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@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social very balanced panel on Newsnight Friday Night, NOT. Three right wingers and a rabid Trump supporter from USA. Only one left winger. Balance?

Ha ha. But he’s in the running for the allowing a genocide on his watch prize!

He won the Democratic vote in the USA so a majority of Americans and States through the electoral college voted for him. Of course it’s horrible that we are all subject to his chaos, even for me living in the UK. I can definitely say he’s not my president.

The only reason black and brown people tended to live in certain areas of Birmingham was due to vocal opposition from white people to them living in other areas. Plus people want to live where they feel safe from racist attacks. Yes the Tories are canvassing the racist vote.

Fascism is any ideology that divides people into superhuman and subhuman who can then be denied rights, liberty and life. Reform and others are the modern equivalent of fascists in the 1930s. I agree with Heseltine

#Newsnight The only reason black and brown people tended to live in certain areas of Birmingham was due to vocal opposition from white people to them living in other areas. Plus people want to live where they feel safe from racist attacks. Yes the Tories are canvassing the racist vote.

Unless you leave the US and apply for citizenship elsewhere I think you’ll find he IS your president. Sorry about that.

What a bad joke Trump is. He hates the rest of the world, even the US’s allies. He is smashing up the world order and allowing a genocide on his watch in Gaza. No one now respects the USA for electing this idiot. Everything he says is factually wrong or nasty in intent.

Trump rules out Ukraine reclaiming Crimea or joining Nato as European leaders gather in Washington US president’s comments may prove a setback for Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he flies to US for crucial Oval Office meeting in wake of Alaska summit

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This could be like Czechoslovak in 1938 when Britain and France gave Hitler the Sudedetenland with all its defences to try to stop war in Europe. That was appeasement, it was shameful, unjust and didn’t stop WWII

Trump's Cultural Revolution: the dismantling of truth Podcast Episode · The News Agents - USA · 13/08/2025 · 41m

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Trump is attacking what the very truth and history

@newscientist.com could someone at the new scientist book club approve my request to join the Facebook group real name Paul Jonas. I had left facebook recently but re joined just for this group so I could comment on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts.

It’s being abolished, as you say it was toothless.

Yes Ofwat is being abolished it’s so useless.

Sorry: Deleuze

This is a great book. I knew nothing about Deluz, hard to find out an easily understandable book on him. But Adams often brings in philosophy to his Sci fi.

@theshadesoforange.bsky.social just found your videos on YouTube. Good work. I’m a Sci fi fan. Have you read or reviewed ‘Lake of Darkness’ by Adam Roberts, it came out March 2025? It’s sci-fi but has some horror elements. I really enjoyed it despite the horror. I’m a bit squeamish.

I agree Trump’s tariffs would hurt ordinary people in US and Europe. But are retaliatory tariffs a good idea? That is then taxing our own people back. I guess it’s symbolic retaliation. Remember Trump always chickens out

The BBC today reporting on Anti Semitism ‘normalised in British Middle class society’. Danny Stone chief exe of the Anti semitism trust, cited the chant as anti semitic. It’s not. The IDF don’t represent all Jews, do they? It IS anti semitic to talk about ‘Jewish influence in the music business’ ok.

That is Trump and Farage’s narrative that people are coming here to live on benefits. No that’s what the English people do! We need more workers as birth rate has crashed.

This is terrible that PFAs etc are in our water at 322 times the proposed limit in UK causing cancers!

Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit

The Government needs to ban all forever chemicals and clean up water now. Think of how many cancers that is causing in the UK! That’s why I bought a water filter jug.

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Hoping the people pictured are wanting to reform the voting system not vote for Reform Farage’s Trump like party.

I don’t agree with calling for the death of anyone, but it’s not ‘antisemitism’. Many people in the UK are appalled by the constant killing of civilians in Gaza by the IDF, and people want it to stop. The Rabbi’s use of the term antisemitism is a smokescreen to any criticism the IDF’s atrocities.

Starmer needs to rethink before it’s too late. Cutting disabled people’s benefits does not encourage them into work! If the welfare budget is rising then make it tighter for future claimants not existing ones. He doesn’t need to force a vote. But if he does it will be a blow to his leadership

How Zohran Mamdani stunned New Yorkers with mayoral primary win Cuomo and other Democrats mocked Mamdani's policies - free public buses and city-run grocery shops - as unrealistic.

This guy is really saying something. Good luck to him.

How Zohran Mamdani stunned New Yorkers with mayoral primary victory www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well the USA transitioning to fascism won’t help that. America is too subservient to the rich. The American dream is basically ’yeah I could be rich’. ‘Let’s cut taxes for them and cut help for poor people’

Don’t trust Tesla. Don’t trust a Robo taxi.

This Tory-lite gov needs a good rebellion. Cutting welfare is NOT a Labour policy.

Congrats USA you have a king who operates by Royal decree(!) Shouldn’t Congress or the Senate have had a vote on it?

Wow 👏