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Welsh. She/her. Retired criminology lecturer/researcher. Bookworm. Here mainly to indulge a lifelong fascination with US politics.
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Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

As would be the mind of anyone who’s been overindulging in the old intoxicants 🙄🤯

“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.

Heartened to see the pushback Congressional Republicans are getting from their constituents at town halls - and hoping that this translates into some form of pressure by them on Trump et al to rethink and/or rescind some of the insane measures introduced over the past month.

It’s a cult.

Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)

Despicable. The harms done to so many, both in the US and elsewhere, are incalculable and unforgivable.

Never thought we'd see someone wrest away from J. Edgar Hoover the title of Biggest Asshole to Ever Lead the FBI, but looks like we did it!

Not only is this governor not toeing his line as he wants and expects, but this governor is a woman - and if there’s one thing he does not like and is intimidated by, it’s a strong woman with principles.

McConnell saying adieu. Close call betw Mitch/R Murdoch for overall damage in our times. McConnell: -Was crucial in blocking gun-safety laws after Sandy Hook massacre. -Was crucial in sparing Trump in 2nd impeach (which would have blocked 2nd term). -Made filibusters routine. -SCOTUS.

Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.

The idea that Ukraine is going to hold an election when the country is an active war zone and 20 percent of it is under foreign occupation is beyond ludicrous

Tomorrow’s UK front pages are tearing Trump apart. Two of these are right-wing newspapers. “Trump appals world”, “Shameful Trump” and “Deranged Trump”

Contemptible Trumpian vitriol

As ever, the Trump administration has difficulty with facts.

This is nauseating. They're happy to say it out loud now.

Such sad news. Rest well, Rick Buckler. I was lucky enough to see The Jam twice, in 1977 (both times here in Cardiff). "In The City" had been released just a matter of weeks before the first time and I'd already played it to death. Happy days 🥰 www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Bernie Sanders: "We're not only dealing with a move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America -- politicians have always lied, nothing new about that. But the level that we're seeing right now. The big lie, over and over again ... "

Trump is Putin's lapdog. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

measles is one of the most infectious diseases out there and it is a dangerous illness, particularly for young children - vaccination has kept it at bay for decades. Not vaccinating - and not suppporting vaccination - has consequences

Trump just blamed Ukraine outright for Russia’s invasion. ‘You shoulda never started it,’ he said. What a lie, a Russian lie—from the President of the US.

Utterly despicable.

Oh 🤔🤨

Trump! He's terrible! What are we doing about it? Let's ask the raccoons. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

$15 Billion+

These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing *its own* history.

This guy was once banned from Twitter by Musk for posting child exploitation photos. He spread the crazy conspiracy that Hillary Clinton & Huma Abedin raped/abused little girls & used their skin as masks. Now he’s invited to the Trump White House. No words. You can’t even do an ‘Imagine if Biden…’

The community note 🤌😘

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

There'll be no deal about Ukraine without Ukraine. America has no ability to enforce it, any more than it has the right to enforce it. If it attempts to insist on one, it will be one of the most shameful moments in its history. And one of the most humiliating.

Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity. It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated). 30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.