Is this Trump on his 'making America normal again' tour Justin Webb? Perhaps the Murdoch Mafia will pay good money for you to write yet another Times column about how lying about London and insulting the mayor of that city is 'the mark of a great statesman'. #Americast #r4today

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

Nigel Farage is essentially declaring war on not just every immigrant in the UK, but on the post-Brexit immigration system. An immigration system brought about by… Nigel Farage

”We know you don’t care for international law and you are incapable of living in peace with your neighbours.” Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski addressed russia at the UN Security Council meeting following multiple violations of NATO countries’ airspace by russian aircraft.

In the Age of Political Gaslighting, this is a sobering reminder.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

Tylenol is made by Kenvue, a spinoff of Johnson & Johnson. My guess is he's trying to drive the stock price down so one of his vulture buddies can swoop in and buy it cheap. Then, voila! He'll reverse his ridiculous opinion that it causes autism.

Quack "Dr." Oz wants to make a buck.

Hey, Britain - America has already touched the stove so we don't need to do that, okay?

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

This policy is stupid, cruel, immoral, chaotic, pointless and – as if more was needed – economically illiterate and destructive. Adopting it requires lying to people about what it would actually entail, and the media choosing not to discuss its horrifying costs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Reform right like the MAGA right are completely fact averse and know that they can bullshit their way to power because their followers simply don't care about truth. That's the threat this country faces, and it strikes me that our media are ill equipped to tackle it and failing us all.

Everyone can surely now agree that Brexit was a scam, and that Farage was behind it. It would be nice to think we wouldn't immediately be scammed again, on the exact same issues by literally the same person.

What part of Reform’s anti-immigration shithousery is good for our country? Hatred costs. In reputation, confidence, GDP, tourism, universities, NHS, social care, national unity… Sliding the country in the bin cos you can’t cope with foreigners is such brexity idiocy.

There can be very few families in Britain that do not contain people who would be impacted by the race and deportation policies of a Tommy Robinson-style Reform government. Maybe we need to remind our parents, siblings and cousins that they are talking about us, or our kids.

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, put a little wheel on it, and follow me." Mark 8:34

Headlines, clickbait & tabloids, infotainment, populism & sensationalism shorten news & reports to soundbites often leaving no room for even the most basic facts essential to understand or quantify problems. They stand in the way of solutions. #GoodMorning, everyone.

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It really is always amazing to me that Trump and Republicans have it down to a science dangling a steady diet of culture war nonsense like Cracker Barrel, Bud Light & jeans ads to keep their supporters from noticing that everything they do is to enrich themselves & billionaires.

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the way you know they fucked this up is that yesterday a lot of people were still talking about how the left’s rhetoric needs to cool down because it’s driving political violence and this morning everyone is talking about the government censoring free speech

stop whining, vote however you want, get in front of a camera and make some noise about the government canceling Kimmel

Exactly this

Weird that the FCC Chair had no issue with Kilmeade wanting to euthanize homeless people.

Immortality? In this economy?!

How annoying that I live in a place where nobody gives a shit!

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one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

This exchange says it all.

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Things are incredibly grim, but there are small, tentative signs of improvement. Maybe. iandunt.substack.com/p/three-reas...

NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.

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I have never voted before but I voted for him and doesn't Gary prove that Britain is so much better than divisive hate? Thank you Gary. A genuinely good man of the people 👏

Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award, "It's not lost on me why I might have won this award" "Aside from presenting Match of the Day.." "Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"

We warned he would attempt to become an authoritarian. We warned that Project 2025 was indeed their playbook. We warned that not voting for Harris could be a death sentence for our democracy. And, here we are.

It's no surprise that Nigel Farage hardly ever bothers to visit Clacton or turn up at Parliament. When he was an MEP, his attendance record was 748th out of 751. He's a workshy grifting gobshite.

meanwhile, in Nuneaton

Quite apart from Tice going out to defend Farage's shady house purhcase and making things ten times worse, for the guy who says he will be the next UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to end on: "I'm not a tax expert - you're asking the wrong guy," is objectively hilarious. ~AA