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18.02.2026 23:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔴Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May
Messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein, reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis
He is correct; if you have a passport that is going to expire in the next couple years, get it renewed now. Don’t wait until after the midterms. It will be harder for them to invalidate a passport once issued; and it can be fought in court. But getting renewal or new could run into delays or rejects
18.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yes, we need people like Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social to say things as they are. I do have to add:
It wasn’t only about raping children; it was about enslaving government officials and the global elite in exchange for espionage.
“They’re afraid of Bad Bunny. They’re afraid of Bruce Springsteen. They’re afraid of Stephen Colbert. They’re afraid of Jimmy Kimmel. They’re afraid of The View. They’re afraid of anybody who is not afraid of them”.
open.substack.com/pub/luciantr...
Here you go!
17.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Let's go! You know what to do. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
17.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Don't threaten me with a good time!
"When you're 26 points underwater with the center of the electorate, you lose; your party loses."
16.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0
Her behaviour at the hearings was atrocious. Imagine if any previous Democratic Attorney General had ever responded in the same manner? They'd been drawn & quartered then roasted over a fire pit. I firmly believe her day is coming. She is a pitiful excuse for an AG.
www.huffpost.com/entry/thomas...
If we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.
15.02.2026 22:31 — 👍 5598 🔁 1194 💬 102 📌 28You’re outnumbered. Embrace it.
16.02.2026 02:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
None of this is normal
15.02.2026 20:13 — 👍 12762 🔁 5851 💬 481 📌 298A beautiful early evening #aurora substorm gave way to a parade of star patterns including the small trapezoid of Draco’ s head, bright Vega and Deneb and finally the queen herself: Cassiopeia. 🔭
15.02.2026 17:26 — 👍 842 🔁 115 💬 20 📌 2Spectacular!
16.02.2026 00:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The U.S. Department of Defense has barred military personnel from enrolling in courses at many of the nation’s top universities, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Johns Hopkins. A leaked email is said to contain the full list of affected schools. Shared by MeidasTouch.
14.02.2026 22:42 — 👍 4890 🔁 2385 💬 662 📌 247
Pen and watercolour illustrations of waders/shorebirds from the Hartlepool/Teesmouth area of northeast England
A not-completely-exhaustive illustration of our winter shorebirds, but these are the species that you’re most likely to see during winter around Teesmouth (northeast England).
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#birdingNortheast
trump’s so-called cabinet is the same group of lawyers who’ve been protecting him for the last decade. Instead of circling the wagons at Mar-a-Lago, they’ve moved operations to the White House.
11.02.2026 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.
11.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 12693 🔁 3601 💬 414 📌 160Rep. Lieu: “Howard Lutnick must resign… The Epstein Files new release shows that not only did Howard Lutnick lie to the American people, he went into business with Jeffrey Epstein, he visited Epstein Island, and Howard Lutnick did this knowing how evil Epstein was.”
10.02.2026 17:20 — 👍 8860 🔁 2762 💬 298 📌 119
ICE is violating the First Amendment as part of its unconstitutional and illegal reign of terror.
www.reuters.com/world/us/ice...
Trump often talks of a 'third term' in office and now of 'taking over' the election process from states. He has turned ICE into a personal paramilitary force. ICE just spent half a billion $ buying warehouses to convert into 'detention camps'. Is this how US democracy dies ? (cartoon Dave Granlund)
10.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 469 🔁 197 💬 40 📌 7The reason he got in a second time is because he and Musk made it happen. You can’t tell me that was a “free and fair election”. He’s already decided he isn’t leaving the White house at the next election. He’s determined to get his way, no matter how he does it.
10.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bad bunny clarified one thing that even I as an educated person forgot and constantly get wrong…
America is a continent with 35 countries..
United States is just one country in them..
Bad Bunny: “Together, we are America”.
Meaning, ALL the Americas. North, South, and Central.
I've come to the conclusion that the American two-party system doesn't work. A third party would force compromise and cooperation unless one party has a clear majority mandate.
In Canada, we have 2 major parties but the smaller third party can get a lot of traction if the others don't play nice.
