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Q: What advice are you giving Donald Trump? JD Vance: “The advice I'm giving him is: Sir, trust your instincts. He's got the best instincts of any president I've ever seen, of any political leader I've ever seen.” Definitely not a cult.

U.S. spies and a U.S. intelligence agency—including Trump's own Director of National Intelligence—told the president that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. He ignored them, preferring to listen to Israel and Fox News, and has now ordered the U.S. military to strike Iran.

What a load of enabling bullshit

Trump is once against arsonist and fireman. If he hadn't pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal (which our own State Dept. certified Iran was in compliance with), we wouldn't be here.

Religion is the scourge of the earth. Old men use it to justify killing innocent people.

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

Thank you for your attention to this matter! #NoKings

San Diego erupts at ICE raiding a local restaurant and detaining ALL staff.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 If only it was a true post.

Says the man who gave us the biggest tax burden since the War, highest ever national debt, largest fall in living standards on record and committed the biggest act of self-harm in our history with Brexit. Time to shut the fuck up you shambling oaf.

Donald Trump on former President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: “I really don't feel sorry for him." Just a vile, horrible human being.

We are governed by a lunatic

Holy sh*t!

JD Vance, joined by his wife, Usha Vance, met Pope Leo XIV following the pontiff’s inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square. What do you notice?

Brussels, Brexit & Fishing back on the front pages: have we learned anything from all the mistakes last time round? Weight loss jabs may be too good to be true after all… tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

BREAKING: A woman was kicked out of a women’s bathroom at a Massachusetts hotel by a security guard who demanded she “prove her gender.” No badge gives you the right to sexually harass someone in a bathroom. This is what fascism looks like in real time. And it’s coming to your city next.

DOGE was never about "efficiency”

The cognitive dissonance just entered the confessional.

Pretty soon, there will be EVs that charge in 5 minutes. How will that impact on used values.....

I was deeply honored to meet President Zelensky via Zoom when he asked me to become an ambassador for UNITED24 to raise funds for surveillance drones. I'm proud to have walked this road with @u24.gov.ua to support the sovereign nation of 🇺🇦 & so grateful to all who have donated! 🙏❤️👍 #SlavaUkraine

Veronika Cohen, 80, Holocaust survivor: “I don’t think we can remember our suffering without acknowledging the suffering of Gaza, the deaths of tens of thousands of children, the starvation that’s going on this minute, for which we are partially responsible. It occupies the same place in my heart.”

Israel is starving us in Gaza. This is what that feels like | Aya Al-Hattab

WTFF?? Politics1:47 pm today Government halts all current pay equity claims, makes it harder to lodge new ones. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Melania once posted this promotion of herself to the interwebs, stating she was looking for sincere, honest, and loving man who would respect her. Wonder how that worked out . . .

brb need to find a sharpie

WWII Mosquito pilot Colin Bell shares his memories of VE Day with Sky's Jonathan Samuels He flew a Mosquito bomber and carried out 50 bombing raids over Germany news.sky.com/story/wwii-m...

Just open, brazen, persistent, shameless grift and corruption and conflict of interests:

Steve Bannon: “If you merge MAHA with MAGA, it’s like 1932 - you govern forever.” Marjorie Taylor Greene: “100%”

Sums it up.

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today: He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution He’s fine with a recession Americans can do with less Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”

The whole world’s laughing at us now.

seems like trump mainly uses “low IQ” to describe black people. of a piece with his birtherism and his insistence that there are specific, low-wage “black jobs” that must be protected from immigrants

#HandsOff #WTFAmerica #JDKilledThePope #WeAreSoScrewed

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

here's today's post: "all hail Pope Fuckface the First" — has Donny ever even cracked open a Bible? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

Israel supporters across the West since Oct 7th: “It could all be over if Hamas just returned the hostages!” Israeli government:

The grift never ends

Trump poses as the Pope in full holy garments and gets a pass. Obama puts on a tan suit and they lose their frigging minds. See how that works?