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Richard Weld

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Was a scientist, still a skeptic. Experimental winemaker. Nurturer of things green, furry and feathery. Living the Good Life in the foothills of the Southern Alps.

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Christian Nationalists are pulling the strings in America. It's well past time to make them sit back down and mind their own business.

05.03.2026 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Spain.

04.03.2026 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The willingness of major European states such as Britain and France to send their military forces to actively defend counties in the Middle East but not to defend Ukraine shows how Europe has a distorted sense of its own interests.

04.03.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 815    πŸ” 235    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 15

The same Kurds who were betrayed and abandoned by the USA in Syria? Are you kidding?

04.03.2026 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps we could all settle on "Special Military Operation".

03.03.2026 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cabinet Apocalypse A News Review in an Imagined Conversation

What Trump's new war is about

Cabinet Apocalypse
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

02.03.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Without America, China would be a colony of Japan. So, there is that.

01.03.2026 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Let's be honest, this guy is also a pig, but Congress needs to talk to the chief pig.

28.02.2026 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

America is ruled by criminal pigs.

27.02.2026 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He's a disgusting, criminal pig.

27.02.2026 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Epstein files contain explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused minor Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

27.02.2026 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Half the audience has to stand up after every sentence, even obviously untrue sentences, and clap like performing seals. Do Americans know how dysfunctional their politics appears to the outside world?

25.02.2026 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Future American historians, looking back on these times are going to be...like WTF?

24.02.2026 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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After years of going out at night with a spotlight to pick slugs off the greenhouse garden (up to 100 some nights), I finally found a solution that actually works: skinks. Now that I have skinks living in the greenhouse, I have very few slugs.

23.02.2026 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, so true.

23.02.2026 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At this point, it's embarrassing to think we're part of the same species.

22.02.2026 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Without his titles, palaces and unearned prestige, he's just a man, short and sad.

21.02.2026 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So: he's very brave, wants a medal for bravery, might give himself one, but it's illegal to give himself a medal he obviously doesn't deserve, but he'll do it anyway, but it's just a joke, and the media are so stupid to believe it?

Why does anyone bother listening to him?

20.02.2026 05:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The greatest consequences so far, are falling outside America, where the rules of law and consequences still apply to some extent. Those American officials who claimed there was "nothing there" (Trump, Boni, Patel etc) should be impeached and prosecuted for being part of the criminal conspiracy.

19.02.2026 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

No matter what the guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats says, please get your kids vaccinated.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

19.02.2026 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump is a threat to democracy around the world.

My first, second, and third acts as your next congressman will be to impeach Trump, impeach his cabinet, and codify guardrails to defend our democracy.

Join our fight to save democracy here: www.georgeconwayforcongress.com

17.02.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4960    πŸ” 1151    πŸ’¬ 168    πŸ“Œ 38
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Billionaires Gone Wild Understanding the oligarchs’ power grab and the dire threat to American democracy

Paul Krugman, always worth a read.

Billionaires Gone Wild
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

18.02.2026 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

America is determined to make itself internationally irrelevant. Unless these crazies can be neutered and put permanently back in their box, America will steadily decline economically, socially and politically until they have no credibility or influence.

18.02.2026 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Liberal democracies must support each other and fight back, or we risk the whole world falling into authoritarian darkness. We must hold together and not give an inch to authoritarians domestically or internationally.

18.02.2026 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Japanese Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi described the crisis and challenges the Indo-Pacific region is currently facing.

I think the points he makes are applicable not just for the Indo-Pacific, so decided to share them with you.

Today, the Indo-Pacific faces a crisis. Everyone fears it

16.02.2026 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 220    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

Boycott the pricks profiting from fascism.

18.02.2026 04:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, you are right, it's most likely ongoing. I'm just saying the route to suppressing it leads through the Epstein co-conspirators and clients.

17.02.2026 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everything is on the line now. If America does not flip the House and Senate in November, the door will have closed on American democracy and freedom.

17.02.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Concentration camps in America.

17.02.2026 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0