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Moving on in Europe.

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Exeter University - Probably the best strike in the world! https://t.co/LBoN2URGVT

[Exeter UCU @ExeterUCU]

#USSstrike

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@OldManRiver100 @Vfynn_ Isn’t Mike Tyson an American? So that’s one ear-biting person who’s already in the country.

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@idreesali114 Watch the video, he is clearly snoozing on the job: https://t.co/VkBSYRzTzB
Clearly not fit for purpose.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump fell asleep with his face drooping in the Oval Office during a meeting today. This is a real video that should concern every American. He’s not fit to serve.

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@gtconway3d If it wasn't so destructive, it would be farcical.

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@MAGAMAHACindy @mattsobalvarro The point is, the President is not a God, even if he and his minions delusionally behave as if he is one.

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@MAGAMAHACindy Yes, you can, it's known as living in a democracy (currently a lost cause under your orange dictator).

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@Pinkerso1 @Scaramucci Same here, just turned 70, faith lost decades ago, might be returning to the fold.

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo's Easter message:

"Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!"

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Right then.
Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic.

No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works.

You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera.
And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls.

Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available?

You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant.

NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours.

You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

I really wish the news would stop replicating Trumps mad nonsense as if he knew what he was doing.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV strikes MAGA in the teeth by announcing that God ignores the prayers of those who start wars because their "hands are full of blood."

This is a stunning rebuke of Pete Hegseth's shameful public remarks...

"Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them," Leo said at Palm Sunday Mass. Tens of thousands of Catholics were gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican to hear their religious leader speak.

The pope has been outspoken in his criticisms of Trump's illegal Iran War, calling it a "scandal to the whole human family" while demanding an outright ban on aerial bombardments.

“Thousands of innocent people have been killed, and many others have been forced to abandon their homes,” Leo previously stated. “I renew my prayerful closeness to all those who have lost their loved ones in the attacks that have struck schools, hospitals, and residential areas.”

The pontiff's latest remarks are a sharp rebuke of Defense Secretary Hegseth's frothing-at-the-mouth attempts to paint this conflict as a righteous holy war waged in Jesus's name.

“Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle. He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield in whom I take refuge,” Hegseth has said, referring to the war.

He also prayed for the U.S. military to deliver “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy," a particularly evil pronouncement to make as that same military is bombing school children and mass-slaughtering civilians.

Hegseth is that type of so-called "Christian" who totally rejects the teachings of Jesus Christ. His "religion" asks nothing of him, not even basic human compassion, and he uses it as a cudgel to justify every deeply immoral thing that he does.

One immediately thinks of Matthew 7:21–23 when considering Hegseth's "Christianity." It quotes Jesus as saying: "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’"

Over 2000 years ago, Jesus of Nazareth knew that the day would come when evildoers would claim to be Christian while rejecting his core teachings. Our Defense Secretary is exactly that kind of evildoer.

MAGA world has predictably fallen to pieces over Leo's blunt condemnation of the Trump administration's war. They have once again taken to calling the pope a "communist" and "satanic."

Some right-wing personalities, notably the protestant influencer Allie Beth Stuckley who boasts 584,000 followers on X, rushed to condemn Leo's remarks by pointing to instances in the Bible where God justified war.

Stuckley pointed specifically to King David and other Old Testament leaders in particular. If one takes Christianity on its own terms and assumes that God did indeed justify war in the Old Testament, there is still a world of difference between biblical leaders like King David — who was fighting for his nation's survival in the ancient world — and Donald Trump, a corrupt, demented pedophile who's waging a war of choice to destabilize Iran so that Israel can gobble up more territory uncontested.

Here's a very simple litmus test: If your version of Christianity demands that you justify the actions of a rapist conman as he murders innocent men, women, and children it's time for you to find a new church.

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with Pope Leo!

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is genuinely extraordinary: https://t.co/bCioDPpxC4

Speaking is General Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

He says that the UK "should not, in any way, shape or form be involved with the Americans because they are being led by a couple of gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth without a proper strategy and without serious thought about what the end state for this war is."

He goes on: "Yet again we have an American president who has gone to war, a war of choice, a war of hubris frankly, without ANY [the emphasis is his] clear idea of how the war ends and without any clear strategy." He predicts that "this thing is going to go south very, very quickly."

He highlights in particular just how foolish it was to kill Ayatollah Khamenei: "The idea of assassinating the Ayatollah Khamenei who was not just Iran's head of state but he was the religious symbol for Shiites worldwide. Assassinating him during the month of Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world and what you're doing by doing that is probably pushing large numbers of Iranians who might have been reconcilable, who might have thought about rising up, back into the fold of the irreconcilable."

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

So 79 year old Trump and 76 year old Netanyahu are throwing bombs at the 86 year old Ayatollah who is retaliating. Clearly, the route to world peace is to take over-75 year old men out of the picture.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

They all knew who Donald Trump was before he was elected. They all know who he is now.

This video was deleted from Twitter, you know what to do !!

[Fr Paul @revpaulwhite]

In the UK the PM who is not mentioned in the Epstein files is fighting for his future because he appointed someone who is mentioned.

Meanwhile, in the US, the person who is mentioned 38,000 times, and who sends out racist memes, is still President...

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Don't say, "The most corrupt administration in American history." There is no comparison between Trump, on the one hand, and eg Grant, Harding, or Nixon on the other. Nixon's worst day in office was 100x better than Trump's best day. The relevant comparisons are to non-American presidents in authoritarian societies with unfree media. Trump's scale of stealing and bribe-taking has never been remotely paralleled in any democratic country ever before.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Bruce Springsteen on Trump: “I couldn't care less what he thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history."

RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen!

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Music legend Bruce Springsteen just released this incredible song that will be sure to piss Trump off beyond belief.

“Streets of Minneapolis”.

He wrote this song about Alex Pretti and Renée Good Saturday and recorded it yesterday.

Share it far and wide and play it as loud as you can

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

WORTH REPEATING:

Texas has 2.1M undocumented immigrants and Florida has 1.2M.

Minnesota has 130,000.

Don't let anyone tell you this is about immigration.

It never was.

Trump lost MN three times. That is what THIS is about, and it’s impeachable.

[Duumrat #ProEU @Duumrat]

@exRAF_Al @_HenryBolton Your ignorance is embarrassing for you. You have no comprehension of the real situation. You should be ashamed of your lack of education and to be supporting a demented psychopath.