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So, the Shitler Plan to get citizens to turn in little girls writing in diaries in attics, eh?

Ukraine has hit a huge Russian data centre linked to bot farms. In unrelated news, does anyone know why every Reform account on Twitter is getting hardly any likes and shares?

SOMEBODY EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB? Brenden Cuni, the same ICE agent seen on video brandishing a rifle at the scene of the shooting in NY, where officers shot an unarmed man in front of his 5-year-old child, was also filmed kneeling on a pregnant woman in Minneapolis last December.

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"You'll never reach 25K followers with a very niche aviation site purely for obsessives" Prove this right or wrong by sharing or not as you wish.

The New York Times is about the only decent News Vendor left on the other side of the Pond. It should be ashamed of itself.

A reminder that if Rupert Lowe becomes Prime Minister, he will change the law as follows: - reintroduce the death penalty and make the reintroduction retrospective: applied to cases that preceded, sometimes by many years, the change of law - make minors at the time of their crimes eligible for it

Difficult to express the visceral disgust I feel at Musk, his fascism, his hideous and cruel abuse of power with cuts to aid that are responsible for death and suffering worldwide, his support for the repulsive Lowe and the way he’s shit-stirring in our country’s democracy and wellbeing.

Assigned to Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo (Obama).

Make #FarageCamps trend on every available platform. Nobody wants their name associated with evil crap like that

Mastercard is sponsoring Trump's Freedom 250 and its Christian nationalist Rededicate 250 event on May 17 where Pete Hegseth and Mike Johnson will headline: "rededicating our country as One Nation under God." I noticed my REI credit card is a Mastercard. I've reached out to REI for comment.

Oh excellent. Another think tank grifting for foreign money to buy our democracy and put Farage in No. 10 - via a pact with the unelectable Tory party, a manifesto modelled on Trump’s Project 2025 and the strong hope that - with helpful media cover - voters will be stupid enough to fall for it.

Really?🤦🏼‍♀️ These posts pop up periodically and are mind numbingly tedious. Is TFL being “racist against white people” by offering an internship to those with a minority ethnic background? Or is it possible there’s more to this than the screenshot and tweet suggest?🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵1/10

Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR? Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?

Júlia followed every rule, but the UK’s immigration system trapped her in bureaucratic limbo for 7 months. Now, she faces being forced to leave. This is the reality of an immigration system that isn’t working. We can do better. Read her full story: the3million.org.uk/julia-story

Canada has shown the world how to stand up to the gangster regime. The United States is losing $12.5 billion in travel as Trump turns them into an international pariah. This is the "find out" phase of international relations. Keep the boycott strong. #FAFO #elbowsup www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...

A vote for Reform is not a vote for anything new, disruptive, or ground changing. It's not a vote for working class representation. It's a vote for Tories who left the Tory party because it wasn't cruel and nasty enough.

He nailed it!

Holy crap that's fascinating. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

We’ve asked Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate the health department's refusal to release information about KPMG's £8million Palantir contract We will keep pushing this case - and many others Sign up to Democracy for Sale to help us democracyforsale.substack.com/subscribe

Trump delays tariffs on EU until July 9th www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For the hard of thinking - Jill Biden holds a Doctorate in Education, not a medical degree.

Come for "the batshit signal", stay for the final line

Can I ask those many journalists who ignored, ridiculed or minimised Carole Cadwalladr’s revelations about Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Russian election interference — You won’t apologise. Journos never do. But please acknowledge and fight against big tech and disinformation

Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea, sold out the fishing industry, all SMEs trading with the EU, our farmers, universities, musicians, young people, scientists, all of us… And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him. What a monumental piece of shit.

Ukraine is 'not our war' says JD Vance news.sky.com/video/share-... Ah, crawl back in your ditch of historical ignorance, son Yankee Generation ‘Y’ is even more dumb than Generation ‘X’. How embarrassed are Americans to have this stinking pile of 💩 cluttering up their ‘Great Sidewalk of Life’?

Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry. The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale. Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs. 1/2

It’s so much easier to tear something down than to build something better. Farage will only ever destroy. Because his ideologies don’t work. They divide, they harm, they cost, they isolate. He doesn’t want a better EU deal. He *needs* the failure. His power relies on the anger that creates.

Her 150th anniversary was this week. Born in poverty, she became a journalist, photographer, screenwriter and the first woman to fly the Channel. She was also famous for her beauty. Harriet Quimby - an American story. #harrietquimby #history

A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY! Trump cut global food aid, now enough rations to feed 3.5 million people are rotting in warehouses. People are starving, but this man’s legacy will be cruelty in bulk.

BREAKING: A massive explosion from a bomb has destroyed American Reproductive Centers, an IVF and fertility center in Palm Springs, CA. At least one person is dead. Authorities are investigating whether terrorism played a role.

Food for millions wasted, children left to go hungry, and America’s reputation permanently damaged.

This op-ed is freaking beautiful and everyone should read it www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

Just hope that the bacteria and sewage recovered

A U.S.-funded charter plane carrying dozens of white South Africans who claim to have been victims of discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday, heading for the U.S., where the Trump administration is welcoming them as refugees.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

When "required by law" becomes just a suggestion.

No anthem played over Red Square today can cover the sound of justice coming. Today, on Europe Day, a special tribunal for the Crime of Aggression is launched in Lviv. Justice for Ukraine begins to take shape. Justice is the foundation of a long-lasting peace. → europa.eu/!G9GkXT

Breaking News: Newark's mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested while he and three members of Congress from New Jersey were protesting at an immigration detention center in the city. He was taken to an ICE facility in Newark, his aides said. nyti.ms/3Z680Un

Donald Trump has the habits of the vandal, the autocrat, the gangster and the fool - for proof, look no further than Ukraine. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

URGENT: This is not a crime A judge has the authority in her courthouse to excuse a defendant for God's sake Trump tried this in 1st term & he was thrown out of court 👉 www.courtlistener.com/docket/14997... PS the violation here was Patel's tweet & that's why he deleted. I'll be filing complaint

I would love to hear the argument that any gang member in the history of the United States has caused more death and destruction with their conduct than Donald Trump—because just on the pandemic alone, Trump has all of gang and mafia history beat by at least 500,000 dead bodies.

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

The USA has voted against a UN resolution on cooperation with the Council of Europe because it included the words "condemnation of Russian aggression against Ukraine" Only 8 other states voted against: - Russia - Belarus - North Korea - Eritrea - Mali - Nicaragua - Niger - Sudan