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That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
We just finished shooting season 56 of Sesame Street… SS is and will remain one of the best things this country has and will produce.. It’s everything you would want it to be in much much more. #Kindness #Inclusion
Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...
Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
INGRAHAM: You said there was irrefutable evidence that Obama was the mastermind of this intelligence manipulation and the perpetuation of the Russia hoax. What is that irrefutable evidence? TULSI GABBARD: *makes clear she's got nothing*
My dad, speaking about his dad (the one in the dashing hat). I’ve read the letters my Chindit grandfather wrote home from Burma & India. “Do people at home know what we’re doing?” he asks, before he was invalided out of the jungle. www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2536648...
Check he didn't fall out of any windows
A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation
Bob Geldof speaks out about the “dispicable” horrors in Gaza. This is an excellent interview by @miriamocal.bsky.social Geldof is founding Patron of the British Holocaust Museum's Aegis Trust for Genocide, as well as Live Aid founder.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
NEW ANGLE Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage. But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…
Give this guy a medal
Underrated tweet.
Reportedly, this is Putin arriving in Russian Magnitogorsk. His motorcade is enormous, and the streets had been cleares of other vehicles and pedestrians.
Is he sure he brought enough vans?
Baby Crocs sound like Star Trek Phasers??! Pew Pew! Pew Pew! Listen...... freakin adorable! 🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx Macron explains what nobody in UK politics is prepared to: the small boats ‘crisis’ is a consequence of Brexit. And Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, on the companies complicit in the genocide.
Channel crossings: Farage steps in! @mortenmorland
I don't expect we will get even the slightest hint of contrition, still less acceptance of moral responsibility, from Danny Finkelstein or others who have spent the last 18 months denying the well-documented evidence of systematic atrocities and war crimes.
![In several cases, S. said, Israeli troops deliberately targeted children. “There was a boy who entered the [off-limits] zone. He didn’t do anything. [Other soldiers] claimed to have seen him standing and talking to people. That’s it — they dropped a grenade from a drone.” In another incident, he said, soldiers tried to kill a child riding a bicycle a great distance away from them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:td7ymvnnntooulzpovf6u6sd/bafkreigmfjwxaaq6u6imzmpcwxehjsw5dhnot7hg2hx4l5rg6xvpdhdalm@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Twice President Macron explains the relationship between Brexit and small boat crossings which began after Brexit First, he says that the British people were sold a lie with Brexit
Just like MAGA though, the core base will continue voting for them no matter how shit they are.
To those who question what Labour stands for – look at Best Start. It will change Britain’s future | Polly Toynbee
This is getting fucking ridiculous- youtu.be/QFwUHpOZJr8?...
Court papers filed Wednesday state that Mr. Abrego Garcia was beaten, deprived of sleep, and subjected to psychological torture during the nearly three months he spent in Salvadoran custody. It is unacceptable to send people to other countries to be tortured!
I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine details Trump's betrayal www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
It's going to be an unmitigated disaster. But workimg class MAGE voters need to feel the pain and face that reality. Time to deprogram.
❗️Lavrov - he has been the Russian Foreign Minister since the birth of Jesus Christ, I think? And nothing useful has come out of his mouth since then, - NATO Secretary General Rutte
Big win for the close the hospitals, open the camps caucus today.
Life is about to get really shitty for some MAGA folk who rely on those services. Reality call...
Could the EU wean itself off of trading with China?
This is telling the US that if China is their real worry, then they must assist Ukraine to win. After this the US can safely turn their attention to China.
When they came for the wockaflockas I did nothing, because I was not a wockaflocka. When they came for the whatnots I did nothing, because I was not a whatnot. Y'all know how the rest of the damn poem goes. Wake up, America.
Reminder. There ain't no law against admitting you got played.
Yo' momma's so stupid Lisa Murkowski's her tutor.
When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Here are the first three parts of my series of posts on a highly significant US Supreme Court case.
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As JFK said, “my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. For example, you could buy my new range of JFK fragrances.”
-Russia attacked Ukraine every day Donald was president the 1st time. -Russia has attacked Ukraine every day Donald has been president 2nd time -Russia is now attacking Ukraine with twice as many missiles & drones since Biden was president
More from the Kupol military plant in Izhevsk, Russia. Secondary explosions can be heard.
Ancient Greek philosopher Diosthenes wrote: "Tότ᾽ ἔφη τὰς πόλεις ἀπόλλυσθαι· ὅταν μὴ δύνωνται τοὺς φαύλους ἀπὸ τῶν σπουδαίων διακρίνειν." [This is when societies perish: when they cease to be able to distinguish the laudable from the fraudulent.]
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Now that the Iran/Israel conflict has cooled for the moment, can we concentrate on what is happening to Ukraine again please? The Russians seem to be stepping up their terror attacks and killing innocent people every day! Forget Trump and let's support Ukraine much more!
🚨🚨 The ICE and the people working for them deserve a SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL. This is humanly degrading treatment of a new level I am honestly schocked to witness. I am literally beyond words. PURE EVIL.
Every word of this is depraved beyond belief. ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment. I don’t know what to say. www.tpr.org/border-immig...
Does he even know what he's doing? Goes from Conservative and backing Boris to backing Starmer, and just a year later goes hard right on Farage and Reform. Really strong principles there Rod. Fucking tosser.
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The White House leaked the Iran nuclear facility attack directly to Russia. By all intents and purposes the operation was a major failure. Despite the 24/7 gaslighting campaign by the Trump regime. Today Israel struck the same target since the US failed.
Amazon to invest $54 billion in Britain over next three years reut.rs/3IbV6P2
You don't need to read all the citations in the "Peace Through Strength" Wikipedia article if you're old enough to remember Reagan. Which Press Secretary Barbie isn't.
Russia: "The work was completed on time, the asphalt has been laid, the roadway is open to traffic. This is a good example of the implementation of a national project."
Journalists at the Farage press conference repeating Reform's framing of this policy as "robin hood" because the non-dom fee will be redistributed to poorer workers, whilst missing the fact that it hands tens of billions of pounds in tax cuts to the wealthiest people already living in the UK
Snatch squads working in broad daylight in America. Shame
Imagine kids in Ukraine waking up to this in the dead of night while their neighbourhood is being attacked for real.
🤣I laugh as that is something we live with & hear everyday warning us of incoming Muscovy missiles, Shaded drones, cruise missiles. Just hope it does not become a reality for my American cousins.
Did you know? The U.S. government assisted in creating the nuclear program of Iran as part of its Atoms for Peace initiative during the 1950s. However, decades after, the alleged nuclear capabilities of Iran is at the heart of its longstanding conflict with the U.S. and its allies.
On EU referendum eve here's something I wrote five years ago about the long road to Brexit and Dan Hannan's childhood radicalisation bylinetimes.com/2020/01/31/t...
Like Hegseth knows what either are
Some 30% of US deference spending is medical related, in the rest of the NATO medical is covered in the social security system. Norway is now in June 2025 up to 3.2% and if we add 30% of that Norway are spending 4.16% of GDP while USA 2024 3.38% of GDP. USA lacking! www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Baron Trump off to the podiatrist first thing this morning.
The fact that Russia sits militarily idle at the sidelines when Iran gets hammered by US forces proves once again: No matter whether you are friend or foe to Russia, any treaty with Russia is not worth the paper it is written on. Iran the nominal ally of Russia, ...
Following a rich white man to war because you didn’t like the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the stupidest things ever.
Remember all that “genocide Joe” and “Kamala is a war hawk” shit? Yeah…psyops. It worked.
This cartoon was drawn 8 years ago. It seems the right time for it to be reshared. (✍️ Carlos Latuff)
My god, everyone watch this. This is a bounty hunter in Seattle and he said hiring bounty hunters is the next ICE wave. Bounty hunter squads are already being created. $1000 for every person they nab.
By the way, the US striking Iran’s nuclear facilities and infrastructure gives Russia the green light to strike Ukraine’s nuclear facilities & infrastructure. This is another reason it’s forbidden under international law. Trump is escalating danger everywhere.
Be good to get an update from @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social on the Signal group chat.
These are not police. By law, they have to identify. If they won’t—copy their plates, call the actual police and let them know you are witnessing armed police impersonators.
The folk who voted for them will just put it down to teething pains, instead of incompetence, and move on.
My wife's cooking is so bad, the neighborhood flies got together and fixed the screens at my house. -Rodney Dangerfield
I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
Bernie Sanders calls the bombing of Iran unconstitutional and the crowd breaks out into “no more war”.
Viewer tips: If you're looking for Iran news on mainstream TV, BBC right now is SO much better than any of the US outlets. Dramatic, and should be studied in journalism world.
Who, Jeremy Bowen? Actual LOL, what the heck are you on about.
Lauren Boebert, "The Hand Job at the opera."
🧊 ICE 🧊 kidnapping today 12:13 p.m., Union and 6th. If anyone knows this man's family please contact Unión del Barrio www.instagram.com/reel/DLLJh9v...
If you read down this Mail article long enough, you get to this grudging admission: "76% of pupils at Kobi Nazrul are meeting 'expected standards' in reading, writing and maths. That compares with a local average of 71 per cent and an average of 61 per cent in England." . archive.ph/wip/lmv8G
Nice review of The Truth About Empire from @drrscully.bsky.social: ‘Use it to inform or to reinforce your knowledge … of the British Empire in all its complexity … a volume of such diversity & lucidity should certainly be hailed as the landmark it is’. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A drone for every tank, for every jet, for every factory, for every refinery. For every Russian boot walking in anger in Ukraine, the drone is the sword and their torn flesh is the cost.
⚡️'Ukrainian drones for the foot of every Russian soldier' — Zelensky responds to Putin's threat to conquer all Ukraine. Kyiv has made several decisions in light of Russia's overt threats, including a diplomatic overhaul, intensified sanctions efforts, and increased funding for drone development.
Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice
The Great Economists and The Great Crashes are both economic history books that draw lessons from history to help with current challenges and opportunities www.lindayueh.com/books www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Econom... www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Crashe...
This week they advanced 200 meters towards Sumy, and we pushed them back 200–400 meters. 23% of all bombs, all strikes that are on the front, fall on the Sumy direction. Mostly bombs and North Korean missiles, which are recorded in large numbers.
They served. Now they suffer. Millions of veterans depend on Medicaid for treatment, recovery, and survival. Cutting this lifeline dishonors every promise we made. This isn’t fiscal responsibility—it’s betrayal in uniform.
I've posted this before, but when I keep reading about ICE's gestapo tactics in LA and elsewhere, and how they are obviously intended to say "fuck you, we own this place" to local citizens and authorities, I think of Sam Houston's warning to TX secessionists about their swaggering overconfidence:
Other opinions voiced at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum: ▪️ "The state may not have enough money." The head of the Duma's Budget Committee Andrey Makarov warned that Russia could follow the same path as the USSR:⤵️
A precinct in Rockland County, NY registered 80% of votes for Gillibrand and 0 votes for Harris The NY Supreme Court ordered a lawsuit about the discrepancy to continue yesterday. I avoid election falsification rumors because they rarely have merit Not this one rocklandtimes.com/2025/06/19/s...
Goryachev has refused to submit the SF-86 form required for background investigation for security clearance adjudication. He appears to have been granted an interim clearance without any vetting. nypost.com/2025/06/17/u...
Sharing now as I just saw this June 8th post
