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I hear Nigel Farage is declining interview requests. First time for everything, I suppose. I suspect he’ll eventually speak to whoever is least likely to challenge him properly.

European Parliament member 👇🏽

Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

Ketamine Karen suggests renaming the English Channel separating France and England, the "George Washington Channel.” We live in the absolute dumbest timeline. 🙄

As a kid, I always wondered why I was so obsessed Star Wars. I always wondered why it was so important. As an adult, I get it now. Star Wars at its core is a story about fighting authoritarianism.

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

THIS!!! MORE. OF. THIS. www.mlive.com/news/grand-r...

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

News Flash The Jack Ass is being sued for absolutely everything and it will take years to get past every injunction and work through the courts. By then it will be mid terms and we can take back the senate. 33 senate seats are up for reelection 435 house seats Breathe We got this

It's been quite something to watch supposedly 'patriotic' British newspapers actively cheerleading on a foreign administration that is openly working against our interests.

🎶 when you go, will you send back a lettuce from America? 🎶

If doing Brexit without a plan for how it would actually work was a bad thing for a government to do, why was it okay for anyone to actually vote for it? Has KB just told all Leave voters they voted for a pig in a poke? And has she admitted she did the same?

Carrie Underwood has a lot of stuff I don’t, like an incredible singing voice and millions of dollars, but I have something she doesn’t have, and that is integrity.

Farage attending the launch of a new staunch climate denial group in the UK that has taken funds from oil giant ExxonMobil ? Not particularly out of character , since Dec 2019 92% of donations to Reform UK were from fossil fuel interest groups or climate deniers , per @desmog.bsky.social .

Am I the only one who finds Musk & Bezos spending billions on rockets when the earth is in peril slightly distasteful

Bat or bowl ?

How to? How to do when you see such a document, 113 years old, and we aren't still doing enough to act on climate change!

Mel Stride says "the Chancellor should be at her station" during some market fluctuation. Zero pushback from LauraK. And yet Kwarteng was in the US during an ACTUAL disorderly bond crisis. FAMOUSLY sacked while flying back. How can the BBC's top interviewer fail to make such easy connections?

The great Clarence Clemons would have turned 83 today. In his eulogy, Springsteen wrote: “Together, we told an older, richer story about the possibilities of friendship that transcended those I’d written in my songs .. he made me feel, and think, and love, and dream big.” “Badlands” (1978) #RIP

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

The president elect is currently out on bail. Sentencing is tomorrow morning at 9:30 am.

The @nytimes.com should hire whoever wrote this headline. Seriously!

Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.

This is the colleague that the likes of Cleverly, Badenoch & Jenrick are refusing to defend...

We must stop referring to the grooming gangs as “Muslim” gangs. Why are journalists doing this? There is nothing to suggest religion played a part. We don’t call the vast majority of groomers “Christian groomers” or “Christian paedophiles”. Grooming gangs involving some Pakistani men is accurate.

It turns out that Farage was right; foreigners were coming for his job.

Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

Jess Phillips and Keir Starmer could get seriously rich if they wanted to take Musk to court… …for libel and quite possibly incitement to put their lives in danger.

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

Suella Braverman has "seen the wall on the land border between Italy and Turkey..." Gosh I think she's been visited by more right wing fairies Minor detail - Italy and Turkey don't have a land border!!! God these right wingers are doing my head in It's like debating with stroppy 5 year olds

I’m shocked that Sadiq Khan has been rewarded for failure with a knighthood following London mayoral election victories against Zac (now Lord) Goldsmith and Shaun (now Lord) Bailey.

A reminder that Sadiq Khan successfully won three elections in a row by large majorities against Conservative opponents, one of whom, Shaun Bailey, was then given a seat in the House of Lords for life. Funnily enough I don't remember the Daily Mail describing that as a "reward for failure"

Things I will probably skip from the recipe book I received for Christmas 😂

Wonder why Trump threatens to attack allies? Because he is scared to death to show actual strength. But he can scream and yell at allies because it makes him LOOK strong to MAGAs and he will never have to actually prove it. Again, he’s a frightened boy looking for dads approval

when I was homeless in florida, the library was a godsend, straight from heaven. air conditioning, bathrooms, somewhere I could sit, go online, read, just exist.

Charlie Angus: I'm watching responses in the US media. CNN stated, "Oh, he's just teasing." Teasing about taking over other countries? They said, "Hey, it'd be a great deal for America. There's no such thing as teasing when you're threatening the sovereignty of independent nations #cdnpoli #peipoli

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

In the final minutes of It's a Wonderful Life, George Bailey gets to see what the world would look like if it was ruled by a malicious megalomaniac with no empathy and no concern beyond increasing his own personal wealth. Thank goodness that'll never happen.