Andy Evans
@andevs68.bsky.social
Exploring the space between Politics and Religion.
Visiting Research Fellow in Humanities & Social Sciences at Keele University.
My work: https://keele.academia.edu/DrAndrewEvans
Visiting Research Fellow in Humanities & Social Sciences at Keele University.
My work: https://keele.academia.edu/DrAndrewEvans
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Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A
October 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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Understand what gov't is claiming right to do.
Take away the "alleged." Assume US military stops vessel & finds drugs aboard.
If what US did w/ moving boat is legal, then it would be equally legal to line up crew of stopped boat, shoot them all in head, then blow up boat.
For drug crime.
No.
Take away the "alleged." Assume US military stops vessel & finds drugs aboard.
If what US did w/ moving boat is legal, then it would be equally legal to line up crew of stopped boat, shoot them all in head, then blow up boat.
For drug crime.
No.
The US military "conducted a lethal strike" against an alleged "drug vessel" in the southern Caribbean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
US military ‘conducted a lethal strike’ on alleged ‘drug vessel’ in southern Caribbean, Rubio says | CNN Politics
The United States “conducted a lethal strike” against an alleged “drug vessel” in the southern Caribbean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday.
cnn.it
September 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Understand what gov't is claiming right to do.
Take away the "alleged." Assume US military stops vessel & finds drugs aboard.
If what US did w/ moving boat is legal, then it would be equally legal to line up crew of stopped boat, shoot them all in head, then blow up boat.
For drug crime.
No.
Take away the "alleged." Assume US military stops vessel & finds drugs aboard.
If what US did w/ moving boat is legal, then it would be equally legal to line up crew of stopped boat, shoot them all in head, then blow up boat.
For drug crime.
No.
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In case you wondered whether ICE has fully transitioned to a tool of a fascist regime: This is not something any federal agent should shout at a member of the public.
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In case you wondered whether ICE has fully transitioned to a tool of a fascist regime: This is not something any federal agent should shout at a member of the public.
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What will future historians say about this meeting?
August 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
What will future historians say about this meeting?
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Everyone who thinks that voters are responding to their own lived experience needs to explain this graph.
August 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Everyone who thinks that voters are responding to their own lived experience needs to explain this graph.
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BRENNAN: Why would Iran agree to any peace deal if the US has already pulled out of one that they had, as President Trump did in 2018, and now launched surprise attacks?
RUBIO: The ones that shouldn't be trusted are the Iranians
RUBIO: The ones that shouldn't be trusted are the Iranians
June 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
BRENNAN: Why would Iran agree to any peace deal if the US has already pulled out of one that they had, as President Trump did in 2018, and now launched surprise attacks?
RUBIO: The ones that shouldn't be trusted are the Iranians
RUBIO: The ones that shouldn't be trusted are the Iranians
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FACT - The JCPOA negotiated by Obama in 2015:
Reduced Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium
Limited the number of centrifuges
International monitoring of nuclear facilities.
In 2018, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agreement.
People are dead in this "crisis" because of Trump.
Reduced Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium
Limited the number of centrifuges
International monitoring of nuclear facilities.
In 2018, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agreement.
People are dead in this "crisis" because of Trump.
June 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
FACT - The JCPOA negotiated by Obama in 2015:
Reduced Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium
Limited the number of centrifuges
International monitoring of nuclear facilities.
In 2018, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agreement.
People are dead in this "crisis" because of Trump.
Reduced Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium
Limited the number of centrifuges
International monitoring of nuclear facilities.
In 2018, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agreement.
People are dead in this "crisis" because of Trump.
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PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
June 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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The right to assemble and protest lies at the heart of our republic. But there are also many other ways to take action. Find out how to get involved in the movement to save U.S. democracy here: protectdemocracy.org/how-to-prote...
June 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The right to assemble and protest lies at the heart of our republic. But there are also many other ways to take action. Find out how to get involved in the movement to save U.S. democracy here: protectdemocracy.org/how-to-prote...
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Essential “No Kings Day” reading from my PhD advisor T.H. Breen.
George Washington specifically rejected a military parade like the one Trump is having tomorrow. What seems to a king like a sign of strength should be seen by citizens as a loss of liberty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
George Washington specifically rejected a military parade like the one Trump is having tomorrow. What seems to a king like a sign of strength should be seen by citizens as a loss of liberty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump’s Un-American Parade
What looks like an excess of strength may really be a deficit of liberty.
www.theatlantic.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Essential “No Kings Day” reading from my PhD advisor T.H. Breen.
George Washington specifically rejected a military parade like the one Trump is having tomorrow. What seems to a king like a sign of strength should be seen by citizens as a loss of liberty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
George Washington specifically rejected a military parade like the one Trump is having tomorrow. What seems to a king like a sign of strength should be seen by citizens as a loss of liberty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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What a disgusting, ignorant, arrogant statement by the Secretary of Defense of the United States. Nobody trusts anything he says or does. That’s very dangerous for the US…we depend so much on our Allies. I served in Afghanistan in RC South 2009-2010 where thousands of Allies fought and many died.
HEGSETH: We wore a patch on our shoulder that said ISAF -- International Security Assistance Force. And you know what the joke was? That is stood for 'I saw Americans fighting.'
COONS: Let's just make clear for the record that our military partners in Afghanistan included many who served and died
COONS: Let's just make clear for the record that our military partners in Afghanistan included many who served and died
June 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
What a disgusting, ignorant, arrogant statement by the Secretary of Defense of the United States. Nobody trusts anything he says or does. That’s very dangerous for the US…we depend so much on our Allies. I served in Afghanistan in RC South 2009-2010 where thousands of Allies fought and many died.
"Surge". Like in Fallujah.
SCHATZ: Do you think this order applies to any Guard anywhere? Did you just potentially mobilize every Guard?
HEGSETH: Part of it is getting ahead of a problem so that if in other places, if there other riots, we would have the capability to surge National Guard there
HEGSETH: Part of it is getting ahead of a problem so that if in other places, if there other riots, we would have the capability to surge National Guard there
June 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Surge". Like in Fallujah.
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In today’s @justsecurity.org, I unpack Trump’s memorandum authorizing deployment of the military not only in Los Angeles, but anywhere protests against ICE activity (even if completely peaceful) are occurring or likely to occur. 1/2 www.justsecurity.org/114282/memor...
Trump’s Memorandum Authorizing Military Domestic Deployment
"The Memorandum ... raises many of the same concerns as an Insurrection Act invocation would, and that could end up looking quite similar in practice."
www.justsecurity.org
June 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In today’s @justsecurity.org, I unpack Trump’s memorandum authorizing deployment of the military not only in Los Angeles, but anywhere protests against ICE activity (even if completely peaceful) are occurring or likely to occur. 1/2 www.justsecurity.org/114282/memor...
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Evil. He’s a traitor. He works for Putin. He works for Putin.
“They gave Putin a reason to go in and bomb the hell out of them last night,” Trump says of Kyiv’s Operation Spiderweb.
And before that, there was famously no russian bombings of Ukraine, right? Wrong. You morally rotten piece of shit they bomb us every freaking day!
And before that, there was famously no russian bombings of Ukraine, right? Wrong. You morally rotten piece of shit they bomb us every freaking day!
June 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Evil. He’s a traitor. He works for Putin. He works for Putin.
In a mind-warping turn of events, Trump joins the Tesla Takedown movement.
June 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In a mind-warping turn of events, Trump joins the Tesla Takedown movement.
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On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ros Atkins on... The White House claims on BBC Gaza coverage
On Tuesday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an attack on the BBC's coverage of reports that Israeli forces had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza. She cla...
www.bbc.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Marco Rubio used to defend free speech wherever it was threatened.
Now he's snatching students off the street for exercising First Amendment rights — an authoritarian crusade that would make McCarthy himself blush.
I would ask "have you no decency," but I already know the answer.
Now he's snatching students off the street for exercising First Amendment rights — an authoritarian crusade that would make McCarthy himself blush.
I would ask "have you no decency," but I already know the answer.
Marco Rubio's authoritarian crusade that would make McCarthy himself blush
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Marco Rubio used to defend free speech wherever it was threatened.
Now he's snatching students off the street for exercising First Amendment rights — an authoritarian crusade that would make McCarthy himself blush.
I would ask "have you no decency," but I already know the answer.
Now he's snatching students off the street for exercising First Amendment rights — an authoritarian crusade that would make McCarthy himself blush.
I would ask "have you no decency," but I already know the answer.
Trump didn't get the memo.
First, there must be an unconditional 30-day ceasefire — only then can negotiations begin, not the other way around.
This is the joint position of #Ukraine, the EU, the UK, and the US.
Putin is trying to evade it.
How will events unfold?
We’ll see soon.
This is the joint position of #Ukraine, the EU, the UK, and the US.
Putin is trying to evade it.
How will events unfold?
We’ll see soon.
May 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Trump didn't get the memo.
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Putin rejects a ceasefire backed by the U.S. and Europe, which Ukraine agreed to. So of course, Trump does nothing (despite claiming he would) and instead echoes Putin’s spin about some meeting in Turkey.
Russian asset.
Russian asset.
May 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Putin rejects a ceasefire backed by the U.S. and Europe, which Ukraine agreed to. So of course, Trump does nothing (despite claiming he would) and instead echoes Putin’s spin about some meeting in Turkey.
Russian asset.
Russian asset.
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Trump played like a violin as usual. Drops ceasefire demand painstakingly agreed with allies. Puts pressure back onto Ukraine. Woeful. “Donald Trump has demanded that Ukraine should "immediately" agree to direct talks with Russia in a bid to end the war.” news.sky.com/story/have-t...
'Have the meeting now!': Trump says Ukraine should 'immediately' agree to direct talks with Russia
Vladimir Putin put forward the proposal of talks after European leaders threatened him with fresh sanctions if Russia failed to comply with an unconditional 30-day ceasefire.
news.sky.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Trump played like a violin as usual. Drops ceasefire demand painstakingly agreed with allies. Puts pressure back onto Ukraine. Woeful. “Donald Trump has demanded that Ukraine should "immediately" agree to direct talks with Russia in a bid to end the war.” news.sky.com/story/have-t...
When a Trade Deal is not a Trade Deal.
‘If I was British I’d be p**sed’ Trump’s UK deal is not the end of the trade war | Justin Wolfers
YouTube video by Times Radio
youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
When a Trade Deal is not a Trade Deal.