Q: Can the president tear down anything he wants without oversight? Could he demolish this building or the Jefferson Memorial? LEAVITT: Only for vertical construction will a submission be required. Q: So it sounds like the answer is yes

Per usual, Trump has lied about every aspect of this. He now says it'll cost 50% more than when he announced it. He now says it'll be much bigger than originally planned. He said he wouldn't touch the East Wing, and he's now demolishing it. He said he would accept input from US agencies, but hasn't.

Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.

The Tories can shout at me all they like, but the truth is their Brexit deal it is hurting our country and Labour won’t do anything about it. Today I urged the Prime Minister to actually fix it.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

‘The threat couldn’t be more urgent and imminent. Yet here we are, still putting our head in the sand.’ @carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.

To be crystal clear: trump is talking about taxpayers paying him millions of dollars as some sort of restitution because he was investigated for sending a mob to the US capitol on Jan 6th to overthrow the 2020 election. That might just be he most f*cked up thing he’s done since Jan 6th…

500% less. I struggled through Algebra II, but I'm pretty sure they're not going to be giving me my prescriptions and paying me four times what they cost. He lies without even attempting to make sense at this point.

So water companies polluting rivers and seas is fine, but chucking leftover coffee down the drain is where the council draws the line? This is madness https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg435gg66gpo

We need to get to the bottom over Prince Andrew's use of Royal Lodge at taxpayers' expense. He should come before a parliamentary committee and answer questions.

Pleased to be part of this hugely significant legal challenge. The Boris Johnson Govt first suppressed the Russia report & then refused to act on it. As evidence mounts of Putin’s hybrid warfare, it’s vital that we can be confident in the robustness of our democratic systems

The man whose presence might lead to Tel Aviv football fans being “falsely associated with his far-right activities,” has just visited Tel Aviv as an honoured guest of the Israeli government. Riddle me that.

Any media outlets that don’t address this video of Trump wearing a crown dumping shit on Americans is normalizing it. As with everything else this authoritarian regime does, you’re either calling it out or normalizing it. There is no third option.

FOX: “You were convicted of identifying theft, wire fraud - misusing campaign funds… why shouldn’t you have served out your full term?” SANTOS: “I don’t want to try to rehash the past...” 🤔 A fraudster @RepTimBurchett proudly defends. But law and order right? 🙃

UPDATE: Jon Karl just failed to ask Speaker Johnson about Trump’s AI video. Here let us help: “Mr. Speaker, do you think Trump posting a video of himself dumping literal shit on Americans helps or hurts his @nobelprize case? And do you still plan on leading that charge?”

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

Look at the absolute state of him. Preening and ridiculous.

Andrew is a sort of non-prince now, a… well, I’m sure there’s some sort of portmanteau word that would describe him well.

Prince Andrew can no longer be Duke of York (a ceremonial title) because of Epstein, but Donald Trump can still be President of the United States (a position of staggering real-world authority) *despite* Epstein. Quite a stark contrast we are being offered here.

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

"I don't know who she is" - he's bombing citizens of her country and threatening war there

WHAT IS THIS? AN ARCH FOR ANTS?

Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."

Jeffries: "What's hateful is what happened on January 6. That was a Hate America Rally sponsored by Donald Trump and his sycophants who incited a violent mob to storm the Capitol. That is what hate looks like. What you will see this weekend is what patriotism looks like."

Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for | Marina Hyde

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JD Vance downplayed a leaked group chat of young GOP leaders saying “I love Hitler,” referring to rape as “epic,” & calling Black people “Monkeys” and “watermelon people”: “Grow up! Don’t focus on what kids say in group chats…That’s what kids do.”

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly. I wonder how they got to this editorial decision? Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again. join.greenparty.org.uk

To all you patriots (and UK authorities) Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

Trump and the Israeli government give Netanyahu a standing ovation. This man's failings led to the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, and the subsequent largest slaughter of Palestinians in history. The most catastrophic Israeli leader in history does not deserve this praise.

Bad people can thrive in their lifetimes, but history will (almost) always catch up with them eventually. Trump can preen and pout and posture all he likes, but his only reward will be eventual ignimony. In the meantime, every well-deserved slap in his face should be treasured. #NobelPeacePrize

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Bondi also wouldn’t answer whether she’d seen photos of Trump in the Epstein files around half naked girls, as a witness alleged they’d seen. She must resign.

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

As Robert Jenrick accuses David Lammy of having a "chequered past", here's a quick reminder of Jenrick's

How on Earth is that man still in a job?

After spending an entire morning defending his suggestion that there are too many non-white faces in the UK, Robert Jenrick ends his speech with the line: "Let's take our country back".

I’m sorry but the fact that this is not everywhere is kind of malpractice

Is any journalist at Conservative conference going to ask Robert Jenrick where he got his new "Let's take our country back," slogan from?

Maybe Johnson can give us the simple truth on why he won’t swear in the 218th signature on the Epstein discharge petition

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country" "The messaging is getting dangerous" "All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them" "And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony" "And become a team again"

Lucky for Nigel Farage that he never met that bloke who took bribes from the Russians, otherwise the media would be all over it.

Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his ­register of interests in months. Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared observer.co.uk/news/politic...

I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt. Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...