"You did $500 billion of damage to my business interests." "Word? Which ones, dog?" "What?" "Which business interests? Name them. In detail. With receipts." "Um..."
Tim Dean
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Toy safety guy. Technical Manager. Goth adjacent and traces of heavy metal. Too interested in politics.
These tolls are *dramatically* higher than Iran was asking for a couple of months ago.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h agoReuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be unlikely to risk transit without paying."
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
I'm as shocked as you are, dear reader, that the leader of the Conservative Party would omit to mention or factor in the 11,651 prison places that were closed over the same period due to either prison closures or cell dilapidation.
Full Fact@fullfact.org · 13h agoAndy Burnham has claimed only 500 prison places were added between 2010 and 2024, but Kemi Badenoch says the Conservatives created 14,000 new places. Can these two claims add up? We’ve had a look at the figures 👇 fullfact.org/crime/how-ma...
Jesus fuck, I am actively asking for that to happen. Get rid of every bolted on AI button or enshittified search engine. Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
A terrible day for trans people in Britain and a shameful one for the EHRC and government
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 18h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
Hands up if you just knew Polanksi was going to wade in on this one and stick up for the guy jailed for a prolonged campaign of antisemitic harassment against a Jewish MP
Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 14h agoWhy are you commenting if you don’t know the specifics of the case!!!!!
Only takes half a brain to see an ocean of possible support between the Lib Dems and Reform! That Reform keep moving Right and the LDs aren't firing on all cylinders! But Badenoch keeps moving Rightwards and vacating all that space... Political malpractice. 😡 www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
Meet the new face of Kemi Badenoch's Tories: a former neo-Nazi activist
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, selected to stand for the Conservatives in Somerset, has described himself as a “nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights”
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It's been an absolute honour to visit Clacton fewer times than I've visited America, hold zero surgeries and do fuck all for the town.
I was expecting this to be good, with some proper satire mixed in with the larks. I was not expecting them to ask about Nolan’s Odyssey only for Binface to respond, at length, in Homeric Greek 🤓
Count Binface: Nigel Farage's Biggest Threat?
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 2 August · 38min
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French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
Wherein David Ellison laughably claims that CBS News is still playing it "straight down the middle", so he can also be trusted with CNN. Former CBS News staff have more-than-adequately demonstrated the genuflecting that is actually taking place at Blackrock. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion | David Ellison: In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal
The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN
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To be fair to Hunt, the great expense wasn't really paid by him personally, so much as literally everybody
Rather puts Grant Shapps being rejected as a Conservative candidate into perspective.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
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Oh shut up and fuck off - the British famously lost that battle too and had the advantage of being across a sea for the next few years
This is a measured and damning thread from Sunder - you just have to continue reading past the first post which is obviously too much for some people.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d ago66 seems a young age for Rod Liddle to die. Talented comic writer, insightful about football.obvs took much pleasure in transgressing political correctness But just lied when caught being much more indefensibly racist+ sexist online in his Millwallmonkey persona www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption when killed, jury told
Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption when killed, jury told
Journalist’s son says his mother was examining leak from Electrogas, part owned by Yorgen Fenech who is on trial Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption by the businessman Yorgen Fenech and members of Malta’s government when she was killed, a jury has heard. The heir to one of Malta’s biggest fortunes, Fenech is on trial for murder, accused of commissioning and paying for Caruana Galizia’s killing in a car bombing in October 2017. Continue reading...
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The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'
NEW How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Again, a fundamental issue with trying to cover the anti-trans movement is that explaining that they are habitually insincere and so routinely chose transphobia over women's rights does make you sound conspiratiorial, and yet...
@andmcc.bsky.social · 3d agoI don't know about topping, but there is a a very good followup
Stop talking about Nigel Farage and start talking about how compere, performer and drag king Mojo Jones has a new act called C*nty Binface 🗑️💖
Love this puts Count Binface 2nd from top and Farage about halfway down.
Sweary Spider@swearyspider.bsky.social · 3d ago“BINFACE, Count” 🤣🤣🤣
Shooting interests & the rightwing press want to exploit the wildfires to reinstate moorland burning. But you don't fight fire with fire. You fight it with water. This wildfire in Wales' Elan Valley in May stopped abruptly when it reached re-wetted peat bogs: www.walesfarmer.co.uk/news/2614875...
It's weird reading John L Williams' (v good) Heatwave, about the summer of 1976, and seeing temperatures over 32 described as so extreme that people lost their minds. At least it seems they invented road-building material that doesn't melt. And we don't have a ladybird plague.
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
The thing that haunts you after being there is that it's their nightly reality. Lying in a hotel room listening to air defense frantically tearing up the night sky or waiting it out in a shelter and knowing that unlike them, for you this is 4 nights of horror and then you're back on a train home.
The Ukrainian Review@theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 3d ago🇺🇦‼️Jesse Eisenberg witnessed the Russian shelling of Ukraine during a visit and reacted to it: “What if they bombed New York?” "We were woken up by anxiety, we went down to the shelter, and in the morning I saw the consequences of the shelling. It was devastating, terrible, outrageous, tragic. 1/2