If someone had told me a year ago, that this could happen in the UK I wouldn't have believed it. Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.

Had anyone told us in March 2022, when Kyiv seemed weeks from encirclement and Russia controlled nearly 30% of Ukraine, that 4 years later Russia would still be fighting for Donbas while holding only 20%, we would have seen it as a Ukrainian victory and clear Russian defeat

Wow, I thought Bluesky was a bastion of progressive content? I post an *observation* and am immediately blocked by, I guess, said progressives 🤔

Why is it always the ex-SecGen that talks sense?

Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE

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How on earth is this still happening?

Is he saying what I think he's saying? That only white people can be considered "British born" and their crimes aren't important?

The threat of global nuclear annihilation will never go away until Putin goes away. He will keep threatening the world with every new country he invades. Russia must be defeated today in Ukraine.

They say they want to "protect the children", just not *all* children.

"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."

I like a good joke in the morning 🤣🤣🤣

What a ridiculous headline BBC. Guess what... nuclear weapons can wipe out humankind and make this planet a toxic wasteland. "raise the stakes"? What do you think numptie?

Wow. This looks like an exciting opportunity. Pity I don't live in DC and am in no way qualified.

Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK? Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇

This should be on every newspaper front page. russian scum.

Looks like d*ck swinging is back on the menu.

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"Private Putin reporting for duty Sir" "Toilets need cleaning Private"

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I don't usually post music stuff here but had to tip my hat to the wonderful Jon Anderson. 81 years young today!! #ProgRock

First moments after the Russian attack on a daycare in Kharkiv. Kids crying for their moms, rescuers and civilians rushing to get them out of the building... Heartbreaking.

This picture of Kharkiv firefighters evacuating children after russian strike on kindergarten must be on every front page!

The diplomatic debate about a cease fire, and potential peace, in Ukraine has reach such levels of nonsense that it's best to tune out altogether. A lasting peace in Europe will only be achieved when Russia is properly defeated and all Ukrainian territory is liberated.

Disband the UN 🇺🇳 A pointless and toothless talking shop, scared of its own shadow.

Meanwhile in Russia? Only in Russia.

"The war wouldn't have happened if I'd been president" Bollox. And America's complete genuflection at the bloodstained altar of 🇷🇺 fascism wouldn't have happened under *any other president*

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees" Trump will never understand this. No surrender.

💯 Yup, the RW media in the UK (which is the vast majority of news consumed) has decided they want Farage as PM. They're therefore purposely ignoring any unsavoury details like Kremlin money and influence. Traitors.

I wonder if I'm lucky or unlucky to live in these times. The mainstream media seems to act like a rabbit caught in the headlights. All these inexplicable events take place yet they don't seem remotely concerned or pointing out the obvious.

People keep saying this but if welcoming the indicted war criminal Pu instead of arresting him lifts Orban’s campaign up instead of putting it in the gutter, Hungarian society is deeply rotten. Let’s hope Hungarians meet the historical moment this time and punish Orban for this humiliation.

Do you remember that time when we pleaded and pleaded that Biden, Blinken and Sullivan send ATACMS to Ukraine 🤬 Tomahawks are not a given as yet but so many lives have been lost while the West has procrastinated repeatedly.

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Not one of Afghanistan's brightest and best. And I thought the Taliban were thick 🙄

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Russia bombs Ukrainian energy infrastructure to terrorize civilians and destroy their country. Ukraine bombs Russian energy infrastructure to defend civilians and destroy the Kremlin war machine. There is no equivalence between the two.

"the throb-veined and fraudulent sunlounger magnate, apparently trying to incite a race war" Brilliance as ever from Mr Lee.

Crimea is Ukraine 🇺🇦 Donetsk is Ukraine 🇺🇦 Luhansk is Ukraine 🇺🇦 Mariupol is Ukraine 🇺🇦 Bakhmut is Ukraine 🇺🇦 Toretsk is Ukraine 🇺🇦 Pokrovsk is Ukraine 🇺🇦 Chasiv Yar is Ukraine 🇺🇦 Kherson is Ukraine 🇺🇦 Kharkiv is Ukraine 🇺🇦 Zaporizhzhia is Ukraine 🇺🇦 Is that clear enough?

Let me get this straight. He's from India, a country renowned for its software & IT education yet he travels all the way to 🇷🇺 to study said subject? Hmmm... Bizarre.

These are the same guys who've been protesting recently (aka rioting) about protecting 'our women and girls' from harassment?? I guess they're only concerned when it's non-whites doing it. #ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls

Please help if you can 🫡

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

History has a funny way of proving who was right.

It’s such a Tory move to look at Trump’s deportation force - denounced for abuse, neglect, and the racial profiling of anyone not the right shade of pink or beige - and say, “Oh, yes, that’ll do us nicely.”

They may as well promise rocket packs and time machines for everyone for all this matters.

Another little detail not adequately examined by the BBC, Sky News etc.

It tells you everything you need to know about British politics that the only people who have ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of racism are the people who dare to call it what it actually is www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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