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The only country to have left the ECHR in this century is Russia... and they were expelled.
Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?
Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?
September 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The only country to have left the ECHR in this century is Russia... and they were expelled.
Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?
Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?
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“Deporting” someone is sending them back to their country where they are free to live as citizens.
What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation.
It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.
What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation.
It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.
April 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Deporting” someone is sending them back to their country where they are free to live as citizens.
What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation.
It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.
What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation.
It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.
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If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.
April 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.
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Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
April 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
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And if they had the power to spring Tate out of Romania, they have the power to spring Abrego García out of El Salvador.
April 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
And if they had the power to spring Tate out of Romania, they have the power to spring Abrego García out of El Salvador.
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We were warned:
April 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We were warned:
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So we’re gonna screw over the Etsy businesses but Apple gets exempted.
April 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
So we’re gonna screw over the Etsy businesses but Apple gets exempted.
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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
April 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
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What is happening right now — and adding the bond market crash to the list of issues — is solely a creation of the President of the United States and everyone who enabled him in this foolish endeavor.
April 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
What is happening right now — and adding the bond market crash to the list of issues — is solely a creation of the President of the United States and everyone who enabled him in this foolish endeavor.
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A Land for All is an Israeli-Palestinian initiative trying to reimagine the two-state solution. Its co-founder Rula Hardal tells @aloner.bsky.social we’re running out of time to solve the conflict.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
Israel-Palestine: How to make two states work
A Land for All is an Israeli-Palestinian initiative trying to reimagine the two-state solution. We’re running out of time to solve the conflict, says ...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
A Land for All is an Israeli-Palestinian initiative trying to reimagine the two-state solution. Its co-founder Rula Hardal tells @aloner.bsky.social we’re running out of time to solve the conflict.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
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It's funny how the stupidest people of this year - the "Don't worry about what Trump says, he doesn't mean it" brigade - were also the stupidest people of all the Brexit/Truss/Johnson years.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.
April 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It's funny how the stupidest people of this year - the "Don't worry about what Trump says, he doesn't mean it" brigade - were also the stupidest people of all the Brexit/Truss/Johnson years.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.
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Howard Lutnick on CNN slamming people who buy Toyota's because it doesn't add to GDP.
Toyota has 11 factories in the US and produces 12 models. 39,000 American workers.
He knows this, but he chooses to lie.
Toyota has 11 factories in the US and produces 12 models. 39,000 American workers.
He knows this, but he chooses to lie.
April 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Howard Lutnick on CNN slamming people who buy Toyota's because it doesn't add to GDP.
Toyota has 11 factories in the US and produces 12 models. 39,000 American workers.
He knows this, but he chooses to lie.
Toyota has 11 factories in the US and produces 12 models. 39,000 American workers.
He knows this, but he chooses to lie.
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Oh ho ho
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
Donald Trump has been ordered by a judge in England to pay more than £620,000 in legal costs after unsuccessfully suing a company over denied allegations he took part in “perverted” sex acts.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Donald Trump has been ordered by a judge in England to pay more than £620,000 in legal costs after unsuccessfully suing a company over denied allegations he took part in “perverted” sex acts.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Donald Trump ordered to pay £626,000 legal costs after Steele dossier lawsuit
US president had sued over denied allegations he took part in ‘perverted’ sex acts but UK case was thrown out last year
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Oh ho ho
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Get ready ladies to fight like hell for our voting rights
April 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Get ready ladies to fight like hell for our voting rights
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What is more morally urgent that stopping the slaughter of men women and children being bombed and starved to death in an open air prison with no where to escape? Funded totally by us tax payers ?
It doesn’t make the first 25 hour morality list? expect human beings to swallow this garbage ?
It doesn’t make the first 25 hour morality list? expect human beings to swallow this garbage ?
April 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
What is more morally urgent that stopping the slaughter of men women and children being bombed and starved to death in an open air prison with no where to escape? Funded totally by us tax payers ?
It doesn’t make the first 25 hour morality list? expect human beings to swallow this garbage ?
It doesn’t make the first 25 hour morality list? expect human beings to swallow this garbage ?
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I hate to admit it but, as a retired psychiatrist, I find it morbidly fascinating to watch a country that 30 years ago considered itself the world’s only superpower commit suicide. Goethe once said, “Sickness is interesting.” It sure is. How did the US elect this super-sicko president twice?🤢
April 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I hate to admit it but, as a retired psychiatrist, I find it morbidly fascinating to watch a country that 30 years ago considered itself the world’s only superpower commit suicide. Goethe once said, “Sickness is interesting.” It sure is. How did the US elect this super-sicko president twice?🤢
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You can explain it to them but you can’t understand it for them.
-We may have a 10% Brexit 'dividend' but the cost of that dividend is the significant lost output since Brexit and trade dislocation with the EU, which the somewhat more generous US treatment does not even nearly compensate for.
April 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
You can explain it to them but you can’t understand it for them.
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We've now ended up with non-tariff barriers on our biggest trading partner and tariffs from our second biggest trading partner. I'm not sure 'benefit' is the word I'd use to describe that outcome.
Yup. It feels cruel to deny deluded Brexiters their tiny sliver of a ‘win’ but, on the other hand, fuck ‘em. Weakening a country *before* an attack like this is an act of obvious treachery. We would, by any measure, be better off *in* the the EU *with* the 20% basic tariff rate.
And the 25% on car parts from, inter alia, the UK is still in place, right? Or not?
April 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We've now ended up with non-tariff barriers on our biggest trading partner and tariffs from our second biggest trading partner. I'm not sure 'benefit' is the word I'd use to describe that outcome.
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And, Mike Pence grows some balls.
April 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
And, Mike Pence grows some balls.
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A baseline 10% tariff on nearly all countries…
Including an island inhabited only by penguins
But not on Russia
…tells you all you need to know about Trump.
Including an island inhabited only by penguins
But not on Russia
…tells you all you need to know about Trump.
April 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A baseline 10% tariff on nearly all countries…
Including an island inhabited only by penguins
But not on Russia
…tells you all you need to know about Trump.
Including an island inhabited only by penguins
But not on Russia
…tells you all you need to know about Trump.