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Called this back in October

This week's column: challenge for Labour and for Keir Starmer's replacement is twofold: both need to run the country *and* do the intellectual heavy lifting that Starmer-Labour did not do in opposition:

Now we are hearing from Sky and Amanda Roberts. Sky is the younger brother of Virginia Giuffre. He explains that Virginia was only 16 years old who had just finished 10th grade when her sex trafficking by Epstein began. Her abuse began just down the street from this hearing.

#VictoryDay. How it started. How it's going.

NEW: DHS subpoenaed Google for a Canadian man's location and account activity after he criticized ICE. The man hasn't been in the US in 10+ years, and DHS used an import law from the 1930s to try to get his data. ACLU is fighting it. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-de...

Next to the body of a fallen Ukrainian soldier, a child's drawing was found with the inscription: "Dad, come home with victory."

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/vGV8tjE

Some MAGA acolytes can't imagine people of different creeds, backgrounds, and cultures living peacefully side-by-side. The project to create a cosmopolitan society must be a dark conspiracy. IMO, the central issue of our time is this regressive idea of ethnic absolutism.

"pope should stay out of politics." brother you need to stay out of a size medium

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From a loyal twitter serf....

Those Trump assassination attempts in full

Anyway, would also love if people pre-ordered WICKHILLS -- a weird city (??) novel in which a spy, secretary, archivist, vampire, thief, and scientist have to save one of the last six cities in the world! "From what?" Oh you'll see :) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

We are on our way to Cyprus with good news. I welcome the agreement from the Member States on the 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine for 2026-27 and on 20th sanctions package.

Paging @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social now that he has lost an excuse for betraying trans New Yorkers

🔥 Russia: The Rosneft oil refinery and export terminal at the Port of Tuapse is a sight to behold this morning. 🍿 Ukrainian kinetic sanctions are the best. 🤗

Russia: FSB is confiscating licensed firearms from civilians across the country. Cases reported from Sakhalin to Moscow. Rosgvardia come to the house, hand the gun owner an FSB license revocation notice for being a "threat to the state," and seize the weapons on the spot.

🚨🚨Fascinating @politico.eu report on how Donald #Trump has become so politically toxic in Europe that even his closest ideological #far-right allies increasingly view him as a liability. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/trum...

No European has done more to help Russia kill Ukrainians than Viktor Orbán

Georgia Voter: It's giving war crime. You can't do that. We don't just annihilate people because we can and, you know, make a grab for the money and the oil. And that's what we've done in Venezuela. And that's what we're doing in Iran.

Dear #merica, #ShadyVance is also working for putin.

“We can’t last 34 more months of what we’ve had happen over the last 14. He’s only going to get worse. He started a war that could tank the global economy without any end in sight and without any plan. We can’t survive this”

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: Victor Orbán’s minister offered Sergey Lavrov to send him EU documents through the Hungarian embassy in Moscow. It’s really beyond shocking.

A madman has control of the most powerful military in the history of the world and the leaders of his party are too afraid to say or do anything to stop him.

Russian soldiers are using communications equipment made by American company Ubiquiti theins.press/en/news/291212

If Donald Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people, Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse to abide, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/NVYpWajy

The question now is whether or not the Republican Party is comprised of lemmings willing to follow Trump over the cliff.

There is no specific Constitutional prohibition against initiating a nuclear holocaust so it's hard to see why Democrats are so upset with Donald Trump. by Jonathan Turley

I guess I'm still learning the fundamental features of bluesky, and didn't fully appreciate how fun atproto can be. What do you mean it's possible to write scripts to generate posts!? I'm just so used to walled garden nonsense that it's shocking when you have an API to use.

Russia's Gen Z is already being taught how to use a Soviet-era telephone. They don't look unhappy.

It is a fair question. And a good article by @edwardluce.bsky.social even if he is mistaken on one thing. Britain is not the only country in Europe where Trump has fifth columnists.

Professor Phillips O'Brien to the Best for Britain run UKTBC (@uktradebusiness.bsky.social‬): "I would even go so far as to say the United States might be a threat to Europe right now, and that needs to be faced." "There is a reasonable argument now that NATO is undermining European security."

When I said Trump would deploy ICE at the polls, I was called an alarmist. When I said I did not believe the denials,I was labeled a partisan. Now DOJ officials are endorsing it at rightwing conferences. Stay informed. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

The future of protesting in the United States may have been decided in a cramped Depression-era courtroom in downtown Fort Worth on Friday of last week. trib.al/P5fhNFC

Oh. Stage an assassination attempt, you say? Interesting.

1/ Russian sources say that Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, under the command of Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, have made "significant strides in UAV production and deployment technology". Russian soldiers are facing "slaughter [like] cattle" as a result. ⬇️

‼️ Threats to Hungarian community posed as police: Security Service exposes Russian operation in Zakarpattia

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Buttigieg: "Trump's political operation was raising money off images at a dignified transfer. Any politician who does that has no business leading American troops into war. If the president is willing to raise campaign funds over the bodies of America's war dead, he's unfit to be commander in chief"

“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.” Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.

From FT comments

This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign" From @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

EU needs to rip up the trade deal right now and reject all investment “commitments”. We’re slamming into a devastating industrial recession in 2Q. Ain’t nobody have money to send to Intel factories in Arizona. Trump is weak now. He can’t afford a trade war.