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To be fair - we should probably put NATO into administration and drive Europe to fill the defence space... ...a *complete* reversal of the previous dynamic, I am fully aware, but actually a huge opportunity for Europe (manufacturing, R&D, hard power, cybersecurity, procurement cohesion, etc, etc).

How sad it is that enough people - including the previously liberal - fell for the fear-mongering against trans people and this wedge issue helped return Trump to power and now we see the terrible cost that must be paid by both the trans community and many others too

Comedy, poetry, music and all money to a very important homeless charity - join me in Bath Spa www.thenearfield.com/place/komedi...

A MUST-SEE‼️ The PayPal Mafia—Musk, Thiel, Sacks, and Botha—have ties to apartheid South Africa & a hand in US policy and the election. • Elon Musk – Unelected co-president, dismantling the government for his own gain. FUN FACT: His grandfather wanted to scrap democracy for technocrat rule. 🧵

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

Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

Federal Ag Scholarship for Students at Historically Black Colleges Suspended: A federal scholarship aimed at boosting students from underserved and rural areas attending historically Black colleges and universities has been put on hold

Thank you, Janet Mills. This is how all our elected officials everywhere should be confronting Trump's authoritarian "we are the law" sentiment. Head on.

FFS! Lisa Nandy being all mealy mouthed about Trump on BBC Breakfast. Trump has made his position clear. In any situation, "might makes right" and to hell with how that affects anyone else. We need to be absolutely clear about the boundaries over which we will not step.

Russian ambassador in Newsnight is a total nutter and a liar.

Spain has chosen to be an "open & prosperous" country & is thriving as a result. The attitude towards immigrants is not only welcoming & compassionate but has contributed significantly to Spain becoming "Europe's buzziest economy". An important lesson. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Republican Kansas Farmers are outraged that the MAGA regime dismantled USAID as farmers rely heavily on selling crops to USAID, so now these many GOP farmers are trying to save the agency. I guess they thought he would only target brown and black people and not them. FAFO.

A journalist should ask Richard Tice. If 99 doctors told him he had cancer, would he believe the 1 who said he didn’t? A near-consensus of climate scientists agree that human activity is causing climate change. Estimates ranging from 97% to 99.9%.

Captures it perfectly.

Canadians are now booing the US National Anthem at every one of their major events thanks to the orange felon and his fascist MAGA regime and I don’t blame them one bit.

51% of British people identify themselves as European... ...and 44% do not identify as Europeans according to a survey in 2024. It will be interesting to see how the Trump-Musk-Vance attack on European values makes the UK react. There's now a clear choice of values - and values drive identity.

We (the United States) are now the bad guys. Unambiguously.

So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

LBC's James O'Brien takes on some of the most dim-witted minds the UK has to offer. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A2p...

Elon is not prepared for the national meltdown that awaits him when people can't get their Medicaid coverage or social security checks. He is poking a sleeping dragon. Watch @therickwilson.bsky.social and @mayaonstage.bsky.social on this week's episode of The Breakdown here: bit.ly/4b1MYv5

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... This lunatic has the nuclear codes

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet. They make sure we have clean water. They protect us from financial fraud. They provide healthcare to our communities. They make our government actually work for people. Do not forget this.

Said every tyrant and dictator in human history to justify his actions.