just as addendum : ive just read the new US foreign strategy paper and what youve outlined is more crucial than ever, its demonstrably now US stated policy to influence foreign democracies

Why would US *security* policy require them to interfere to change the politics of European countries who are allies, subordinates of USA? Obviously, to change their opposition to the Russian mafia state.

#Russia threatening Faroe Islands — population 55,000 — w retaliation after Faroese Parliament gave government the authority to bar Russian fishing companies from its waters #Ukraine

2 weeks ago, Farage and Reform looked vulnerable over Nathan Gill's prison sentence for shilling for Russia. Effectively treason. It has taken a decade to get any focus on this massive, critically important scandal. What do prominent Reform/Putin opponents do? Change the subject!

Awful strategy is one reason we lose. Failure to understand the audience. Is there a single voter who cares about historic childhood racism who would consider Farage? Cluelessly flooding the zone with exactly what those who intend to fill it with shit want us to.

The attention paid, significance attached to the story about Farage's childhood racism is absurd. 1: Weaponising views held as a child signals lack of a better argument. 2: Reform voters don't care. They will see it as evidence of 1. 3: It distracts from more effective lines of attack.

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Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.

PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican: @punchbowlnews.bsky.social

Crazy shit: the connections. Two very excellent reads: “Hiding In Plain Sight”, and “They Knew”, both by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. From *before* his media stardom days. And the interconnected lines between verifiable international criminals and the donor elite and their politicians. Clarifying.

No question about it. The US Christian Right has been infiltrating our right wing politics for 30 years. It is now a global, kleptocratic alliance, including the Russian Orthodox church. See 'The Family' on Netflix.

Please tell me this is fake 😬

This is an actual Daily Express 'story' about Question Time. Yes, really.

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No crypto! Just old-fashioned corruption www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Who could possibly have predicted this?

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Verdict of one Labour grandee I just bumped into: “Ed Miliband is the person most likely to be the most next Prime Minister”.

Can't wait to hear the rational explanation from the sensible, 'its all a conspiracy theory' crowd.

The broad swathe of mainstream commentators who dismissed TrumpRussia, or indeed the Epstein files, as crazy, fringe conspiracy theories, should hang their heads in shame.

One thing is clear, the campaign to threaten and sue networks over their coverage definitely worked

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Trump's actual quote, pre-edit, is more damning. This may be the stupidest, confected scandal yet.

Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis. Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?

Why are intelligent people who followed UK politics/media over the past decade surprised, shocked even, about Trump and the wars on truth and independent journalism? Is it wilful blindness, or fear?

The police investigation into how SNP spent £0.6M of private donations, which destabilised Nicola Sturgeon and involved her garden being dug up in front of TV crews, has cost the taxpayer £2.7M. #UKSR

все старое снова новое.

Q-dropping Russian sovereign wealth fund guy praises Putin for using American technology--given away by Trump 5 Jan 2021--to create his Burevestnik missiles with unlimited range, capable of attacking US cities while tagging Elon Musk to make sure he knows the same SMRs can help them colonize Mars.

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time. I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

I know it's got a little world of its own, but the Telegraph (and other right-wing papers) standing up for Trump against the BBC is a striking illustration of how far off the deep (state?) end they've gone.

Most people dont realise they are in a race against time to fight back and shut it all down before the oligarchs finish building a complete police state with everything locked down. Gaza was the testing ground for what they are rapidly implementing at home.

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

Things universities can make national news for: - people on the internet are a bit upset about the speaker selection of an obscure student group, - a member of faculty copy-pasted a sentence of boilerplate methods language in her PhD thesis 30 years ago. Things no one cares about: - Bombs.

Almost every large American city has signed a contract with Skydio in the last 18 months Skydio drones were recently used by city police departments to gather information at the ‘No Kings’ protests & also used by Yale to spy on the anti-genocide protest camp set up by students at the last year

Putler’s strategy here is - if you’re a fire department and want to get busy, you start causing fires. He comes in as the mediator who gets ahold of natural resources in return

These are often the same people who said Musk was merely doing a 'Roman salute', that Kanye was a misunderstood victim and apparently never saw any of the swastikas on Jan 6th, Tea Party rallies etc.

Its truly wild that people who are paid to write about US politics have suddenly noticed, in late 2025, that the far-Right have an anti-semitic faction.

Please. Enough of the hopium. MAGA will never implode because it is a Cult.

Russian Spy Reveals How Putin’s Agents Seduce Silicon Valley Experts She added that foreign female agents deliberately start romantic relationships with engineers and company executives to gain access to confidential information. militarnyi.com/en/news/russ...

Of course Paul Manafort has also been working with Dodik's allies in Republika Srpska: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey slams Farage and Reform UK’s links to Russia and calls for an investigation into Russian interference in UK politics: “The evidence shows Nathan Gill was a close confidant of the current Reform party leader for years.” Starmer calls Reform UK “Putin-friendly” in response.

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No Brit who recalls Mark Thompson's tenure at the BBC will be surprised. Mediocrity and client journalism personified.

Steve Bannon: Trump is "a vehicle for divine providence" & "an instrument of divine will". This is such a classic part of the fascist playbook. I wrote about it last year for @bylinetimes.bsky.social. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/fascism-re...

Entirely consistent with a fascist dictator. Can we say that now or live in fear of upsetting the snowflakes?

By speaking solely of immigration, politicians and the media mask the underlying conditions that have created a country alienated from itself, argues Editor-in-Chief of Byline Times, Hardeep Matharu

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