Francis Chubb
@francischubb.bsky.social
Lawyer and Liberal Democrat 🔶 (pic is earlier guise, Berlin 1989. Because I’m an optimist really)
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Putin’s place is at The Hague to be judged for his war crimes, not at the negotiating table.
💔 Toretsk. Another ghost town in Donbas that no longer exists. The war brought the most terrible destruction of cities in Europe since World War II.
December 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Putin’s place is at The Hague to be judged for his war crimes, not at the negotiating table.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
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The European Commission has carried out one of its biggest logistical operations by relocating a full thermal power plant from Lithuania to Ukraine.
The complex operation, carried out over 11 months, involved 149 shipments totalling 2,399 tonnes of equipment.
The complex operation, carried out over 11 months, involved 149 shipments totalling 2,399 tonnes of equipment.
December 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The European Commission has carried out one of its biggest logistical operations by relocating a full thermal power plant from Lithuania to Ukraine.
The complex operation, carried out over 11 months, involved 149 shipments totalling 2,399 tonnes of equipment.
The complex operation, carried out over 11 months, involved 149 shipments totalling 2,399 tonnes of equipment.
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Keep fighting back on these dangerous data centers. Wonder why your utility bills are skyrocketing? Pay attention. Water wars will be a real thing. Hold any politician accountable if they support unregulated AI and these centers. Vote them all out regardless of party.
prospect.org/2025/12/22/d...
prospect.org/2025/12/22/d...
Demands for Data Center Moratoriums Surge - The American Prospect
Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.
prospect.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Keep fighting back on these dangerous data centers. Wonder why your utility bills are skyrocketing? Pay attention. Water wars will be a real thing. Hold any politician accountable if they support unregulated AI and these centers. Vote them all out regardless of party.
prospect.org/2025/12/22/d...
prospect.org/2025/12/22/d...
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Human rights watchdog should investigate local election delays, Lib Dem leader urges
news.sky.com/story/sir-ed...
news.sky.com/story/sir-ed...
Sir Ed Davey writes to human rights watchdog over local election delays
The Liberal Democrat leader said in his letter to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission that nearly ten million people could see their democratic rights "ripped away".
news.sky.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Human rights watchdog should investigate local election delays, Lib Dem leader urges
news.sky.com/story/sir-ed...
news.sky.com/story/sir-ed...
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Trump's new Greenland envoy intends to make territory 'a part of the US'
Denmark describes his comments as “completely unacceptable" and summons the US ambassador in a new eruption of tensions over the future of the vast Danish island
news.sky.com/story/trumps...
Denmark describes his comments as “completely unacceptable" and summons the US ambassador in a new eruption of tensions over the future of the vast Danish island
news.sky.com/story/trumps...
Trump's new Greenland envoy intends to make territory 'a part of the US'
Denmark describes his comments as "completely unacceptable" and summons the US ambassador in a new eruption of tensions over the future of the vast Danish island.
news.sky.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Trump's new Greenland envoy intends to make territory 'a part of the US'
Denmark describes his comments as “completely unacceptable" and summons the US ambassador in a new eruption of tensions over the future of the vast Danish island
news.sky.com/story/trumps...
Denmark describes his comments as “completely unacceptable" and summons the US ambassador in a new eruption of tensions over the future of the vast Danish island
news.sky.com/story/trumps...
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This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
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@alpinkerton.bsky.social shared this Christmas special of Private Eye.
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
@alpinkerton.bsky.social shared this Christmas special of Private Eye.
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Think of your biggest financial risk: it's not your stock portfolio, it's losing your paycheck. That's why unemployment is the single best measure of economic health—when people can't earn a living, everything else in the data is just background noise.
And unemployment is rising.
And unemployment is rising.
December 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Think of your biggest financial risk: it's not your stock portfolio, it's losing your paycheck. That's why unemployment is the single best measure of economic health—when people can't earn a living, everything else in the data is just background noise.
And unemployment is rising.
And unemployment is rising.
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None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time.
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time.
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
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Russia launched about 1,300 strike drones, nearly 1,200 guided bombs and nine missiles at Ukraine this week, particularly hitting Odesa region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that negotiating teams continue working on ending the war with dignified peace.
December 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Russia launched about 1,300 strike drones, nearly 1,200 guided bombs and nine missiles at Ukraine this week, particularly hitting Odesa region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that negotiating teams continue working on ending the war with dignified peace.
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It was… and remains one of Brexit’s biggest fault lines. The howling inadequacy of its champions.
The other main fault line is Brexit’s dishonesty. Once you expose the lies, it exposes a profound betrayal of our country’s best interests.
The other main fault line is Brexit’s dishonesty. Once you expose the lies, it exposes a profound betrayal of our country’s best interests.
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
It was… and remains one of Brexit’s biggest fault lines. The howling inadequacy of its champions.
The other main fault line is Brexit’s dishonesty. Once you expose the lies, it exposes a profound betrayal of our country’s best interests.
The other main fault line is Brexit’s dishonesty. Once you expose the lies, it exposes a profound betrayal of our country’s best interests.
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Trump has now conducted 28 boat strikes, killing over 100 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
December 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Trump has now conducted 28 boat strikes, killing over 100 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
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Unfortunately, even those leaders who agree with Tusk are unwilling either to spend enough now or to put their forces in harm’s way to try to deter Putin from going further. That makes worse outcomes more likely. 13/13
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Unfortunately, even those leaders who agree with Tusk are unwilling either to spend enough now or to put their forces in harm’s way to try to deter Putin from going further. That makes worse outcomes more likely. 13/13
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Reflections on the European Council decision to borrow €90 billion and lend it to Ukraine. Tl; dr: Ukraine benefits, but not enough; Putin & Trump will be encouraged; the EU & individual member-states have shown that it’s still too easy to intimidate them. 🧵1/13
December 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reflections on the European Council decision to borrow €90 billion and lend it to Ukraine. Tl; dr: Ukraine benefits, but not enough; Putin & Trump will be encouraged; the EU & individual member-states have shown that it’s still too easy to intimidate them. 🧵1/13
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Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.
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I don’t (entirely) agree. The fixation early on to use Russian assets now without considering alternatives poisoned the discussion from the beginning. freezing the assets indeterminately and providing joint borrowing is a very good outcome - also an important precedent for future financing rounds.
December 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I don’t (entirely) agree. The fixation early on to use Russian assets now without considering alternatives poisoned the discussion from the beginning. freezing the assets indeterminately and providing joint borrowing is a very good outcome - also an important precedent for future financing rounds.
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Better than nothing, but not a good outcome. Ru intimidated Europe into not touching the frozen assets. It drove a wedge in the EU as some member states are opting out of this plan. Ru will continue its hybrid war and its efforts to divide Europe, trying to get more Orbans elected to do its bidding.
We have a deal.
Decision to provide 90 billion euros of support to Ukraine for 2026-27 approved.
We committed, we delivered.
Decision to provide 90 billion euros of support to Ukraine for 2026-27 approved.
We committed, we delivered.
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Better than nothing, but not a good outcome. Ru intimidated Europe into not touching the frozen assets. It drove a wedge in the EU as some member states are opting out of this plan. Ru will continue its hybrid war and its efforts to divide Europe, trying to get more Orbans elected to do its bidding.
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There's just too much cowardice, too much defeatism, excuses about not destabilizing Russia, a strong will among some to return to business as usual, the false idea that Russia cannot be beaten. Only Ukraine spills its blood. But Ukraine will eventually win because otherwise it will be exterminated.
December 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
There's just too much cowardice, too much defeatism, excuses about not destabilizing Russia, a strong will among some to return to business as usual, the false idea that Russia cannot be beaten. Only Ukraine spills its blood. But Ukraine will eventually win because otherwise it will be exterminated.
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Russia threatening legal action and ‘damages’ for sequestration of their assets is all part of their asymmetric hybrid war.
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
December 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Russia threatening legal action and ‘damages’ for sequestration of their assets is all part of their asymmetric hybrid war.
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
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The UK should be there. Perhaps this is one summit where people can understand the geopolitical cost of #Brexit as well as the economic one.
They’re still at it, with no sign of a breakthrough.
Read what’s at stake - for Europe, for the Czech Republic, and for Ukraine.
And why European leaders like Andrej Babiš may find it ever harder to sit on the fence.
open.substack.com/pub/robjcame...
Read what’s at stake - for Europe, for the Czech Republic, and for Ukraine.
And why European leaders like Andrej Babiš may find it ever harder to sit on the fence.
open.substack.com/pub/robjcame...
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The UK should be there. Perhaps this is one summit where people can understand the geopolitical cost of #Brexit as well as the economic one.
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Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
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I'm once again asking the nation's press to consider reporting how some of the most important decisions of our lives in Europe are being made without the UK government participation, and if that is good or sustainable.
It's going to be a long, hard EU summit today (and maybe for a few days).
My take based on conversations in last 24 hours
- Ukraine loan I think has a good chance of getting done. Nothing final but there is room for a deal. Good news
- Mercosur also looking better than yesterday.
My take based on conversations in last 24 hours
- Ukraine loan I think has a good chance of getting done. Nothing final but there is room for a deal. Good news
- Mercosur also looking better than yesterday.
December 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I'm once again asking the nation's press to consider reporting how some of the most important decisions of our lives in Europe are being made without the UK government participation, and if that is good or sustainable.
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Stating the obvious, but if Trump realizes Putin ‘wants the whole country’ then pressure exerted on Ukraine to concede some of it is just helping Putin achieve his goals step by step.
December 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Stating the obvious, but if Trump realizes Putin ‘wants the whole country’ then pressure exerted on Ukraine to concede some of it is just helping Putin achieve his goals step by step.