In interviews with Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality,” called JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist” and concluded that Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” the early handling of the Epstein files.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk There is no limit to the depths Trump will sink. Don't join him. This segment takes the death of an amazing film-maker and turns it into a Trump sideshow, all for rage-bait. Please be better than this. Devote the time to Reiner's extensive cultural impact.

LOL. GB News issued a live apology to Meghan’s mom, Doria Ragland, but later deleted the entire show from YouTube to suppress the embarrassment. Carole Malone was threatened with a lawsuit unless she apologised.

If you’d like to read the actual 33-page defamation lawsuit Donald Trump has filed “for damages not less than $5,000,000,000”, then here it is: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As others have pointed out in the thread below, if you push the srart of that period back to 1984, you have This Is Spinal Tap. That 8-year period gave us so many moments that are now deeply embedded in our cutural lexicon. RIP Rob Reiner. And thank you. RIP also Michele Reiner.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

At this point, there is no way ICE is not just legitimised lynch mobs with tactical gear and training.

@lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social Does David Lammy's proposal cover Shamima Begum?

NF having a call about not destroying a person because of stupid actions of a child, while believing Shamima Begum should have her citizenship revoked because of being groomed as a child is irony overload for today.

You can attain great power and wealth even as you commit unimaginable evil in your lifetime. But one day, history will come for you.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk The final verse if The Snake by Al Wilson works too.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk No one is going to convince me the Liz Truss show isnt an AI bot programmed to spout nonsense.

@crosscountryuk.bsky.social and again.

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk He won't apologise because he has never been made to for any of his extensive past transgressions. He has learned that it will blow over, as this will. Sadly.

Maybe as a compromise they can name the monorail between the airport and the train station the "Ozzy Osbourne Crazy Train".

Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.

@lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social Mark Francois is like a bitter and angry version of DangerMouse's sidekick, Penfold.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

@crosscountryuk.bsky.social Put more carriages on your train from Leicester to Birmingham. Your service is a joke.

BBC News - Israeli troops kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender www.bbc.com/news/article... Video recorded executions.

reformfc.com/products/col... In case it isnt quite clear enough, Reform UK are now selling black (football) shirts.

OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

1/ What a Russian breaking of the ceasefire will look like, step by step. There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close. So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk What do you mean "the guidance wasn't clear?!?! This spells it out for everyone! Boris Johnson speech by Matt Lucas - Little Britain - YouTube share.google/buyKzdUvwjN7...

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

This government has not taken a single meaningful step to tackle the causes of the horrendous inefficiencies in the criminal justice system, instead rushing to dismantle trial by jury. Legal professionals have offered numerous alternatives to address the backlog. Ministers are not listening.

Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld. Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.

Not an exaggeration!

Trans and non-binary individuals have been warning for years that anti-trans policies will also harm cis women. Determining access to toilets based on how someone looks inevitably means anyone who doesn't look exactly like some stereotype transphobes have in their heads will end up getting harassed.

If someone ever asks you what toxic masculinity is, show them this.

Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social So.... care to elaborate on the below?

Daft idea now abandoned. What a waste of everyone's time.

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*. The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown. You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

The rebellion was led by the politically-appointed members of the board. observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...

🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...

The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right. The playbook is wearyingly similar. Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2

Waiting for a correction/apology from GB News and Allison Pearson.