"Are we the baddies?"

I'm as left wing as it gets, and I couldn't roll my eyes further into my skull. "People don't want forever wars"... These geniuses *really* think it takes two to tango, when it comes to war, don't they? "Hey, I'm declaring war on you" "I don't want a war!" "Ah crap well no war, I guess, then." 🙄

Russia doesn’t get to decide who all of its neighbours cooperate with.

Meanwhile they should try to raise their own arguments about Ukraine above the kind of soundbites Sultana spouts in the video above - which while briefer and more incoherent than a lot of what the "Stop the War" left puts out, are representative in their utter incoherence.

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

why are people on the left using "populist" in a positive way now, you shouldn't want your politicians to be populists, "populism" isn't good

We really should, and I can’t stress this enough, abolish the home office and replace it with separate ministries for security and immigration. Instead we’re just going to keep flogging this unreformable dead horse until the heat death of the universe bsky.app/profile/theg...

OH ITS A FUCKING BALLISTIC MISSILE OVER MY HOUSE OH THANK YOU PEACEMAKING LEADERS ALL OVER THE WORLD YOU USELESS FUCKING TROGLODYTES

Another major outage of some critical infrastructure that I’m sure is completely unrelated to the geopolitical situation!

UK politics, media can and should criticise the policing decision - but it is v skewed when does not understand there is a public order risk from violent xenophobic Ultras supporting Maccabi, as well as if anti-Israel protestors go into antisemitism, threat, violence www.jpost.com/breaking-new...

“Go home” Ukrainians are home

I'm as desperate to see the moral abominations in Gaza end as the rest of you, and I understand why there is so much anticipation that this might finally be a ceasefire, but given how this has played out over 2 years, some caution and skepticism should probably be advised.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

☢️ Zaporizhzhia NPP has been operating on generators for six days now, and it is unknown how much diesel fuel will be enough. If Russia does not create conditions for restoring connection of ZNPP with the Ukrainian power system, an emergency situation is quite likely, — Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

We worry about Very Online Kids much more than their Very Online Parents, and I'm not sure that's wise

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

Major policies that have impact on life and death “based on what I feel”. Even the Taliban base their views on an illusory (in my view) higher power. Trump is completely primitive.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group. There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi. He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

*taps sign*

Russia and Israel doing shit just like this regularly for years now. I’ve no energy left to debate people who equivocate on it. It’s just evil. Europe should be moving heaven and earth to stop them.

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

We ARE at war with NATO, who have captured 788,000 sq km, moved 600 miles east & taken Baltic sea, for zero casualties. We are NOT at war with Ukraine, have captured just 5000 sq km, moved 30 miles west, & lost Black sea for 1.1 million casualties. I remain a master strategist.

Someone followed the Notional Guard around DC playing the Imperial March from Star Wars.

Take a wild guess which army hit what

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

This guy must be a complete moron. The alternative would be much, much darker

Christ alive my eyes are bleeding after reading this. Jenkins outdoing himself with even worse ahistorical gibberish than normal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

3yrs ago, Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated Izyum and found mass graves of 447 people. Most of the murdered were civilians — 215 women, 194 men and 5 children. 22 were servicemen, 11 bodies couldn't be identified. Many bodies had signs of violent death. The occupation lasted less than half a year.

"Simple common sense" - Forcing raped children to keep resulting babies - Choosing regular mass murders over gun control - Claiming homosexuality is the same as drug addiction - Saying it's patriotic to attack your opponents with hammers - claiming the UK operates the Great Replacement Theory

We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder. Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.

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This one million percent, and people posting along these lines need to give their head a serious wobble

Don't be surprised if whoever killed Charlie Kirk has no coherent political ideology, didn't do it for any particular reason, and doesn’t fall anywhere neat on the left/right paradigm.

The idea that joining NATO would make Ukraine an intolerable threat to Russia is absurd and Poland is demonstrating why: they were just hit by Russian munitions and yet because NATO makes them feel secure they are comfortable literally just calling a meeting rather than a kinetic response

Debating whether and how Russia intended to violate Polish airspace is a distraction: either way, Europe and NATO need to take countermeasures that will make sure Moscow does not walk away thinking this is a risk-free venture, then do it again and more. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/p...

This fucking psychopath

At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.

The main lesson from last night for Poland (indeed all NATO in CEE) should be that their defense starts in Ukraine. Imagine the results if Russians could launch a massive UAV attack on Poland from just over the border in Ukraine?

[whispers] you wouldn't invoke article 5 unless you're sure it won't kill the alliance

Part of the "complete collapse of the idea of honor in the current era" is that CIA deputy director not immediately resigning in disgrace and exiling themselves to the mountains when news broke

Can yall stop posting that drawing please

Our govt + national media currently *exceptionally tolerant* of racism Willing to be mute, engage with + endorse spaces that promote & amplify racism (if person promoting racism is rich & connected) There is zero tolerance of racism only in football & cricket. Infinite tolerance of online racism

Not a word has come from this government, for a month, about Racist attacks in Britain: graffiti & intimidation The sewer of racism online These racist attacks on government ministers The world's richest man promoting fascists who want to eradicate minorities from the UK

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

She showed that a single mum from a council estate can become deputy prime minister, while vaping and going clubbing. She's a threat to their narrow-minded buttoned-up classist bullshit.

Two things can be true at once. Rayner was foolish in her conduct and right to resign. It’s also true she was always despised by much of the right wing press because she was a working class powerful woman.

get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions

Bit of a paradox that it takes a US Democrat to challenge Farage, whereas UK Labour does a decaf tribute act for him

Feels like the flag debate has been kicking around my whole life and it still boils down to: Civic institutions should fly the flag routinely. Sporting occasions and national events, sure get it out. Year round flag on your house, bit weird, trashy. Doing it to "intimidate the forrins", obvs bad