You need to read this.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game.
V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice.
www.thenerve.news/p/donald-tru...
If you're looking for a calming read, Snyder is THE expert on dictatorships and he says that none of the ways Trump would try to cancel or annul an election should work. He runs down five motivations for coups, and Trump probably can't pull any of them off.
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
🇭🇺 The removal of Orban is a huge coup for the EU. They must ensure that bad faith actors can no longer hold the entire institution to ransom.
www.economist.com/europe/2026/04/15/orban-...
Our next #Eurocafe will be on Saturday
April 25th 3-5pm
All welcome!
Venue The Social Hub, 15 Candleriggs
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.
“The question is not whether AI weapons will be built,” was point five of the company’s post, “It is who will build them and for what purpose.” novaramedia.com/2026/04/20/p...
The most morally corrupt DOJ in US history.
WTF?
Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”
Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB KBE MVO*, as played by Sir Nigel Hawthorne CBE in TV's Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. *How does Wikipedia know about his gongs?
Blame the Civil Service. That always works
ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary
Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege.
What is it doing in the UK? Will any regulator even investigate?
Exec pay linked to profits. Every incentive to rig the market, fleece customers.
Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson
Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting
Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS
Nothing to see or everything to see
Palantir must be removed from the NHS
False valor.
#RadioFreeAmerica #politics
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Donald, after being told Air Force personnel were missing in Iran, had a freakout that got him excluded from an important briefing. He was't worried about the missing pilots. No, he only cared that a failed operation would hurt HIS POLL NUMBERS, as it had Jimmy Carter's. What a self-absorbed prick.
Easy solution: Ban these gluttonous resource hogs.
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs person who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.
Loch Katrine in the Trossachs, about 35 miles north of Glasgow. Covering 12.4 square kilometres, it's scotland's 11th largest loch, and since the 1850s, it's been providing the city with fresh, clean drinking water.
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#glasgow #lochkatrine #scotland #visitscotland
If you read one thing today ...
An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social
billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...
Reform is a business profiting Trump mini-me Nigel Farage with a political party attached.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
We came to one overwhelming conclusion, which was that this debate failed to address the consequences of the potential economic tsunami heading Scotland’s way very soon, writes Professor Richard Murphy ✍️
Gotta love David Byrne using Minneapolis footage of ICE during his show: Life During Wartime:
youtu.be/Kn1vsMJk260?...
Corporate capture of the state kills.
Inquiry into the Grenfell fire found dishonesty, false claims about safety of building materials, regulatory collusion.
72 people died. No one prosecuted. Companies still get public contracts.
Govts push deregulation.
Working class lives don't matter do they
Another outcome from Trump’s America slapping Ukraine in the face is that he has provided a huge impetus for European nations - especially Ukraine 🇺🇦- to develop other sources of weaponry than America.
Ukraine now planning to develop and manufacture its own version of Patriot missiles
Thank you @povmagazine.bsky.social and Barri Cohen for sharing my misery...and joy:)
