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"We have growth everywhere, all of December — growth across all sectors. But not positive growth, negative growth." - Samara governor Fedorishchev carefully and thoroughly described the situation on the Russian market.
08.12.2025 18:00 — 👍 266 🔁 41 💬 11 📌 4
In August, a businessman from the far east gave Nigel Farage’s party a huge pile of cash. He loves Britain, but just not enough to actually live here
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
Ellison could be trying to create an oligopolistic supplier, but this also serves a dual role of introducing real jeopardy for the Netflix bid, significantly increasing the likelihood that they will have to negotiate an acceptable value for a Trump bribe.
#bbcpm
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There's only one way to interpret Trump's message to Netflix: Pay me if you want this takeover to be approved
The most openly corrupt president in US history.
#r4today
We live in a world where a person getting benefits they are entitled to, to survive, are robbing everyone.
But billionaires literally robbing everyone on Energy, Healthcare and Food are 'great guys'.
Putin complained about the negative trends in Russian demography and said that "our long-term historical task is to preserve and increase our nation’s population."
That's why he's sending hundreds of thousands of Russians to die in the war.
This series on what has been culled from the Epstein Files on matters OTHER than Trump...is well worth reading.
08.12.2025 10:42 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0'Banter doesn't exist if you're not friends with that person'
Very, very insightful.
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Manic week - apologies for multiple posts, but its all in plain sight now
The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech
The EU is the enemy of both
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Trump wants his voters sick, weak, hungry and afraid - too desperate to pay attention or even vote. It is a tactic directly from the authoritarian playbook.
Look at the root causes of the Russian Revolution bf the Romanovs were executed. Romanovs had plenty of food & caviar. The people had nothing.
How are we not yelling about this from the rooftops??!?!?!?!
Trump and the regime literally just showed us who they are and what side they are on.
And it's not the side of the US people and democracy.
Or Europe.
Or Ukraine.
The 30% support for Farage is being overtaken, finally, by the 70% of us who absolutely loathe him.
About time that happened.
Ronan Farrow and Michael Cohen claim there were more than 60 "catch and kill" stories that were buried during the 2016 election.
www.rawstory.com/michael-cohe...
I can't wait until the United States cleanses itself of all the ugly traces of Donald Trump. Take his name off buildings. Remove all the tacky gold bric-a-brac from the White House walls. Bulldoze his vulgar ballroom. Restore MLK, Jr Day and Juneteenth at parks. #Fumigate
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Polls suggest that Reform support may have peaked, perhaps because it appeals only to a very distinctive, and noisy, minority | Stephen McNair
04.12.2025 05:32 — 👍 100 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 4The Brexit article in question....
Do read 👇
Farage is currently "boycotting the BBC".
Perhaps the BBC and every other reputable broadcaster should instead be boycotting Mr Farage
If you’re reading this from overseas and thinking about coming to the US for the World Cup, stay home. It’s not safe here.
ICE is going to be trolling around these places. They’ll be under orders to harass anybody who isn’t white and at least third generation Americans.
Seriously. Don’t come.
The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
Immigrant x2 ✋🏻
06.12.2025 23:23 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Covid fraud under the Tories cost the taxpayer £10.9 billion
The counter-fraud and error measures during the pandemic under the Conservative Government were accused of being 'so lax they may as well have left the door wide open'
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
credit to NYT for not sanewashing the appalling bigotry we saw today in the WH
"Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry."
A colleague shared today that 10 students in her GenEd literature class of about 30 turned in identical essays. They had all used ChatGpt.
I don’t know how we combat this.
NEWS
DOJ is considering refiling charges against James Comey but WITHOUT Lindsey Halligan as prosecutor.
The five-year statute of limitations has now expired, but a provision of federal law gives prosecutors an extra six months to secure an indictment after it is dismissed in some circumstances.
Remember Brexit has nothing to do with migrants and ECHR.
03.12.2025 02:28 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0It’s a small minority. It always was a a minority. 17.4million was only a quarter of the population.
03.12.2025 02:27 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Our leader is having repeated trouble staying awake at public events he's hosting; is acting more erratically online and in public; is making decisions that are doing clear material harm to the country & our allies. Simply, his declining health must become a bigger issue.
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BRAVO to COSTCO for standing up to trump, and SUING his ass for imposing his idiotic tariffs.
In a world full of Targets, be a COSTCO.
Good reminder that Trump was guilty of an egregious crime simply in Georgia, let alone the rest of the country, and should have served a significant stint in prison. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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