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I should just add to this, the last time Donald Trump made a deal directly with a power the US opposed, going over the heads of European allies and withdrawing support, it was with the Taliban. And the result wasn't a peace deal! It was the Taliban winning the war

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The most doomed product of 2025 has just landed

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The White House last month ordered the Justice Department to conduct a broad review of federal firearms regulations, a move which appeared aimed at walking back Biden-era gun control measures. @benjaminweiss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/dems-demand-...

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ON THE BLOG: Why the French parliament tried to introduce PMQs @calixtebloquet.bsky.social and @ruxandrasrbn.bsky.social explain why French politicians decided to experiment with a French version of PMQs. This is the first of a 2-part series on PMQs in France.

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BREAKING: The U.S. Treasury Department has said it would not enforce an anti-money laundering law that obliges millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners, per Reuters

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Disgusting and entirely expected behaviour from The White House - cowards and thieves

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“What Ukraine needs now is guns and butter. It doesn’t need people tweeting and virtue signalling.” British official. on.ft.com

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Sunset

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Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.

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Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve:

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If I wrote this, you all would say I was taking the bit too far, wouldn't you?

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Deer

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“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

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Finally united a Sugden A48Mk2 with a matching T48 tuner for the full ‘1970s nuclear plant control room’ look. Remarkably, both working well.

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lol yeah imagine reagan firing all the air traffic controllers and getting into random spats with prime minister trudeau

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“I will wear a costume after this war is finished…maybe something like yours.” I don’t know what kind of fortitude you must have to deliver a burn like that under those circumstances, but damnmmmnnnn

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Trump and Vance are part of the tiny percentage of Americans who sympathize more with Russia (4%) than Ukraine (62%) and who view Putin more favorably (75% unfavorable) than Zelensky (28% unfavorable) today.yougov.com/politics/art...

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What a disingenuous line this was from Vance today: "you guys are going around...forcing conscripts to the frontlines because you have manpower problems" meduza.io/en/feature/2... 1. Yes, that's how total wars work 2. This admin—like last one—ASKED Ukraine to expand conscription

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A v different take on tonight. 👇

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EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

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JD Vance gets slapped down by Starmer over false claims about free speech in the UK

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US Vice President JD Vance says there have been "infringements on free speech" in the UK Keir Starmer hits back: "We have had free speech for a very long time in the UK"

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Trying to humiliate Zelensky because the administration hasn't got what they want from him on either the resources or peace agreement and they want to blame him for their failure would be typical of Trump as @jsargentr.bsky.social pointed out earlier this month.

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There it is! "Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt." He is referring to them weathering their collusion becoming public, and now is the big payback: together until the end.

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BREAKING: Critic magazine proprietor Lord Kronsteen announces an important change of direction for the SKETCH.

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Occasionally you read something you’d very much like to ignore but then think, ‘What if this is the thing that pulls all these weird pieces of evidence together?’ open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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📰 Unit Director Meg Russell and Bingham Centre Director defend the Attorney General's role in today's @thetimes.com letters "With the new Trump administration’s actions in the background, it seems critical to value, not undermine, our own constitutional safeguards" www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

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I keep saying and it keeps being true: Trump folds when people stand up to him. He never respects weakness, and you have to prove you’re not weak.

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Daily reminder of who Musk is:

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The weaponization of US technology companies means we should treat our dependence on them as a national security threat ↘️

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OH COME ON

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If true then the US is now a genuine Russia-style mafia state. Russia extorts with energy-, the US with tech-dependence. I trust the conclusions we draw from this will also turn into a semblance of policy.

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Dependency on Starlink casually weaponized by US administration. Conclusions for Europe and anyone else in orbit of former US-led alliance should be crystal clear. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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coiling yourself in knots to act like you don't recognize a sieg heil gesture because you're worried about the blowback from the "terrorist fist-bump" people is some worm hall of fame shit

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More people need to understand the real power dynamics in play here. "Musk’s sway, while extraordinary, is also fleeting. Snatching it away is as easy as slamming the Wendy’s Baconator button on the Resolute Desk."

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