Want to know what the UK would look like under Farage? Look at the US right now. The US far-right *is* the UK far-right, with the same people pulling all the strings on both sides of the Atlantic. The useful idiots are different, but the ideas, the tactics, and the funding are the same

Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Trump just gave a green light to China to invade Taiwan and has emboldened Putin. Shocking lack of leadership and integrity.

You were saying?

Lisa, I’m in the UK. I tweeted about a UK political figure in UK politics . You jumped into my thread.

Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.

Too bad, slopguy

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Maduro has overseen the largest refugee crisis in Latin America, and at one point the second largest in the world. That still does not allow Trump to launch military attacks against a sovereign nation. If the benchmark was the leader was an inhumane arse then everyone would be invading America.

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

Fair

to all the people shitting themselves about Trump somehow magically launching a nation-wide crackdown on American dissenters tomorrow: please do keep this in mind

The thing you absolutely must remember about the Trump admin is that THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS. They just don't have enough! They don't have enough to do mass deportations, they don't have enough to occupy cities, they certainly don't have enough to suppress regular dissent.

I told my generals that this is what a special military operation is supposed to look like. They're looking nervously at the window.

wow crime is already down in mamdani’s new york

If Maduro is in custody my expectation is the admin will try to hold Dumb Nuremberg. They'll make it a judicial referendum on fentanyl and try to blame Maduro for the deaths from the opiate crisis.

I’m dead now

Very much all of this. The many Brits bashing the capital are very useful idiots for overseas efforts to undermine the country imho. As I've said before, it's time to push back at the nonsense

Reading is less of a punishment than Slough

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Abolish ICE

Dementia is a helluva drug

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Good to see @bellingcat.com stuff at the British Library’s special “Secret Maps” exhibition. Exhibition closing soon -18 Jan. Very good.

I dunno, these mid ass "AI" technologies may not be worth the cost folks!

It would be good for 20-30 countries to pursue this in the next few weeks

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More in the "where there's smoke, there's fire" on the Epstein/Farage stuff. See also: Boris Johnson

Well spotted on the date. In his emails to Epstein in mid November 2018 Bannon claims to have met up with Rees Mogg, Farage and Boris Johnson to keep Brexit on track and defeat Theresa May. Farage denies this…. And yet…. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Trump loves to dish out criticism but can’t take it himself. Sanctioning two British citizens is the behaviour of a bully and a blatant attack on free speech. We can’t allow his growing interference in UK and European politics to continue. The Government must stand up to him.

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Since when did Blue Sky become all American and it become rude and gauche for non-USA people to post about non-USA subjects? Jeez, some of you are provincial narrow minded hicks. And I say that as US citizen living abroad.

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It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.

Russia conducted a false-flag attack on Putin's residence and forgot the "flag" part. The CIA confirms that Putin is lying and Russia is full of sh*t.

how can we exist in a world ran by people who don’t think this shit is a problem

In case you thought they just meant undocumented immigrants…

I’m in the UK and I cited a UK publication and a high % of my followers are in the UK and I’m posting about a UK political figure, Lona. And Farage is not in the Conservative Party

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a twat who lives in Dubai who withdrew £3m from his company before liquidating it while owing £1.25m in unpaid tax.

Literature just isn’t like it used to be

damn skippy

Well

It’s all coming up Kaszeta this year

Worst idea of the year has already dropped

Farage confirms his party is a bunch of disgusting racists.

"Immigrant Derangement Syndrome is a top-down phenomenon, not a broad popular movement. It reflects the perverse obsessions of MAGAdom, with racism a key component.' To state the obvious, this analysis by @pkrugman.bsky.social also largely applies in the UK/Europe. substack.com/home/post/p-...