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Welsh. Mum & Nain. She/her. Retired criminology lecturer/researcher. Bookworm. Here mainly to indulge a lifelong fascination with US politics.
Handy 🧵 summarising the dodgy financial dealings of Farage and his cronies.
Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social · 2d ago#TheYearInReform Look, it's very simple. Nothing to see here. Move along. Reform UK is a party - sorry - a company built around British Patriotism and being frank with the public, and it is led by straight-talking anti-elite Nigel Farage.
Sounds as though there is no plan for what *to* do should the US be hit by another pandemic. What a total imbecile of a health secretary Kennedy is.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoBASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
Still incredulous that Google thought it was a good idea in the first place.
Bill McCarthy@billmccarthy.bsky.social · 5d agoUPDATE: Google rolled back a new feature allowing Google Earth users to generate AI visualizations over its satellite imagery, following a furious backlash from researchers and open-source intelligence experts about the potential for disinformation. uk.news.yahoo.com/google-launc...
Took me seconds to make an image showing 'protesters' around Google buildings, using Google Earth's new AI generation tool. You can make bomb blasts, protesters, drone strikes, nuclear plants. How on earth did Google think this was a good idea www.404media.co/google-earth...
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
When Hillary called them deplorables, it was an understatement.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 7d agoParticularly given that Trump has done so much of this or similar, I'm a bit sad they didn't include "defraud MAGAts at scale." The support numbers would still be sky-high. But it would be a useful demonstrative. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
This Saturday, we are drug checking in #Camden How does it work? 1. Surrender a substance 2. Tell us what you think it is & about your drug use 3. We do lab tests inc. a test for synthetic opioids 4. After ~1 hour, we have results & can give honest advice wearetheloop.org/drug-checking
I keep hoping the press will wake up and do their jobs respectably, but I keep being disappointed.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · last wk.Every day Trump does more crazy-ass criminal things, and every day the news media act like he’s as normal as Dwight Eisenhower.
In case you were wondering what the president is up to today with all that's going on the world, check out this thread.
Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · last wk.Trump has been posting almost once a minute for the past 25 minutes on his tiny social media website It's mostly AI slop crap
What's that you say? A mere 83 years old today? 🙇🏻♀️ Happy birthday Mick Jagger!
And Trump is of the course *the* authority on American history 🙄 🤦🏻♀️
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: Trump just ordered warning signs and exhibits to be installed outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history. For the record: It does.
🇺🇸 Trump has put a new tariff on the UK this morning. 📈 We must pursue the best possible relationship with our closest and most reliable allies. 🇪🇺 That ally is the EU. 💪 And the best relationship is full membership.
US hits dozens of trading partners with new wave of tariffs
Imposed citing forced labour concerns, the levies replace a temporary global duty brought in after the US Supreme Court
bbc.co.uk
Unfortunately, the evidence tells us that there are a significant proportion who are 🤷🏻♀️
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoSlotkin: "He counts on the American people being dumb. And they're not."
Finding this quite hard to stomach from a country that is bombing the shit out of other countries…
In Trump's mind, this is what they signed up for. Their deaths are merely an inconvenience that he will go out of his way to accept no blame or responsibility for.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 3w agoVictims of a convicted felon president with billions of dollars to spend on an illegal war but no clear goal, no conscience and no clue.
🤞🏻hope it’ll be eighth time lucky for @countbinface.bsky.social Let’s go, people of Clacton!
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3w agoLights out and away we go! #Clacton
Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young
Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young
Exclusive: Grants are part of controversial package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics Donald Trump’s state department intends to allocate $12m to organisations in the UK founded by the prominent Conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young, the Guardian can reveal. The intended grants, revealed in US government documents, are part of a package of support for European groups viewed favourably by the Trump administration. Some former US officials have criticised the funding as a misuse of public money to seek influence over foreign politics. Continue reading...
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"And like all things Liz, it’s predictably a bit shit." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Liz Truss wheels out a series of C-list ghouls for drab London CPAC event | John Crace
Former 49-day PM helms a Conservative Political Action Conference that’s a far cry from the glitzy US version
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🧵 - in which Miller demonstrates again what a vile, despicable hate monger he is.
Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3w agoIt is very funny that Stephen Miller of all people is talking about how "deformed" his political enemies are, but let's be clear: this is both eugenics and a blueprint for state punishment of anyone who does not conform to Miller's idea of "normal" (eg: heterosexual marriage with kids)
"...as during the opening phase of the conflict, the US leader’s objectives and methods are clouded in confusion, daily U-turns and boasts that within hours are revealed to be false." Trump's disastrous fiasco continues... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Chaos and confusion bring US no closer to resolution on strait of Hormuz
Five months of U-turns and false boasts leave Donald Trump in worse position than when he started
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