Germany, Italy Block Measure to Suspend EU’s Trade Relationship With Israel “Europe’s credibility is at stake,” said Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares of the measure.

Spain, Slovenia, and Ireland pushed for EU leaders to consider suspending a trade agreement due to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, violence in the occupied West Bank and Lebanon, and recent passage of Israel’s openly anti-Palestinian death penalty legislation.

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

It would seem that the Democrats are offering Alan Dershowitz's recently vacated post of 'Head Ghoul' to Tucker Carlson.

The tent is big enough to include the man almost singularly responsible for the rise of Donald Trump but not anyone left of Elizabeth Warren lmao

i love logging in to bluesky and feeling nostalgia for the site that raised me❤️

The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write an Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA ob...

Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry.

Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.

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"War Columbo" got me

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

These fishermen are lucky to be alive. We will probably never know how many of the ~180 people killed in similar US attacks were also just fishermen.

A bill that would require the most dangerous drivers in New York City to install speed limiters in their cars is facing a major obstacle.

"It's like one guy who doesn't like this stuff, and unfortunately that one guy is the most powerful guy in the State Assembly."

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The most important war they want to win is the culture war.

I'M NOT SCARED I'LL DO IT.

ALL I WANT IS THE GIANT GOD WORM

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

And with a smile!

Top Biden Official Supports Trump Iran Attack, Says Biden May Have Done The Same Hochstein said Democratic officials simulated attacks on Iran “because that may have had to happen under our watch.”…

Biden was apparently contemplating just this occurrence, a former IDF service member in his state department says.

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Israel is (still) killing aid workers in Gaza Officials say Israel’s attacks on humanitarian aid workers aim to block essential aid from reaching Palestinians, as Israel continues to impose a blockade on Gaza seven months into the so-called “ceasefire.”

Officials say Israel’s attacks on humanitarian aid workers aim to block essential aid from reaching Palestinians, as Israel continues to impose a blockade on Gaza seven months into the so-called “ceasefire.”

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#Palestine #Israel

I suspect Biden's version would be somewhat better executed but functionally little different for the murdered civilians.

I really wanted to make this headline "Puff Puff Pass" but sadly got voted down

Bad boyars except … well pretty much exactly the same actually

I admittedly haven't kept on my Minions-verse lore, but I distinctly recall they were shown as having been frozen in ice from Napoleon to the present day, as an obvious way to dodge the implications of them "looking for another evil boss to serve" in the 20th C.

That's so true--despite being called "fingers," they do rarely seem to fing. Do you want some help staring at them for the next few hours to see if that changes?

@insanguinewrit.bsky.social

Parents of Iranian Children Killed by US Bombing Issue Letter Thanking Pope Leo The letter praises the Vatican leader for condemning the war on Iran.

Parents of children killed in the US bombing of an elementary school in southern Iran released a letter on Sunday applauding Pope Leo XIV for speaking out against war and urging him to “continue to be the voice of the voiceless children.”

This is precisely the attitude that drove me to not vote for a Democrat for any office in 2026. Literally tried it their way for a decade of my voting life and got scorned for making the wrong choice during the primary.

Couldn't even be bothered to make the promises they would break.

“fuck those kids” — Labour

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The 1996 welfare retrenchment actually changed policy (for better or for worse).The 2025 welfare retrenchment-which will hurt more people than the 1996 reform-is administrative in nature. It's all about making it impossible for eligible people to actually navigate the system to receive benefits

The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

Get excited.

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