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Was it really only a day or two ago that Trump baked hanging back Chagos?

Since Pam Bondi is worse than useless, Epstein survivor @anniegrover.bsky.social has started a GoFundMe for Virginia Giuffre to help settle her estate and cover her legal fees. www.gofundme.com/f/help-virgi...

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Serious question from a Brit... Why aren't the Democrats doing anything vocal to oppose any of this?

In a universe with billions of galaxies, containing billions and billions of solar systems, is this the best it's got? Nigel?

EXC: Nigel Farage has been accused of having no solution to Britain's problems by his own candidate. Matt Goodwin repeatedly attacked the Farage in historic posts, as well as the Reform party as a whole www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Recently it feels like if you miss one episode of the news you don’t know what the fuck is going on

The voice inside your head also has legs. #webcomics #comicsky

Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.

Coward Farage sent lapdog Zia Yusuf to debate Polanski for him www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

This is how the BBC is reporting Matt Goodwin's selection as Reform's candidate in Gorton and Denton. He's not an academic. He holds no academic position and hasn't done for quite some time.

Same in the UK, probably getting worse with the disappearance of ‘intellectual’ Tories & Reform’s glorification of pig ignorance. I never know how to articulate this without making the problem worse! (As demonstrated above.)

Well done, Minnesota!!!

I'm at the hearing in St. Paul where Minnesota is asking a federal judge to preserve evidence in Saturday's killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The judge issued a temporary restraining order, but feds are arguing it should be denied because they already plan on preserving the evidence. (1)

“The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.” Andrea Pitzer

Albeit a sort of responsible version of it, since they are being tipped onto an existing landfill.

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

That's the thing about UK politicians: when they make a colossal mistake that costs us all dearly (or worse still, lead to thousands of deaths), they just shuffle sideways to new jobs in government or just "retire". There's no holding to account. Not like the real world...

If your face don't fit...

Can it really make things worse? No of course not!

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon

The fuzzy, marmalade-scented angel of death is long overdue. (Love the idea of an undocumented immigrant from South America being how Death will manifest for him...😂)

ARTE

As the famous saying goes….”The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Likewise, the best time to start weaning ourselves off dependence on the US……..

Coo coo

Please can we get more world leaders speaking truth to power like this?

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/

Surprise!

Letter in Times today

On this day in 1997, Daft Punk's influential debut album 'Homework' was released, featuring massive singles "Da Funk" and "Around the World".

COLOURSCAPE: An ottava rima in iambic pentameter, intersected by a sonnet in iambic monometer — such that the third foot of each line of the ottava rima belongs also to the sonnet.

This makes no sense… An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto… No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Loved every minute of the Yorkshire tour - thanks to everyone who showed up this weekend! And love this picture that Anna, age 7, gave me as I was leaving 💚

rooting for the downfall of this imperial clusterfuck

Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories. Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class. Normal people can't match them. Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.

Robert Jenrick complaining that the country is broken is like Fred West complaining that his patio is uneven.

One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"

Yes. Yes! But "New Grass"...

Maybe if Europe as a bloc were to push back hard, the effect on America could lead to his being toppled from his throne. But maybe that's imagining we'd have that much influence on USA?

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Yeah baby!

Look at the legs on that