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DEMOCRACY DEPENDS ON IT

Give it a few more weeks and Greenland is going to make an offer to buy the U.S.

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it Just before the graphic artist Rebecca Burke left Seattle to travel to Vancouver, Canada, on 26 February, she posted an image of a rough comic to Instagram. “One part of travelling that I love is seeing glimpses of other lives,” read the bubble in the first panel, above sketches of cosy homes: crossword puzzle books, house plants, a lit candle, a steaming kettle on a gas stove. Burke had seen plenty of glimpses of other lives over the six weeks she had been backpacking in the US. She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom. Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and far more than a glimpse. When she tried to cross into Canada, Canadian border officials told her that her living arrangements meant she should be travelling on a work visa, not a tourist one. They sent her back to the US, where American officials classed her as an illegal alien. She was shackled and transported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre, where she was locked up for 19 days – even though she had money to pay for a flight home, and was desperate to leave the US. Continue reading...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Donald Trump's Claim That Marine Le Pen's Conviction is a 'Witch Hunt' Doesn't Hold Up

Friends and opponents of the far-right French politician need to be honest about what her barring from the next Presidential election is really about, argues Olly Haynes

Oswald Mosley's grandson is head of Palantir UK? Writers phoning it in.

'Not just anger and not just hope, but anger and hope' The resistance to Trump is building faster than last time. Here's how to stay a part of a lasting movement that can win.

'Not just anger and not just hope, but anger and hope'

Research on the emotions of protest finds that you need both anger and hope to mobilize people against autocracy.

Military target, right? Yeah Moscow go fuck yourselves.

Zelensky wears a suit Trump didn’t have the guts to wear.

Actual leadership:

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Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit Stop Trump Coalition

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Sounds like a plan

whatever you feel about this you have to admit it's rare for a radicalized man who's frustrated or angry and ready to choose violence to actually correctly identify the source of their suffering, instead of just blaming and killing women and minorities.....

The concept Nigel Farage is incapable of grasping is human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. I’ll fight that to my last breath

perfume adverts are surely all competing with each other to see which can be the maddest cheese dream

Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”

Congrats to Florida!

#1 in book censorship

#47 in SAT scores.

Way to go!

#floriduh

Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country

Elon Musk revealed as sole funder of RBG Pac that claimed Trump and Ginsburg were aligned Musk bolstered Pac with $20.5m ahead of election while late supreme court justice’s family denounced it as ‘appalling’

Musk is not just a stunted, inadequate thug, but also an incredibly petty thug. Imagine having your own super-pac to funnel millions to the rapey cheeto, but choosing to start another, just to troll a dead woman's family.

What a teeny-tiny excuse of a man!

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Across Europe and the US, neither the centre-right nor centre-left (i.e. Liberal democracy) know how to deal with the far-right insurgency. Why? Because they have no policy to deal with growing inequality, unlike the far-right, which (acting on behalf of billionaires), pretend to

The Associated Press has officially joined Bluesky. Follow us at @apnews.com.

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No genocide has been so confessed to as it actually happened.

No genocide has been so evidenced by both victims and perpetrators as it actually happened.

This devastating report underlines why every facilitator, every cheerleader, of Israel's genocide must be held to account.

This will (hopefully) never cease to be staggering to everyone else in the world.

Tory MP Kevin Hollinrake should be registered by Keir Starmer as a gift.

KH: I do not take any pleasure from the fact it's been the worst start for any gov't in history.

FB: Worse than Liz Truss's?

KH: I think it has been worse than Liz Truss's.

FB: Really? ~AA #BBCQT

The best thing about BlueSky is not financing a sociopath.