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Scenes from the American egg-pocalypse

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Lord Keynes told us in 1941 how to pay for defence We should follow his advice. youtu.be/D8vt7hXlqZM?... If we need to pay more for defence the last people who should pay for it are those most dependent on the state. It’s the richest who should be covering the cost.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

Politicians bang on about the ‘special relationship’ but the British public hasn’t believed in it for some time.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Useful summary

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

FFS.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

The Kiel Ukraine support tracker is exceptionally useful. www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-a...

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

I don’t know, I kind of think people might have employment contracts and there might be laws or something

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump, "And to make America Healthy Again RFK junior.. Great guy.. We need him" "There's a number on Autism.. You go back 15 years.. It was form 1 in 10-20,000.. Now it's 1 in 36 babies have autism" "There's something wrong.. And Bobby is going to find it.. Working with Dr Oz"

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

Truly frightening to see civil-military relations experts be so distraught today. I hadn't understood that no POTUS has ever replaced the top brass 1 month into office plus fired the JAGs. We’re in autogolpe territory, more so if Trump changes the head of Northern Command.

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

The technical geniuses at DOGE strike again

submitted 1 hour ago • 21 comments

DoJ investigation into cases against Trump marked by vested interests From Pam Bondi to Ed Martin, the tangle of possible conflicts of the investigators is acute www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

submitted 2 hours ago • 41 comments

Do you make less than $360,000 a year? Your taxes are about to go UP. And you have Trump, Musk, and the Republicans to thank for it.

submitted 2 hours ago • 66 comments

Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to describe what they did last week — as Elon Musk warned on social media that, if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation.

submitted 2 hours ago • 176 comments

American patriots know how to discern good and evil.

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

Britain can provide Ukraine a nuclear umbrella and Putin will immediately withdraw from Ukraine.

submitted 1 hour ago • 10 comments

One day, you voted for the last time, and you didn't even know it.

submitted 1 hour ago • 90 comments

Musk just amplified a leader of Germany’s far-right AfD, who called the country’s Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame,” demanded a “180-degree turn” in how Germany remembers Nazi crimes & was convicted for using a Nazi slogan Let’s hope the people of 🇩🇪will choose wisely in tomorrow’s election

submitted 1 hour ago • 88 comments

Last week Trump "eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law" (i) the Presidio Trust; (ii) the Inter-American Foundation; (iii) the United States African Development Foundation; and (iv) the United States Institute of Peace. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Mad king watch - calls for a ban on opposition media, then gets distracted www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 1 hour ago • 7 comments

Russia: Propaganda inadvertently exposed scale of casualties. 252 soldiers from Stary Oskol killed in Ukraine, compared to 11 killed in Afghanistan. Total Russian KIA in Afghanistan: 15,000 Equates to around 350,000 Russian soldiers killed in the invasion of Ukraine so far.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Claiming "everybody gets a transgender operation" and blaming it for US decline is exactly the type of thing Putin has been saying about the US for years.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

GOP embraces Nazism. Heartbreaking.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

#StandWithUkraine

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This seems incredibly legal and could in no way backfire in unpredictable and damaging ways.

submitted 2 hours ago • 35 comments

I was reading last night that Trump has a background in the wrestling industry and acquired many of his social skills there.

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Dear UK employers, I would not be trying to argue that failure to respond to an email amounted to a deemed resignation.

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

BMW delays £600m electric Mini factory upgrade over 'uncertainty'

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

🚨 New polling with @observeruk.bsky.social Keir Starmer’s net approval has not changed since our last voting intention poll, remaining strongly disapproved of (-33%).

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

This guy is out of control. Imagine how he’d behave if there was an actual crisis or civil unrest.

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

Stand down guys, they got this.

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

“I beat George Washington. I love beating George Washington.” Trump tells the CPAC crowd that he agrees with Bill O’Reilly’s claim that he’s the “greatest president ever.” 🤡

submitted 3 hours ago • 151 comments

Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader granted clemency by Donald Trump last month, was arrested outside the US Capitol on Friday and charged with assaulting a female protester. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 hours ago • 28 comments

Trump’s allies keep telling us who they are

submitted 4 hours ago • 93 comments

This guy is gonna get pelted with so many Dunkin' iced coffees.

submitted 4 hours ago • 60 comments

"Trump seems angry that he can’t bully Zelensky and he’s trying to put the blame on him for the failure to get a quick ‘deal’ on peace". Glad to be quoted in this article, in excellent company. That any of us should be having to talk about this is grotesque. kyivindependent.com/how-trump-co...

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking some of its recently fired scientists if they will come back to their jobs, including some employees reviewing Elon Musk's brain implant company, Neuralink. www.aol.com/exclusive-us...

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments