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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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This is what I mean by news outlets willingly letting themselves get language-policed by the far right. You used to be able to just call this a "Nazi salute." Now it's "a provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month."

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Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

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Why is Trump treating Russia like the victor?

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The outcome of Trump "ending forever war" might be Xi deciding that he will never get a better time to invade Taiwan than with a disinterested moron as POTUS Agent Orange will be confused by the effect this has on the global economy and wonder how it ever happened.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

In principle there should be a vote in Parliament when troops are deployed. I’m confident all sides of the House are likely to agree with the Prime Minister apart from those Trump bootlickers in Reform.

submitted 5 days ago • 64 comments

“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

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Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 7 days ago • 2767 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Seriously, get in front of a fucking camera and tell the world that Vance is demanding that Germany welcome Nazis back into the government. Because Vance literally lectured Germany about their suppression of Nazism. Fucking do something that matches the alarm the rest of us feel.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Honestly didn’t know about the significance of number 14. So I just googled it - and looky here. Maybe just maybe ADL will say something? www.adl.org/resources/ha...

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

"Democracy will not go down without a fight" @kimlanelaw.bsky.social explains Trump’s power grab and what can be done to stop the destruction of American democracy in latest Democracy for Sale Highly recommended reading this in full democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-poster...

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.

submitted 7 days ago • 245 comments

There are many reasons to be concerned about a mediocre white man who used heroin to treat his ADHD and his family name to avoid consequences for his actions, but this assault on antidepressants — based on misinformation and shoddy science — should certainly be on the list. Fuck this guy.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

AOC brutally mocked border czar Tom Homan this week, who had threatened her with potential prosecution. AOC wrote: “MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw,” then replied: “Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start.” More here:

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

All now deleted.. or at least the bit on the right. Another miserable encounter with Elon Musk. Hope the child turns out OK.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico. Torquemadas the lot of them.

submitted 6 days ago • 108 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 7 days ago • 941 comments

Jarmila Kratochvílová holds the longest-standing track athletics world record, a time of 1:53.28 for the women’s 800 metres, which she set in Helsinki in 1983. She has always denied using performance enhancing drugs. Many of her contemporaries know that this is a lie. Yet the record stands. #Cheats

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I predicted that abortion bans would actually lower birth rates, and increase maternal and infant mortality… because, logic… and here we are. It’s not about protecting children, or women, it’s about control. Related… TX hasn’t released birth rate data since 2022. 🧐 www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Elon Musk relied on undocumented workers to help build Tesla's gigafactory in Texas then he propagated anti-immigrant sentiment to vault himself into political power alongside Trump. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

The massive stupidity of anyone knowingly defying govt advice to NOT enter Iran - and then getting arrested and used as pawns in yet another “spy” scam by the Iranians. I feel for their families, but I find it harder to sympathise with idiots who knew the risks of their actions. #IranHostages

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So Ukraine under a genocidal assault is left out of talks as Rubio speaks with war criminal Lavrov. This is all predictable under this regime but still disgusting to watch. Reprehensible Hope Rubio asks about the tens of thousands of children kidnapped by the terrorist state

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

A fun thing to do with this supposed Napoleon quote is to do a google search to see what forums it appeared on with this exact wording before 2022. I'm no computer whiz, so maybe I messed up, but the only hits I got were these two...for Stormfront, a neo-Nazi forum.

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I’ve considered it and, you know what? I don’t fucking care. They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media. Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & still get pushed out later.

submitted 8 days ago • 149 comments

Good response.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

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."

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Striking that so many on the Reform tendency, who have banged on for years about the need to remember the sacrifices of WW2 and policed the wearing of poppies... failed to learn any lessons from it. You don't appease dictators casting shadows on your doorstep. You fight back.

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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“Yesterday was a very, very good day for Vladimir Putin..” the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg

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“The term ‘doxxing’ has become unmoored from its origins to mean that someone posted something on the internet that I would rather not see" - @wcreeley.bsky.social

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Trump got rolled by both Canada and Mexico in his little “tariffs” tantrum and he has no idea 🤣 All those “commitments” that Mexico and Canada announced were already in place - and in many cases had been in place for years! I laughed so hard 🤣 #TrumpTariffs #TrumpRolled #TrumpTwattery

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This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention. No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 93 comments

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

submitted 11 days ago • 991 comments

The order to drop the Adams prosecution was a shocking moment, Trump crossing a rubicon of corruption, the kind of thing that could have spiraled into a massive crisis and scandal and triggered mass resignations… except Democrats simply didn’t react, sending the signal it doesn’t matter much.

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