Trump: "We're gonna cut of all trade with Spain don't want anything to do with Spain." marion @ pitlanelando as a Spaniard, i'm utterly devastated to hear Trump wants to cut ties with Spain. how will we survive without lectures on freedom from a man who thinks paella needs ketchup? we'll try to cope with universal healthcare and 30 days of paid vacation. thoughts and tapas y'all RESISTANCE!
UK junk food ad ban so diluted it may be largely ineffective.
It is because govts succumb to pressure from corporations and hobbyists. How many legislators on industry payroll?
Game of impression management. Exceptions manufactured to create ineffective laws.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. Itβs the root of all evil in Washington.
A report presented to the UN Human Rights Council last month noted that Israel destroyed 92 per cent of Gazaβs housing units and displaced over 90 per cent of Palestinians.
#Blog by Ramona Wadi
Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260311-a-c...
This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology
www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
Ancient forests aren't "resources"βthey're living systems sustaining us all. Destroy them for short-term gain? That's planetary sabotage.
#Ecocide isn't abstract: it steals stable climate, clean air, future harvests from our children. Time to protect what remains. π³π‘οΈ
#BiodiversityCrisis #ActNow
Vladimir Putinβs administration has endorsed a plan to bolster the prime ministerβs party by flooding social media with messages designed in Russia and posted by influential Hungarians. ft.trib.al/fT6SXiG
Support law suit challenging Trump from opening 2.1 million acres of Alaska Dalton Corridor to mining
An area with Western Arctic Caribou Herd, salmon-bearing rivers, Dall sheep lambing grounds, habitat for grizzly bears, wolves, countless other species
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
It turns out that if you help Ukraine with modern highly effective missiles - and stop trembling in fear of Putin and burying Ukraine under endless absurd restrictions - Russia starts losing key military factories and weapons one after another.
It becomes less capable of continuing this war.
Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.
The UK Climate Change Committeeβs latest analysis suggests the opposite.
The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.
This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure.
This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimerβs Disease share.google/Vm0hfSMfkGIc...
β Leaving the EU has proved incredibly damaging for our NHS.
The University of Surrey has found that Brexit has caused 1,485 additional deaths per year due to EU nurses leaving the UK.
The reported push to move some air defense missile batteries from the Korean Peninsula to the Middle East comes amid concerns about Americaβs munition stockpiles amid the Iran War.
I still think about this a lot.
β οΈ Beth Rigby: "Keeping British people safe and secure is any government's number one priority."
β "But if you can't even agree a position amongst the leadership, how do you expect people to trust your national security?"
𫨠Reform UK proving incompetent at running things? I never!
In Kharkiv, search and rescue operations are completed after Russian missile hit apartment building on Saturday night. 10 people were killed , including 2 children. They were 13 and 9 years old.οΏΌ
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
βNever once did Reform promise to cut council taxβ insists an angry Nigel Farage to Sky News.
Here's some of the leaflets Reform have been putting out ahead of the local elections
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2518...
Police in Sweden have seized a false-flagged cargo ship reportedly belonging to Russiaβs shadow fleet.
It is suspected of transporting stolen Ukrainian grain.
Bravo, Sweden!
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It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first β putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.
βChurchill would be appalled by the kinds of things Trump says & does. But Fleet Street is happy to ignore history for the sake of some political point-scoring.β
A history lesson for the hysterical UK far-right opp politicians & their client hacks from Alan Rusbridger
archive.ph/2026.03.07-0...
Somebody, please ask all these Trump-fluffing British politicians exactly what their policy will be regarding the Iranian refugee crisis they are so desperate to create.
Post comments on the fact that after meetings with Farage, Trump always attacks Starmer.
Farage bad-mouthing Britain to the orange war-monger again.
Tehran residents warned of acid rain after oil storage attack ft.trib.al/1vHcns1
Because...
πCountries with more female leaders have less inequality. (WEF)
πCountries with more women in parliament have lower levels of corruption. (European Journal of Political Research)
πFemale participation in parliament has a positive effect on the economy. (Frontiers in Political Science)
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehranβs main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the cityβs sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
(π₯ Vahid Online)
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