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This hits hard.

This is real. And I have never seen the competence, morals, standards and communication strategy of any government collapse so fast.

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

🚨BREAKING CROSSPOST AFTER DDOS ATTACK Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...

Please everyone repost and share on as many channels as you can. Forward to as many people as you know.

If you want to get rid of all "DEI hires," you'd fire everybody, then rehire blind, based upon qualifications only. But if you're a racist POS, you fire all the Black people and call them "DEI hires," while appointing less qualified white people. Not that hard to understand. #DEI #racist

Zelensky is the first leader, and Ukraine the first nation, to face such an impossible position since Czechoslovakia in 1938 bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/t...

Think solar farms are bad for nature? Think again. Those designed for nature in East Anglia are teeming with birdlife - including threatened species. A new study reveals why. ⤵️

Nobody in their right mind is going to negotiate with Trump. UK and Europe have to realise that it’s us against Putin, Trump and Xi and this is serious!

And this is the guy we're expected to believe the UK can somehow be a "bridge" to

Some of the most shameful comments uttered by a president in my lifetime. Trump is siding with the aggressor, blaming the victim. In the Kremlin they must be jumping for joy. I’d like to hope Republicans, who used to believe in resisting tyranny, would disavow the things Trump is saying & doing.

Found it! A list of companies backing Project 2025. Boycott them all.

Trump/Putin is even worse than I feared and I never saw the catastrophe that is Musk coming. Europe needs to respond and fast it faces another Blitzkrieg.

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

Tell your colleagues, Sadiq.

I'm neither a citizen of the UK nor the EU, but I've lived and been educated in both. Though I'm an expat American who's called Asia home for many years, I wholeheartedly support Dr. Galsworthy, chair of @europeanmovement.co.uk, in the bid for a stronger, more united Europe. Time is of the essence

Russia won't accept Nato troops in Ukraine, Lavrov says after talks with US. That should be the end of the conversation

Sometimes Ed Davey says what has to be said, @bonabri.bsky.social

Hard to articulate analytically how bad the current trajectory seems to be for Ukraine - and Europe - based on the outcome and readout from today's US/Russia talks in Saudi

"This was not peace talks nor a negotiation, but a business meeting," risk analyst @samdebendern.bsky.social says. "A business meeting between the representatives of two bosses, who want to decide how best to share the spoils of war. That is really what we're seeing here." ~AA

Prisons crisis: Posturing 'tough on crime' politicians to blame for justice system collapse www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/pris...

DOGE has taken going off at half cock to levels never seen before. They are trying to do in days with random decisions things that would take months to plan and execute if sane competent people were involved

The Trump plan for Ukraine is like the Trump plan for Gaza, Greenland or Panama: ownership, exploitation and extraction. America is no longer our ally, it is turning into an exploitative imperial power. archive.is/P30En

Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.

This is like if the mob got to fire every federal agent investigating organized crime bsky.app/profile/make...

Monbiot nails it: "this is direct appeasement ... these people who go on and on about sovereignty, say they are the defenders of sovereignty, when it actually comes to the crunch they will sell anyone down the river."

This is the thing. No one is even acting like Trump is the president anymore, except for when he threatens Canada or invents new tariffs. Everyone knows Musk rules Washington right now and it happened incredibly fast

Imagine what Trump and Musk are doing that we DON’T know about. Of course we are in a full blown Constitutional crisis. If Republicans had an ounce of courage, they would’ve impeached and removed him already. We must never stop fighting. Onward.

“DOGErs” - 21st century cyberborgs. Their presence strikes fear into the hearts and minds of federal workers- today’s stormtroopers, rooting out imagined enemies, encouraging colleagues to rat on each other, threatening job cuts, public shaming and intimidation via Musk’s trolls on X.

A Telegraph journalist does not accept that judges make decisions according to the law, rather than the imbecilic whims of uninformed newspaper proprietors.

Just let this sink in In 2016 Vote Leave marginally won The UK gov knew of Russian interference to deliver Brexit And despite that, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, and now Starmer have chosen to do what Putin wants- weaken Europe- instead of protect our democracy from Putin Shameful

Starmer: “Putin is the aggressor. Putin’s in breach of the UN Charter, in my view. And this conflict could be ended tomorrow if Putin withdrew his troops. And so for me, that would be the simplest and the quickest way to end this conflict” www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/starme...

The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching *defenses* against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years

To be fair to our governments, expecting them to react just based on Putin's 2007 Munich speech was a tall order. BUT it was normal to expect them to react to the Russia-Georgia War of 2008. So, in my view the fair judgment would be to say that Western Europe squandered 17 years of clear warnings.

Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Trump’s side kicks have no self awareness at all they are happy it’s their audience cringing with embarrassment

As the judgment says, the basis for granting this Gazan family the right to live in the UK was Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, not the Ukraine visa scheme. They just used the application form for the Ukraine scheme to lodge the Article 8 application - a procedural quirk.

I’m getting very fed up living in a world where almost nothing works properly because people keep screwing things up for personal gain and get away with it constantly.

Excellent column this. If you look at the 'tax gap' relative to the UK's peers, pretty much all the extra tax that we don't pay relative to comparable OECD members is levied locally.

Starmer is well aware of what needs to be done. Here is what he said when voting for Johnson's UK-EU deal. Services "a gaping hole", "lack of ambition", "Imperfect", "thin", "a basis to build on". Share, to show the PM that you back him going further and faster to improve our deal with the EU. ~AA

So we’re alongside the US pirates on AI and Belarus on electoral systems. How are the mighty fallen :-(

If the White House decides it can defy the will of the courts, then the people must defy the will of the White House.

Exclusive - Labour urged to defend workers’ rights bill as poll shows huge public support Poll reveals 72% of UK voters favour ban on zero-hours contracts, including majority of Tory and Reform supporters Labour MPs tell the Guardian govt must face down critics and deliver bill in full.

“In power, Labour’s agenda has been stripped back to an empty obsession with growth & an imitation of Reform UK. The public isn’t falling for it”. Spot on @johnharris1969.bsky.social People deserve better than a government with no conviction, no hope & no vision