Again: If this were Biden it would be front page news and Fox would be talking about it non stop. Once again Trump gets a pass.

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists. They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver. apnews.com/article/trum...

This is Queen Mary and Queen Anne erasure

Amazed they didn’t go with one of their wanky slo mo sub-Zoolander vids …

Editor: You get those photos of the white supremacist? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

Humanity is doomed

Grifting every which way.

I have questions.

The US has selected targets in Venezuela, including military facilities, that it may strike as part of its counter-narcotics campaign, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and the Miami Herald.

3. Although both WLFI and USD1 were already available on Binance’s international platform, that service is unavailable in the U.S. Binance’s decision makes both tokens more easily accessible for American investors. Expanded trading widens the pool of potential investors, boosting demand and value.

1. On October 23, Trump pardoned CZ, the founder of Bianance. CZ had pled guilty to willfully violating anti-money laundering laws. His conduct, according ot the DOJ "allowed money to flow to terrorists, cybercriminals, and child abusers.” A week later, Trump is getting his payback.

2. On Tuesday, Binance’s U.S. exchange announced it would begin allowing trading of two Trump-linked cryptocurrencies — USD1 and WLFI. Both cryptocurrencies were issued by World Liberty Financial, a company co-founded by Trump and his sons.

On Trump's lame duckness www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The plurality of DC political coverage continues to be, ten years in, "Trump Says Something."

All true ... but the last tests by Russia and China were *also* in the 1990s. (North Korea has tested much more recently.) Nobody seems to know what Trump is talking about.

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Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

China bought 27 million metric tons of soybeans from US farmers in 2024. But somehow this “deal” to buy significantly less is a huge victory.

Stephen Miller’s wife Katie loses her shit and comes complete unglued because she claims that when Cenk said “the Millers lie” that was an anti-Semitic comment. Totally unhinged wacko.

Actual nuclear tests have long been superceded by computational modelling. Which also has the advantage that the opposition doesn't see what you are doing. And the US - unlike NK etc - doesn't need to demonstrate its technology. But no, steam catapault guy always knows better

Trump absolutely CRATERING with young voters in latest Economist/YouGov poll:

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It's quite something that only 38% of *white* voters say Reform isn't racist and yet they're presented as the tribunes of the forgotten masses.

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

Sultana’s position on Ukraine is not just morally reprehensible but juvenile and trite

Waking up, again, to the sound of two white men on the radio arguing about whether it is ok to be made "mad" by the very sight of black and Asian people on TV. 😒

A visual example of the density of FPV drones in Pokrovsk.

Striking line in the Atlantic's story on the Venezuela build-up. "The U.S. hasn’t sent this many ships to the Caribbean since the Cuban missile crisis." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Wait, so it's not just about immigration numbers?

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Crime is not charming

This man was part of a coalition of Reagan-era apartheid apologists who opposed U.S. opening talks with the African National Congress which he called a terrorist org. He has been a right wing activist for decades. His son was part of the Jan 6th mob and was convicted (later pardoned by Trump). 1/

This is utterly horrendous and yet another example of the lawlessness of X, where our government, our leading politicians, our media and our public services all still hold court. That there is seemingly no remedy for victims of this like Sunder is a damning indictment of regulatory failure.

Adviser removed word ‘enemy’ from witness statement in collapsed UK-China spy case on.ft.com/4htLmh1

on.ft.com/4qoZJHn The Trump Supremacy @edwardluce.bsky.social

I cannot tell what's more ridiculous: that President Trump got hopping mad at this, or that the Reagan Foundation wants to sue over it. Imagine devoting your career to preserving Reagan’s legacy and pitching a fit when someone quotes him

Oh dear.Tories might have wanted to check that fact. But I guess there were so very many Tory PMs towards the end it was difficult to keep track. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

What really happened is that a third of voters are excited about Reform but many more wanted to stop Reform bsky.app/profile/sund...

on.ft.com/3Jq5C6o Explainer: What makes us so vulnerable to cloud computing outages?

Tory spy case accusations backfiring... Rishi Sunak was sent a copy of first witness statement in the spy case says Jonathan Powell + Matthew Collins. Powell says he 'played no role' in subsequent evidence when in govt

My old ward. I recall when I bought there the ultra orthodox vote tended me to Lib Dem. Long time ago though.

In the US there are two parties and the campaign takes a year. In the Netherlands there are 15 parties and they do it in 2-3 weeks

Reform lost in Caerphilly in Wales by 11 points, because they had a very good chance of winning the seat, and most people did not want them to

Sorry what? Are we sure that’s the right number?! That’s, like, 85 drones PER DAY? From:: on.ft.com/4ocDOlk Belgium proposes ‘real time’ drone mapping to detect hybrid threats

Very rare - unique, maybe? - to have an election result where the governing party gets hammered but where the result also confirms for some of its leadership that their electoral strategy will work...

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