And Starmer still sits on his hands with Musk and Robinson . This PM diminishes the U.K. daily and weekly .
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And Starmer still sits on his hands with Musk and Robinson . This PM diminishes the U.K. daily and weekly .
Cometh the hour , cometh the man - so where are you Keir Starmer ? Missing again . Not up to the job .
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The silence is deafening. A lot of people are feeling anxious and scared tonight. For their loved ones. For themselves. For their community. For their country. For our country. Those who lead us must use their voices, unequivocally, now.
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Does Musk have any commercial sense ? Brits and Europeans donāt take kindly to foreigners like Musk interfering in our affairs. Tesla sales will almost certainly plummet and thatās before Ed Davey gets on his feet in the Commons to savage him next week .
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the ācivilityā of Charlie Kirkās style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizensā Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
"ā¦and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.ā
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Unity Mitford ?
Looks like they are congregating in a very busy betting shop in Central London.
I always wondered what Rasputin was like . Now I know .
Sisters definitely doing it for themselves .
Queen of Washington Square Park This elderly woman is Doris Diether: she's known for using a marionette to feed squirrels in Washington Square Park in New York. [šø Nathalie Kalbach] villageview.nyc/2025/02/01/d...
Bob Dylan, at age 83, completely re-arranges the blues-rock of "Can't Wait" from "Time Out of Mind" into something minimalist & haunting at the Gorge in August 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1tR...
Hyperbole,hypocrisy and hoodwinking all part of the Trump approach . Nothing new here .
Letās make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. ā Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
People who do several very short bouts of strenuous activity each day are much less likely to die in the next few years than those who do no exercise at all
When I first got my Beara place in 2009, rhododendron and about 8 other alien invasive plant species were on the verge of swamping the rainforest, etc. It *IS* possible to eradicate them, but you have to be relentless. And understand they'll never stop popping up, albeit in ever smaller numbers.
Muskās Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $436.3 billion Bezosā Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $244.2 billion Zuckerbergās Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $257.8 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 Itās not the start of an oligarchy. ā Weāre in the thick of it.
Weather apps regularly differ in their predictions for the same location ā why is it so hard to predict local forecasts, and where can we get the best weather information?
Ditto well,well,well especially on this detail from the Guardian article . āFarage has declined to publish his tax returns for 2023/24ā . Farageās Trump imitation act clearly continues unabated . Follow the money is sound advice when scrutinising politicians on this side of the Atlantic too.
This is astonishing. Robert Jenrick accused of putting his "political ambitions first and the requirements of justice second". Great journalism by the Liverpool Echo www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
Wrong PM for the times .
Sun in an Empty Room - 1963 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40480
Disgusting speech a la Lucy Connolly should be banned in the U.K. and not viewed as free or acceptable.
Two human animals , Trump and Maxwell , who in their lives practiced or allowed unspeakable horror on others . They are at it .
Cabin, Charleston, S.C. - 1929 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104397
Rolled out the red carpet for a mass murdering dictator and embarrassed the nation while achieving literally nothing. One person successfully made use of āThe Art of The Dealā yesterday and it wasnāt Trump.
What did the world learn from the Trump&Putin OAP Friday meeting in Anchorage ? Well , not a lot apart from Alaska seemingly has miles and miles of old red carpet stock and Trump desperately needs a walking stick or zimmer even on flat ground and an escalator to descend safely from a plane .
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not sure how many decades it will take America living down having elected Trump twice
With Alaska in the news, I was reading how, when they discovered oil in 1969, Alaska set up a permanent fund that pays dividends to every resident! Furthermore, Alaska is the only US state to not pay income tax. Not in Scotland though!
Heās a weak man who fears strong people.
This must be an impossible image for Ukrainians to look at. The US president applauding and joking with the man accused of illegally slaughtering their fellow countrymen, women and children. Putin must be in his element.
Itās incredibly offensive to let a war criminal stand behind a podium with the presidential seal on it.
Jim Reeves too
Richard Nixon resigned August 9, 2974... An era when there were consequences for presidents being criminals.
āItās wicked to mock the afflictedā * Corbyn launches a party with no name * Galloway pounces * Farage called āradicalā * Lowe mistakes charity rowers for migrants. All this and more in this week's diary.
Decrying their beloved country on a daily basis ,witness the ongoing death rattle of the Telegraph . Not long to go now .
All this winning is making us giddy with delight. Not.
For those who were hopeful that Trump āpivotedā on Ukraine, the meeting in Alaska will sell Ukraine down the river. Trump is scared to death of Putin. Taco
You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!
It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....
Arguably the greatest thing ever committed to print
Feargal Sharkey just nailed the Ā£100bn water industry nationalisation lie Sharing a "blistering" letter in the Guardian, Feargal Sharkey went further - calling out successive governments over their lies www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
The 5,600 hectare Griffin Forestry Estate in Perthshire has been sold to Gresham House FF VI LLP for Ā£145 million. With mature forestry and 68 wind turbines, it is probably the most expensive rural estate to have been sold in modern times. andywightman.scot/2025/08/grif...
Tut tut - wishful thinking perhaps, methinks .
It's telling that Donald Trump's takeaway from Jeffrey Epstein hiring Virginia Giuffre away from Mar-a-Lago is to feel sorry for Donald Trump because he lost an employee, not to feel sorry for Virginia Giuffre because she was trafficked and raped.
Motherfucking wind farmsā¦
Way to go Scotland! At an anti-Trump demonstration in Edinburgh, one protester held Scottish bagpipes in one arm, and a sign in the other. "At least this bag of hot air serves a purpose." www.npr.org/2025/07/26/g...
The same guy telling you heās not in the Epstein files, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall, and people were eating dogs in Ohio.
important thoughts...
This elderly man taking care of his elderly dog... āŗļø #dog #dogday #bluesky
Christianity at its nadir in Congress and magaworld . More depths to plummet , sadly .
It is a bribe and the shame of this will outlive them. Iām not naive, but these people are not fit to own or run a media company. Theyāre so poor, all they have is money.
A hallmark of a functioning democracy is the independence of the courts. The US's ideological nomination process for Supreme Court justices has undermined US democracy. Highly recommend Lawless by @leahlitman.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/opinion/how-...
Worth a read. Although reposting on here is not getting the message across to the people who really need to understand it. Although, many of them probably wouldn't anyway.
They created the name āAlligator Alcatrazā as press bait to disguise what it is: a concentration camp. Itās there. For all the world to see. While the American mainstream media enthusiastically chews on their word tidbit, tails wagging.
If it werenāt so dangerous, itād be an incredible dark comedy. An orange felon w/ a hillbilly sidekick, alcoholic news bro, short king warhawk, and culty Assad apologist keeping us āsafeā, while a brain-wormed ex-addict & a WWE chair magnet teach us how to be smart and healthy.
Winifred Nicholson, Flowers on a window sill, 1946 #WomensArt
šš Amanpour new book Gen Stan McChrystal āOn Characterā youtu.be/RG3-RxpsrVI?...
Is blind eye treatable in the USA as in allowed to be treated ? Seems rampant this year .
Have you seen Jake on your walkabout ? Check the neighbourhood bookshops .
Our politicians ask our pensioners to āliveā on one of the most meagre state pensions in Europe . Thatās a bigger scandal than the WFA debacle .
Taco gets enough heat , watch that orange rooster run to the coop for cover . 3.5% of the population rising up is all it ever takes to oust a dictator and Taco is every bit as cowardly as those who have gone before in recent history.
Ice on the steps ?
Jake - wherefore art thou ,Jake ?
Sarah Smith is the Chris Mason of American political coverage .
What did America expect when they voted for a gaudy felon who is šÆ percent not the godly individual the naive imagined he was ?
Those were , truly ,the good old days .
I'm in @opendemocracy.net explaining why unequal turnout reinforces socio-economic inequalities, and why we need compulsory voting to counteract them. In short: unequal turnout skews politics against the young, poor, and insecure; only compulsory voting boosts turnout enough to change this.
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple Ā£35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this ā now theyāre planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs a nature-friendly fix: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/swifts-p...
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This week, Trump lowered a tariff on James Bond's car while raising a tariff on James Bond's movies.
My take on todayās UK-US trade deal. The UK is a small weak country. It does what small weak countries do, which is to escape the bully, to pay the Dane-geld. Standing up for the multilateral rules-based trading system will have to be left for others.
Laser focused on reducing prices for everyday Americans from Day One, the President has struck a deal that will lower the price of Rolls Royces, Bentleys, Jaguars, Aston Martin's, Range Rovers, and Minis. *No other consumer good received carveouts.
ā£ļø 21-year-old Denis was one of the Ukrainian POWā that finally returned home today. And his wish, as soon as they crossed the boarder back to Ukrainian land, was to sing his favorite song āRed Kalinaā as loud and powerful as he can. And boy is it beautiful š„¹šš¼ ŠŠµŃŠ¾ŃŠ¼ ŃŠ»Š°Š²Š° š„¹šš
Par for the course .These Oval Office gatherings often seem to consist of nothing but Trumpian noise .
n'est-ce pas la vĆ©ritĆ© ! Aināt that the truth !
A view from France: "100 DAYS WITHOUT ENDING." "Health, humanitarian aid, civil servants, institutions, civil liberties... Since his election, US President Donald Trump has relentlessly pursued a campaign of mass destruction in the United States, but also internationally."
āBrusselsā six police zones fall under the purview of the Belgian capitalās 19 mayorsā. Gasp inducing facts on Brussels via Politico Europe . It seems like 18 mayors and 5 police chiefs too many .
Every morning I cross my fingers, shut my eyes and pray for it all to end . I imagine it must be worse being an American in need of a sizeable rubber wall to bang oneās head against .
Shout out to all the finance bros who didnāt give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.
How come itās so high ? Is it a misprint? Is the number actually 24 ?
First they came for the eggs , now the milk . This is all funny farm stuff under Trumpās loony tunes leadership .
The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time weāre seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.
There is only one way to end the war: put pressure on the Russians. The Trump people did the opposite: put pressure on Ukraine, and relieved pressure on Russia. They have made the war worse while talking of "peace."
America - you are way better than this nonsense. Dump Trump .
Oh, it was *Zelensky* that started the war? Like when a bully claims their victim started the fight because their face hurt his fist?
What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Just a reminder.......
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 Thereās a lesson there.
It costs even more as of a few hours ago.
Sociologist Orlando Patterson introduced the idea of āsocial deathā to describe how enslaved people were stripped of all rights and social ties. Now Trumpās trying to enact āsocial security death.ā
Drill.Baby.Drill.
Trump is the driver of a wobbly-wheeled wagon heading back to the future .