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Welcome to the resistance, checks notes Marine fucking Le Pen

submitted 3 hours ago • 79 comments

This is what I worried about: The Trump administration would just create an enemies lists of universities on the pretext of battling anti-semitism, and threaten them with financial collapse. As universities fall in line, the administration removes any dissent from higher education.

submitted 5 hours ago • 20 comments

The Apprentice: my SKETCH of Today in JD Vance, Four-dimensional Diplomatic Genius. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Yes, exactly. As I recall the first thing they posted to the Department of Education website on taking office was a love letter to homeschooling.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 2 days ago • 3326 comments

Good God, this is so embarrassing. If you weren’t worried enough about flying,apparently, Elon Musk is in charge of air traffic controllers now, but he doesn’t even know the mandatory retirement age is 56.

submitted 4 days ago • 238 comments

Extra trains made available by LNER for the Cup Final Weekend. Sunday - 2 early morning direct non-stop services between Newcastle Central Station & King Cross via Durham & 2 further return journeys late at night; it means there are 1,215 seats available in either direction on cup final day

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

someone should really do a version of the Spectator or the New Statesmen for a broadly centre left audience

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

I hope that Cummings continued descent into hate ['mass importation of savages'] has made it impossible for him to be appointed to any position of influence again. The guy is one of the nastiest shits in public life.

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 11 days ago • 76 comments

A former Soviet spy says that Trump was indeed recruited to the KGB 38 years ago by his department. He was given a codename, 'Krasnov'. We checked, and the source was indeed a KBG intelligence officer at the time. Read about it in my @bylinetimes.bsky.social report: bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

submitted 11 days ago • 532 comments

Leopards/face latest:

submitted 12 days ago • 106 comments

Ukraine has $26 TRILLION of mineral wealth. As the map shows, it's concentrated in the East & most of it is now under Russian control. This is why Trump wants a peace deal: instead of losing money by 'sending' aid, he wants American companies to extract wealth and enjoy Russia's spoils of war.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Musk seems to think he uncovered massive fraud. In fact this is a well-known issue having to do with COBOL programing and the cost of inputting death data for people who died decades ago before records were digitized. oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploa...

submitted 15 days ago • 73 comments

Spat on, attacked, humiliated, betrayed by government & terrified of the future: inside the brutalised lives of our disabled community My @heraldscotland.bsky.social Big Read comes with a content warning as it’s deeply distressing This demands your attention www.heraldscotland.com/news/2493865...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

My Dad was born in India & my Grandad grew up in HK & somehow those facts mean that I don't "count" to Murray & nor does my son as British? Murray can fuck off.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Mags were poor today but it’s worth bearing in mind that City, with 130 charges against them, spent £150M in January and we’ve been unable to spend fuck all for the last 3 windows. It’s a racket #NUFC

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Still internalising the Vance Munich speech. A sitting Vice President goes to Europe, barely says a word about the despotic murderous regime which has invaded its neighbour, and instead lectures his allies about freedom of speech. It’d be funny if it weren’t so serious.

submitted 17 days ago • 259 comments

I know everything feels grim right now but let's be realistic. These people are idiots. They're going to tank their economy. They're going to fuck-up every deal they sign. They're going to leave America looking shattered and deranged. And all those who supported them will look as idiotic as they are

submitted 17 days ago • 1286 comments

BBC obsesses on Rachel Reeves but not Reforms James McMurdock whose CV doesn’t add up👇🏼 He says he worked at at Lehmans (it had gone bust when he claimed to be there) He claims he dealt with Corporate Loans -they require FCA Reg but I couldn’t find him.. His bizs went bust @adambienkov.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 41 comments

NEW: Exclusive from Helena Horton (with a bit from me): after Reform UK pledged to target renewables and solar, it turns out that Reform MP Rupert Lowe.... has solar power on his farm and his company installs batteries for renewables projects. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...