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The president has demanded an explanation from Beijing and accused it of aligning itself with Russia in the war. www.ft.com/content/930c...
April 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The president has demanded an explanation from Beijing and accused it of aligning itself with Russia in the war. www.ft.com/content/930c...
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As a show of loyalty to the Kremlin, the Trump regime is opting to pull 10,000 US troops from Eastern Europe, specifically those currently stationed across Poland, Romania, and the Baltic, in an effort to weaken NATO defenses against Russia.
April 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
As a show of loyalty to the Kremlin, the Trump regime is opting to pull 10,000 US troops from Eastern Europe, specifically those currently stationed across Poland, Romania, and the Baltic, in an effort to weaken NATO defenses against Russia.
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Some things never change
March 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Some things never change
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The UK doesn't have an independent nuclear deterrent. It is the forward arm of USA's nuclear defence.USA will decide whether or not it is ever used. It's only British in the sense that we pay for it. We would be better to do a deal with France, whose nuclear forces are truly independent of America.
April 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The UK doesn't have an independent nuclear deterrent. It is the forward arm of USA's nuclear defence.USA will decide whether or not it is ever used. It's only British in the sense that we pay for it. We would be better to do a deal with France, whose nuclear forces are truly independent of America.
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In 1923 Adolf Hitler incited an insurrection against the German government.
He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1
He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1
January 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
In 1923 Adolf Hitler incited an insurrection against the German government.
He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1
He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1
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A prescient warning from a W.E.B. Du Bois speech in 1905
February 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A prescient warning from a W.E.B. Du Bois speech in 1905
For those that are interested in learning about the Germans who stood up to the Nazis and the associated history of Nazi Germany, I highly recommend reading this book.
(Book cover, featuring a side profile photo of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose)
(Book cover, featuring a side profile photo of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose)
February 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
For those that are interested in learning about the Germans who stood up to the Nazis and the associated history of Nazi Germany, I highly recommend reading this book.
(Book cover, featuring a side profile photo of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose)
(Book cover, featuring a side profile photo of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose)
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"Donald Trump and Elon Musk are systematically seizing control of the federal government's machinery through plainly illegal means. They are violating civil service protections established by law."
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-coup-is-...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-coup-is-...
A Coup is In Progress in America
This is not hyperbole or exaggeration. The constitution of the United States is not operating. This is a grim moment in American and world history.
www.notesfromthecircus.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Donald Trump and Elon Musk are systematically seizing control of the federal government's machinery through plainly illegal means. They are violating civil service protections established by law."
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-coup-is-...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-coup-is-...
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Owen Jones' examination of the unbelievably rapid disintegration of Starmerism is well worth a read.
Keir Starmer's own aides say he isn't actually in charge
Starmerism is a train wreck in office, but his own aides want to pin the disaster on their frontman - rather than their failed ideology
www.owenjones.news
February 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Owen Jones' examination of the unbelievably rapid disintegration of Starmerism is well worth a read.
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Why aren't more people upset about this? Why isn't it being vastly reported? Why hasn't Congress raised alarms? I'm truly dumbfounded that this has been allowed, and no one seems alarmed.
February 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Why aren't more people upset about this? Why isn't it being vastly reported? Why hasn't Congress raised alarms? I'm truly dumbfounded that this has been allowed, and no one seems alarmed.
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"Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually and to all the financial information of Americans and American businesses with it."
Wtf?
Wtf?
February 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually and to all the financial information of Americans and American businesses with it."
Wtf?
Wtf?
Be careful out there folks, there are scammers about attempting to take advantage of the transphobia that has risen its ugly head in recent days and weeks.
African scammers posing as transgender people fallen on hard times and asking for gofundme donations.
African scammers posing as transgender people fallen on hard times and asking for gofundme donations.
February 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Be careful out there folks, there are scammers about attempting to take advantage of the transphobia that has risen its ugly head in recent days and weeks.
African scammers posing as transgender people fallen on hard times and asking for gofundme donations.
African scammers posing as transgender people fallen on hard times and asking for gofundme donations.
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Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
February 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
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N@z1 book burnings erased information such as Marxist theory, but also libraries full of queer and transgender studies.
Trump ordered data purges related to queer and trans health and fired thousands even BRIEFLY associated with DEI. Data on HIV, transgender medicine, climate change, etc is gone.
Trump ordered data purges related to queer and trans health and fired thousands even BRIEFLY associated with DEI. Data on HIV, transgender medicine, climate change, etc is gone.
February 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
N@z1 book burnings erased information such as Marxist theory, but also libraries full of queer and transgender studies.
Trump ordered data purges related to queer and trans health and fired thousands even BRIEFLY associated with DEI. Data on HIV, transgender medicine, climate change, etc is gone.
Trump ordered data purges related to queer and trans health and fired thousands even BRIEFLY associated with DEI. Data on HIV, transgender medicine, climate change, etc is gone.
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February 1, 2025
February 1, 2025
Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
February 1, 2025
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According to this article, Trump said that Canada should be absorbed into the US because it would be better for America's national security. That's more of less what Putin said about Ukraine.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | Trump is starting a trade war. If he wants to absorb Canada, what comes next will be worse | CBC News
The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired. Whether it escalates beyond the planned 25 per cent tariff into a wider economic war depends upon how genuinely s...
www.cbc.ca
February 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
According to this article, Trump said that Canada should be absorbed into the US because it would be better for America's national security. That's more of less what Putin said about Ukraine.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...