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ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

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My "friend" here is asking for directions to the Kerch Bridge

🇪🇺⛔️🇭🇺 European Parliament calls for complete freeze on Hungary funding, - LRT A group of MEPs says it is unacceptable to support "corrupt regime" of pro-Russian PM Orban, who openly undermines European values. It is necessary to "immediately stop all funding to Hungary, using available instruments"

He’s a cartoonist’s delight

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A conservative federal judge just issued a dire warning: The government must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States after he was illegally deported to a brutal Salvadoran prison, or else the country will descend into lawlessness.

Repetition, repetition, repetition 👇

So Van Hollen managed to meet with El Salvador's Vice President, and his honest answer to the question "why are you holding this man if neither your nor my government has evidence that he is MS-13" was "because America is paying us to hold him there?" Do I have that right?

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

Love the sign on the tie

Want one!

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He’s skipping funerals for soldiers to golf with the Saudis.

bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location

CNN becomes the first US media outlet to report on Putin's Murmansk speech in which he essentially said "I get Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics, Trump gets Greenland, Panama and Canada." Other US media ignores it.

It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.

Giles Coren rewriting Andrew Marvel in The Times 🇬🇧

Field day for UK cartoonists

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A few favourites from recent days

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 The EU plans to transfer more than 2 million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine annually on a permanent basis, says the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security.

More of this

After Elon Musk has been insinuating to turn off Starlink in Ukraine, Poland‘s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is reminding Musk that Poland is paying for it, and he is making clear that if Musk follows through that Poland will abandon Starlink altogether for being an unreliable service.

For Germans “the idea that America, whose forces did so much to defeat Hitler, should opt to cosset a party, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, that includes members openly supportive of the Nazis feels like an unpardonable betrayal.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/w...

OTD in 1944 the Red Air Force carpet bombed Tallinn, destroying 20,000 homes & killing 757 people. Imagine, in 21st century, Russia being run by a madman capable of that.

Now go protest at your nearest #TeslaTakedown and be excellent to each other.

Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley says the cuts DOGE proposed to Social Security will destroy the program Which will leave millions of Americans destitute-or dead “Everything they’re doing is driving this agency to system collapse..It will lead to..the interruption of benefits”

the thing is, this is effective even if you can’t get in and occupy the place nobody coming to buy a car wants to cross a line of cops and angry protesters, they’re gonna go somewhere else, this is not a desirable purchasing experience

🇬🇧 The UK wants to create a subgroup for intelligence sharing within the “Four Eyes” alliance, according to the Daily Mail, citing unnamed defense sources. This could be a response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s actions regarding Ukraine. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

🤡 🇺🇸 US vetoes G7 initiative on Russia's shadow fleet, Bloomberg reports

I want to ditch my American iphone and ipad. The non-US replacements will need to last a few years to recover from the hits and I’ll need to migrate 10k photos. Suggestions welcome.

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Shocking and sad😪 According to PolitoProject,USA is no longer a democracy: «USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy; it has experienced a Presidental Coup and an Adverse Regime Change event (8-point drop in its POLITY score)». www.systemicpeace.org/index.html