!🇪🇺💙
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Whatever happened to Tory Laura?

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

When you just can't help doing that thing you claim you definitely aren't doing

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

Dear @cnn.com, The judge did not “vacate” the trial. He adjourned it. Then he appointed an amicus curiae to argue against dismissing the charges. Who writes your headlines?

Today seems like the right day for some aggressively pro-European propaganda.

US propagandist paid by Kremlin targets German election with network of fake news sites - FRANCE 24 English

The reason we have Brexit trade barriers is mostly because the EU single market can demand high standards which ensures healthy and safe food for all. Now we are out, we have substandard and illegal foods flooding in poisoning our nation and destroying our food security.

Dark Pence is back.

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

23 year old DOGE worker Luke Farritor used Ai to decipher some phrases in a Dead Sea scroll and fired 300 people who maintain the security of our nuclear weapons because he didn’t understand what they did.

Trump doesn’t give a shit about peace just plundering the natural resources of bombed, raped and pillaged lands. He’s a common thief stealing from corpses in the wreckage whilst siding with the perpetrator and there’s not enough words in the English language to describe how much I hate the bastard.

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

Figures just out reveal wages have grown by 5.9%, 3.4% in real terms. Along with falling interest rates, presumably the mainstream media won't want to report such positive news for Labour. Platform Reform UK and Nigel Farage instead.

Trump discusses how to "Make America Great Again" with his close friend Jeffrey Epstein...

Still can't understand why any country would choose a man like this to lead them...

Jeez. Trump actually just said it. He actually just said that Ukraine shouldn't have started this war! He’s actually siding with a crazed, murderous dictator

The new axis of evil

Despite feeling crushingly bleak within myself, I did just notice that it’s 5pm and not dark. Well done to everyone else that made it through the horrifically oppressive darkness of the past four months. The light is gradually returning. This will hopefully all feel a bit easier with sun.

That's better...

Trump is an enemy of us all. Europe needs to unite - and the UK needs to rejoin the EU. If you want to see that happen… join European Movement UK right now. We’re driving this. ✊

That's better...

That’s more like it.

We need to accept that we must all pay our way to build up our armed forces. How useful would it be to now to have that 4% GDP per annum that we have lost because of Brexit? ÂŁ60bn wasted on HS2 and millions thrown away due to the disastrous Rwanda scheme? We deserve better!

“Trump has left a void that the EU and Britain must fill together. America is in retreat from its underappreciated good works around the world. Europe needs to act – and Brexit only hinders this essential response” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Prime Minister Chamberlain gave bits of Czechoslovakia to Hitler in 1938. The Czech government was not in the room. Hitler went and took the rest of it anyway. Peace in our time? You can never make a deal with murderous dictators.

Going by Trump's logic shouldn't he be calling for the people of Ukraine to be "cleared out" and for the Russians to develop the land as the Black Sea Riviera?

Dear Farmers Having allowed Nigel Farage the person that has hurt British farming more than anyone speak at your rally, is not a good look. It completely destroys your credibility and argument. It is publicly politicises your campaign.

Going by Trump's logic shouldn't he be calling for the people of Ukraine to be "cleared out" and for the Russians to develop the land as the Black Sea Riviera?

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

The new Time Magazine cover is probably gonna make someone very upset.

Seen on another site. The hypocrisy levels are infinite with her.

Deleted my Twitter app. I'm not posting to a state media platform, which is now being used exclusively and openly to threaten prosecutions and investigations of people who dare criticize the government.

This is insane. Musk, the world's richest man, owner of the most influential political messaging platform, and a de facto government member and top ally to the president, is accusing a journalist of being a criminal, because she reported on one of his racist DOGE staffers. This is fascist behavior.

This. A thousand times this.

Donald T Rump has an idea of how to develop Gaza...

How is it that one person can make the world so nasty, so quickly?