Steve H

People in comments write "this is not America". So what is it, Belgium?

This is the US. This is the "mass deportation" policy in action. It's enacted by president elected on that mandate by Americans. He is still supported by one of the two major parties. It's what they voted for. They knew him.

The fake patriots of the European right Trump and Putin’s fifth column

from @nickcohen.bsky.social: Europe's fake patriots
nickcohen.substack.com/p/the-fake-p...

Frank Gehry, master architect with flair for drama, dies aged 96 He popularised contemporary architecture, and became such a sensation that he was featured on The Simpsons.

Canada-born US architect Frank Gehry, whose daring and whimsical designs from the Guggenheim Bilbao to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles captivated fans and critics, has died aged 96.
jrnl.ie/6895268

The Trump National Security Strategy is bonkers in many ways but this objective stood out:

"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"

Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.

Agreed.

YouTube video by MS NOW 'Stand your butt up!' Near brawl at Senate hearing

This is unbelievable. #America is being run by pre-teens. Utterly pathetic.

'Stand your butt up!' Near brawl at Senate hearing youtube.com/shorts/ug65G... via @YouTube

#WorcestershireMorning

There may be roubles ahead,
But while we’re racists and fascists who bantz
Let’s stash the crypto finance🎶

what did they get in return?

Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...

Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...

I am told that internal Ukrainian army information shows that more than 26,000 Russian soldiers were killed or critically wounded in the month of November. Confirmed by videos. No wonder Putin wants to get Trump to give him territory for free

Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.

Sleepy [and] Hollow.

Sleepy [and] Hollow.

Dozy, dopey, doddery, deranged, deadbeat, doolally, dangerous dickhead dementia.

Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird

Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...

Putin claims Russian capture of Pokrovsk, Vovchansk as Kyiv warns of Kremlin propaganda blitz amid peace talks "All of this is done exclusively for Western audiences and to raise the stakes in diplomacy," said Andrii Kovalenko, head of Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation.

Russian propaganda in full force for the Witkoff visit: Putin is claiming to have captured Ukrainian cities that he doesn't control, and having himself photographed in military uniform
kyivindependent.com/putin-claims...

Wonderful photo! #WorcestershireHour lives on ...

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’

The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.

keep meaning to write about this but god if this isn't me - feel like people maybe assume that being bilingual means thinking in a mix of words but my god it's so much worse than that, I conjugate French verbs in English, I feminise/masculinise English nouns, it's a MESS up here

Oof! The number of times I’ve been speaking in my already broken German with German friends and inadvertently dropped in French words! I seem to have a particular unconscious propensity to use ‘avec’ instead of ‘mit’ 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

could it possibly be clearer??

WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests Anti-government demonstrators are likely to have been targeted with camite, our investigation finds.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

They aren't working on behalf of Americans, just for themselves

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life, says equality agency Country seen as champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quit

Not just Sweden, not just political life. Women are increasingly looking at this man's world and saying Fine, have it ... leave me alone. That's pretty much where I am too, and it's not fear, it's disgust.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Cambridge University cosies up to Reform The vice-chancellor expects Nigel Farage to model his policies on Trump and says other Russell Group members are meeting his allies

Farage has vowed to cut funding to universities that undermine ‘free speech’. This is just the beginning of the Trump playbook and we know from Johnson’s time there are few constitutional guardrails to stop the abuse of power. Cosying up isn’t going to cut it.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Existential threat. As is the disappearance of European water.

We can talk politics about Trump, Putin, Venezuela, Brexit, the EU, whatever we like, but there really is only one story in town. That people don't recognize that is why it's an existential threat.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"

Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

“A European intelligence agency distributed a hard-copy report in a manila envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials...inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the US had been pursuing with Russia, including jointly mining rare earths in the Arctic.”

That’s not a problem, it’s a public service 🙏🏼🙂