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telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

Never fart on heated seats.

Nothing says "smash the political establishment" quite like begging the Prime Minister to put your mates in the unelected House of Lords.

Hello

Wow! So it's now 5 who recognise the experience and commitment of Jess Phillips, verses 5 who wants her out - a group which includes at least 1 which is working with Reform. This is now nothing more than Reform trying to destroy the inquiry and undermine the Labour government.

Rural pursuits #rtept

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Good

@bhaalspawn.bsky.social welcome 😊

@waplord wanna try this? legalfood.co.uk

fair to say Kemi Badenoch’s last interview on BBC wasn’t a storming success

Almost done 500km in my running shoes. When do you retire yours? distance or vibes?

Even Putin would be embarrassed by this.

The right-wing reaction to Labour securing a difficult Indian trade deal is a useful reminder. Even if this government was performing better, they'd still brand it a failure. Absolutely no reasoning with the modern British right at all.

It used to be a newspaper

Opposing force

Happy Saturday!

His boundless and insatiable coveting of material vanities has brought nothing but despair upon my sense of self.

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

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He’s got away with untold crimes, lies & offences. He’s achieved the highest office in the land. Twice. He’s lining his pockets on an industrial scale & persecuting his enemies for fun. But he’s still a miserable, bitter, humourless & furious man. Because deep inside, he knows *exactly* who he is.

Presumably, him dying in Easter means he's guaranteed to rise from the dead in three days, and bring with him chocolatey salvation from the Great Rabbit himself?

How lovely #thebirds

Ahh a non European business class flight

I enjoyed this

One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly. iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...

No Way!

Britain's wrongest man rides again.

Yep. Insane AND idiotic.

Why are we all pretending these were quakers being arrested at a Quaker meeting hall rather than “people who rented out the space”? You can object to the arrests (on balance, I do, yes) without pretending this is some assault on religious liberty y’know.

“We’ve had declining call numbers ever since we hid all direct dial numbers to us deep in a hidden shaft of the Mariana Trench”

The human face of all those bullshit, blue tick Twitter accounts full of racism, lies, cowardice & cruelty…

Elbows up, Canada!

Sorry kids

Just had a banger of a brunch

...well then.

Mushrooms are wrong rooms

A wealth tax to pay for a ballooning welfare bill doesn't solve the problem of a ballooning welfare bill.

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

More of this, please. A LOT more of this, please.

At what age does 'cool is king' become 'comfort is king'?

Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness

Me when I learn of a rare species of jumping spider preventing the British government from building 11,000 new homes. Take your Green Party shenanigans and fuck back off into your family estate.

"If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."