Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump your boys took a beating
Captain Haddock
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The tweeter formerly known as @jxb101 at the previous place Brexit is shite 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇨🇿☸️🔸
When Trump says the Ukraine does not want to end the war, what he is really saying is that Ukraine does not want to surrender to a deal that he has worked out with Putin which would see the Ukrainians hand over more of their land and people. Speaking the truth is important.
Now the GOP wants to take control of the state’s system for picking judges, so it can get more favorable results. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The courts blocked their gerrymander. So Missouri GOPers want to rig the courts
The push to change the current system, known as the Missouri plan, began soon after the Missouri Supreme Court’s final ruling against the gerrymander.
democracydocket.com
Missouri Republicans control virtually every lever of state government, but voters and the courts keep getting in their way. Now the GOP is targeting the systems that give both their power: the state’s judge selection process.
Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected
For 86 years, Missouri has held on to a nonpartisan system of selecting its top judges. But after the state Supreme Court overruled the GOP’s redistricting push, some Republican lawmakers are calling ...
propublica.org
The school day had just begun. And do you know how long the first lesson lasted? SIX minutes. Just six minutes. Now Seva and his classmates are heading back down to the shelter because the air raid alarm is sounding again. russia is attacking us with drones.
Another triumph for Starmer. I think firing Robbins without cause was the moment Whitehall completely lost faith in him.
Six-figure payout for senior civil servant sacked over Peter Mandelson vetting
My regular ‘the UK’s political finance system is basically the same as the US’s’ klaxon
One widely loathed, ketamine-addicted, white-supremacist billionaire can single-handedly keep a failing political party afloat, through the brute force of money. Excellent system we've set up here.
15/ So it's not just SpaceX that will suffer; governments buying equipment or services from the US will almost certainly now be asking how they can de-risk themselves. The obvious answer will be to not buy American in the first place. /end
Trump’s corrupt lackeys Kushner and Witkoff are pressing Europe to resume purchases of Russian gas. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/u...
U.S. Floats Lifeline to Russia: Allowing More Gas Sales to Europe
The Trump administration is pitching the idea as part of a peace deal with Ukraine, but Europe is wary and critics say Russia would be strengthened.
nytimes.com
Zuckerberg's own employees confirm that he directed an intentional effort to throw the Brazilian election in favor of Flávio Bolsonaro, apparently because he understood this is what Trump wanted. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election, Folha reports
Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by restrictions during the country's election, newsp...
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It only can’t do so due to a failure of collective will
Starlink is still restricted over Ukraine. www.kyivpost.com/post/87379 "Europe cannot replace Starlink anytime soon... Russia could deploy an alternative to Starlink across the front line within a year" www.kyivpost.com/post/87276
There's a certain tendency within Labour which equates authenticity with being very right wing. It's not just Blue Labour, but obviously they represent the most extreme of this view (as they basically seem to believe fascist street violence is the last true representation of the working class)
America is lost, actually. If members of Congress don’t pull it back from the brink - as Trump goes full bore pro-Russia, and plots martial law to thwart the midterms….we’re gone as a country. It’s little experiment is over.
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Tommy thinks he’s being smart. Tommy has his arse handed to him on a plate.
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
TOP 🇬🇧 GENERAL SIR ROLY WALKER: “There is extreme jeopardy in the world… very soon, political leaders of 🇬🇧 will start to have a frank conversation with the citizens of this country about the sacrifices needed to prioritize defense…” Ominous. Full: www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...
Wise words from @lordrickettsp.bsky.social on BBC R4 Today after Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine: UK gov’t has to start a conversation with the people about the threats from Russia & what it means for us. Europe can’t keep hoping that life will return to normal, as long as Trump & Putin are in power.
OTD in 2016 Gorbachev stated quite categorically that he never received a promise by NATO not to admit new members to the alliance. He said the idea that Russia was betrayed is a myth. Which triggers my trolls.
"I envied those who had died." What Ukrainians go through in Russian captivity is horrifying. Both men and women are subjected to torture. 34-year-old Olesia Melnychenko, an Azov paramedic, shared what she endured during eight and a half months in Russian captivity in Olenivka
The single most predictable action of the Trump second presidency happened just a few hours ago. Trump signed an executive order that exempted Russia from all of the key possible sanctions that could have been placed on it by the Graham-Blumenthal Act. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/trump-prot...
Trump Protects Putin From Graham-Blumenthal
Stop Saying He Is Pivoting
phillipspobrien.substack.com
ZACHARIA IS ON THE WAY OUT ALREADY 👇 Q: Would you have liked to have known that Katie didn't pass the bar? TRUMP: Katie has been treated very badly by the media. Very unfair. I just asked her, is this for you? Katie is off to a start that, the news has been so nasty. Maybe it's not for her
Looked at LinkedIn. Immediately regretted it.
Needless to say, Steve Pinker, Robert Tombs and Maurice Glasman have been “appointed” as “advisory panel members”.
This is fun. The Critic Magazine - funded by some right wing billionaire, has teamed up with another criminally convicted right billionaire, to investigate Jason Arday (rather than their two writers prosecuted for sex offences). Oligarch media, and la trahison des clercs
I guess I shouldnt be surprised that Dieter Helm has turned out to be a Leaver