Melinda Elson

Psychotherapist working with SEND children, young people & young adults & their families. Activist Canadian European #RejoinEU #FBPE #MVM

[Melinda Elson @melindaelson]

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[Jerry_Saiyan @JerryWillResist]

Harvard Grad Lawrence O’Donnell deserves a Pulitzer award for his unrelenting dedication to the truth he fearlessly speaks in the face of the @realDonaldTrump administration and their efforts to destroy this country and its future.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

This week we joined forces with 58 of our supporters in a High Court legal action against Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK.

What are they doing with people’s data?
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[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In the USA in 1943 they produced a film 'Don't be a Sucker' about fascism.

It perfectly explains Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the entire Right.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Another addition to my Ukrainian history series of posts. I know some prefer to watch and listen rather than read.

Here’s a great piece by Charles McBryde that is well worth your time.

🎥. TikTok - @charlesmcbryde

[Melinda Elson @melindaelson]

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[Day @comedybyday_]

How you doing Sane Americans? 🇺🇸 Love a concerned Canadian 🇨🇦 #fyp #foryoupage

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

I am incandescent with rage right now. I feel sick to the stomach. A US Vice President stood today on the soil of where so many Americans gave their lives to defeat fascism in Europe. He delivered a disgraceful speech that spat on their graves. Not that we should expect any different, given his boss skipped visiting the graves of fallen Americans in Europe for fear of getting his hair wet. The same man who called the same fallen heroes suckers and losers.

As a Brit that loves America and the American people, I am deeply disturbed at the insults delivered by a man who once described Donald Trump as an “idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

How times have changed. Vance is now part of the most authoritarian administration in American history. An administration actively seeking to deny bodily autonomy to women. An administration pursuing the same mass deportation of immigrants that Europe witnessed in 1930s Germany. Vance is a man that his own president doesn’t even see as his successor.

He came to Europe to vomit his Christo-fascist bile on leaders from the UK and across Europe, in what appears to be a retribution tour designed to assert American power.

The U.S. are to my knowledge the only NATO country to have invoked Article 5 of the NATO charter after 9/11. We, his European allies, met that call with no questions asked. We sent thousands of soldiers to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to fight a war on the false premise of Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns’. We did this despite millions of our own citizens protesting in the streets of our cities.

Our military stood shoulder to shoulder with his military and we, like many Americans, stood to salute our fallen young men and women returning home day after day. I have tears in my eyes as I write this, thinking of them and their loved ones. Our brave men and women willingly gave their all and far too many made the ultimate sacrifice in support of an American led war.

For the record, 6000 Ukrainian solders server alongside American soldiers in Iraq. This, despite Ukraine not being a member of NATO. In 1994 upon signing the Budapest Memorandum they gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security assurances from the US and the UK. These were then reneged upon in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. They were told ‘An assurance is not a guarantee’.

Now, despite their friendship and their brave sacrifice on the battlefields of Ukraine, the President of the United States has decided to abandon them and hand a victory to an indicted war criminal, who illegally invaded the sovereign territory of a US ally. An ally who’s soldiers had previously lost their lives supporting America in its war on terror.

SHAME ON HIM. Shame on the man who dodged the draft and never served a day in defense of his nation. He is a coward and I would gladly call him that to his face. To all those Americans on social media currently posting vile insults to those who have always been there for America, I say, democracy is bigger than you, as you sit anonymously behind your phones posting poison.

America might have the most powerful army on the planet, but remember, that same army fled from Saigon after being handed their ass by a bunch of peasant rice farmers, armed with grenades made from discarded US coke cans. Ukraine have been to the Russian army what the Vietnamese were to you and we salute them.

You might want to throw Ukraine under the bus while stealing there mineral deposits, BUT EUROPE WILL NOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. I know for sure that the UK will not abandon the Ukrainian people. Our aid to GDP contribution already exceeds that of the US as does Poland, Germany Finland and others.

The U.S. is no longer a reliable ally and if need be, we will stand with Ukraine without America.

As for your pathetic tariffs, do your worst. You will soon have no friends but thugs and autocrats, so I’m sure Wun Dum Fuc will be right at home.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Stand with Ukrainians as Trump prepares to sell them out
(Location: Russian embassy, London, Feb ‘23)

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

If you’re curious, here’s the video that Mr. Poilievre is kicking up a fuss about.

Canada is a great country and we can make it even better.

It’s time to build. Together.

[Foreign policy @ForeignpolicyWB]

Georgia is not Russia 🇬🇪🇪🇺

[Melinda Elson @melindaelson]

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[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Wow. A bishop just called out Trump and Vance to their faces at church.

“The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. May I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those whose children fear their parents will be taken away.”

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

The Murdoch trial starts on Monday

Help us make sure it’s reported fairly unlike the rest of the press.

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[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Hey megalomusk - take a look ⬇️

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

"Migrants, illegal or legal, weren't responsible for austerity. That was the Conservative government. Migrants were not responsible for Brexit. Migrants were not responsible for Liz Truss' failure of leadership."

Brilliant audience contribution 👏

#bbcqt

[Melinda Elson @melindaelson]

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[Melinda Elson @melindaelson]

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