MickFaraday
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MickFaraday
@mickfaraday.bsky.social
Retired teacher, photographer, columnist.
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I agree with this.

#China restrains itself to a degree because it relies on 🌎 trade for its precarious economy.

The #USA is now hostile to Europe, but governed by incompetents. And at least more half its voting population is friendly to Europe

#Russia doesn't give a shit and is 100% hostile.
President Stubb: "Russia is the number one threat for Europe and actually the Western world."

🫳🎤
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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This is nuts. Sounds fairly close to a horrific midair catastrophe tied to whatevet the fuck trump thinks hes doing in venezuelan air space. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
JetBlue pilot narrowly avoids 'midair collision' with Air Force plane near Venezuela
A JetBlue Airways pilot said he narrowly avoided a "midair collision" with a U.S. military aircraft that entered his flight path.
abcnews.go.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Donald tells the Europeans that we are collapsing because we are WOKE. He kills people sailing the Gulf of Mexico and steals an oil tanker like a real old-time pirate.
I think America has collapsed into a rogue state.
December 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Started / Going
December 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The #EU is the last bastion of global democracy and the free world on Earth.

If it falls... whats replaces it? #China? #Russia? The #TrumpRegime?

I feel like so many people deeply underestimate the peril we're in.

Individual democracies on their own would just get picked off one by one
December 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Lovely tribute to The Lady Killers but what's striking is how much better almost everything looks today.

www.bfi.org.uk/features/70-...
70 years of The Ladykillers: how the locations look today
As the classic Ealing comedy turns 70, we went walking around King’s Cross to see whether Alec Guinness and his motley band of robbers would recognise it today.
www.bfi.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Sometimes, I need to watch this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=87qT...
Ode to Joy - Flash Mob Started by One Little Girl
YouTube video by FRiDAY
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Ukraine & America’s Credibility Crisis
• with Anne Applebaum •

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Anne Applebaum joins Scott Galloway to explain what really happens in peace talks, why business interests are overtaking diplomacy, & how corruption is reshaping American power at home and abroad.

1/4🧵
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Exactly right. They couldn’t sell their PPE here and eventually sold it to other countries. Same applied to ventilators. We had them sitting on the shelves of UK companies who had made them for donkey’s years, only to be passed over and contracts given to tory pals.
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Meanwhile companies that actually made PPE, and knew what they were doing, were passed over, and the contracts given to idiots.
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Covid fraud under the Tories cost the taxpayer £10.9 billion

The counter-fraud and error measures during the pandemic under the Conservative Government were accused of being 'so lax they may as well have left the door wide open'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Covid fraud under the Tories cost the taxpayer £10.9 billion
The counter-fraud and error measures during the pandemic under the Conservative Government were accused of being 'so lax they may as well have left the door wide open'
www.mirror.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Basically it looks like weakening democracy by supporting nationalist parties across Europe, and trashing NATO - this is Putin's dream wishlist

The US under Trump is tearing apart the global rules based order

I prefer closer ties with the EU than with the US under Trump
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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King Charles's personal wealth jumped from £30 million to £640 million all while being exempt from taxes on Crown Estate profits, capital gains, & inheritance tax.
Why is he exempt and what has he done to lift children in HIS country out of poverty??

#charlesthelast
#downwiththecrown
#wealthtax
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Good to hear Ronnie Convery on Radio 4 Prayer for Today. Very relevant this morning.
December 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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The absolute state of the BBC news just now - which seems determined to drag the government down over the budget.

Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Now THAT’S a hero. 🥰
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A new twist in Glasgow's art community.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Glasgow artists collaborate on painting of Vincent van Gogh
Peter Howson and Ross Muir have joined forces to create a remake of Muir's famous Square Gogh painting.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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This is what Farage wants in the UK.
My health insurance premiums will more than double in January. I pay a little less than $500/month for my current silver plan.

I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.

And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
November 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I would LOVE to see an interview with her parents.
Also, i really want to see them say that shit to Native Americans.
November 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is only year one. Can you imagine what the next three years are going to be like?
Who will survive that?
Do we think he is crying for help & an intervention but at this point how does that happen?
The Supreme Court’s ruling allowed him to do Anything he wants & not be charged
So how does we overturn their ruling?
Congress takes his money & participates in his criming
How do we treat his illness?
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Disgraceful! A patriotic flag shagger who dedicated his time to illegally putting up 64 flags is being charged £2,300 for the cost of taking them down. If it wasn't so funny I'd be furious.
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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At least he’s providing a confession.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Headline on The World at One just now:

"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".

Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM