The Iraq War produced no accountability. The 2008 bailouts produced no accountability. The opioid epidemic produced no accountability. But a Marine veteran from Maine leading the polls two-to-one produces an immediate, multi-front character assassination campaign. The system knows what threatens it.

The Fire Next Time

They will understand it when it arrives. That will be too late.

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Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.

It could not have been clearer that the ceasefire included Lebanon. Yet 500 people have been killed in Beirut alone today. The ceasefire is a fiction. It does not exist. It is as credible as claiming regime change in Iran. There is only one route to salvage US global reputation. Oust Trump. Now.

the biggest comedown in human history will be the Artemis II crew returning from a spectacular achievement of collaboration of ingenuity & intelligence to visiting the White House & listening to a flat-brained rapist & paedophile ask if America looks like the biggest country from the Moon

Remember that Nigel Farage is Donald Trump's biggest supporter. Remember that Nigel campaigned for Trump and even wants to mimic all his policies. This is the sort of insanity Reform want to bring to the United Kingdom.

a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other and one of them is saying go forth and spread the word

ALT: a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other and one of them is saying go forth and spread the word

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Nothing says understanding the lives of average Britons like photo ops outside golden elevators with war mongering friends of Epstein. Farage wants you to forget how hard he’s worked to be close to Trump.

Don’t forget that Nigel Farage supported Trump going to war with Iran.

GB News, the channel of “reactionary rage bait”, has released its latest accounts showing a £22m loss for 2024/25 (and a £131m total loss since launch) Yet another demonstration that there’s no shortage of funds on the right of British politics, writes @writesbright.bsky.social for the Nerve 🧵1/6

You're gonna need to sit down for this one, but the side that bombed every school in Gaza, and denied bombing the girl's school in Iran (blaming a misfired Iranian missile), has now admitted it did bomb the girls' school after all. Astonishingly, the cover story was a lie.

Yes there are shadowy influencers at play, wanting Britain to be separated from the EU: The massive American tech corporations and their Private Equity funders. They want Britain to be their Treaure Island, unregulated. 1. Read ’Vassal State’ by Angus Hanton. 2. Find out about Shanker Singham.

This is how America controls Britain | Angus Hanton interview youtu.be/T5QeZdylrmg?...

This is how America controls Britain | Angus Hanton interview

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

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Farage is in the Maldives. 200 miles away from the Chagos Islands which are not a tourist destination. Hasn't got the paperwork and wasn't on the 'aid boat' he's pointing at which is trying to establish a settlement for four people on the islands. How is this serving Clacton? Who paid?

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise": The U.S. is reorienting its foreign funding program to export #MAGA ideology to Europe — and a growing set of far-right and conservative think tanks and political groups are lining up to take Washington’s money. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/maga...

The MAGA-friendly European think tanks Trump wants to fund

The Heritage Foundation identified European groups for U.S. backing.

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Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

at best billionaire media owners create a pseudo-journalistic agitprop safe space that coddles their ideology and interests; at worst they destroy outlets that used to speak truth to power

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

Farage Lies Lied about 17 payments worth £300k Lied about owning a house in Clacton Lied about Council Tax increases Lied about Russian Ambassador #FarageLies keep stacking up

Rep Melanie Stansbury, "What in the Epstein files is so bad that Trump is invading Venezuela, threatening NATO, ICE on streets"

1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

The UK government – Trump is threatening to destroy NATO, so let's give our military data to a company owned by a political extremist who wants to abolish democracy, and whose money and influence put Vance in the White House.

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GB News' fawning Donald Trump interview reported to Ofcom

Campaign group 38 Degrees delivered the complaint after more than 65,000 people signed a petition demanding an investigation into whether the interview broke impartiality rules

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The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

I’m really looking forward to all the coverage the Green Party is going to get in their conference a month from now.

FUN FACT: Companies like INEOS want plastic production to TRIPLE by 2050. But people want the opposite - we want a safer, less plastic polluted future. Who’s sick of corporations destroying our planet?

1/ Blue Labour founder Lord Glasman talks to Steve Bannon weekly, but talking to Curtis Yarvin is even more sinister. Yarvin openly wants to destroy democracy. One of his plans is to divide the USA into mini-dictatorships owned by corporations in which the people have absolutely no rights.

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · last yr.

Recent reports show that Peter Thiel Guru Curtis Yarvin met with Labour Peer Lord Glasman and boasted about using the N word. Why does this matter? Because Glasman claims to have a strong influence on the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney

It's so odd asking politicians if they "believe" in climate change. It's like asking them if they "believe" in gravity.