Captain Haddock

@realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social

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.

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 ...

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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.

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

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)

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

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