Cold War Steve always captures the nonsense more eloquently of course

AOC: There was a day before his presidency, and there will be a day after — and it belongs to us.

I published the below deep dive 24 days ago - and somehow it’s already in need of updating with both more racist incidents and more of the flaccid excuses that Reform gives to try and explain them away. “Poorly phrased” my big hairy arse.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh. news.sky.com/story/migran...

I've never heard this 'argument' before this week that people who fully-own (no mortgage) their houses shouldn't pay property tax. Now I see Ron DeSantis has endorsed the idea in Florida. Do people understand at ALL where public goods, like roads and sewers and fireservices come from?

He got the Speaker he wanted - a cuck who will sit in the corner and let him do whatever he pleases whenever he wants.

Speaker Johnson should be removed for violating the Constitutional rights of AZ-2, and by extension the rights of all Americans by keeping the House adjourned. The People have business to attend to! Administrate the oath and let all go on record on releasing the Epstein files!

Very funny - the BFI has acquired the Daily Star's lettuce/Liz Truss video for the national archive, because it is a significant piece of British content that deserves preservation www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...

Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone? Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate. They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.

I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.

In a shocking TalkTV interview, Reform MP Sarah Pochin enthusiastically admitted that she’s ‘driven mad’ by the sight of Black and Asian people in adverts. While this sort of talk is sadly becoming more common, it has drawn widespread condemnation www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

A Republican president has decided he wants to go to war with Venezuela and is now creating the pretext to justify it, just like Bush did with Iraq. Then it was WMDs, now it is drugs. Except even Bush still at least went to Congress for a vote. King Donald doesn’t bother.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.

Everytime you go in Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons etc, 5% of the money you spend goes straight to their profits. Before 2022 it was 1.25%. But free breakfasts for schoolchildren is what is ripping you off? They really think you are stupid. Don't be.

The President has immunity. Now Stephen Miller is telling ICE they have federal immunity while “fulfilling their duties”. We have a dictator with a secret police force and both have immunity from prosecution. This is fascism. They can and will do whatever they want.

The Reform leader is a deeply flawed politician who is leading an even more flawed political party. It's time for his opponents to finally start taking him on. open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners." In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures. Maybe Beth is on a diet.

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

Make Racism Disgraceful Again 💯

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Two big opposing rallies in Hungary today. Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k. His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.

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.

38d.gs/nott This!

Burchett is Burchetting again.

Local Reform chair Neville Watson quits party. An evangelical Christian who was seeking to diversify the party,he was uncomfortable at party language on immigration, support for Tommy Robinson among activists & he felt a weaponisation of Christianity against Islam www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today, England's water companies received their worst pollution ratings since records began. Rising bills. Soaring profits. Sewage in our rivers and seas. Enough is enough. Bring water back into public ownership, now.

Two other UKIP MEPs, both of whom - like Nathan Gill - followed Farage into the Brexit Party, accompanied Gill on a trip paid for by pro-Russian interests. And 6 weeks later echoed Gill's Putin-friendly talking points in Parliament. What a small world! observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Except you haven't applied to ask a question since July have you, you lazy little gobshite?

He’s hardly there! I did a quiz question on our speeches featuring him, Rishi myself & a handful of other MPs back in July. If I recall correctly he had spoken approx 50 times over the course of a yr, I had done close to 180. Honestly - watch his bench, he’s usually conspicuous by his absence 👀

Nigel Farage "Why do I never get called for questions?" "Have you tried submitting them?"

Windrush victims to get 75% of compensation up front in scheme overhaul

A leaked letter, seen by Sky News, warns government that victims of the Post Office scandal find compensation schemes "worse than the original injustice" news.sky.com/story/post-o...

Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here

Been back to my childhood village in Essex for a funeral. High Street is littered with tatty flags attached to every lamp post and telegraph pole, and by God, it looks awful. Everyone I spoke to hates them. So intimidating. Apparently- "Epping Forest council is scared of offending the nasties."

The two guys arrested for arson on Keir Starmer's former home and his car appeared in court the other day to plead not guilty to almost zero press interest. Fishy.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Apple loses UK class action lawsuit over ‘excessive’ App Store charges on.ft.com/4o7tRFH

This being so, you’d expect that our media would foreground the views of the 97% and consign the 3% to the fringes with the flat-earthers, and that our political parties would do the same, but

Several Tory MPs are unhappy at language of Katie Lam, a junior whip, saying mass deportations of 2-3m+ needed to make Britain "more culturally coherent" (ie, fewer nonwhite migrants) but "not entirely" (ie,some of those she can't deport won't integrate: Muslims) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🔴Reform Council Asks Opposition for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s struggling flagship Kent administration is now reaching out to other parties, after failing to identify the tens of millions of pounds in savings they promised

Nigel Farage wants to ban strikes for Government Employees, which actually includes him too. So if he doesn't turn up for PMQs he should be fired.

Thanks. The truth. Farage, the ex-public school, ex-banker is emphatically NOT on your side. He is the Establishment pretending not to be the Establishmen so he can con you into using your vote to make his life even cushier and yours even worse.

Fuel poverty is a public health crisis. The warm homes plan is a golden opportunity to fix it – if it's done right.

Between 1933 & 39 Adolf Hitler both militarised and took political control of the German police placing Himmler as the head with the brief to suppress opposition to the regime. It’s a shame more people don’t seem to understand what history can teach us. In recent times Trump has done the same.

Nigel Farage wants to get rid of the NHS and replace it with US Insurance which would be 4x more expensive and worse in every way. Except for the £600bn a year profit for him and his mates.

Trump ordered Treasury employees not to share any more images of his demolition of The White House.

"There are now more private equity firms in America than there are McDonalds." A great explainer about why 99% of us feel crushed by inflation and crashing job markets while the on-paper economy and stock markets continue to grow. youtu.be/T2OHjHPkUzM?...