Alan Lewis Chambers #FBPE #RejoinEU
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Retired, carer, birder, railway buff, ex geochemist, ex environment lecturer, ex IT lecturer, ex MIS Manager. https://www.facebook.com/alanlchambers MyLifeinTrains.com
"Pirro clearly wanted to spare herself any further scrutiny by the courts, but her motion to dismiss is comically inept, an attempt to paper over the fact her office charged Hearn based only on Trump's fevered imaginings. All it does is highlight how much she was willing to lie in the first place."
Jeanine Pirro crashes into the limit of Trump's lies
It's one thing to bullshit on Fox. It's another to lie in court.
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Just add "guv'nor" after every third subclause and you'll get the rough gist.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h agoThe Beeb's response is funny enough on its own. But bc I have not ingested enough cat videos today, I read it to myself in a proper British accent and it's even funnier that way. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![I. THE TRUMP TRUST’S REQUEST FOR A STAY IS NOT AN EMERGENCY.
As a threshold matter, the Trump Trust’s motion for a stay is hardly an emergency. As
the Trump Trust frames the issue, its motion is an emergency because “[o]nce the Trust were to
begin handing those records over to the BBC, that disclosure could not be undone, and the
Trust’s pending objections could not restore what the BBC will have already seen.” Mot. at 2.
But “bona fide emergencies involve the health and safety of individuals, the impending departure
of a witness with no plans to return to the jurisdiction, the imminent destruction of a building or other property, the imminent deportation of an individual to another country, the need to give
critical medical treatment to a patient in a hospital, the threatened loss of civil rights, the
immediate, threatened loss of an entire business, or when someone is at risk of being denied an
essential service.” Companhia Energetica Potiguar v. Caterpillar Inc., 2016 WL 7469993, at *3
(S.D. Fla. Apr. 13, 2016) (Goodman, M.J.) (denying emergency motion to stay enforcement of
Magistrate Judge’s discovery order). By contrast, a deadline arriving after two weeks’ notice to
produce non-privileged documents—which may be designated “Confidential” or “Attorneys’
Eyes Only” under the Court’s Protective Order—does not justify the rare invocation of the
Court’s emergency procedures.
It is not even clear from the Trump Trust’s briefing what the purported emergency is
here. See id. (“But the mere fact that [the movant] did not obtain all the relief it wanted hardly
means that this situation is an emergency.”) (emphasis in original). Simply because the Trump
Trust faces an obligation it does not agree with, and is confronted with an imminent deadline of
its own making by waiting to file its stay motion until the day before its first Court-ordered
disclosure day, does not make its request an emergency](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreihfw75bjjm6e3um2e76g2xx4trhl3sfnsh2arkqo4o7j7ngnhpygy)
Last thought: schooling shouldn't all be about getting a job. It sounds trite, but it's for *everything* in your life And employers used to train people, didn't they? Why do they now seem to assume everyone starting their first job has all the skills? The state is picking up the tab for that shift
You can scream *parity of esteem* until your face turns blue but it doesn't make it happen, & it doesn't make employers treat these courses as such. That's a fundamental issue. Sidenote: I like the article's framing of the core GCSEs not as "academic" but "foundational". I.e a vital knowledge base.
"The electrical installation course requires knowledge of algebra and trigonometry, plus mastery of a wiring regs handbook that is twice as long as Pride and Prejudice" Important read on vocational ed from 14. You need a really solid foundation in English, maths & science for many jobs in trades.
The problem with "parity of esteem"
Vocational education at age 14 is not the answer
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BYLINE TIMES Why Ceuta Was Not Actually the 'Migrant Invasion' Widely Reported Professor Stephen Zunes tells the Byline Times podcast what was really going on when more than 50,000 people descended on Spain's North African enclave. Adrian Goldberg Aug 05, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
Why Ceuta Was Not Actually the 'Migrant Invasion' Widely Reported
Professor Stephen Zunes tells the Byline Times podcast what was really going on when more than 50,000 people descended on Spain's North African enclave
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Adam Kinzinger Imagine If Trump Worked This Hard At Governing Trump is working harder than ever. Just not to improve the country. Aug 05, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Imagine If Trump Worked This Hard At Governing
Trump is working harder than ever. Just not to improve the country.
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AI AS NORMAL TECHNOLOGY AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research Early evidence from two case studies. Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan Aug 05, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/aisnakeo...
AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
Early evidence from two case studies
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Concis Canada A Request for Prime Minister Carney Let’s go Prime Minister. We can do this. Shankar Narayan Aug 05, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/concisca...
A Request for Prime Minister Carney
Let’s go Prime Minister. We can do this.
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Public Notice Jeanine Pirro crashes into the limit of Trump's lies It's one thing to bullshit on Fox. It's another to lie in court. Lisa Needham Aug 05, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
Jeanine Pirro crashes into the limit of Trump's lies
It's one thing to bullshit on Fox. It's another to lie in court.
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The Concis Europe Closed Ranks. Now Morocco Has Questions to Answer Plausible Deniability Is Collapsing. Shankar Narayan Aug 05, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/shankarn...
Europe Closed Ranks. Now Morocco Has Questions to Answer
Plausible Deniability Is Collapsing
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Russell Jones The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage. Aug 05, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/russinch...
The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain
The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.
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Adam Kinzinger BREAKING: Court Blocks Trump's Voter Ban, Moreno Breaks His Silence on Max Miller, RFK Caught Selling Books Off Fauci Hearing, and more... Top Stories for August 4, 2026. Aug 04, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
BREAKING: Court Blocks Trump's Voter Ban, Moreno Breaks His Silence on Max Miller, RFK Caught Selling Books Off Fauci Hearing, and more...
Top Stories for August 4, 2026.
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As Zelensky says “The world must see this," ... "It must see every piece of evidence that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that Russian soldiers are enjoying killings and tormenting people."
I can’t imagine what is must be like to be at the receiving end of Russia’ human safari war crimes. Chasing down a market stall seller. Amazingly, despite the explosion, he survived www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Video shows Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor in 'human safari' attack
Ukraine said the video - showing a terrified civilian being hounded by a remotely-controlled drone - amounted to a war crime.
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In that case he will be certain that we in Europe overwhelmingly regard him as ignorant, corrupt, and a cruel sick puppy. Yet, somehow, he doesn’t seem to know that either
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "I know Europe better than anybody. Better than the people that run it."
In a crowded field of disasters I think the worst thing Starmer ever did was give legitimacy to these people. This is a group that Starmer went as far as to obliquely praise in his resignation speech and they’re so dangerous even the highways agency have to travel in pairs in unmarked vehicles now.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d agoLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
AGENTS OF INFLUENCE When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz How independent media turned an obscure political operative into a "whistleblower"—and his claims into government action. Renee DiResta Aug 04, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz
How independent media turned an obscure political operative into a "whistleblower"—and his claims into government action.
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new, from Renee DiResta: "How Matt Taibbi was groomed by Mike Benz in a Twitter Space, uncritically ate up a truly wild conspiracy theory, and started touting it in a congressional hearing as if he had evidence of “millions" of censored tweets" Read here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz
How independent media turned an obscure political operative into a "whistleblower"—and his claims into government action.
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Marco Rubio being used as a message boy for the Iran-Oman negotiations? Which could come up with a Strait management system which Trump hates. And probably bombs. #BBCPM
Young people did not have a say in the Brexit referendum but have to live with its dreadful consequences. Of course, they want to rejoin the EU.
Adam Kinzinger The Unraveling of RFK Jr. The HHS Secretary’s disastrous CNN interview spotlights the risks of a presidency that refuses to admit mistakes. Aug 04, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
The Unraveling of RFK Jr.
The HHS Secretary’s disastrous CNN interview spotlights the risks of a presidency that refuses to admit mistakes.
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ODDS AND ENDS OF HISTORY Stop arguing about Net Zero badly It's not just an argument about principles, there are real, difficult trade-offs to consider. James O'Malley Aug 04, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...
Stop arguing about Net Zero badly
It's not just an argument about principles, there are real, difficult trade-offs to consider
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THE CONTRARIAN Words & Phrases Trump’s ‘thriving economy’ is a disaster. Jennifer Rubin Aug 04, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Words & Phrases
Trump’s ‘thriving economy’ is a disaster.
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📌 ICYMI @nafeez.bsky.social The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
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Private equity firms made up 50% of the largest US corporate bankruptcies with $1bn+ in liabilities Jobs, communities destroyed for short term profit PE has devoured UK high street; controls vets, supermarkets, care homes, pubs, housing, restaurants. Shadow banking wreaks havoc, govts do nothing.
Private equity continues disproportionate role in 2026 bankruptcies
Since 2024, PESP has tracked and analyzed corporate bankruptcies, identifying the disproportionate role that private equity-owned firms have played in bankruptcy filings. This trend continued in the…
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Amol Rajan there, caught criticising a newspaper story he hasn't read. Then criticising cancer screening policy he doesn't understand, but would if he'd read the article he starts from #R4Today
The prison population... has doubled over the last 30 years, despite crime rates falling substantially... In the 2000s, [long term growth] was largely due to more people going through the courts and being convicted. From the 2010s, however, it has instead been driven by longer sentences. #R4Today
Ed Wilson@eddwilson.bsky.social · last yr.The crisis in prisons How to start fixing the problems at the heart of the criminal justice system. 3 July 2024 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/... The previous government released 10,083 early between October 2023 and July 2024, and considered some of the current schemes. #r4today
