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Marilyn Monroe and the cast of “The Misfits”, Reno, Nevada Elliott Erwitt, 1961

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

The government of Israel is inching ever closer to stating openly that Jews with the “wrong politics“ are not welcome. And that will permanently alter the relationship between the state and the Diaspora. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Dumb for the people - cunning for his boss. Where is justice? “Now new emails released to Byline Times, following a freedom of information request, reveal the true extent of Dominic Cummings’ subsequent involvement in lobbying senior officials to hand over huge Covid contracts to Thiel’s company”

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

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Of course she has. The small matter of owing £122 million to UK taxpayers for her disgusting profiteering in a global pandemic means nothing to Michelle Mone. NHS staff died in my hospital from the Covid they caught there - her dodgy PPE racket was vile.

re US turmoil, I’m struck by how much mainstream press and online commentary goes ”Whoa, this isn’t allowed - how do they expect to get away with that!?” Wake up. They have broken in, taken the Crown Jewels and are melting them down. Forget about about the don't walk on the grass sign infringement…

This will be key in upcoming labour kerfuffling: probably quite easy for Burnham to find a Manc MP willing to fall,on their sword and trigger a by-election. Then long list of candidates chosen by NEC (Lucy Powell now on…); shortlist by local constituency. Will he be able to get onto the NEC list?

Thousands of Orthodox Jews protested around the Israeli consulate in New York City over Israel’s military draft rules.

What I found most disappointing is how they fell so quickly into the pattern of the last government. Endless vacuous announcements, meaningless £x million pots scattered here and there and re-announcements are a self-soothing exercise. They impress only idiots and nothing is getting done.

TBF, first you have to find McSweeney, then get his meds back up, and then assemble a culturally coherent focus group to get on with the decision making …. (Pretty sure Marvel are working on a film version of this outline BTW ….)

A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

'The Kitchen.' (1925) Nora Cundell held her first one-woman exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in the year this work was painted. The Times critic wrote: 'There is no showing-off … only fine, simple flowing composition, there is life and truth, and beauty.'

Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well? Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything. This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.

True, and very savvy messaging. Labour comms shitting themselves.

This is why the Greens are rising in the polls, and why Labour have fallen so far. Labour’s ’natural supporters’ aren’t anti-immigrant. They’re not xenophobic. Labour’s leadership are alienating them, and now they have somewhere to go. Well said.

That’s my beloved State, Arizona. #Proud

Forget the ECHR smokescreen, here is the real evidence that we haven’t truly brexited.

Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0

It certainly could, as our eight-page SPECIAL REPORT sets out in full, financially unsound detail in the new Private Eye, out now. 🧵3/3

So many extra-judicial killings ….. so little time.

Cartoon by John Deering.

The funniest thing someone could do politicly currently is run as a Reform candidate and defect to Labour or Greens instantly

Imagine being a dying WW2 veteran and the last thing you see on earth is your great-grandson invading Portland for fascism and losing to a frog wizard.

Blown away by how good an idea the costumes are. More shareable and fun than pics of a regular protest, and it’s immediately clear that the protestors are non-violent.

Name calling doesn’t necessarily cause civil wars, but they do always begin with name calling.

Keeping warm in autumn, 1931

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“Call that a glut? I was on the frontline of the greenfly invasion of ‘79!” (Deffo time to can the ECHR.)

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do check out c. 1’:58“ on the complicity of (your) governments who have a moral and legal obligation not to let this happen.

These are very well produced and spoken in clear easy to understand language. The musical background is well suited to the serious subject matter. While I won’t say they are easy to listen to due to the subjects, they are accessible.

15 UK banks ordered to snoop on state pensioners and other benefit claimants under DWP crackdown. No court order needed. No right of appeal. Banks will pass cost to other customers. Those accused of fraud won't get legal advice. The making of another Post Office type scandal.

Jenrick clearly wants to be seen as the racist’s racist. That’ll teach Nigel. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

this photo is pretty brutal www.ft.com/content/5a73...

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

The Bollocks Hunter

“Just ‘coz I’m a grease monkey don’t mean I slide so easy Baby….”