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Very concerned that right-wing pluto-populists are degrading our lives and our planet (🌱)

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Trudie Styler and Sting's dog wins two Crufts prizes Trudie Styler said she was 'proud beyond words' at Irish Wolfhound Murphy's Crufts wins.

Thank feck for that....I hear they can't stand losing

uk.news.yahoo.com/sting-trudie...

10.03.2026 06:36 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I can only read this as Hugh Laurie's Bertie Wooster

09.03.2026 20:13 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a) Remove subsidies on all forms of green energy generation

b) illegally gain access to a huge source of oil such as Venezuela

c) start a war in the Middle East that massively drives up oil prices

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09.03.2026 07:11 — 👍 48    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Apparently, Lindsey Graham's drunken Fox News bullshit isn't working in the more clear-eyed Middle East.

09.03.2026 14:26 — 👍 5583    🔁 1635    💬 188    📌 67

I remember this (great) article. It seems to me that there is no path through this problem that doesn't include a huge shift to veganism

"The real population crisis is not the growth in human numbers, but the growth in livestock numbers"

09.03.2026 16:25 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Post from Drop Site News claiming Bellingcat geolocation confirms U.S. Tomahawk missiles struck a girls’ primary school in southern Iran, killing around 180 people, most of them children, with an embedded tweet describing footage of the strike.

Post from Drop Site News claiming Bellingcat geolocation confirms U.S. Tomahawk missiles struck a girls’ primary school in southern Iran, killing around 180 people, most of them children, with an embedded tweet describing footage of the strike.

Further confirmation of what Trump keeps denying and what Hegseth won't admit to. It was the U.S. that struck that girls’ school.

09.03.2026 15:30 — 👍 1408    🔁 462    💬 46    📌 19
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We used to associate 'State Capture' with the Big Men in failing African countries....but here we see a textbook example in the most powerful nation on Earth

09.03.2026 12:04 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of a post by Acyn quoting Pete Buttigieg criticizing Trump, saying money from the Middle East is going into the Trump family’s crypto fund while Americans are being sent to the Middle East for Trump’s war. A video frame shows Buttigieg speaking.

Screenshot of a post by Acyn quoting Pete Buttigieg criticizing Trump, saying money from the Middle East is going into the Trump family’s crypto fund while Americans are being sent to the Middle East for Trump’s war. A video frame shows Buttigieg speaking.

Pete Buttigieg nails it.

09.03.2026 12:00 — 👍 1612    🔁 383    💬 26    📌 8
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Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

09.03.2026 07:30 — 👍 1031    🔁 724    💬 33    📌 96

Farage, like Johnson before him, is the kind of "Leader" who races to the front of a running crowd and shouts, "FOLLOW ME!"

09.03.2026 07:56 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a) Remove subsidies on all forms of green energy generation

b) illegally gain access to a huge source of oil such as Venezuela

c) start a war in the Middle East that massively drives up oil prices

Follow me for more money-making tips!

09.03.2026 07:11 — 👍 48    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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What could have happened in 2016 that means we make less than half the cars now we made in 2015?

08.03.2026 18:23 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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😕

08.03.2026 13:54 — 👍 1382    🔁 502    💬 100    📌 24
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Colin Jost is excellent as Pete Hegseth. Well done SNL.

08.03.2026 10:26 — 👍 1036    🔁 337    💬 39    📌 33

This whole thread needs to go everywhere.

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05.03.2026 08:26 — 👍 43    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 0

Temu Kate Adie

08.03.2026 12:08 — 👍 36    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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Chilcot report: Tony Blair's Iraq War case not justified The UK's Iraq War inquiry says Tony Blair overstated Saddam Hussein's threat, sent ill-prepared troops into battle and had

I'd probably sit this one out, Tony?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

08.03.2026 09:24 — 👍 52    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 0
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Chilcot report: Tony Blair's Iraq War case not justified The UK's Iraq War inquiry says Tony Blair overstated Saddam Hussein's threat, sent ill-prepared troops into battle and had

I'd probably sit this one out, Tony?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

08.03.2026 09:24 — 👍 52    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 0

For the most part, they couldn't spell sovereignty, let alone understand it

08.03.2026 09:16 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

*Clacton

08.03.2026 08:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Interviewers should repeatedly ask this of Trump's Tapeworm, the Rt Hon MP for Clackton

08.03.2026 08:51 — 👍 29    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 1
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Why is someone who isn't a Govt Minister duscussing Chagos with the senile spacehopper?

Because they both think Farage will be the next UK PM

We must sincerely hope tactical voting will prove them both 100% wrong

07.03.2026 13:14 — 👍 73    🔁 16    💬 11    📌 2

What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?

08.03.2026 08:27 — 👍 1251    🔁 488    💬 45    📌 14

Does it contain hydrogen and carbon linked in chains of various lengths?

08.03.2026 08:29 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yesterday Trump had lunch with Farage.
Today Trump takes another pop at Starmer...

Coincidence??

... and BTW why aren't we talking treason for Farage, Tice etc??i

07.03.2026 22:52 — 👍 68    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 2
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"It is hard to get a man to understand something, whose income depends on his not understanding it"

07.03.2026 22:51 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

Toe curling. But then, I never met a funny fascist

07.03.2026 15:37 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0