The woman behind the MAGA throne has blown the lid off the inner workings of Trump's second administration.

The Employment Rights Bill has passed and will become law. As the voice of the working classes, I voted against this bill because I know the last thing people want is sick pay, paternity leave or protection from dismissal, harassment and exploitative zero hour contracts.

Beethoven’s birthday: Wednesday (tomorrow) Or today. He was baptised on the 17th. It was the custom then to baptise infants within 24 hours, so he might have been born on December 16.

Disgusting

Jared Kushner ditches Serbia hotel project hours after four government officials charged in bribery probe

Never forget that the main purpose of a vigil for people who have died in tragic circumstances is to take a selfie and make it all about you.

A huge day for working people across the capital. The Employments Rights Bill will end exploitative zero-house contracts, guarantee sick pay from day one and strengthen workplace protections. It shows the impact of a Government working with trade unions to improve working lives.

Can’t let the public see evidence of war crimes, ya know?

A Paris labor court ruled that Paris Saint-Germain must pay more than 60 million euros to Kylian Mbappé in a dispute over unpaid wages and bonuses linked to the end of his contract before his 2024 move to Real Madrid.

[David Ornstein] EXCL: Tottenham Hotspur in advanced talks to name Manchester City executive Rafi Moersen as head of football operations. Deal set to be done for highly-rated CFG director of football transactions to join #THFC from #MCFC in prominent role

Only one section released and it's already crap

Priceless

Intro not too promising: "This action concerns a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump" As a general rule, the more bombastic the language the weaker the case. A strong case does not need such language, a poor case is not saved by it.

🎄

So: Trump has finally filed a law suit against the BBC. New reports say he filed the suit in Florida yesterday. Am going to have a look at this and will post more later.

If you walked into the voting booth and put a fucking check mark next to "Donald J. Trump" for President, you cannot fucking say "I didn't vote for this". YES YOU DID. You checked the box, you posted the memes, you owned the libs, and now we are all being rewarded for your hatred and racism. Thanks.

This man is a monster. He has no human empathy. He is an embarrassment to this country. People lost their jobs and are still being hounded because of much more banal comments about Charlie Kirk.

On Rob Reiner "Now I’m hearing his voice tell us all to do more,” he added, and to “keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth, that no longer has the life and breath to raise their voices for a better world, we must raise our voices for them.” Mandy Patinkin

Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.

I just want to once again congratulate every business and media outlet who tripped over their own dicks to take right-wing outrage in uncritical good faith and ruin peoples’ careers over extremely tame internet comments about Charlie Kirk 48 hours before immediately forgetting he ever existed.

Felon's house of cards is taking serious hits, & starting to fall. We should remain hyper aware tho, as he's in his 'wounded animal lashing out' state. (Also, keep our 👀 & 👂open for the machinery operating in the shadows behind him - Vought, Miller, oligarchs, Project 2026, etc. So much evil.)

To be positive, Trump has set the bar for tributes after he dies.

Whatever horrible thing happens in the country or the world. You can always count on this sick son of a bitch to make it worse. 👉 Rob Reiner was a better man than this lowlife POS will ever be.

Daniel Kruger claiming he hadn't seen this call from Reform's Mayoral candidate for David "Lammy must go home to the Caribbean" so didn't know what "context" it might have been in your make it less racist

🎅🏻 🏴‍☠️ 🎤

There is no better example of America's moral decline than Trump himself.

This is fully disturbed. There must be some decent people in the Republican Party who can intervene. Time to show some sense

Clintons failed to appear for questioning before Congress despite previously issued subpoenas. If they again refuse to testify in the Jeffrey Epstein case, they could face charges for contempt of Congress. The maximum penalty is up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100K per NYT.

NYT is....

Rishi Sunak is at the #CovidInquiry today. He claims that the Government was "advised by the medical & scientific community not to act too early". That's not my recollection. I remember both China & Italy (& us) telling the world to act immediately & decisively in January 2020.

A periodic reminder that the £51.1 billion that the Truss and Sunak governments spent on subsidising natural gas consumers in 2022-3 was the biggest subsidy that the UK has spent on anything ever, and a large cause of our present national debt. obr.uk/box/the-cost...

Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark.

As Jewish Londoners come together to celebrate Chanukah, we will do everything in our power to keep you safe.

Shades of Brexiters living on the continent being upset they won’t be able to keep living on the continent after Brexit.

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...

Elon Musk says the Sun is the source of almost all the power in the Solar System. He also supported Donald Trump's decision to cancel almost all the US Government's Solar Power Plant building.

"I cannot express how much this hurts."

Lying is Sunak’s default position, he wouldn’t know how to tell the truth. That’s politics today, lie, lie often, and lie confidently and eventually it becomes the ‘new truth’. Unfortunately for Sunak, we are wise to that playbook now, it doesn’t work anymore.

Vote for the best 100 footballers in the men's game. Just needs 219 "experts"!!!! Mainly journalists! Snake eating itself

Rishi Sunak telling lies at the covid inquiry: "Listen to the health and medical advice on what was likely to happen and then do the best you could at designing economic interventions" Prof Dame Angela McLean and ProfJohn Edmunds called him "Dr Death the Chancellor"

Rishi Sunak at the Covid inquiry is a reminder of the unfairness of British politics. Starmer is to blame for everything that's wrong from July 2024. Sunak and his gruesome predecessors bear no responsibility for the shitshow from May 2010 to July 2024.

Chris Minns Premier New South Wales: ‘Ahmed is a real-life hero. Last night, his incredible bravery no doubt saved countless lives when he disarmed a terrorist at enormous personal risk. It was an honour to spend time with him just now and to pass on the thanks of people across NSW.’

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Bad debts bring £140mn chaos to Tees Valley budget Houchen’s Teesworks and airport projects owe £520mn to TVCA, missing repayments and forcing £140mn more borrowing this year northeastbylines.co.uk/business/bad...

Liars, scoundrels and snake oil sellers

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

Hollywood mourns prolific director Rob Reiner and wife

Jen and I are heartbroken by the tragic loss of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.