Over the weekend, Brian May announced that Queen won't tour in the U.S. for the time being because it's too dangerous here. This morning, Roger Taylor released a new song, "Chumps." Take a listen. It's pretty good. youtu.be/nJuv-dzrpKw?...
Gaye Murray
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European Scot. Located Alto Alantejo, Portugal. Prof career in psycho- therapeutic services. No more crofter, Isle of Skye. Owned by Moça 🐕, a PWD. Interests: thinking, learning, books! Arts, past & present, r 🪟 to humanity's now. Chronic pain.
I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Mark Carney appears to have outmaneuvered Trump on many different fields at the same time.
Jeffrey Epstein's ties to politicians, business titans and other figures reut.rs/4a6zJsP
Jeffrey Epstein's ties to politicians, business titans and other figures
The U.S. Justice Department's release of millions of internal documents related to Jeffrey Epstein has revealed the late financier and sex offender's ties to many prominent people in politics, finance, academia and business - both before and after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to prostitution charges, including soliciting an underage girl. Evidence in multiple legal and criminal cases has also shed light on these connections.
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There's effing around with "history" in Washington DC , and there's denying & re writing 👇 Both driven by 21st c ideological egos.
‘A violation of our history’: Palestinian uproar over Israel’s plan to seize historic West Bank site
Residents of Sebastia say heritage project is pretext for massive land grab and expansion of Jewish settlements
theguardian.com
Am I the only one who thinks there’s been enough of the files to prove that he is a pedophile? Or am I missing something? Where’s the outrage from the Republicans? 77% of Americans according to the polls want the files released which means Republicans as well. Are they hiding under a rock or what? 🔄
The authoritarianism taking shape in the United States today is not an aberration. It is an inheritance. It is the continuation of one of its oldest governing doctrines: Manifest Destiny.
Manifest Destiny Never Ended
What looks like a new authoritarian turn is the return of an old governing logic—one that treats land, life, and dissent as obstacles to be cleared.
westernwatersheds.substack.com
WATCH — @pabloreports.bsky.social : “What do you make of Trump being mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein files?” @ericswalwell.bsky.social : “That’s 38,000 more times than most people I know, and that’s 38,000 reasons why people want to know why he won’t come in and sit for an interview.“
Given that Canada's population is around 41m whereas the US's is 340m, Canada is doing really, really well at adding manufacturing jobs.
Jim Stanford@jimbostanford.bsky.social · 7mo agoWith Trump wildly firing off tariff threats (on Canadian aerospace, Cuba trade, and any other pet peeve), this is a regular reminder that his policies are a self-inflicted wound on US manufacturing. US lost 72K mfg jobs since he started the tariff wars. Canada gained 16K. #cdnecon #canlab
A short book on how US law (both the rules and the system ) is exceptional, ie very different from that elsewhere, is badly needed. American lawyers?
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7mo agoBreaking: Eight more prosecutors are leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, including Ana Voss, the current civil division chief, the Star Tribune reports. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Hey everyone! Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today! But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold. I just resorted our list to put those on the top. Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
erininthemorning.com
Lots of launches of Zirkon anti-ship missiles from Crimea. This notoriously inaccurate missile can only be shot down by Patriots, as it falls in ballistic trajectory "Peace" talks with Russia scheduled for 4-5 Feb. The missile massacre now is not a bug, it's a Russian peace feature
Many Kh-22 at Kyiv/oblast, explosions heard Ballistic missiles from Bryansk at Dnipro, Kyiv Tsirkon anti-ship missile at Kyiv Oblast Drones attack Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro all this time The nightly massacre continues
A number of AI-generated images have been circulating on social media falsely claiming to show a young Zohran Mamdani and his mother posing alongside Jeffrey Epstein. This has led to Alex Jones and others baselessly claiming that the fake images indicate Mamdani might be related to Epstein.
Georgy Avaliani was mobilized into the Russian army, survived a “torture basement,” and escaped abroad. Now, he’s wanted in Russia and Germany has rejected his family’s asylum application. According to Mediazona, his case is hardly unique. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Fleeing the front and wanted in Russia, deserters face deportation as Germany ‘churns out’ asylum rejections — Meduza
Georgy Avaliani, a 47-year-old father of three, was mobilized into the Russian army in the fall of 2022. He fled the front line as soon as he was deployed, only to be arrested, held in a “torture…
meduza.io
Donald Trump said today that "Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting." My life's work is to prevent that from happening. I built a law firm to stop it. I started Democracy Docket as another tool in the fight for democracy. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Law enforcement cannot be lawless. Thousands of aggressive, untrained agents of the federal government continue to injure and terrorize Minnesotans. This must end. apnews.com/article/immi...
ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital
Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.
apnews.com
I don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives. This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.
Was former prince Andy only one caught in a compromising pic, that easily anonymised the target female. I find this ufb. Former prince & former UK govt minister principal stars of the Epstein show - really??
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 7mo agoDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Ukraine is under massive russian combined missile and drone attack right now‼️ Many explosions in Kharkiv, also explosions reported in Kyiv Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia
Physics and astronomy researchers in the United Kingdom have reacted with alarm to news that key government funding for particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy will be slashed by 30%. https://scim.ag/46cn06Q
U.K. physics community braces for deep funding cuts
Research council to slash funding for particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy by 30%, prompting alarm across the research community
science.org
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
snyder.substack.com
Local media reporting ballistic missile warnings in Kyiv. Fuck Putin.
It’s very loud in Kyiv. russia is attacking us with ballistic missiles. Let the world know.
In case you missed it ... Steve Bannon tried to open his own Nazi academy in Italy in 2019. Luckily, Italy stopped him from using the monastery for his "Dignitatis Humanae Institute" project. But his intention to train European fascists and put them in contact with super-rich backers was very clear.
Double-headed eagles, white parrots and “defecating squirrels”: my experiences reporting from Russia. Our film ‘Our Man In Moscow’ for BBC Panorama is available on the iPlayer and will be shown on BBC One at 8pm tonight (Mon Feb 2). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Steve Rosenberg on the tightrope of reporting from Russia on Ukraine war
The BBC's Russia editor reflects on the difficulties of working as a British journalist in Moscow.
bbc.co.uk