Well it made me smile

There are times when a photo captures the moment and tells a much larger story. Rosa Parks on a bus, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor in the back if a car, a girl in Vietnam running from a Napalm attack etc. This photo is one of those moments.

Billy no mates at the G7. Consequences of treating friends as pariahs and enemies as friends. Europe has moved on and whilst Trump will be temporary, the damage to the US will be longer lasting.

Nobody should.

The criminal President is sending the DOJ after a woman he raped….

US military veterans have just launched a major lawsuit against Trump to stop the construction of his giant arch, which would obstruct the view of Arlington National Cemetery. “It's disrespectful to those that I served with who didn't come back,” one veteran said. people.com/vietnam-vete...

In 2011 Keir Starmer approved the robust investigation into Murdoch and phone hacking, and into newspapers beyond the Murdoch stable. In 2024 they started to take their revenge and will continue. A challenge to the heart of democracy. www.theguardian.com/media/2011/j...

Phone-hacking scandal: DPP orders 'robust approach'

CPS to examine recent allegations as David Cameron faces renewed pressure over close links to Murdoch

theguardian.com

There is a major campaign against @kajakallas.bsky.social underway. It is being spearheaded by Russian intelligence, but, interestingly, MAGA and pro-Israel slop accounts have joined in. The objective is to remove her from her position in the EU; she poses a threat to their operations.

Private Eye gets this spot on - sad to lose Kuenssberg and Mason 😂 (It's a parody for those that don't know Private Eye)

I have cast my vote in the local elections. A few in the queue but turnout will be traditionally low and given the amount of money spent by Reform, they will probably do well. That will not happen on the same scale at a General Election, but how gullible are Reform voters.

🚨NOT RIGGED, JUST ‘REMARKABLE’ — PRIZE WINNERS TRACE BACK TO FARAGE’S BREXIT PARTY CIRCLE”! Ray and June, who won the Reform UK energy bills prize, go back all the way to the Brexit Party with Farage. Source: Don McGowan/X #UKNews

Thailand-based crypto businessman, Christopher Harborne, donated £12 million to Reform. Hong Kong-based British crypto investor Ben Delo has donated £4 million earlier this year. The government placed a £100,000 cap on donations by Brits living abroad last month. Cap all donations! #RejoinEU

If I were Starmer trying to find a way of announcing a rejoin of the EU, I‘d prepare UK: - showing it’s possible as well as desirable - helping voters see it’s OK for a country to change direction - showing them Brexit has caused damage and he is acting in time to avoid more damage And…

Well this aged well. Just like most of Farage's beliefs.

Remember that Nigel Farage is Donald Trump's biggest supporter. Remember that Nigel campaigned for Trump and even wants to mimic all his policies. This is the sort of insanity Reform want to bring to the United Kingdom.

a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other and one of them is saying go forth and spread the word

ALT: a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other and one of them is saying go forth and spread the word

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If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

1/3 He said he cut ties in 2005. The files say otherwise. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had contact with Jeffrey Epstein after the 2008 conviction. DOJ documents contradict the public story.

If this does not have people close to the President brushing off the rules to invoke Article 25, then nothing will. It is actually a real post.

This is essential reading. It makes clear that the Conservative government had left the NHS in a precarious position by starving it of funding and that its inept handling of the pandemic almost saw it collapse completely

UK Covid-19 Inquiry@ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1/ The Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett, has today published her third report.

I'm not saying you should, but you could actually do this with all your unwanted junk mail and flyers

WaveyDavey0@waveydavey0.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Whatever you do, steer clear of returning your Reform election flyer via Freepost. Each one sets Farage back £2.50, and that just wouldn’t be right.

Trump just said this to the Japanese Prime Minister: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habor?” A more worthless human being does not exist.

Nick Timothy is an uncannily perfect encapsulation of the crapification of public life in the UK: a bigoted failure blithely oozing from one disaster to the next while being rewarded at every turn by the far right media/political ecosystem. A golf club boor with the intellect of a burst balloon.

Within seconds of her autocue freezing, the Reform MP started making jokes about Islam

Reform's Sarah Pochin says she 'wanted to wear tartan burqa' to Scottish election launch

Reform's Sarah Pochin has come under fire after saying she wanted to "wear a tartan burqa" to the party's Scottish election campaign launch.

thelondoneconomic.com

BBC News - Dumfries and Galloway councillor suspended over 'aggressive' behaviour - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dumfries and Galloway councillor suspended over 'aggressive' behaviour

John Denerley left former council leader Gail Macgregor

bbc.co.uk

A war that is apparently having unforeseen consequences, embroiling the wider Middle East, economic damage for millions around the globe. Except - it was not unforeseeable. The Gulf States are rightly furious with the US, and all because of an incompetent narcissist who thinks he is all knowing.

This is next level insanity. I never imagined I would see the day when a President of the US would speak like this.

Just a reminder of what this is really about

Following Trump's statement that Starmer is not Churchill, we now have a response to Trump from Churchill.

Starmer along with Mark Carney and their allies are planning life without the US. You keep the insults coming, you thick orange piece of shit.

It is worth remembering that this is a US/Israeli operation It is not a Nato operation It is not a coalition operation There was no joint planning with other countries before the attack started I suspect most of the people in the UK support Starmer's position