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Europe: ❤️ of democracy Truly democratic nations must coalesce around the EU as equals, standard setters and standard bearers for freedom, democracy, equality & rule of law. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇧🇳🇴🇮🇸🇳🇿🇦🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 ✊ The US is not a democracy, our ally or a reliable business partner

Trying to think of post-WWII major f-ups by major powers: * GBR-FR/Suez 1956 * USSR/Cuba 1962 * US/Vietnam 1965 * USSR/Afghanistan 1979 * RUS/Ukraine 2022 Any others? Can't see how the current Iran situation doesn't rank up there with any of these ….

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think it's fair to argue that America's conduct of the war against Iran may well be the greatest strategic blunder by a world power since Operation Barbarossa

There are more people protesting Orange Shit Stain outside the “Great American State Fair” event than there are at the actual event.

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SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.

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How is this farce of a do nothing government still going on? It's as if the system that protects incompetent white men and women in power was built to protect incompetent white men and women to stay in power.

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It really creeps me out how the police were apparently primed and ready to swoop down on this professional conference. Are they monitoring all forms of scientific communication? Devoting time and money to surveillance, to stop anything opposed to the views of Dear Leader and the billionaire-bros?

"The most trusted and esteemed program in American journalism, the legacy of our loved ones’ hard work and its accompanying sacrifices on the home front, has, in [Scott] Pelley’s words, been murdered," writes Sarah Safer, daughter of Morley Safer, who was a 60 Minutes correspondent for 46 years.

Morley Safer of 60 Minutes was my father. He would be disgusted by what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS Is doing to CBS | Sarah Safer

My father joined the program when I was eight months old and retired 46 years later. He would be encouraging journalists at CBS to speak out

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