Amyn Merchant

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier"
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Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

The “integrate” narrative is a smokescreen. Those on the right want foreigners to “assimilate” - they want them to disappear.

@sundersays.bsky.social

She said both that integration matters but was very pessimistic about how possible it is after *many* generations

Language of "a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people" conveys a sense that *some* people may remain too visibly different, somehow, to be "culturally coherent"

She told the CPS fringe she wanted a "gross immigration" target close to the "tens of thousands" to make net emigration an annual *outflow* of about net 200k/year

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@iandunt.bsky.social

Can politicians on the right please stop trying to out-Fascism each other? Pretty please??

Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)

A tweet from Pop Base reads: “A melting ice sculpture of the word ‘Democracy’ was placed in front of the U.S. Capitol.” Two photos show the sculpture before and after melting. In the first, the word “DEMOCRACY” is fully visible in clear ice with the Capitol building in the background. In the second, much of the sculpture has melted, leaving only fragments that spell “D_C_AY,” symbolizing the decay of democracy.

A powerful visual.

So no terrorism then?

The NoKings Protest numbered in the millions across the US.

By way of comparison the most generous estimates of the largest Tea Party protest day (April 15th 2009) put it at 320,000 nationwide.

The largest gathering that day was maybe 15,000 in Atlanta, Georgia.

NYC today had over 100,000.

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

Pic shows officeholder being led away to prison with “I have a dream”’written on top

@sturdyalex.bsky.social

This one’s brilliant

#NoKings Miami!

Honk if you’ve never drunk texted war plans

Greensburg PA! I laughed a lot 😂😂😂

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

The passion, inventiveness and humour in many of these signs has brought a smile to my heart, so I thought I’d #GrinAndShareIt

@quietriotpod.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social

This is a thread to warm the cockles.

#NoKings

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

By rights, Farage’s shilling for Putin should have disqualified him from UK politics. He knows it, and is now trying to spin what he has said previously.

Fortunately, @sturdyalex.bsky.social has kept the receipts. Please do listen and, importantly, share.

@quietriotpod.bsky.social

Fact Check: Nigel Farage on Ukraine and Putin Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · S1, E9 Bonus · 12m

I see Nigel Farage is back to claiming he "predicted" the war between Russia and Ukraine in the EU Parliament, when in fact he spoke AFTER the annexation of Crimea, to defend Russia and claim it was all the EU's fault.

I did a full fact-check, with clips, here:

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Murphy: We are not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. But Trump has not won.

Chief of Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Kyrylo Budanov:

“These [strikes on Russian oil refineries] have had a greater impact than the sanctions did.Through direct action,we’ve inflicted far greater damage on the revenues of the Russia than any economically significant measures introduced so far.⤵️

The “integrate” narrative is a smokescreen. They want foreigners to “assimilate” - to disappear. Those that already can may stay, and the others….

utterly depressing that Nixon-level scandals are now a normal Friday night news drop, barely remarked upon, just another day in Trump’s America

Time is your own.