Molly Oh

gg_robingv 12h .+ So, headlines from today: 1. The BBC and KGB News seem aligned on budget coverage. 2. The budget was well balanced and well delivered IMHO. 3. No-one knows what a "salary sacrifice" pension is. 4. Bad Enoch is awful & knows she's finished. 5. The people spouting "protect our kids" don't seem to want to pay for them. 6. A pension IS A BENEFIT!! 7. Brexit fucked us all financially. 8. Everyone seems to think they live in a £2m house. 9. It's fine to pay people more. 10. Bots are working overtime. • 433 Q20 =27 D

From another place. A good summary?

If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?

"Cup of tea Steve? Have you seen the garden outside, you can look out of this window".

My dad was left weakened, I'm sorry to hear your dad was so unwell after being so healthy. Diseases that don't even register now as a threat with medical advances really changed lives back then.

It's so sad to hear when families like yours have those legacies,the lives that should have been. Having a larger family you stood a chance of some of those children surviving to adulthood. My grandma was one of 16, 3 boys died. There's so many diseases we can't cure/prevent,so why risk those we can

My dad (UK) was born before childhood vaccinations, friends were paralyzed (polio) and he almost died of Scarlet Fever as a young child in an isolation hospital. His experience reminds me how lucky we are to have preventative measures, the scaremongers make me so angry.

There's so much stuff, it's so busy. Maybe it's a tactic to distract visitors? They're so overwhelmed by the gaudiness they can't compose a reply to anything said. I can imagine it's even more horrendous in real life. Where good taste went to die, and not very quietly.

Of course the Kremlin preferred “Trump’s original proposal.” They wrote it.

It's interesting at the other end of the scale, I'm now caring for my older dad (unpaid) but I have no children to support me so my costs could increase later in life. Not everyone's kids stick around but I certainly haven't been able to save enough to cover a good retirement let alone care fees.

Dear Bluesky,
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.

We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!

Trump isn’t interested in real, lasting diplomacy where details are negotiated and worked out to give a plan the best chance of success. He just wants quick “deals” with no specifics so he can declare a “win” so he can make it all about himself with a short-term fabrication.

I'd loved to have heard some of the undiplomatic language that was uttered in Europe when this plan was released. I hope they can frame it as a humiliation for the US, being controlled and led by Russia. We can all see why Kellogg is resigning with so much going on behind his back.

1990 I turned 18 and my gift, my very own poll tax payment book courtesy of Mrs T. Ahhh happy memories...

Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI

Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.

One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.

What could go wrong?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Trump had a TIA so there's a news blackout?? 🤞

Absolutely! He acts like he's Teflon coated, and the media just normalize it. When Mr 'no new wars' starts one with Venezuela that might be the turning point for more people.

France is very wise! As are many other of the European nations who've been far more awake to the Russia threat, we keep finding a rug to sweep it under.

He is a bully and for the UK I feel his underlying threat will also be withdrawing our access to the nuclear deterrent, I don't want them used but we're a little island very much on our own, thanks Brexit, the US maintains our capabilities, so a threat could be two pronged.

And this is the biggest wake up call that we shouldn't be buying any military equipment from the US because if they fall out with us, or we say the wrong thing, that's the supply chain up ended.

I worry that still won't wake up his MAGA base, the billionaires will just ride it out, and his fellow dictators will stick with him for their own rewards, but in the interim can we have a global "F**k Trump" demonstration? Let his handlers try and protect his narcissistic ego from seeing that.

Then it needs to be made abundantly clear he'll never win the Peace prize for forcing the crappy 'peace' deals onto Ukraine and Gaza.

American leadership is turning on their own people so it's no surprise they have no regard for anyone else. They're just out to burn bridges and tear it all down. My heart goes out to the Ukrainians, for all they've sacrificed to be sold down the river.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

I'm only sorry he's seeing the repeat of history at the end of his life, except now with the accelerant of the internet to spread messages faster. There's no widespread memories of the sound of a Doodlebug cutting out until the explosion, he grew up with that. Instability only profits a few.

We conveniently forget history and lessons learnt as soon as those who do remember are no longer around. My dad is in his 90's so I grew up with tales about "how life was so good in the olden days" without protections etc (clue, it really wasn't).

Ahhh autocorrect - settings

If you mean protocol, I'd turn off all comms seeing as they all like isolationism. Naming them...'The Fatuous Four', as I see no point in any of them!