FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
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Huh. I recall nt long ago a newly elected MP questioned the boozing in parliament & triggered a spectacular multi-week meltdown by the nation's most sensible Sensibles chin stroking & pontificating abt why the corridors of Westminster overflowing with booze ws nt only good bt virtually a natural law
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d ago‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster
Senate Report Describes ‘Top-Down Culture of Cruelty’ in ICE Detention talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-...
Senate Report Describes ‘Top-Down Culture of Cruelty’ in ICE Detention
A new report from Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) details shocking...
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bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.
Not really countering the accusation from the left that they're bunch of self-regarding dickheads who will cheerfully crash the whole show into a mountain rather than let anyone else be in charge.
PoliticsHome@politicshome.bsky.social · 2w agoLabour MPs unhappy with the treatment of Starmer loyalists have warned they could make life hard for Burnham at the Budget “Andy’s Starmerite purge has created an incredibly powerful phalanx of skilled political operators who intimately know the government’s fiscal position" Harriet Symonds writes
British media has spent over a decade laundering the reputations of the most rancid, petty, cruel and misogynistic slice of Britain's fascistic middle class as "feminist".
Elaine Crory@elainecrory.bsky.social · 2w agoSo Andy Burnham's wife is getting endless nasty comments for having a body. I bet the "women's rights movement" that is heavily made up of trans-exclusive columnists who claim to be defending women are right on that. Yeah?
The Right’s New Country Club: Inside the Bizarre World of Luxury Gun Clubs talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-rig...
The Right’s New Country Club: Inside the Bizarre World of Luxury Gun Clubs
This book excerpt is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
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BREAKING: A federal appeals court panel has upheld White House aide Peter NAVARRO's criminal conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Boris sharing articles referring to Ed Miliband as the worst possible choice for Foreign Secretary. A reminder that when Johnson was foreign sec he was busted getting a blow-job under his desk, had Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Iran & got drunk & "accidentally" attended a KGB house party
This AP investigation into David Brouillette, the ICE agent who shot Durán Guerrero in Maine is genuinely horrifying. Long history of extreme mental illness, chronic violence agst spouses and kids, PTSD and heightened violence from mil service. apnews.com/article/ice-...
AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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Maine ICE shooter has history of severe mental illness, multiple psych hospitalizations, mil PTSD, chronic violence agst at least two wives, and threats against mutiple family members and more. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mus...
A Must Read and Truly Horrifying Story
The AP has just posted a detailed investigation into the background of...
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So the guy DOJ has put in charge of charging antifa “domestic terrorists” is himself one of the j6 boys …
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3w agoEXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
Katie and Stephen Miller deserve each other—and the misery their bilious souls will, no doubt, bring to each other’s lives.
If you’re wondering why Britain is such a mess, it seems it’s nothing to do with austerity and Brexit and 14 years of government by a party who couldn’t even choose a leader they could stick with. It’s the fault of Count Binface:
We should celebrate Lindsey for the accomplishment he was most proud of: the murder of millions of people across the glob
Somebody (Rebecca Onion) didn't read the books. If they read the books, they would know the Black doctor is in the books. He nurses the Ingalls family through malaria. He's based on a real Black doctor who lived near the Ingalls family in Independence, KS, REBECCA ONION slate.com/culture/2026...
Netflix Woke-ified Little House on the Prairie
The 2026 adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s novel departs from the source material in big ways.
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It really is wild, sad, bizarre, predictable. Not only is it not believable. It's no overstatement to say that when ICE says guy tried to run us over, tried to attack, threatened to shoot ... that's ICE for 'hey, our guys were pumped up and they shot the guy.'
Amee Vanderpool@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 4w agoICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
Normie Dems are demanding candidates with "fight"; ideology and hot button policy positions are far less important. It's worth understanding what they're saying. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-res...
A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates
This morning on Bluesky Politico’s Josh Gerstein flagged to me and others...
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These absolute arses have removed funding for teaching grants from NURSING courses.
Arts Professional@artsprofessional.co.uk · 4w agoPerforming and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.
Aside from supporting genocide, destroying the arts and HE sectors, handing the NHS to palantir and american drug firms, and being the most anti-lgbt+ government since Thatcher, the starmer government had been pretty great
Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity
In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.
"Alex, I'll take 'Things that Hitler also said' for $100."
