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For the first time in history, a person's name will be attached to a global financial crisis. It is the Trump Trade War and it will be the Trump Recession. Never let anyone call it anything else.

Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against.

a new dictatorship - the old playbook

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

The president made more than 20 false claims during his various Inauguration Day remarks. Fact check: www.cnn.com/politics/fac...

The French Human Rights League is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of X on January 20 www.euronews.com/next/2025/01...

France has warned Donald Trump against threatening the “sovereign borders” of the European Union after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action to take control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of EU member Denmark www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Musk’s latest intervention is objectively hilarious but the problem of a hideous human using his enormous wealth & power to promote lies & liars in the U.K., despite having no links to or other interest in the country, remains acute.

Former sub-postmasters wrongly accused in the Post Office scandal have said they will fight on after being made OBEs in the New Year Honours list. Lee Castleton, Seema Misra, Chris Head and Jo Hamilton were honoured for services to justice👏

Grifter of the people.

Brussels is pressing ahead with its bid for a deal on free movement for young people between the European Union and the UK – despite Keir Starmer’s repeated rejections of an agreement www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Wow. This is incredible. New Zealand's parliament is brought to halt by MPs performing a haka. Opposition party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke begins the ceremonial group dance after asked whether her party supported controversial bill seeking to reinterpret country's founding treaty with Māori people

@mrjamesob.bsky.social | @lbc.co.uk

A happy, wet Tree Lungwort (lobaria pulmonaria), a leafy lichen composed of symbionts from three kingdoms: fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobaria...