Mrs Bongo

A #MustRead !!!
At moment I only want to yell at s***y Merz and his boot lickers!!!!

Strikingly even current conservative voters are most likely to say it’s best for UK national security to align with the EU - along with majorities of Lib Dem, Labour and Green voters while Reform voters are more likely to say it’s safer with the Commonwealth/CANZUK or the US

Keir Starmer has called for "deeper links" with the EU in his speech at the Munich Security Conference.

Latest YouGov data shows 62% of Britons want a closer relationship with the EU; 54% want to rejoin

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NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The government keeps doing it nonetheless.

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£99,987 and counting: graduates trapped by ballooning student loans As their debts rise, graduates reveal how loans are reshaping careers, finances and faith in the system

£99987 and counting: graduates trapped by student loans.

Govt froze repayment threshold. By 2030, be at minimum wage.

At the margin grads pay 20% inc tax + 8%NIC +9% repayment. Insane.

Loan increases, if not repaid.

Grads can't buy home, start family/business.

Abolish Uni fees. Write-off debt.

When the U.S. Supreme Court said that you could detain people based on their race, their accent, or the language they spoke… there is nothing to preclude ICE from doing that while you’re standing in line getting ready to cast a ballot.

Stacey Abrams
Voting-rights expert

Italy says railways hit by 'serious sabotage' as Winter Olympics begin Police say they are investigating three incidents targeting rail infrastructure that caused travel delays.

#BBCNews - Italy says railways hit by 'serious sabotage' as Winter Olympics begin
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As a soccer mom, this story absolutely gutted me. Martin helped his mom save up money so she could take time off from work to go to the tournament with him. Then, he had to go home without her.

Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe "They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

Quite a scoop here. "Last spring [NSA] detected evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump, according to a whistleblower’s attorney briefed on the existence of the call" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Reform party is *lying*?!!

Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.

Screenshot of a Bitcoin market summary showing the price at $63,690.12 USD, down $9,328.93 (−12.78%) today. A one-day line chart trends steadily downward from around $73,000 earlier in the day to near $63,700 by evening, with several small rebounds before a sharp drop late in the day. The timestamp reads Feb 5, 8:31 PM UTC, and options for different time ranges (1D, 5D, 1M, etc.) appear above the chart.

Bitcoin is completely collapsing right now.

👇👇👇👇

But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Someone told me to watch this SNL sketch about America’s “media-opoly.” It feels eerily prophetic given the Warner Bros/ Robert Reich Reacts: Banned SNL Sketch About Media Control

This SNL sketch from 1998 about America’s “media-opoly” makes some eerily timely points.

Corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with numerous business interests cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own financial interests.

Watch.

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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NEWS: The U.S. Supreme Court will allow the new California congressional map to stand, rejecting Republicans’ bid to block it. It’s a huge win for Democrats heading into the midterms.

exactly. this is not difficult.

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In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

I don't agree historians will be stunned, they've seen thIs throughout history, in the USA.

This is great. A comprehensive and very readable guide to the coming by-election.

"In its competition with China, Western capitalism is programmed to fail... Systems in which market forces are directed by the state have an inherent advantage over ones in which government has been captured by corporate power."
-- John Gray

Opinion | How Much Can One Man Make From Being President? The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.

This infographic-heavy NYT piece on Trump's 2nd term grift is clear and effective: 1.4 billion. Pretty soon, you are talking about real money! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ilhan Omar walks along a sidewalk wearing a blazer, with people blurred in the background.

Ilhan Omar: “In the 4 years when Biden was president, my death threats went to almost zero — now they are back up — so there is a clear correlation between his presidency & the political violence that we see & the political danger that a lot of members of Congress & electeds feel across the country”

Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time.

This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

It tells you everything you need to know that Reform are parachuting in a rent-an-extremist - this isn't about representing the people of Gorton and Denton, it's about using this place as a platform for their careers.

Manchester will show him the door.