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People are misinterpreting this. He did this because the Heil Hitler salute is German as a French nationalist he just fundamentally hates anything German.

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

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submitted 52 minutes ago • 1 comment

“Someone with his business acumen”

submitted 43 minutes ago • 13 comments

Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 56 minutes ago • 14 comments

Inhumanatee www.tampabay.com/news/environ...

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

biden was a great president except when it came to what he imagined to be his area of expertise (foreign policy), his electoral proposition (he is a white guy everyone likes), and the most important thing he was called upon to do (permanently incapacitate donald trump)

submitted 11 hours ago • 29 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2187 comments

Bahahaha -

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Absolutely. Fucking. Despicable.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

Sure, laugh at the French Third Republic, but it lasted 69 years, which is longer than the US lasted as a universal suffrage liberal democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I understand the importance of clickbait to the Times' social media outreach but I think the more germane fact about the German election is that 'polls predict' that the CDU/CSU will win the election and the AfD will lag substantially behind and have no hope of being in a governing coalition.

submitted 2 hours ago • 7 comments

I'm fairly certain that the guy who put the first "r" in February also decided how to spell Wednesday... Fuck that guy.

submitted 17 hours ago • 50 comments

Am I perfect? No. But am I striving to be a better person everyday? Also no.

submitted 22 hours ago • 48 comments

American political press: "As a member of the 4th estate I will lay down my liberty and my life to uphold my commitment to Truth & hold power to account." Also American political press: "If reporting the truth would make me sound silly I will become a loyal propagandist for the president instead."

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Humorless liberal scolds are, as far as I can tell, the ones terrorizing Republican congressmen when they make public appearances so until you do that instead of posting jokes, shut the fuck up

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

dem messaging: "have you considered that dictatorship won't bring down the price of eggs?" gop messaging: "THE DEMOCRATS HATE YOU AND WANT YOU TO DIE"

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

lol

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

"See you in court." A more meaningful, more powerful constitutional maxim than "We are the federal law".

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

I feel like we’re going to get a lot of “we’re just doing this to antagonize the left” and buddy, let me tell you about the National Socialist Party

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

submitted 3 hours ago • 33 comments

Note: "Vicar" is a specific job title. Not every Anglican priest is a "vicar". Also, Calvin Robinson, despite his Altar Mitty cosplay, was never appointed to a position of Vicar. To call him a vicar or a former vicar is a category error.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Community colleges actually give a shit about lifting people up and not just reinforcing the illusion of meritocracy. Of course they're the ones with backbones.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Feels like Idris Elba has the range.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

I actually weirdly enough agree with this, and the CJCS being fired ranks fairly low on the list of things I find concerning about their stated plans for the DoD. The DOGE stuff, mass firings, repudiations of international alliances, and open distain for the laws of war are all markedly worse.

submitted 2 hours ago • 14 comments

french far-right leader jordan bardella canceled his remarks at cpac today reason given: “one of the speakers allowed himself, out of provocation, a gesture referring to nazi ideology.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 39 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 14 hours ago • 193 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 3 hours ago • 815 comments

It is the funniest example of 'this is why this isn't a good electoral system' that 'the boundary commission moves 20 thousand people in Bristol around' is the small domino to 'the UK arts sector faces deepening crisis'.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

“This is America and we don’t have kings” is an easy message and we should all be saying it, but it’s also easy to add on “especially not kings who hand our entire treasury over to drug addled rich Nazi fucks.”

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

How long before another Caine Mutiny?

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Republican events for a month now (including Inauguration Day!) have featured a prominent Nazi salute & legacy media outlets ignore it. Seems like a trend worth covering, no? Maybe access to the Nazi party shouldn't be prioritized??

submitted 3 hours ago • 20 comments

they have nothing to lose and their brains are so very full of lead, Mr President

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

this headline is a fucking disgrace

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Third child, Sutcliffe - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert....

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submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

I believe I do a pretty good job in this column of explaining why public-sector workers are valuable. Please read, @housedemocrats.bsky.social! newrepublic.com/post/191811/...

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Not the least surprising after recent days. The EU, UK and Ukraine need to check every dependency on the US in Ukraine's defence - military, intelligence, economic, tech - to see where they have the ability to say no to US pressure. I fear the answers will not be pretty, but important.

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

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Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 5 hours ago • 203 comments

www.unpopularfront.news/p/palantirs-....

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In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 4 hours ago • 158 comments

"Someone needs to ask the awkward question. And in formulating an answer they should start with geography. European and British security are indivisible. They always have been." Fantastic piece by @philipstephens.bsky.social:

submitted 4 hours ago • 15 comments

www.bloomberg.com/news/article....

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Crossbenchers, including Helen Haines, said in the event of a hung Parliament, they would try to lower the NACC Act's threshold for public hearings.

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Manchester United as a case study for a how a once dominant global power can no longer be rescued by even the most brilliant individual leader once the structural foundations of its power have been allowed to rot beyond a point of no return

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments