everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
Trump pardons allies who boost his crypto coin.
Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating.
Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business.
The list goes on.
We must not become numb to this corruption.
Simple rule: the Senate should not confirm any appointee to any post who can’t say clearly who legitimately won the 2020 presidential election. Not just who was “installed”, but who won the vote and the electoral college.
I am so sick of seeing politicians weaponise NHS problems. The reason the NHS isn’t working well is because of what politicians have done. They then give soundbites to the media attacking staff and pointing fingers at healthcare workers.
It’s grotesque.
Foreigners coming to Ireland, complaining about people they assume are foreigners. 🙄
Trump’s argument boils down to this: if Congress investigates me, that’s treason. That is not constitutional government. That is dictator logic.
The idea that you need to send corrupt sociopaths as Ambassadors to DC is so funny, because it's a standard we have never applied anywhere.
We don't appoint corrupt gangsters to embassies in Moscow or religious fanatics to Tehran.
Also, Mamdani is able to handle Trump fine without becoming him.
gobshitemaxxing
[gob-shite-mak-sing] verb
the act of being the most annoying human possible
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For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them
Despite the bullshit about Starmer I'm *fascinated* by the Daily Mail running a feature on Nadine Dorries that pushes gender-affirming healthcare ... /s
Criminal syndicates
England's water companies have 1,200+ criminal convictions.
Execs rewarded for dumping sewage.
Occasionally fines on companies are announced but then waived or deferred.
No corporate licence to operate revoked.
No exec fined/prosecuted.
One law for us, another for them
FTSE 100 CEO average pay up 18% to £5.89m, less weight attached to environmental, social, governance targets.
Did your pay rise by 18%?
Workers produce wealth but get crumbs.
Need worker elected directors, worker vote on exec pay to secure equitable distribution.
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Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Senator Jon Ossoff neatly breaks down political corruption in America — and how Trump’s “Mar-a-Lago mafia” has exploited it.
Every single Democrat should be saying this.
It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
Shut up and pay, serf.
Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness
we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help
Americans should be rioting. But they are peasants who love their serfdom.
"Youngest just described it as ‘grotesque’ but he continues eating it."
Yes this is the real experience, preparing the youth for adulting.
"Free Speech Absolutist"
As they used to say in the Soviet era:
"The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, but it does not guarantee freedom after the speech."
Evening all, 4-0 hammering today although I claim the moral victory in #1. Things were started by the usual suspect @ruatrindade.bsky.social with #4 Birmingham (no date). I was nobbled by the pro @mainholmpress.bsky.social with #1 Bogside 1965, the last meeting. #3 Beverley 1920 went to stable 1/2
Underrated post.
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
"Beware Freaks Bearing Grifts"
The correct pronunciation is Felonious trump.
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Wait a minute, is this the same Richard Tice who repeatedly called for Angela Rayner to resign over her dubious tax shenanigans? Surely not, because that would make him look like a hypocritical wanker. Oh.
