A chap from Chicago calls out the VP, and is made Pope a few weeks later.
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A chap from Chicago calls out the VP, and is made Pope a few weeks later.
Absolutely wild: UK lawyers who have worked in relation to ICC Gaza investigation warned they are at risk of US sanctions, not only restricting travel there but potentially freezing their financial assets worldwide observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Headline should read
“US offers terms of its surrender to Russia”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
It appears this is the fourth worst back to back day for the DJIA in American history with a two day combined -8.65% loss, only trailing the 1929 crash, 1987 Black Monday, and the 2008 crisis.
Next level insanity
Nuts. Totally nuts.
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
DOGE hard at work killing the world’s most vulnerable.
Exclusive: UN Refugee Agency braces for thousands of job cuts www.devex.com/news/exclusi...
It is a nonsense. And more will come.
Last year, Prabowo said that he would pardon corruption suspects if they returned what they stole. Now, he wants to build a remote island prison for them.
But it's not a U-turn. The two policies could sit side-by-side.
"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."
#Trump renounces claims to #Canada and #Greenland.
Scoop: UN migration agency cuts more jobs, shutters lifesaving programs from Myanmar to Yemen. At least 20 percent of headquarters slashed. "Entire units are gone. Massive loss of institutional and sectoral knowledge," one source told Devex.
www.devex.com/news/scoop-u...
You first.
My only criticism of George Orwell’s 1984 is that it wasn’t titled 2025.
No ASEAN member states voted with the United States and Russia against this resolution.
Not even Russia-dependent Laos or Vietnam, or Russia-friendly Indonesia, Malaysia, or Thailand. Even China abstained.
Who'd have imagined a German leader asking for Britain and France to extend their nuclear umbrella to Germany? A stark measure of the Trump disaster. Europeans must act together or hang separately. www.ft.com/content/8be4...
Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia.
Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.
Extraordinary.
Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity
None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
