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Watching people who used to bleat about accusations of racism choose between being blatantly racist or clutching their pearls at all the blatant racism they enabled is not as much fun as you might think. (See also Donald Trump & fascism.)

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We may have left the EU in 2016 after lies, misinformation, and promises of prosperity that have not materialised Luckily for us, the EU isn't that far away, it's just next door Anyone else want the UK 🇬🇧 to rejoin the EU 🇪🇺 ?

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

“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.

submitted 1 day ago • 571 comments

This is beyond fucking despicable. Threatening to shut off Starlink to Ukraine, a raped pillaged country (invaded by a dictator that this headcase and his bitch president refuses to condemn) unless they give up their natural resources is the most grim act of coercion I’ve seen.

submitted 23 hours ago • 95 comments

Can anyone explain what is wrong with Liz Truss? I’m at a loss as to why a former prime minister who couldn’t out last a lettuce,who tanked the economy, grins inanely, thinks she is relevant enough to spout pro Russian propaganda! The mind truly boggles!

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. They’re throwing Nazi salutes in public, on camera, at political events—because they can. Because they are winning. Fascism doesn’t take power overnight. It creeps in while people shrug it off. Keep ignoring it, and one day, you’ll wake up in their America—and it won’t let you leave.

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Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 510 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 767 comments

UK energy industry made £483bn profit since 2020. OFGEM's marginal pricing rules guarantee profits to the most inefficient/costly producer. 1 in 5 of all deaths are people in fuel poverty – including 110,000 pensioners. No curbs on profiteering. Real wages cut. WFP cut. Cost of living soaring.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

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Nigel Farage is friends with fascists who do Nazi Salutes on stage. He is in no fit state to be anywhere near British politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Once a solid ally, the US now threatens Ukraine as tRump blindly parrots Putin's lies while he fakes brokering peace. Ukrainians are enraged by tRump's daft claim that their president is a "dictator," rallying around Zelenskyy, who boldly decries tRump's Russian rhetoric. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Raise your hand 🖐️ and Repost if you think felon and lunatic Donald Trump is unfit to serve as president! I want all of my 168K friends to follow YOU! 💙 Like ❤️ and repost 🔄 and you will get MORE followers! 🚀 Who agrees? 🖐️

submitted 2 days ago • 1257 comments

It is time to end the special relationship with Trump. We stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer has spoken to Zelenskyy this evening expressing his support, Downing Street has said

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

Fuck Putin. Fuck trump. I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇸.

submitted 3 days ago • 557 comments

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

submitted 3 days ago • 2871 comments

Unapologetically. ✊🇪🇺

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

Trump will be remembered by future generations as the WORST traitor in American history, and his sycophantic political supporters will be compared to those who decades ago supported Hitler.

submitted 3 days ago • 583 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 3 days ago • 1380 comments

Repost if you agree we should nationalise water 🔄 💦 💚

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 3 days ago • 2367 comments

May I suggest to over 20 million BlueSky a new profile picture starting Monday, Jan. 20, 2024.

submitted 34 days ago • 38 comments

Correct. This is a President of the United States declaring himself a dictator. And instead of Americans understanding that we’re now under imminent threat of martial law and tyranny, we’ll get a month of think pieces about what the President of the United States meant by his UNAMBIGUOUS statement.

submitted 6 days ago • 886 comments

Europe's big fear has been that Donald Trump would return to the White House, cozy up to Putin and throw Ukraine under a bus. The signs were there. Mr Trump had made no secret of his admiration for Putin On Wednesday night, those fears seemed to be realised @news.rte.ie www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

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Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

submitted 8 days ago • 2400 comments

I think we've reached the point where it's reasonable to call anyone supporting the Trump administration a quisling and an appeaser and we should reserve nothing but contempt and disdain for them.

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Ukraine needs to see our solidarity more than ever now 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

Barclays CEO pay up from £4.3m to £10.5m. Real average pay of UK workers unchanged since 2008. Govts tell workers pay rises are inflationary, but that doesn't apply to exec pay, dividends, exec pay, share buybacks. Their profiteering is our inflation and poverty. It is class war.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

We’re not going to call it the Gulf of America. Some thoughts on the latest episode of “The Jim Acosta Show.”

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Just so you know here's a bunch of powers the President of the USA doesn't have. Renaming international bodies of water. Deciding who owns Gaza. Committing Genocide/ethnic cleansing. All of these are powers he doesn't have, and two of them are War Crimes.

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

Sorted. 😉😎

submitted 10 days ago • 578 comments

He’s insane.

submitted 11 days ago • 693 comments

A British Trump tribute act could snatch power in the UK. Unwritten constitution, corporates funding parties, weak parliament, billionaire controlled press won't obstruct right-wing coup. Boris Johnson illegally prorogued parliament, now judiciary weakened. Vote wisely. archive.ph/GxpN6

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

Really not far to go now. Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 12 days ago • 97 comments

The U.S. Army and U.S. Navy has removed all web pages highlighting women’s military service. Army and navy veterans Sound off. Now this photo is my mother, who is a navy veteran 22 years in us Navy #WomeninTheMilitary🇺🇸💪 #Demcast #Proudblue #StandWithwithWomenIntheMilitary #Resistancemilitary

submitted 11 days ago • 387 comments

A lot of people are asking me "what's the news with ISAs thresholds, are they being cut?" The answer is there is no news, there's lots of speculation written up as news, but absolutely zilch has been announced. In fact I doubt anything has been decided yet (though it is being discussed).

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Why do the people who work here and get a good wage, often for doing almost nothing, think that it is ok to claim outrageous benefits, and then demonise people claiming far less who actually need them to survive?

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

Last year's estimated benefit fraud: 7.4 bn Benefit prosecutions last year: 655 Last year's tax fraud and tax 'failure to take reasonable care' combined: 33.2 bn Tax fraud prosecutions last year: 344 Tax fraud and failure to take reasonable care by the wealthy 4 x higher, prosecutions half.

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

Neo-liberalism slowly dismantles the safeguards that protect the populus, our finances and our society, to extract the wealth, and then turns around and blames vulnerable minority groups for the damage caused.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment