I'm wondering if the 2027 French presidential election might turn out like the 2024 US presidential election did.

What I mean is: what if left-wing voters refuse to back the moderate (Edouard Philippe in France, Kamala Harris in the US), which just helps the far-right candidate to win (Le Pen in France, Trump in the US)?

Melenchon is liked by the left in France, but the polls show he fares much worse against Le Pen than Philippe does. If the second round is Melenchon vs Le Pen, then Le Pen's victory becomes more likely.

It's odd to see Americans siding with Russia, to be honest.

In the community ![email protected] (https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]), I've noticed that posts by one user in particular ([email protected]) don't have post titles visible, when viewing from piefed.social (but other instances don't have this issue). It doesn't seem to be an issue with my account, because the issue still appears when logged out.

For example, these two posts appear to have no title:

• https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]/p/2508746/content-in-post-body
• https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]/p/2495477/content-in-post-body

But if you view the same posts on piefed.world, they do have a title:

• https://piefed.world/c/[email protected]/p/1477011/if-britain-had-to-be-represented-by-one-celebrity-who-would-you-choose
• https://piefed.world/c/[email protected]/p/1468812/what-s-your-most-ridiculous-british-public-transport-story

Does anyone know if there's a way to fix this issue, so I can see all post titles on piefed.social?

Thanks if anyone has any help.

President signed the legislation championed by late senator Lindsey Graham last month but has waived the restrictions as they were due to come into effect

Maybe "the West" no longer exists. There's just the US and then there's Europe, and each of them is doing their own thing.

Apparently the Chancellor wants to reverse a cut to a surcharge that banks pay on their profits, on top of normal corporation tax. The surcharge was 8%, then Jeremy Hunt cut it to 3%, so Healey apparently might set it back to 8%.

[Healey is] believed to be minded to increase the surcharge banks pay on their profits, over and above corporation tax. Industry figures believe that will probably mean raising the surcharge back to 8%, from 3% at present.

Thoughts?