"If battalions of militarized federal agents can occupy American cities under the pretext of combating fraud, arresting undocumented felons and targeting any American seemingly at will without transparency or accountability, then no state is immune." www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...

Good thread. I can think of one country which might be happy at the emergence of a two tier membership model, and the resulting opportunity to (re)join on a half-in, half-put basis…

On ICE and what Trump sees and wants. www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

Canadian PM Mark Carney on Greenland: “We are NATO partners with Denmark. “Our full partnership and our obligations to Article 5 and Article 2 stand. We stand fully behind those.”

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

And also never decent or kind.

Justice will come. It is just a matter of time. There is no statute of limitations on murder. He could be sitting with his children at Disneyland and be scooped on an extradition or governor’s warrant. He will constantly have to check with criminal online databases to ensure that there is no warrant

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

I admire you for giving this a go.

Nick's mental agility isnt quite what he thinks it is.

Every time I accidentally stumble upon him he makes me want to throw up.

He is an absolute nasty piece of poop is Ferrari. It’s really that simple

The question that obviously arises, is what would Trump have to do, exactly, for the likes of Ferrari to actually condemn him without reservation? If curing cancer is on one side of the ledger, then what is on the other?

The "what if Trump cured cancer, would you still hate him then?" line always fascinates me! Like, "what if this situation was completely and utterly different, would you not feel differently about it?" Yeah... sure... but EXTREMELY SADLY I have to live in the stupid real world.

A side note, but they had that utter disgusting creep Freddy something who edits the Spectator on to heap praise on Trump before me. Freddy is rape denier. He should not be given a platform.

Do you know who also gave away his Nobel Peace Prize? Knut Hamsen. Not familiar with the name? Perhaps you'll recognise better who he gave it to. Dr Joseph Goebbels, in 1934. That ended well.

In 2020, Trump tried to overturn the election. In 2024, he built an army of election deniers. This year, he is raising the stakes. He said he wants to control vote counting. He suggested that he should've seized ballot boxes. Today, he said "We shouldn’t even have an election" at all.

Powell has more backbone than all of the GOP

How pathetic is this man? Is it his inadequacy as a human being that impels him to use force against his own citizens while threatening and invading other countries?

I detest the "open borders experiment" line so much. It ignores obvious pressures brought on from Covid, but also neglects the thousands of Ukrainian, Hongkongers, Afghan refugees who we welcomed at that time. Leans into terms like 'Boriswave' which was pushed by far-right conspracists online.

Jasmine Crockett Has Some Questions

How about instead…

This might be the single most pathetic thing I've seen in my adult life.

Stephen Colbert: “Where are the Epstein Files? We were told there would be Epstein Files. You signed a law mandating you would have to release the Epstein Files by the middle of last month, but you still haven’t. It kind of makes you seem like a… pedophile protector!”

"Brexit has so far proved a major disappointment. Sad to say, this was always inevitable given the nature of the beast" - Jeremy Warner writing in The Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Have you ever wondered why Germans didn’t do anything about Hitler? Well, the rest of the world is wondering exactly that about Americans and Trump.

And so it begins. Reform has grown, and people with opinions and egos have been allowed into Farage’s one man band. Won't end well... (going to be saying that a lot)

Moreover, German parliamentarians are also calling for a tougher approach to the Russian shadow fleet. The head of the parliamentary committee for oversight of special services said that Germany cannot allow "dictators and Putin to fool us,", "violations must not remain without consequences."

A massive redeployment of US military assets to Venezuela leaves the US without the military resources needed to engage Iran. US would need more military firepower both to launch a large-scale strike, protect American forces in the region and allies like Israel should Iran retaliate.

"Reform has welcomed Nadhim Zahawi a man sacked from govt over his tax affairs and a man famous for abandoning every principle to get ahead. For decades, Farage has told us that Parliament is full of dodgy people who are only in it for themselves. Now he’s finally getting a chance to prove it."

Now i think about it, we like *do* have a bit of a pattern emerging with the nitwit brigade. - They love crypto, the currency of crime - Traffickers frequent at fanboy expo's (aka "rallies") - They love pimps and misogynists (Desmond, Tate, Robinson) - They think "free speech" means no law

He was also in upto his neck with that Richard Desmond guy. We got Farage being weak on Musk's kiddie porn generator 1.0 (aka. Grok) and this shit weavel in neck deep with damned pimps ffs. Reform is a melting pot of the worst kind of pond scum ever to disgreace the Earth. What a turd.

Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale | Malu Rosing

The thing one has to say to the ”Don't be histrionic: the disaster you posit is inconceivable” folks is that you're not necessarily wrong and in another era your chances of being right would be very high. But seriously, have you looked out of your windows recently?

'There's always a tweet' hardly applies here as there are 5000 of them, several speeches, interviews, the lot

Could red states cancel their midterms because they want to show loyalty to Trump? Sure. But that would mean they don't send any representatives to Congress. There's 20 R senate seats up this cycle in states with GOP govs. That's 20 Rs no longer in the U.S. Senate

I think my question is, if he issues an executive order cancelling the election, even if it isn't legal, if a bucketful of states comply on some level, what impact would that have on the overall election. Can it theoretically just be sandbagged by a handful of intransigent states?

Tr*mp is ideologically aligned with Putin in many ways. The US has made massive concessions to Russia and China by adopting their view of the world, withdrawing from international organizations and limiting itself to being a regional power instead of the global power that it used to be.

They couldn’t get us to take the bait for the last 12 months. The people have been not been violent in Minneapolis. ICE has been assaulting, even murdering people. Yet 🍊💩 is saying he could invoke the Insurrection Act? The only provocation I see is coming from him & his wannabe Nazis. FUCK THAT

I think it's extremely important to remember that the Tories were well on their way to becoming an ersatz populist radical right party long before Robert Jenrick got his hardman haircut and his fat-jabs and started banging on about immigration - and the slide won't necessarily stop now he's gone.

Time to update this cartoon.

More failed Tories who were responsible for breaking Britain join Deform. Nasty Party 2.

When will Jenrick be calling a by-election so that his constituents get to say if they want Reform MP?

Even funnier: According to @hzeffman.bsky.social one MP “was adamant that Jenrick had merely been keeping his options open when it came to Reform. They said his preferred option was to wait for the elections in May, and then see if there was a possibility of him becoming Conservative leader first.”

I’d love to hear the details of exactly how Jenrick left parts of his speech hanging around so that people could read it. I doubt that sort of conduct would inspire confidence in clients were he to try & return to legal practice.

Absolutely hilarious that rats-in-sack infighting-ReFuk claim they fear the defecting Tories will bring their infighting culture with them!

trump is EXACTLY the TOXIC leader the founders feared! trump is THE REASON why the founders distributed power across separate branches of government! The GOP is THE TOXIC group the founders never envisioned! The GOP supports all GOP CRIME against America! #usdemocracy

Wow I forgot about that quote. I remember how embarrassing and incompetent it was at the time in general, never mind to the far right. And they still brought him in. Just proves that NONE of those right-wing parties ever believed in bringing immigration down. What a disconnect with the voters.

Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.