Vicky Marsland

1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

Trump says Ukraine 'should have never started it' in comments about war with Russia Trump made the remark while deriding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose country was invaded by Russia in February 2022.

Fascists rewrite history.

Trump says Ukraine 'should have never started it' in comments about war with Russia.

Claims it could have “made a deal” to avert war i e. handed over territory.

Ukraine's biggest mistake was to give up nuclear weapons in 1994. US, UK, Russia guaranteed its security.

Dictators are carving the globe.

Trump is handing 20% or more of Ukraine to Putin. What next?

Trump wants Greenland, Canada, Panama, Gaza, Ukraine minerals.

Xi will want Taiwan and more.

More countries will acquire nuclear weapons to prevent territorial grabs.

Insanity is becoming the norm.

‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy

‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts.

Congress sidelined, judiciary silenced, judges threatened, media afraid, critical journalists barred from briefings, workers fired without notice, Govt Depts & regulatory bodies closed.

US won't be the same again.

Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations

Trump plan to enslave Ukraine.

Demands $500bn “payback”, wants control of “mineral resources, oil and gas, ports, other infrastructure" in perpetuity, control economy.

Ukraine must pay US before feeding its people.

No penalty on Russia for the invasion.

Politicians or gangsters?
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Most of UK’s big build-to-rent developers owned by foreign private equity firms Common Wealth thinktank says Labour should control profits made by ‘institutional investors’

Most of UK’s big build-to-rent developers owned by foreign private equity firms.

They don't build for families or the poor.

Profiteering, debt, tax dodges are the game.

They expect govt contracts and land to boost business.

Councils can build cheaper, eliminate profiteering.

In 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland, Soviet Union agreed to carve-up the country.

History repeats itself: Russia invaded Ukraine. Trump-led USA agreeing a carve-up.

Will embolden all dictators to grab territories and resources of weaker countries.

Nuclear proliferation inevitable.

Trump administration ‘pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate’ The Tate brothers have been accused of human trafficking and rape in Romania – both deny wrongdoing

US Trump administration has pressured Romania to remove travel restrictions on Andrew Tate and his brother.

They are accused of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.

Will Romania capitulate?

Anyone doubting how low Trump will sink?

Spot on.

Hans Island is disputed territory between Canada & Denmark. The militaries of both countries periodically visit to remove the other guy's flag and leave a bottle of Danish schnapps or Canadian whiskey.

This is what happens when nice countries "fight."

We know what’s going on here.

Some people need to be reminded of this.

Bighorn sheep climbing on a very steep cliff.

Bighorn sheep climbing on a very steep cliff.

Bighorn sheep climbing on a very steep cliff.

Bighorn sheep climbing on a very steep cliff.

Bighorn sheep are incredibly nimble climbers, their hoofs are softer than most other ungulates so they can grip the rock better.

This one put on a real show. He could have gone around but instead descended the cliff right smack in front of the camera.

"Sssh, I'm thinking"

It looked impossible. And it would be for an ordinary cat. But Glenn was no ordinary cat.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. The Jedi Library from Star Wars (left) and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (right). 📷 google images

A baby boy lying on a furry blanket.

29 January 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Arnold van Emden, was born in The Hague.

In August 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chamber after selection.

There will be far more of this coming up!

I get the distinct impression that Westminster has developed an unhealthy culture of disrespect for the elderly - because they no longer contribute to their holy grail for power - economic growth.

Respect the elderly, ditch Thatcherite neoliberalism - and support independence.

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DOES RUNNING LATE COUNT AS EXERCISE?

Good morning 😊

Sunrise on Glastonbury Tor this morning. Very cold but so worth it.

“Andrew Myrick, a trader who told starving Dakota to "eat grass or dung" was killed on the first day of the Dakota War of 1862. His head was cut off, and his mouth was stuffed with grass.”

This energy 💯

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I kind of trust the Germans to know a Hitlergruß when they see one

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Sounds like a plan