Confession. I go onto my husband's You Tube account and watch the Meidas Touch podcasts to make sure they keep popping up on his feed. 🫣 He likes to watch videos on farming and engineering and concreting etc etc. He's not a Trump supporter (I'd be straight out the door) but needs a nudge to wake up.

My question is... are the Republicans going to do anything to stop him? (Next thing on Trump's list will be another global economic crash.) Because they have the power to put an end to this. And if they did he would lose all of his power over them. Make it make sense.....

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

100% this!👇

SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.” Via Alpha News

Who remembers the days when watching US TV dramas or films about the Whitehouse and the presidency made you feel like they were people to be respected and revered? And, US Cop shows where the feds and the FBI were the good guys? Pretty sure those actors would do a better job than the real guys.

This Greenland insanity is surely at the behest of Putin is it not? Weakening NATO will make all his Christmases come at once.

.@PabloReports: What do you make of the White House blaming the police for what happened on January 6th? Lieu: The White House’s statement is batshit crazy.

Two policemen remember January 6. One was defending the Capitol, the other attacking it. Both were transformed by the experience, and by the photos and video taken that day www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

And then there's the Jack Smith testimony which should also be receiving significant attention today.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

In a nutshell.

HERE Jack Smith sets out Trump’s direct culpability and complicity in the federal election interference case, including January 6th:

Yup.

It's hard watching this abomination of a US president getting away with such brazen criminality... My thoughts however are with innocent Venezuelan citizens who are undoubtedly thinking WTAF! Collateral damage is nothing to the orange felon... I really hate that guy. He makes me 🤮

Canada: Our Prime Minster studied at Oxford and Harvard, was the Governor of both the Banks of England and Canada, and is recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds around. America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.

Happy Festive season bluesky peeps! Here is a beautiful sunset in Rathmullan Donegal Ireland and my two rescue Greyhound best friends. I actually had a lovely day yesterday with my family and am enjoying some down time today... Don't let the b******* bring you down... as they say 🤗

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Sitting up in bed with stomach cramps after eating some prawns that should have been eaten a few days ago... How bad is it gonna be? And how am I so stupid at 57 years old?

Me too 🤣

My beautiful hounds refusing to go further than step until they get their full warm coats on.... Irish winter 🥶

Terrific

If the BBC pays out a penny to that creep in the White House the UK public should be out on the streets in droves. We pay a licence fee to run the BBC. It is OURS! He can bog off...

Now that he is throwing around careless language about nuclear arms would it not be a good time for someone to take away the keys? Are they really that spineless?

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

There should be a rule that when a government is shut down for more than a month a new general election is triggered. Because the government in office must be either incompetent or unwilling to serve its citizens. Or both. They'd soon buck their ideas then.

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.” The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

OMG I knew who she was.. I knew what she has done and is doing but I've not actually seen her talking before now. She oozes arrogance and contempt and thinks she is untouchable. Let us all hope she is wrong.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

What I'm most disgusted about is the spinelessness of the GOP allowing this assault on the USA to continue... Impeach the creep in chief! Get rid of him! With the loss of office comes the loss of his power over them.. I don't know how they sleep at night.

Too funny

The same prick who gives me a headache every day now wants to outlaw Tylenol.

Hey Trump and followers... I got my Covid Vaccine and Flu Vaccine yesterday... One in each arm... Still alive today and guess what I took for the mild discomfort in my upper arm? Yes! Paracetamol (Tylenol to you) What a mad radical left rebel I must be....🫣

Can you guys in America access Channel 4? This TV program is debunking all his lies one after the other. We're only on number 15 but it's jaw dropping.....

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

“Nigel Farage says….” has been the headline of the decade. Look at what he does, ffs. Look at his tax affairs. Look at his grifting. Look at his lies. Look at his prejudice. Look at his allies. Look at his manifesto. Look at his Brexit. He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.

At a hearing in DC, the leader of Reform said that he does not ban journalists from his party’s conference - just hours after his party banned The New World ✏️ @jamesrball.com

About time some journalists or politicians in the UK called him out like this..... Unlikely this will be shown on GB news though so they will remain ignorant.

In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.

Where is the nicest place in the world to live? Where people treat each other with respect and the population isn't inherently racist and cruel...where the govt and media have the balls to stand up for the vulnerable. With decent weather and a coast and would let me in! 🫣 I have an Irish passport.🤞

The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.

Hi Americans! Trump was asked at a press conference in Scotland what he thought of our Lab govt policy changes on inheritance tax on farms. They're reporting it like he cares more about farming than we do here...yeah seriously... What do American farmers think of what he's done to them with tariffs?

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