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Mid-60s straight white male; British, left liberal. Not a fan of selfishness, greed or entitlement: no time at all for cruelty. Arts, politics, the natural world, everything else.

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NEW: The Dept. of Homeland Security official overseeing election security helped advance efforts to seize voting machines after Trump’s 2020 loss.

Now he’s working with election deniers inside DHS.

@propublica.org is connecting alarming dots in Trump’s 2026 election takeover plot.

14.03.2026 19:30 👍 113 🔁 74 💬 7 📌 1
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Obliterated

"Trump Drops Nuclear Guardrails Putting World at Risk" full video | youtu.be/YsD6wd4GTuM

14.03.2026 18:45 👍 384 🔁 108 💬 14 📌 6
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Sing, Goddess, of the Fury of Trump! The wartime president is focused on footwear.

“These middle-aged men, some of the most powerful in the world, are not allowed even to stand or walk normally. The shoes are not very expensive—about $145—but apparently even to order a replacement pair in the correct size wld risk an unacceptable breach of courtly etiquette. What if he noticed??"

14.03.2026 16:41 👍 847 🔁 223 💬 72 📌 27

It also seems like Israeli leadership is essentially gripped by apocalyptic paranoia and believes it must dominate the entire region in perpetuity or be destroyed. An increasingly self-fulfilling prophecy.

14.03.2026 18:47 👍 131 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0

I can’t tell if Israel thinks its special privilege with the USA is eternal and the current grumbling by the American electorate is a passing fad or if it’s convinced the relationship is doomed no matter what and is basically buying everything in a going out of business sale while it can.

14.03.2026 18:41 👍 779 🔁 97 💬 45 📌 10

I mean…I’m tempted.

14.03.2026 19:47 👍 110 🔁 14 💬 7 📌 1
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Reform UK government would replace top civil servants with policy ‘believers’ Exclusive: Senior party figures conclude outsiders or existing senior staff deemed more suitable should take over from current permanent secretaries

Farage photocopies another Trump tactic, currently unravelling in the US www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

14.03.2026 19:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Your friendly reminder from Kevin Walling that every Democrat in the House voted for National Voter ID included in the Freedom to Vote Act. Not one Republican voted for it. The SAVE Act isn’t about Voter ID, it’s a voter suppression bill to help rig the midterms for Republicans.

13.03.2026 16:53 👍 1858 🔁 800 💬 53 📌 20
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The current GOP will be recorded in history books as a political party that started a war which killed millions in order to cover up the crimes of pedophiles.

They have slit their own throats and are now bleeding to death...🩸🩸

14.03.2026 01:18 👍 665 🔁 253 💬 52 📌 7
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Iranian press just shared this....

14.03.2026 16:08 👍 64 🔁 41 💬 6 📌 2
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Any sensible person who paid even cursory attention to Donald Trump knew, even before "The Apprentice," that Donald Trump is a dishonest, stupid, unreliable man and only out for himself. If you are currently feeling "betrayed" by such a deeply flawed person, you are a gullible idiot.

14.03.2026 16:27 👍 1783 🔁 485 💬 180 📌 38
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“The easing of U.S. sanctions on russian oil could give russia about $10 billion for the war against us.”

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

13.03.2026 15:27 👍 44 🔁 31 💬 3 📌 1
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In an email to Jeffrey Epstein in the files:

“There is, of course, one other alternative: another Middle East War. The United States could try to eliminate Iran's nuclear capacity with a military attack. But as many military experts have attested, airstrikes will not be enough…

🧵

14.03.2026 14:22 👍 240 🔁 90 💬 8 📌 5
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While U.S. service members die in another forever war in the Middle East, Donald Trump’s “peace envoy” is raising money for his private equity firm.

14.03.2026 15:33 👍 1011 🔁 420 💬 88 📌 40
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Whisky Pete can’t keep his story straight.

13.03.2026 19:52 👍 2361 🔁 844 💬 193 📌 73

£0 debt
£0 dividends
Water companies before privatisation

£60 billion debt
£85 billion dividends
Water companies after privatisation

The British public has been robbed - and our waters polluted to an extreme - and STILL Labour are refusing to renationalise water, disgraceful

12.03.2026 09:42 👍 619 🔁 254 💬 38 📌 9
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💥 A drone strike hit the UAE Consulate in Erbil, injuring two security personnel and damaging the building.

14.03.2026 16:35 👍 118 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 2

Fascinating that the US is burning down its own regional system for really just nothing at all

14.03.2026 16:17 👍 628 🔁 74 💬 21 📌 6

For the better part of 4 1/2 years the US, under two separate administrations, devoted quite a bit of time and resource to trying to convince the Gulf states to finance the reconstruction of Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, and Lebanon....and because of essentially one state the US may now lose the Gulf.

14.03.2026 16:35 👍 275 🔁 48 💬 4 📌 0
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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

Dark money campaign in IL-09 changed their shady website last night not to dispute reporting but to smear it with the fact that I worked w/ Abughazaleh's boyfriend at NBC 3 years ago. To be clear: Ben is cool. We used to work together. And that had no influence on this 100% true story. Send me tips!

14.03.2026 15:43 👍 1275 🔁 342 💬 16 📌 15

A lot of people gamble just for the buzz, or because the stake money doesn't mean much to them. It doesn't have much to do with reason or informed calculation. Those people will always vastly outnumber the smart bettors.

14.03.2026 16:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Speaking as someone who is more tolerant of gambling than 95% of Bluesky: betting on awards shows is some of the dumbest shit imaginable.

14.03.2026 16:33 👍 34 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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When Will the War End? A Saturday Prompt

“The US is in the ‘F**k Around & Find Out’ stage of Trump’s madness, fueled by war fanatic Pete ‘Maximum Lethality’ Hegseth, surrounded by a confederacy of dunces…undergirded by a feckless Republican-led Congress that does not know its constitutional purpose.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/when-will-...

14.03.2026 15:35 👍 811 🔁 237 💬 43 📌 15
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Jared Kushner pledged to bring peace to the Middle East when all he really wanted was to bring a piece of the Middle East to Jared Kushner. #OpportunisticNepoBabyConMen

14.03.2026 16:36 👍 3122 🔁 1165 💬 195 📌 72
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EU Council President António Costa:
Russia is currently the "only winner"
from the war on Iran: energy prices spike,
Moscow gets more revenue, Western
help is diverted from Ukraine, and
Russia can undercut the U.S. by helping Iran.

Trump saves the Russian economy while
destroying the US economy.

14.03.2026 16:36 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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As Iran War Pushes Up Oil Prices, Putin Can Barely Conceal a Smirk The Trump administration has rolled back some efforts to put pressure on Russia’s economy, and held out the possibility of easing sanctions further.

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

11.03.2026 02:07 👍 2299 🔁 816 💬 121 📌 42
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That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won.
You broke it Don, you fix it.

14.03.2026 15:42 👍 6695 🔁 1892 💬 605 📌 203

The thing about the MAGAfacation of media is even after he’s gone every tan suit latte salute fainting couch pearl clutching outrage cycle will now be cranked up to 11.

14.03.2026 16:31 👍 288 🔁 79 💬 10 📌 2
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Trump posted this to Truth Social where he brazenly admits his puppet-master role over censorship & firing decisions at the FCC, CNN, CBS, Comcast & Disney, among others.

So much for Bari Weiss and David Ellison's claims to be independent, free press champions.

14.03.2026 16:06 👍 303 🔁 164 💬 23 📌 25

Russia assissts Iran to kill U.S. soldiers.

At the same time Trump helps Russia by lifting oil sanctions.

Whatever there is between Trump and Putin; Kompromat- based blackmail or corruption, Trump must be removed, enough is enough.

13.03.2026 06:21 👍 2480 🔁 790 💬 146 📌 40