A 1994 photo surfaces of RFK Jr. cozying up to Jeffrey Epstein at a Manhattan fundraiser. Kennedy admits a couple of jet-setting trips with Epstein, insisting he was never alone—because nothing screams “innocent” like partying with a convicted predator. www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-pictu...
NEW: "Trump really, really wants the Epstein story to go away. Which is why our new ad campaign is reminding Republicans in Congress that the public wants something very different: transparency and accountability." newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trump-want...
If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill.
Yesterday, I read a long list of Angela Rayner's accomplishments while in the job, & I hadn't heard about any one of them. I realised how all the communication, from govt to media, is obsessed with small boats. It's all we hear. Boats, boats, boats. This is crazy.
Farage was never concerned with the rights & wrongs of Rayner’s affairs, only with sowing more chaos & destruction. And he’s succeeded. That’s he’s a danger to UK society is obvious. He’s a malevolent, repugnant, uncaring shit wielding malfeasance, division & hatred. No redeeming qualities.
"Farage has given two contradictory versions of the purchase. One that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second is correct then he has engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
REALLY AMERICAN WTF?? Mike Johnson now says Trump was an FBI INFORMANT on Epstein! 🙄 OK, so we're supposed to believe THIS is why Trump creeped on young girls, threw parties with him, flew to his private island, and covered up his crimes for a DECADE? 🤣
MAJOR BREAKING: Mike Johnson just claimed Trump was an FBI INFORMANT, tasked with taking down Epstein.😲 WTF?? So he want us to believe Trump did this while having private parties with young girls with Epstein for a DECADE? 🤣🤣
Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.
Nothing to add here. 💥
‘Did you close the Epstein thing down Mike?’ ‘Oh yeah. Case closed. All over now’
Fuck, and I mean this with all sincerity, Novak Djokovic. #Tennis
How the commentators sound talking about Djokovic
NBC Sports and the National Football League running ICE recruitment ad at halftime has to be the most despicable and hypocritical move ever. 🤦🏻♂️ What is this nation coming to?? #resist #fuckICE
It would be terrible if he became upset over some chant like "WE. 👏 WANT. 👏 THE EPSTEIN. 👏 FILES. 👏" I earnestly hope and pray this does not happen. 🙏🏼
In a functioning democracy with a decent press, these would be wall-to-wall headlines: Fury as Farage Urges U.S. to Punish Britain Farage Accused of Undermining UK Sovereignty But no... "The stamp duty receipt that ended Angela Rayner’s career" FML
Trump just said ‘knows nothing about’ the 2019 SEAL raid in NK he had to personally sign off on. We’ve accepted lying from our POTUS. What a weak ass press corp not to follow up and let him endlessly spew his propaganda against immigrants.
I see The Telegraph has gone with ‘How We Brought Rayner Down’ but omitted ‘A Peg or Two.’ The sheer hypocrisy from a supposedly reputable paper which actively cheered for Boris Johnson as he forced two ‘ethics advisors’ to resign in despair at his antics is absolutely mind-bending.
California, Oregon and Washington announced yesterday they’ve created their own health alliance, saying the CDC has become “a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.” New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have now done the same.
Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.
Well down @BBCNews. You managed to do an entire report on Angela Raynor, platforming Farage, again, without ever mentioning Farage’s own avoidance of property taxes. Utterly useless.
You have to keep pointing out this ridiculous, obvious, weapons grade absurdity, moral corruption & hypocrisy. Even - no, *especially* - when you’re wondering whether it’s even worth it anymore… It’s *always* worth it.
Here we go - Reform imports anti vax disinformation from US www.thetimes.com/article/59b0...
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Reform UK Latest. “Zia Yusuf(Reform): "More British people are arrested in Britain for speech than in Russia." Off the scale lies, all unchallenged.
RFK JR: You’re just making stuff up Hassan: Sometimes when you make an accusation, it’s kind of a confession
It was a bit terrifying to watch RFK Jr who is not a doctor or trained in public health think he knows more than the AMA and Association of Pediatricians.
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.
Trump DOJ is now looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns. Worth noting that the Nazis did the exact same thing to the Jews. Also worth noting they have no plans to ban right wing white supremacists from owning guns, even though they commit a vast majority of all mass shootings.
Rayner is gone so where is the media outrage at Farage and his taxing dodging scams? Home bought in his partners name avoiding stamp duty, GB News pay via a company to avoid 40% tax rate on his 92k pay from them.
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Well I look forward to these idiots repealing such woke legislation as, er, the Offences Against the Person Act, the Public Order Act and the Protection From Harrassment Act. Thick as mince.
Any news yet from the BBC on a political party leader who lied under oath to Congress?
It's the true statements that Trumpists make that are the most damning.
On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Daily Mail headlines over the last decade are basically diary entries of the nervous breakdown/identity crisis of tiny-minded-right-wing-England. It is the megaphone for nostalgia-soaked prejudice and, ultimately, and inevitably, for profound political and national failure.
If I had time - or a BBC-sized team - I'd assemble all the Daily Mail front pages hysterically celebrating the Tories doing all the things that left the country in the mess that the paper is now moaning about & somehow trying to blame on, *checks notes*, Keir Starmer. They even worshipped Liz Truss!
My mom grew up when people were dying of outbreaks and people were very fearful of getting sick. My great Uncle had polio and limped all his life from a shortened leg. I remember my mom telling me that when vaccines came out they were the greatest things in the world. It changed their whole lives.
Massachusetts goes full state and will not regard contradictory guidelines for vaccines from federal agencies or the Trump Administration. State’s rights to say “No, RFK JR”.
Leading German pandemic responder Christian Drosten called this the 'prevention paradox' - a pandemic is declared, scientists warn of the danger / spread, so everyone's careful (incl vaccinated), & as a result, the spread doesn't occur. Some then then question the scientists' initial warning.
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Y’all know what happens when you elect a deeply abusive man to the most powerful position in the country, right? He hires deeply abusive people, makes deeply abusive policies, and takes deeply abusive actions. (BTW, feel free to swap abusive for racist or misogynistic. Same holds true.)
Unfortunately, yes. The problem is unvaccinated people will get sick+pass the disease onto other people they come in contact with. Diseases can grow exponentially in that kind of environment. Not to mention passing the diseases from state to state. I guess RFK Jr. doesn't know how diseases spread
Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…
Right wingers are hypocrites. “Free speech” is for them and those who agree with them. open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...
BREAKING: Senator Raphael Warnock just called for RFK Jr. to resign to his face.
This morning I wrote about how the Trump administration undermining trust in US health statistics, this afternoon RFK Jr tells a Senate committee nobody knows how many Americans died of Covid www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
May the farce be with you... 🙄
Yet, they deeply care what women do with their bodies in FL.
This guy is fucking nuts. I feel so sorry for the parents of school-age children in Florida.
Watching @raskin.house.gov eviscerate Nigel Farage in Congress was a rare joy. Finally someone called out the charlatanry: Free speech for me, not for thee - while wearing a GB News pin in Washington.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social could you ask Reform to appear on your show on Monday - to talk about their party conference. Certain one of the big hitters will want to prove they not anti- free speech, by agreeing to be interviewed without pre approved questions
Interesting to see Sky news had Farage way down on its app after he was shown up by Democratic members of Congress. I bet it would have been up at the top if he had gotten away with the same rubbish he does in the UK. If anywhere has become like North Korea it's America under trump.
Nigel Farage is claiming to Congress that the UK gov deliberately withheld details of the Southport attacker from the public. This is dangerous and it’s false. The attacker was under 18, and so a court had to give express permission to release his name in exceptional circumstances, which it did.
Nigel Farage, lying to Congress here. The New World, the magazine I edit, was banned from Reform's conference this morning, three months after they accepted our request for a press pass
Can't believe Farage ran away from further questions today after soiling himself under scrutiny. Reminds me of something. Can't quite put my finger on what...
Farage is a rat scurrying into darkness. Oh, wait ....
"So, the very same day free speech champion Nigel Farage denied banning critical journalists from his events, his team did exactly that. "In theory, this could be more than just painfully ironic for Farage. Evidence sessions to Congressional committees are given under oath…"
Why is no-one in any position of power IN OUR BLOODY COUNTRY calling Farage out like this?
Any state taking advice from RFK Jr, brain worm heroin addict Secretary Serial Killer, had best be prepared. These kids will be subjected to serious illness and death and they have no choice in the matter, this decision being made by parents who were vaxxed as children. Bring out your dead.
Farage is there for the taking. He's not popular. His policies poll atrociously. His mates are detested. Everyone would *hate* his actions once in office. Almost everything he says is false. He lives in a fantasy world. Demographically, he's pushing water uphill. Just needs someone to get at him.
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.
This isn't abstract. Ending vaccine mandates will kill children. Any one who is trying to do this should be removed from office immediately.
Trump hyped up the Epstein Files on the campaign trail. Bondi made a huge production of releasing Phase 1 of Epstein Files Once Bondi, Patel & Bongino found out Trump’s name is in the Files (multiple times), they say there's NOTHING TO SEE HERE! They are protecting PEDOPHILES
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
Oh my.
@raskin.house.gov You are absolutely right about Farage and it's very disturbing for us in the UK that his popularity is on the rise. Thank you for speaking out.
i'll be honest i laughed my fucking ass off when i saw this chart yesterday
Nigel Farage just repeatedly denied – under oath! – to @raskin.house.gov ever banning journalists he doesn’t like from his party’s conventions. This happened to me *literally today*.
He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
This is terrifying
net immigration fell by more than half last year and the politics has gone in the complete opposite direction. It's not really about the numbers
When I said I was offered a position at Yale what I meant was my Year 10 work experience was at a local lock manufacturer.
A reminder that Trump called Baltimore a 'hellhole' today to no controversy or scandalous headlines. Imagine a Democratic president calling a red state or red city a hellhole. Just imagine. Oh, the double standards.
What we’re witnessing in this country is textbook authoritarianism. Trump thrives on targeting those who are least able to defend themselves, exerting control and cruelty to tighten his grip on power. To think it ends here is naive. We cannot let this go on any further.
JB Pritzker, "President Trump has surrounded himself with groveling yes men who are too weak to restrain his violent and unhinged impulses; or who share those impulses" "I can't live in a fantasy land where I preteyTrump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power"
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
If Nigel Farage really loved Britain he wouldn't talk it down at every opportunity to a bunch of ill informed right wing American fuckwits who know sweet FA about the reality of this country.
Why does the media give so much coverage to a party that has just 4 MP s . The Liberal Democrat’s have over 70 MP s yet do not get anywhere near the same level of media coverage. The media in this country is a disgrace
“I refuse to accept this is normal.” - JB Pritzker. Amen, governor. Amen.
Over the long weekend, the Trump administration quietly tried to deport 76 unaccompanied children to Guatemala – ignoring laws protecting such minors from speedy deportations. Thankfully, a federal judge blocked the effort. The cruelty of this regime knows no bounds.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Gov. Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend any of this is normal... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights... in the fake guise of fighting crime... Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities... What comes next?"
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
The CEO's name is Piotr Szczerek and his paving, fencing and landscape company is called Drogbruk. He's groveling now but it's clear as day he stole this signed hat from this child.
Have I gone mad or did Today just do an entire interview with the Conservative energy spokesperson, on the Conservatives' plan to max out North Sea oil, without a single question about the environment? (There was a question on crowding out investment for alternative energy, but I think that was it)
I’ve seen it put up several times lately and the response from the racists is a completely unironic “yeah that’s dead right that is”, I don’t know what you do to get through that level of density in any meaningful way
👏😂 #AI #Creativity youtube.com/shorts/wChMz...
Current state of UK political discourse.
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
Wes Moore is NOT playing: I am the Commander in Chief of the National Guard. I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be activated. THIS is how you fight back.
BREAKING: Trump announces that Rudy Giuliani will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nation’s highest civilian honor. Note that Giuliani has been charged with felonies in two different states, including racketeering and has been found liable for over $100 million in damages.
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
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