Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

They all casually use the language of abusers.

BRENNAN: Tell me about the officer, Jonathan Ross KRISTI NOEM: Don't say his name! I mean, for heaven's sake, we shouldn't have people continue to dox law enforcement BRENNAN: His name is public NOEM: I know, but that doesn't mean it should continue to be said

My last two shots before my world went dark.

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.

awww Nigel got scared

New tariff just dropped. Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June. (Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).

They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.

Wincing at Michael Gove describing Kemi Badenoch as ‘feisty’ and ‘sassy’. Do not use adjectives to describe a woman’s character which you would not use to describe a man’s. It sounds patronising and screams sexism. Urgh. #today #bbcradio4

Robert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...

This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech. This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights. This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

I'll say it again: watching Robert Jenrick do "cunning politics" is like watching a toddler hide behind a cushion. "Where's Robert gone? THERE HE IS! Oh no! Where is he? THERE HE IS!"

Luckily VPNs haven't been invented.

I'd be happy for the UK and France to add military presence, could issue a statement along the lines of: "With the US President reporting Greenland is under threat from Russia and China we have positioned Nuclear Submarines in the North Atlantic ready to defend Greenland against *any* attack"

Shouldn't it be a bigger story that the immigration cops are seizing and imprisoning people who CANNOT POSSIBLY BE IMMIGRANTS

Lists of Jews? LISTS OF JEWS???

State control of historical memory is a classic hallmark of authoritarian regimes, just FYI.

in other news apparently you can now get shot for being smug

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

Yikes. Read this and be afraid.

MAGAs: The left is escalating the rhetoric by calling us Nazis Also MAGAs: Look at our new podium, featuring a Nazi slogan about the time Nazis wiped out an entire village in Czechoslovakia and killed up to 5000 innocent people in retaliation for one Nazi being killed. "One of ours, all of yours."

I've had a little fact check and it seems to be true. It used to take 5 to 6 months to train to be an ICE agent. Now it takes 47 days - because Trump is the 47th president. That's the reason. Armed officers with extraordinary power. FORTY SEVEN days of training to satiate the ego of a buffoon.

Someone should get this guy to do something about it!

Nothing says "Ofcom is seriously considering strong sanctions against X" like the fact that they are using X as the primary social media site for publicising their action.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Kemi, this is just a population density map

I, for one, cannot understand why men like Rupert Lowe are opposed to banning X, despite it assisting sex offenders, paying people to invite the foreign powers to invade the U.K, and allowing state-sponsored cyber warfare against our democracy. It's a real mystery...🤔

I want to see Lowe on TV explaining why banning the monetisation of paedophilia and sexual assault is an attack on free speech.

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼 www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

Again, "I only make CSAM for money" would not help an ordinary person's defence, but would aggravate their sentencing.

These are not agents. These are criminals in uniforms. Trump put frustrated power-seeking losers in uniforms, gave them weapons, and orders, exactly like Hitler formed the SA and gave them orders.

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Quote of the day and it's barely 10am

Can someone explain - publish sex abuse images to a tiny number of the world's most despicable humans on the dark web and you go to prison. Normalise it and put it in front of a huge audience on one of the largest SM platforms alongside Government announcements, and you may or may not get fined?

This 👇 deserves a very, very wide audience.

There is also just a sheer lack of urgency. I cant think of any other site which could mass generate illegal and CSAM material *for 3 weeks* and not havr strong, immediate enforcement action. 'We're investigating'isnt enough? What are yoy investigating? You can see it!

“The Huddersfield Open Market is not so grand a site, nor a plan, as Halifax’s Piece Hall – but the concept is clearly sound, the council is trying to do everything right, and they’re still getting the Nimby blowback as if they’d suggested bulldozering the whole thing.” capx.co/nimby-watch-...

January 6 in History Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.” And here we are.

that's so crazy. i'm sure you put him in prison and banned him from ever holding office again right

This is really bad; Grok is now going into is third day of regularly producing nonconsensual deepfake pornography and nobody is doing anything about it. The "Mechahitler" and "white genocide" episodes were stopped much more quickly. I suppose this tells us all about relative priorities.

One more for #birdoftheDay with #SpecklesandSpots. I love the plumage of a European Starling. They look like they have tiny hearts! fineartamerica.com/featured/a-s...

The thing I don't get is that the politics of banning X or Grok should be quite favourable. If there is one thing lots of the public really hate, it is noncery, so saying "we are banning the Nonce Porn machine" and then attacking e.g. Farage as pro-nonce when he criticises it should land quite well.

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