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The Republican party has embraced Nazism. But many on the left have embraced veganism. I have never felt more politically homeless.

"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

I’m having a hard time thinking of an interview between two human beings I enjoyed more than tonight’s interview of the great Ian McKellen by the great Stephen Colbert. Every moment of it was a pleasure that I highly recommend… but then came the most REMARKABLE ending that you really HAVE to watch.

Watch this. Then remember that the president doesn’t care. He cares that his old ass gets richer in the hand full of years he may have left.

And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil

Our history has taught us that there is no freedom of speech without freedom of information. And freedom of information exists where there is respect for pluralism.

There will be no freedom of speech if citizens' freedom of information is sacrificed to defend some tech oligarchs.

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025

Here's a seven-point peace plan:

Hopen op een goede uitslag vanavond! @lisawesterveld.bsky.social

Trying hard to moderate my Maia Sandu fangirling right now, but I gotta stress she's accomplished something no EEuropean reformist ever has: brought a fugitive oligarch back to face justice AND fended off massive Ru interference to win a referendum and two re-elections (parliamentary+presidential)!

The main lesson from last night for Poland (indeed all NATO in CEE) should be that their defense starts in Ukraine.

Imagine the results if Russians could launch a massive UAV attack on Poland from just over the border in Ukraine?

A railway track is shown in the middle of the image, with the top half coloured in the yellow and blue stripes of the Ukrainian flag. The track fades into a reflection below, which is coloured with the blue and gold stars of the European Union flag. The text “Ukraine is on European tracks” is centred in the image. In the bottom right corner is the logo for the European Commission.

One track. One standard. One step closer to Europe. 🇺🇦

Ukraine opens its first European-gauge railway, a 22-km line from Uzhhorod to Chop.

A €28.6 million #EUfunded project bringing:

✅ Faster border crossing
✅ More trade
✅ Better links to 🇸🇰🇭🇺🇦🇹 and beyond

→ europa.eu/!gypNxR

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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, UKRAINE 🇺🇦

Het is tijd voor solidariteit. GroenLinks-PvdA bouwt een nieuwe verzorgingsstaat aan de hand van vijf beloften: meer betaalbare huizen, strijd voor een groene toekomst, een inkomen waarmee je vooruitkomt, leiderschap dat Nederland beschermt en de basis op orde.

Common Sense about Negotiations For Americans about Ukraine

As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Americans would do well to remember ten principles of negotiation.
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This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

De schande op het blazoen van Navo-bondgenoten groeit met elke luchtaanval op Oekraïne Terwijl het de oorlog tegen Oekraïne intensiveert, op land en in de lucht, veinst Rusland belangstelling voor het westerse vredesinitiatief.

De schande op het blazoen van Navo-bondgenoten groeit met elke luchtaanval op Oekraïne
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The Trump administration, by cutting supplies of air defense ammunition to democratic Ukraine at the very time fascist Russia is increasing air attacks on Ukrainian civilians, gives every appearance of working in tandem with the Kremlin.

lol this is freakin perfect

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open chart, keep scrolling down

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An entire family, murdered by Russians.

At last, a workable plan for high-speed rail How to build a fast train in the northeast for 10% of the cost

A detailed plan for trains to run from DC to Boston in less than four hours for about 10 percent the cost of Amtrak's current proposal for upgrading the northeast corridor rail.

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Putin has no ideology; he is, in fact, an intellectually unsophisticated person. His entire political worldview rests on two very simple narratives. 1/9

How did it feel to watch the Channel Tunnel breaking through? The NHS made dentistry free – so why were British teeth still so bad? And what did police find at Club Eleven in 1950 that would change h...

It’s launched! Season 4 of More Jam Tomorrow kicks off with the Channel Tunnel.

We start with Richard II and hear from Malcolm Rifkind (who was there when the tunnellers broke through) and rail expert @jonworth.eu

Listen here:

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen The press takes a leading role destroying the rule of law

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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.

The War Trump Chooses That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
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