Do people truly not understand what’s coming for our elections?

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

If you have a Royal Family, you have deference. If you have a Royal Family, you have a class system. If you have a RF, you essentially say, "These people are better than everyone else by dint of birth & should maintain enormous influence, wealth and power." Why would anyone want that at all?

You've appointed Tories to your top team. Why should people believe your party is any different? Farage: "These were two people who were ministers, but frankly weren't ministers for very long". Suella Braverman was a minister for over 4 years. Robert Jenrick was a minister for almost 5 years.

Nigel Farage makes Robert Jenrick, who he previously said was a "fraud", and told his followers that "this man is not to be trusted", his Shadow Chancellor

Not surprising Farage hasn't bothered to announce a health spokesperson - his entire team is populated by politicians who broke the NHS. They've also forgotten about a foreign affairs spokesperson, but I guess they will take their orders straight from Trump's White House anyway.

The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Putin murdered Alexei Navalny in the most disgusting and performative way. He's a psychopath and a monster. Now look at politicians in Britain, Europe, and America who are either looking the other way - or engaging in abject whataboutery.

REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: “This is the Epstein administration.”

Billy Bragg, "I was more interested in what Marco Rubio said, about support from the USA being based on whether we follow their values" "I'm concerned about that because the current values coming from the USA is might is right"

Gary Lineker, "Jim Ratcliffe is a migrant himself, an economic migrant, he lives in Monaco" "A lot of the immigrants contribute enormously, and the facts show you that, in terms of revenue, paying tax etc" "Whereas Jim in Monaco, is doing everything he can to avoid paying tax"

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Whenever Farage says jump, [Labour] say how high. You will never appease the right by doing that. They will just get more and more extreme" Spot on. This is what people mean when they say Labour is ushering in the far right.

When you’ve gone this far, why bother even to maintain the pretence of believing in elections?

I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.

Because it’s not really about trying to get troops to vote Republican-that would be bad enough. It’s about conditioning the military to obey a man and not their oath to the Constitution. It’s why Hegseth & Trump were so adamant about prosecuting the 6 Dems who spoke up about it.

Well said! @elliechowns.bsky.social: "Reform, and before it the Brexit Party, and before it UKIP have been busy for many years fomenting his idea that immigration is the problem in this country. "It's completely untrue."

Translation: I will steal this election, and my lawyers will find a thin excuse to justify it.

You know what helps make the streets safer? Paying your taxes

Nigel Farage said in 2022 that MPs defecting to another party and then refusing to call a by-election was “no go, it’s not right, it is dishonorable” So where are the by-elections for all those MPs who have now joined Reform?

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

In 2020, Jim Ratcliffe moved his fortune to Monaco, saving himself an estimated £4 billion in tax. In the same year, immigrants in the UK contributed around £20 billion in tax. That says it all.

The BBC boycott is going well then… @mrjamesob.bsky.social

🔴The Lesson Jim Ratcliffe Could Learn From My Immigrant Father-in-Law The billionaire Manchester United owning tax exile says Britain has been “colonised” by immigrants but he could learn much from the hard working migrants who have made their lives in this country, says @sangitamyska.bsky.social

You’ve got to hand it to Trump, he has a gift for gathering all the worst people in the world in his cabinet. It’s going to be a new Marvel movie, A***holes Assemble!

"This is the most shamelessly, brazenly, openly corrupt and compromised government in modern American history and, astonishingly, the person who sits at the center of much of that corruption and compromise isn’t even a member of the government: It’s Jared Cory Kushner, First Son-in-Law." - me

Two weeks ago, Peter Mandelson told us he had no recollection of planning to buy a £2m apartment in Rio via a Panama holding company and a Brazilian company. Yesterday we found notarised incorporation documents for the Brazilian company, with Mr Mandelson's signature.

Love this response to Ratcliffe's comments by @mrjamesob.bsky.social

This brave woman speaks for millions of British people. Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

Nigel Farage said in 2022 that MPs defecting to another party and then refusing to call a by-election was “no go, it’s not right, it is dishonorable” So where are the by-elections for all those MPs who have now joined Reform?

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.

‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue' Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"

Pam Bondi has nothing more to say about why she hired a Jan. 6 insurrectionist who was indicted on multiple charges and yelled for the killing of police officers defending the Capitol

Those who aren't attorneys and haven't worked in public service will have a general sense of how historically unprecedented and unprofessional this behavior is but those who *are* attorneys and *have* worked in public service and taken an Oath to the Constitution are watching this with abject horror

This is excellent questioning.

BALINT: We have evidence that three senior officials within the Trump administration have ties to Jeffrey Epstein-- BONDI: What does 'ties' mean? BALINT: I think Americans would be shocked to learn that you are not interested in talking to these officials who have ties to Epstein

BREAKING: Pam Bondi appears to have just committed a federal crime by lying under oath. Ted lieu just caught her in a lie and called for her resignation live on TV.

Bondi laughing at the end is the real pièce de résistance. This is all just a big joke to her.

Rep. Jesús García comes out swinging: "You're one of the worst attorney generals in our history and an instrument of Donald Trump's lawless authoritarian agenda, and I'm glad the American people are seeing who you are."

holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes

Raskin to Bondi: "You're running a massive Epstein coverup right out of the Department of Justice... You ignored the law and even with over 100,000 employees at your disposal, you acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence, cold indifference and jaded cruelty to more than 1000 victims".

Raskin to Bondi: "You're not showing a lot interest in the victims. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as AG you're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims."

Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.

Nigel Farage has just moved his company address to...Mayfair. As Private Eye notes, nothing says 'man of the people' like it. (The office appears to belong, through a complex web, to Reform treasurer Nick Candy's firm)

wow -- Bondi throws a fit in response to Nadler's question about how many of Epstein's co-conspirators, if any, she's investigating, aggressively pointing at him and yelling. The hearing then devolves into chaos and Raskin and Bondi start yelling at each other.

Bondi shamelessly lies: "Robert Mueller found no evidence of foreign interference in 2016. Have you apologized to President Trump?"

"He is the most transparent president in the nation's history!" -- Bondi is stammering as she attacks Democrats and tries to downplay Epstein as a distraction from the stock market