Any comment from Justin Webb? #r4today

Tories in “We won’t even LEND you money…” shock.

We’re getting very used to this but the statement is unusually unhinged.

Okay so you have the National Guard deployed to several American cities and plan on sending them to more, so is the plan to actually not pay these people and just find out what happens?

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

This is a good explanatory post.

Honest Bob Jenrick promises political selection of judges, and replacement of the sentencing council with ministerial decisions (which could be extremely complicated or cruelly, counter-productively simple). #r4today

Morning.

BBC News finds it easy to move from the fall of another French cabinet to considering the future of the Fifth Republic, but can hardly mention Trump's unconstitutional militarisation of Democratic cities and threats of the Insurrection Act. Promoting mixed martial arts on the other hand... #r4today

So according to Jenrick, 'not integrated' means black/brown faces outnumbering white faces. How very dare they. Nothing to do with whether they're actually integrated – just what they look like. Absolutely shameful. He'll probably become Tory leader.

trump and his regime builders are like schoolyard bullies. every day, they push you & trip you & steal your lunch money. finally, fed up with all the abuse, you push them back. they run to principle's office, your parents are called & you are the one who is suspended. that's what they are doing.

@schiff.senate.gov @democrats.org @democrats.senate.gov @dpcc.house.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov Stop using “concerned” Use: Anger, Enrage, Outrage We passed concern November 4. cc: @governor.ca.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Eeny, Meeny, Miny .. NO!

Totally this…

Mike Ramirez @Ramireztoons on #PeterHegseth #USMilitary – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social on #EmmanuelMacron #FrenchPolitics @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Ben Jennings @BJennings90 on #KemiBadenoch #Conservatives #CPC25 @guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Matt @MattCartoonist on #FrenchGovernment #France @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Kal @kaltoons on #PeterHegseth #USMilitary #Woke @TheEconomist – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Robert Jenrick is another person who has cooked his brain on Twitter (“Activist judges” is a very American-brained phrase, and I’m also sceptical that 30 judges and mags are really in favour of “open borders”, as opposed to a slightly more liberal regime, or just helping immigrants get their rights)

Who gets taken seriously (ie sage nods all-round) as 'a thinker' and/or as 'a rising star' is a fascinating aspect of the media-politics nexus in this country. Lam is a great current case study of the latter, Kruger of the former.

"Why does the US have so many unicorns?" I don't know, but being a place where Bari Weiss can sell her long-form Libs of TikTok blog to Paramount for $150 million and a job offer might have something to do with it.

Learn about the secret scheme behind this cartoon for @economist.com Economist. Kaltoons.substack.com #Hegseth #military #woke #cartoon #satire

Some of Trump's judges remember the Constitution. ***** www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

In case you’re wondering how grassroots Republican activists in Oregon are metabolizing what’s happening in the state. This person is a coordinator for two long running conservative organizations in the state: The Gathering of the Eagles and the Abigail Adams project.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Just as the level of 'the basic quality of what they produce', not on a 'do I agree with this?' basis the Tory party is coming out with stuff far beneath the quality of what the Lib Dems 2019-24 managed when their 'costing process' was 'one bright guy called JJ'. Where does the Short money GO?

Is there another journalist called Bari Weiss who is known for her rigorous, fact-based reporting?

Sakaithunder, a 3-year-old panda wearing overalls, is a YouTuber from Fukui Prefecture. If you open the zipper on her back, it leads to the demon world.

/2 ...for the anti-SLAPP statute to protect speech in connection with it. My point is she was capable of good and right. It's always more upsetting when someone like that chooses evil. Because make no mistake, she's chosen evil, and she wallows in it.

I miss when oligarchs tried to launder their reputations by building giant museums or some shit rather than trying to build themselves a personalized propaganda network

I was disgusted that the @thespectator1828.bsky.social printed a whitewashing of the Tate bros, reportedly a pair of rapist scumbags. As the not gullible-at-all Freddy Gray wrote: “I can’t help believing [that they’re innocent]”. Funny that he don’t take the time to talk to their victims.

ICE is doing a hell of a lot of harm in the Chicago area *right now.* I don’t mean to trivialize the national guard stuff, it absolutely is an irresponsible escalation, but the guard-centric convo around this really does understate what’s going on without any guardsmen.

Governor Whitmer was almost kidnapped by armed thugs. Governor Shapiro‘s house was set on fire. Nancy Pelosi‘s husband was violently attacked by someone looking for her. Melissa Hortman was assassinated in her home with her husband and dog…and now this. The left is the victim, not the perpetrator.

Jilly Cooper, I later discovered, wasn’t just unspeakably kind to useless young gossip columnists charged with bothering her at home or pestering her at a party. She was lovely to absolutely everyone. What a gorgeous legacy.

A work of art

Helps to bear in mind that Sam Bidwell is 25 and has never done anything resembling a policy job.

on.ft.com/4mMEmNf We live in a era in which “how hard can it be?” has been an election winning slogan all over the world. But it doesn’t mean it’s any less hard.

There is something odd about this picture that the Reform candidate for Caerphilly Llyr Powell has put out. It looks edited. Someone removed perhaps? Can't imagine his former employer Nathan Gill (who has just pleaded guilty to accepting Russian bribes) would have been there🤣

Here is a pic of former Reform leader in Wales Nathan Gill, who has admitted taking Russian bribes between December, 2018 and July, 2019. He is alongside the current Reform candidate for Caerphilly Llyr Powell at the EU election count in May 2019. (Copyright: Matthew Horwood) 1/2

If you could take the men & women who won the Second World War, and show them what people who claim to venerate their memory are doing to the country and its ideals, you would make some very unhappy spirits indeed.

As you read this puff piece about how brave and steadfast Amy Coney Barrett is, keep in mind that the house of South Carolina circuit court judge Diane Goodstein exploded over the weekend and some of her family members barely escaped with their lives. She had recently ruled against the admin.

🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:

CBI welcomes Tory shadow chancellor's calls for fiscal prudence but adds: “Business will however be concerned by reactionary proposals to scrap key pieces of legislation, like the Climate Change Act, that have done much to boost confidence and underpin investment in high growth sectors."