My dad, a British immigrant originally to Australia and then New Zealand is exactly this degree of anti immigration
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My dad, a British immigrant originally to Australia and then New Zealand is exactly this degree of anti immigration
If anyone’s looking for some background on what Trump is up to with the warships he’s deployed to Venezuela, I get into it here:
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
The whole thrust of this feed is that we are one people, one community, all dealing with exactly the same problems. It’s easy to get siloed. But working together we can spread the burden and find solutions,
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LET'S GO BRANDON!!
We’ve seen this before, haven’t we?
How can these "conservatives" be so short sighted?
Let that number sink in. This is how to do it when you’re fighting for the future of your democracy.
Yeah, sure...
This is precisely why #BigTech has long championed regulation: not out of altruism, but because regulations often serve as a strategic moat. Increasing compliance costs and complexity make it significantly harder for smaller startups to compete, effectively entrenching their dominance w/ gov. help.
I suspect he knicked the kids sharpie and was giving it back
RFK Jr was not chosen to preside over US public health and science because he had any qualifications. He had a famous family name and Trump needed his endorsement and supporters. We saw it happen live in this call. That’s why we are here.
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"i want to get as much as i can" is trump's life motto
Nationalizing industry is now the Republican agenda. My head is spinning.
He's so freaking stupid
Well, it seems like I can't say nothing to change y'all minds
Just dictated a whole chapter of my next book while walking down to catch the ferry into the city. It was a great chapter - maybe 3000 words of high-octane action and satisfying character arc payoff. But you can’t read it because I forgot to turn on my recorder
More datapoints for how the French might be right about relying too much on the US
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It's incredible how many Nobel prizes are awarded to people for doing things they didn't even know about! 🙃
Riling up a crowd is probably exactly the response intended. MAGA still has no footage of all the DC violence they were told about so why not attempt to manufacture some by putting Trump on the street.
Elon Musk and his social media company X Corp have reached a tentative agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by former Twitter employees who said they were owed $500 million in severance pay.
California should poach Oklahoma's teachers. They obviously don't put them to good use
He is trying, I'm all for it. I just don't think it's going to happen. I don't think the Europeans or Ukrainians think a deal is possible but they think educating Trump is.
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What a lovely picture 👏❤️
It's not that anyone hopes he's going to fail but there is no deal that doesn't leave Ukraine at risk of further invasion without joining NATO. Putin could give up all Ukrainian territory now & Ukraine would know he is coming back. Putin won't allow NATO membership bc he ideologically needs Ukraine
Mmm, novichok tea. Yummy
Just my 2c opinion
Zenensky won't/can't give up territory, at least not without NATO membership. Putin is playing the long game to reassemble the USSR territories. There is no deal. Zelensky and the Europeans are trying to get that through to Trump by playing along until Trump understands who the actual roadblock is.
Maybe undocumented landscaping laborers are raking in millions from fentanyl and people trafficking 🤷🏻♂️
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I'd be surprised if Trump knows the difference between the USSR and Russia. I'd bet he thinks they are the same territory.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets Indian PM Narendra Modi in Delhi. The world continues to realign while Trump shows White House visitors his MAGA hats.
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Russia is developing an automated control system to support China's amphibious operations against Taiwan, leaked documents from the BlackMoon hacker group reveal. Russia's Rosoboronexport has signed a €4.284 million contract with China's CETC International Co Ltd. (Vanguard Intel)
TACO. This is the position zelenskyy took in February and Trump lost his cool over it. Trump has crumbled into the reality of things
Like many others he managed to mangle that sentence, saying the opposite of what he intended.
His long shorts compared to the women's says a lot
That's the quiet part cranked to eleven
One step away from if you end elections you're not going to have any Democrats get elected Giving the whole vote suppression game away
No peacekeepers can only be possible if Putin agrees to Ukraine joining NATO. So really, there goes any deal
The Kremlin says it will reject any deployment of Western troops on Ukrainian territory.
The problem with all this is that whatever’s agreed it could be the exact opposite tomorrow. I’ve never before seen a government that operates in a state of complete chaos.
Dead right. Also, beyond the chaos it's foolish to trust Putin or Trump. Both are no one's friend but their own.
I’m not going to bother with that rant about voter fraud and Democrats wanting "transgender for everyone" and illegal immigration.
Trump: “We're going to work with Ukraine, we're going to work with everybody, and we're going to make sure that if there's peace, that peace is going to stay long-term... We're not talking about a 2-year peace and then we end up in this mess again.”
The administration is also playing for team Noble Prize. Trump wants anything he can claim as peace at ANY cost
I know your home ownership claim is bunk, so I still question the rest. Home ownership has been in the low 60s since the 60s. I'll admit I am from a country that used to have free healthcare and education to university and those things have certainly changed. Not to the predatory level in the US.
Less than half a century ago when the top tax rate was 70% and strong collective bargaining meant a fairer distribution of profit between capital and labor workers had more freedom. Now many need 2nd and 3rd jobs just to exist in a society that worships the wealthy over the productive.
There was a time when anyone working full time could buy a house, take the kids on a holiday each year and not go bankrupt from a medical emergency. Lots of progress over 100 years but the worship of tax cuts and their trickle down bunk is only 40 years old and workers have lost in that time.
That sounds thoroughly grim. I truly hope you are wrong too but wouldn't be surprised if it went down just like that
I'm not going to stand in Newsom's way as he takes on Trump. I will even welcome it. But I will never again support putting him in charge of anything else other than trolling Trump.
South Carolina and Ohio are also going to send National Guard troops to DC. Sounds a bit like an occupying army.
Jeepers. I hope some decent generals are watching on
It's starting to sound like shit is about to hit the proverbial fan in DC and have an effect nationwide. Gloomy.
#notadragqueen
The executive director of the Israel Cyber Directorate—an Israeli agency under the purview of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu—was arrested in Las Vegas for luring a child with a computer for a sex act. He was released and returned to Israel shortly thereafter. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.
Art of the No Deal.
Donald “No Deal” Trump.
Trump, notorious for his aggressive handshakes, gets owned. His face says he knows it too
Netanyahu led Israel into genocide in Gaza for its crime of supporting Hamas, when he had been doing the very same thing for years.
Controversial. This president probably wanted to welcome Putin with a marching band, a 12 gun salute and a flyover. A bit of clapping was as good as we could expect
Rest of the country needs to get on board with these Democrats. They cannot pull along the entire country themselves...
I agree. This is a strong action followed by a strong message. Let's hope they become an example to follow
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He will be granted a pardon in 3, 2.....
An unfathomable humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher. RSF forces are refusing to allow in food The BBC has some of the only video www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm guessing that is MAGA speak for we are doing it as slowly as possible
And actually find someone to arrest
This new breed of wannabes all love a proper tyrant don't they.
Two high-profile “going-concern” warnings in one day. @wsj.com $SAVE $KODK @cnbc.com www.wsj.com/business/eas...
The administration is considering a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” composed of hundreds of National Guard troops tasked with rapidly deploying into American cities facing protests or other unrest www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
How long before these guys start blocking highways and bridges?
This feels like Trump's claim on Greenland. Bluster but bluster that tests the boundaries
From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...
Oh crap. My white boomer dad has just returned from a month in the UK as a Tommy Robinson fan🤦🏻♂️ We've just had a screaming match.
Canada, UK, Aus & NZ have all given September as when they will recognise a Palestinian state if Israel continues its ethnic cleansing. Is the word out that Israel is going to declare the conflict over in the next 6 weeks and everyone can go back to ignoring the carnage past, present and future?
🪇You don't make friends with salad. You don't make friends with salad 🪇
we have created an economy which rewards greed and deceit above all else
The 1980's join the chat
Two versions of reporting on Gaza. West vs. East.
Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update. This was the week that started with the press talking about what super sanctions Trump would put on Putin and ended with Trump discussing what Ukrainian land he will give to Putin. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
“Albanese—said Israel’s latest plans were “wrong”.” Instead of engaging in chit-chat & issuing meaningless joint statements, @albomp.bsky.social, WHY DON'T YOU TRY DOING SOMETHING? SANCTION Israel IMPOSE a total arms embargo BREAK THE SEIGE SUSPEND ALL TRADE AGREEMENTS until Palestine is FREE
There is no way MAGA goes as far as it is only to risk it all in free and fair elections
though I am a congenital optimist, for the first time I believe that if the behavior that this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don’t know how we will get it back.”
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
Words have had no effect. Sanctions now. Travel restrictions - against all members of the government and IDF, and their families. Freeze assets and all trade. Kick out diplomats. Enforce ICC findings. Pressure Israel’s active supporters. Anything but this.
