Pritzker isn't a pimply-faced, cheating, drug addicted narcissist, ^$$-kisser like Noem and has never shot a dog. He's a real AMERICAN!! That's why!!
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Pritzker isn't a pimply-faced, cheating, drug addicted narcissist, ^$$-kisser like Noem and has never shot a dog. He's a real AMERICAN!! That's why!!
so deploy the Illinois NG and face them off
Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."
No one wants to have to fight for their family when they're just a teenager. But when that was what I felt had to do – I did it. That's what Iowans want. A fighter, not a follower.
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
Kristi Noem is in charge of America's domestic cybersecurity agency. On a poorly hidden Facebook page, she seemed baffled by how a video of "dogs in leotards" ended up on her feed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-sec...
TBH, I prefer the days when we only get fuzzy pictures of him golfing over the ones where he goes on live TV and won't stop talking.
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
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The last time troops from Texas invaded Illinois, it was to support white supremacy. Plus ça change.
A reasonably intelligent 15 year old half way through GCSE Politics could roast Farage. He is the easiest politician to attack because his record makes it so easy. Yet not a single UK adult has ever tried, let alone a serious politician.
Absolutely appalling how rarely it happens. We didn’t ever need to have this toxic gobshite bossing our politics and ruining everything. A political and media class with a greater sense of responsibility and integrity could have kicked him into touch years ago.
He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
Nigel Farage’s Reform party let me know *today* that I was banned from attending its conference. I’m an accredited UK journalist who sent my media registration over in May. And now he’s told Congress he doesn’t do that. Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
Good bit of myth busting, which does also include comments by @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social and myself, for some of the utter nonsense churned out about people seeking asylum, and repeated unquestioningly by some media commentators in today's @bigissue.com. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Fox refuses to cover what the Epstein victims are saying publicly for the first time, but they are covering military jets flying over them during their press conference.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but he’s also routed more than 800 of his constituents’ complaints to the agency — the most of any current lawmaker from either party, ProPublica found.
Really? 🤷♂️ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
The Independent's David Maddox has written about Reform's approach to dealing with the media He says he has taken "threatening calls" from the Reform leadership, who warned him the paper would be banned from all events if they did not change their critical tone in stories
I'm calling it -- Donald Trump killed the Epstein story on the right. Prominent MAGA media figures ignored a wave of Epstein news on Tuesday, signaling that Trump’s pressure campaign has paid off with their silence — even as (or, perhaps, because) his own corrupt involvement in the story has grown.
i don't agree with this on any level but i have to say he looks great in this shirt www.404media.co/shein-luigi-...
Digital ID cards; plunging birth rates; Badenoch’s Stanford claim & Rayner’s stamp duty shame. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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I can put on a military parade more impressive than his and I only have 2 action man figures and a nerf gun.
Poor old Trump, not only did they fail to invite him to the dictator summit but they put on military parade that was vastly more impressive than his.
Harold Hamsworth or the 1st Viscount Rothmere continued to support fascism right up to the war.He then hot footed it to Bermuda where he popped his clogs in 1940.Karma is a bitch.
not sure you’d be allowed to write this in North Korea, lads
It appears any effort to inform Republican voters about developments in the Epstein story will run up against the reality that their preferred news providers have dropped the story at Trump’s insistence. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/don...
Trump on the Xi-Putin-Kim Jong Un summit: "I thought it was a beautiful ceremony. I thought it was very very impressive. But I understood the reason they were doing it. They were hoping I was watching, and I was watching."
Again, these are not the statements of a sane person. Trump is out of his mind. It's ridiculous that we are not having a serious national conversation about his clear decline, and the danger it represents to the country.
Yes Chris! Look at the crowd of supporters for the SURVIVORS #EPSTEINFILES WE STAND WITH THE SURVIVORS
Virginia Giuffre's brother: We are here today because we support the Epstein Files Transparency Act. This is about justice. If you vote no, your stance will be clear. You will be choosing to stand on the side of the rich and powerful, allowing money to buy your way out of the consequence
China & Russia are preparing for world war three & the United States has a 79 year old dementia President Donald Trump with a Fox News appointees administration of inexperienced zombie sycophants that is waging civil war against its own citizens. It is the perfect storm own by MAGA/QAnon madness.
Did anyone expect anything different?
Reminder that Trump's latest deadline to Putin came and went yesterday.... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
“Rather than defending civil liberties and civil protections, you’re turned inward to potentially hinder [them].” In June, we sat down with a veteran and military law expert to discuss “being used against your neighbor” as a soldier.
Davies: The truth is Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current President Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag actually.
I split most of my time covering Trumpism in America and Faragism in the UK, so watching Democrats rip into Nigel Farage feels like my two worlds appropriately colliding. Anti-Trump Americans 🤝 Anti-Farage Brits.
Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
“There is something that is rotten in Washington.” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) speaks with victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as bipartisan lawmakers press forward with their effort to force a House vote on the full release of the Epstein files. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BX...
Angela Rayner is sitting right next to Keir Starmer at PMQs. Clearly he’s standing by her despite her admission this morning that she did not pay the correct amount of tax on her second home.
Absolutely perfect response from Starmer, defending Angela Rayner, who has led by example in demonstrating accountability. #PMQs
Absolute gift for Badenoch this morning, who asks why Angela Rayner is in post. Starmer stands by her: “She’s gone over and above in setting out the details I am very proud to his alongside the Deputy PM…who has come from a working class background to become Deputy PM.” #PMQs
Angela Rayner should know the law is very clear on this and it is illegal to a working class woman in a position of power.
UK Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has admitted that she underpaid stamp duty on her £800,000 seaside flat. £40,000. Oh dear. Rayner says she was advised by lawyers on the original stamp duty and after press speculation took further advice.
Two words for Angela Rayner Michelle Mone Nothing to see here Ange - carry on !!
Kemi Badenoch had such a bad #PMQs performance she's immediately gone into Central Lobby to do a Sky interview about Angela Rayner
Tbh though. I think Kemi Badenoch maybe out before Angela Rayner.
Lots of chat about Angela Rayner & Kemi Badenoch on the show today, @mrjamesob.bsky.social Even about Ed Davey. But very, very little on the absent Nigel Farage - who is in the USA calling for economic sanctions on the UK by the USA. Personally, I think that should be bigger on all media.
Breaking news: Angela Rayner has released a statement blaming incompetent lawyers for her failure to pay £40,000 in tax (oops). Starmer says he is proud of her...
PMQs review! Angela Rayner is saved by another of Kemi Badenoch's missed open goal, Keir Starmer gets tetchy with Ed Davey, and Richard Burgon makes a stand www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Right wing press: Let's dig up any minor mistake and organise a pile on against Angela Rayner BBC: Let's join in, after all, following the news rags is all we do Rayner's political future under threat after stamp duty admission
If George Osborne was still Chancellor you just know that at the next budget there'd be some sort of stamp duty change included just so he could make a joke about Angela Rayner and it would then go on to accidentally cost the Treasury £750 million.
Just as an observation, Kemi Badenoch has called for Keir to sack Angela Rayner for tax shenanigans. Meanwhile, Keir has not called for Kemi to sack Jenrick for hanging around with Combat 18.
English water companies spent £16.6m fighting legal action against regulators and campaigners over environmental breaches. Abuse of bill payers. Companies pay lawyers instead of investing in infrastructure to prevent sewage dumping.
Putin Promised Trump Trilateral Meeting – But Only If Zelensky Comes to Moscow
There is a rally happening now at the Capitol with twelve Epstein survivors! This is in preparation for the press conference at 10:30 this morning!! Release the Epstein files and prosecute the perpetrators!!
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Farage, has form against Britain. He's a traitor in plain sight, a racist cloaked by asylum. He's now in America working hard with Trump to further damage Britain. Creative fake issues to further appeal to the racists in our society. To divide and conquer. To destroy Britain for Putin plus 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
Anyone from the US watching this rant please be aware that this guy is a known liar, nazi sympathiser & 🇷🇺 collaborator.
Farage is a traitor. Another Russian asset like Krasnov. I heard his handlers call him Agent Kuntski
Let's see if BBC/Sky report PMs. Or will they attack Rayner?
That's the most passionate I've seen him for a while. He needs to keep it up, only not the rw rhetoric he uses to appeal to refuk voters
It's worse than that! Nigel was at the core of the Cambridge Analytica corruption that poisoned both of our countries and just like our gutless gangsters, he got a hall pass!
Starmer is right. Farage is colluding with foreign politicians to push malign policies against our country, fuelled by disinformation of his own making - all for his personal political gain. Farage before country - every time. He should never be anywhere near 10 Downing Street.
Farage and reform are wanting to make the UK weaker and protect exploitation of vulnerable children and people. Judge Farage by the company he keeps
Starmer ravages Farage: "The honourable member for Clacton is not here... he's flown to America to badmouth and talkdown our country. And worse than that... he's gone there to lobby the Americans to impose sanctions. You cannot get more unpatriotic than that. It's a disgrace."
Russia launched another combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine. Shot down: 430/502 Shahed and other type drones 14/16 Kalibr cruise missiles 7/8 Kh-101 cruise missiles Hits of missiles and strike UAVs were recorded at 14 locations, debris of shot down targets fell at another 14 locations.
Ukrainian forces carried out an airstrike with an AASM HAMMER bomb on Russian positions in Tyotkino, Kursk region.
Trajectory of Russian missiles and drones during the overnight attack. Main targets included Lutsk, Lviv, Kropyvnytskyi, Khmelnytskyi and the Kyiv region.
Axis of evil. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and wanted ICC war criminal Putin have met in China. They will be joined by the president of Iran at a massive military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Slovak PM Robert Fico said that after his meeting with Putin in China, he has “a few messages and thoughts” he intends to pass on to President Zelensky this Friday when they will meet.
Polish FM Radosław Sikorski said Putin is mocking Trump’s peace efforts, adding he is “amazed by Trump’s patience.” In reality, Trump’s patience isn’t being tested, he has shown no intention of sanctioning or pressuring Russia in the first place. These are all empty threats without follow-up.
A military parade is taking place in Beijing. The “Victory Day” parade marks the 80th anniversary of Imperial Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II, which China refers to as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Trump, in a new post, sent his “warmest regards” to Putin and Kim Jong Un, saying they have conspired against the US. He also called on Xi Jinping to remember America’s past sacrifices for China’s freedom. Quite a shift from his earlier praise of them as “smart guys” he got along with.
Soldiers of the 5th Assault Brigade destroyed Russian infantry, along with their shelters and bunkers in the Kramatorsk sector.
Ivan Franko Group has released footage showing a strike on a Russian column of 7 armored vehicles moving near Vozdvyzhenka. The attack was repelled and vehicles were destroyed.
Local monitoring channels report that a known radar site on Lysaya Gora south of Anapa, Krasnodar Krai, was attacked. The aftermath is still being clarified.
Merz rejected von der Leyen’s remarks on potential troop deployments to Ukraine, stressing that the EU is not responsible for military operations, those decisions lie with member states in the Coalition of the Willing. He underlined that there are no concrete plans for German troop deployments.
The Ukrainian Navy has destroyed another high-speed boat of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet as it attempted to deliver airborne troops to the Tendrivska Spit. Reportedly seven occupants were eliminated, four more got wounded.
Morning Bluesky. China has unveiled new laser weapons, nuclear ballistic missiles and giant underwater drones at its massive military parade in Beijing.
UK Defence Secretary John Healey has arrived in Kyiv one week ahead of the next Ramstein-format meeting. He was welcomed by Minister of Defense Denys Shmyhal.
A Russian sabotage-reconnaissance group is attempting to infiltrate Pokrovsk through a sewer collector.
In occupied Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, a Ukrainian drone destroyed a Russian military truck.
FPV operators of the 77th Separate Airmobile Brigade spectacularly destroyed a Russian BM-21 “Grad” MLRS.
🇩🇰 President Zelensky has arrived in Denmark for talks with the leaders of Nordic and Baltic states. He is also scheduled to meet Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
A fighter of the 425th Assault Regiment “Skala” tricked two Russian soldiers into thinking he was one of them, then seized the moment and eliminated both with his rifle.
Ukraine is ramping up production of its Bohdana howitzers, now turning out more than 30 units a month. To date, 345 wheeled and 100 towed versions have already been built domestically.
The UK has sanctioned 8 individuals and 3 entities involved in the forced deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children. Targets include the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, Aymani Kadyrova, Valery Maiorov, Anastasia Akkuratova, as well as “Kremlin Movement of the First” and Volunteers of Victory.
Zelensky has signed laws launching Defence City, a special legal regime offering major benefits to Ukraine’s defense industry. Key measures include exemption from profit, land, property, and environmental taxes (with conditions), simplified customs and export rules and more.
Putin’s aide Ushakov rushed to clarify after Trump’s post about Putin and Kim Jong Un “conspiring against the US,” insisting that “no conspiracies were arranged against the United States.”
I made this one myself. 64 years old and I'm making memes like a middleschooler because of this sack of sh*t. But let's be clear: IT HAD TO BE DONE!! YOU'RE WELCOME!!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha... HARD pass. #TheLongWalk
How is it Constitutional for MILITARY personnel to become judges of CIVILIANS?
Also heads up and spead the word Me thinks Petey and all of us may want to go old school with pigeons 🥴 Paragon’s technology is designed to hack into mobile phones and secretly record messages sent using encrypted apps such as Signal and WhatsApp nationalpost.com/news/world/i...
And then drag them all back to court martial any US military that refuse to fire on American citizens on American soil I suppose?
TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, AP reports.
Carol Hedges 