Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

“Miss, do you agree with the sign?” “Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥 #ForcedBirthNation

"At its best, Christianity in Britain has been a force for the liberation of the oppressed, a powerful source of kindness, compassion, social justice and welcome," writes @itsryanrodrigues.bsky.social. https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/would-the-christians-of-the-far-right

Trump: “I was never on Epstein’s plane” AUSA: “Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously reported, including during the Maxwell charging period”

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

100 parcels a day, Harrods catalogues and festive "peak" hit the beloved employees of the Royal Mail www.the-londoner.co.uk/a-posties-ch...

100 parcels a day, Harrods catalogues and festive "peak" hit the beloved employees of the Royal Mail www.the-londoner.co.uk/a-posties-ch...

100 parcels a day, Harrods catalogues and festive "peak" hit the beloved employees of the Royal Mail www.the-londoner.co.uk/a-posties-ch...

What makes this absurd claim - after multiple world wars - that the U.S. has no stake in a massive land war of conquest in Europe even more creepy is that Rubio is the "pro-Ukraine" figure in the Trump Regime.

Matthew Goodwin objects to prosecuting this: ‘I think it’s time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter. Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.’

"New powers that come into force on Thursday 18 Dec will allow reservoirs to be built faster, enable a new scheme to slash energy bills for people living near pylons by up to £2,500, and support clean power projects being prioritised for grid connections to bolster Britain’s energy security."

This is a huge win for young people across Britain. Leaving Erasmus was a mistake. The programme opens doors for students from all backgrounds to experience new cultures, build skills, and gain confidence for their future.

'Rees-Mogg went on "You're not supposed to help the least well of, you're supposed to penalise them, this really isn't difficult to understand"'

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

For balance, I am duty-bound to include this actual certified banger of a joke from Mark Drayford from that same conference.

Unions and workers have long campaigned for these vital rights. Finally, working people will enjoy more security, better pay and dignity at work thanks to this Bill.

➡️ Banning exploitative zero hours contracts ➡️ Sick pay for all from day one ➡️ Expanding paternity, parental & bereavement leave ➡️ Strengthening protections for pregnant women, whistle-blowers and victims of sexual harassment ➡️ Making flexible working the default ➡️ Repealing Tory anti-union laws

🚨BREAKING: Employment Rights Bill passes in the House of Lords and will become law. This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.

At PMQs, the PM made this point: "We've achieved more in 14 months than they have in 14 miserable years." This is absolutely true, but press and No.10 comms operation seem to be determined to hide. Ending the year with the Employment Rights Act passed and the agreement on Erasmus, both huge. 🥁🥁🥁

This is wonderful.

At some stage – and I suspect it’s not far off – the obvious contempt of many new right figures for modern Britain is going to cut through to the voters they’re trying to appeal to, and it will surely hurt them politically.

🎓 A reminder of the fantastic news that many will be waking up to this morning... 🥳 A win for our young people, our universities, and our economy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4ng7ee9vwo

To celebrate today’s news, a portrait of Erasmus (1466-1536); translator, scholar, humanist and fierce defender of reasoned debate. He insisted on arguing in Latin because the act of stopping and translating one’s thoughts was an impediment to publishing anything intemperate or ill-considered.

This is wonderful.

“What disturbs us is less what happened years ago, hurtful as it was, but rather your refusal to acknowledge your past behaviour or apologise for it” If Farage was made to acknowledge his past behaviour or apologise for it, his career would have ended years ago. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🎉 The Employment Rights Act has now become law This Labour Govt's landmark new law will deliver: ➡️ Banning exploitative zero hours contracts ➡️ Sick pay for all from day one ➡️ Expanding paternity, parental & bereavement leave ➡️ Strengthening protections for pregnant women & much more!

😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

VIOLENT CRIME IS DOWN IN EVERY MAJOR CITY with Oakland ↓25% and San Francisco ↓21% leading the way. According to new data from the state’s eight largest cities: — Homicides ↓ 18% — Robberies ↓ 18% — Aggravated Assaults ↓ 9%

Interesting background on Paul Doyle, who drove his car into the Liverpool parade www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

We are failing our kids

'On “X”, Doyle followed Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, Andrew Tate, and a random small time, seemingly right wing commentor, as well as several cryptocurrency accounts. He only followed 11 accounts, half of which were far right.' @penhemingway.bsky.social @northwestbylines.co.uk

please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...

Reform candidate Chris Parry said David Lammy should “go home to the Caribbean”. Reform MP Danny Kruger says “context” is important www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...

Access to Work is a lifeline to disabled people, helping them to find and stay in meaningful work. Changes to this vital scheme will risk damaging disabled people's future opportunities & driving up unemployment as a result. Link to The Mirror piece in bio.

ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.

boy, a grim echo of Budapest's memorial to pogrom victims here.

Reform’s plans to cut 68,000 civil service jobs would damage our vital public services. Read our General Secretary's response.

This, published by the "patriotic" Telegraph, seems to me pretty full-on, unabashed Putin apologia, blaming Europe for Putin's aggression. It is indistinguishable from the set of Kremlin-talking-points, that we have been hearing from his officials and proxies. ~AA

"It was now certain that Moscow had attempted to 'influence and destabilise both the last federal election and the ongoing internal affairs of Germany' through a disinformation campaign called Storm 1516." ~AA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

14 December 1921 | A Pole, Henryk Hampel, was born in Warsaw. An optician. In #Auschwitz from 1 February 1941. No. 9905 He perished in the camp on 20 April 1942. --- A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

Fact-check: true

Cowardice of Harry Cole - the ostensible interviewer - to not ask: "But is your position is that Badenoch or Mahmood should not be eligible to be MPs or lead a party?" Asking the question + getting the answer would undermine his decision to interview Instead seeks to legitimise Tomlinson+ducks it

10 December 1914 | A Norwegian Jew, Morris Kermann, was born in Oslo. He was deported to #Auschwitz in November 1942. He perished in the camp on 2 March 1943.