UK banks poised for bumper bonuses. Good news for some.
Banks could reduce profit margins, pay more on savings, but don't.
Banker bonus cap abolished, capital requirements being reduced, recklessness enriches.
No govt would let big banks collapse. What would the next bailout cost?
It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
These Instagram Reels featuring AI-generated influencers having sex with celebrities frequently have hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of views. They don't disclose that they are AI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
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Is Trump about to invade a country and destroy NATO all because he didn’t win the “Noble” Peace Prize? It sure seems like it. trib.al/fqYCXSn
This is how you do it folks
LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for
Months “while she was under his authority”
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
💥“We won't tolerate!" and "Resign! Resign!” — crowds chant outside Viktor Orbán’s and president’s offices in Budapest at a weekend protest led by opposition leader Péter Magyar. He still leads the polls but Orbán has vast resources — plus Trump and Putin's backing. 4 months to go until the election.
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
Leavitt says the 'quiet piggy' comment was Trump being 'frank & honest', so here's me being frank & honest.
Karoline Leavitt is an ignorant, trash-talking pig in lipstick, married to a guy older than her mother, making a living defending a piece of shit child rapist felon.
She's the pig.
"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
What, at the time, seemed like a middling adventure film and a typically hohum Disney live action outing, now feels like a copper bottomed classic by dint of the fact that no one knows how to make this kind of picture anymore.
The press is often referred to as the 4th Estate and an additional check on protecting American democratic values. Limitations on the media's ability to report is a direct violation of the 1st Amendment. Limiting what the media can report is a fundamental element of authoritarianism.
This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time.
#CaptainAmerica
As Always…. 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾
Ducklings swarm perceiving the guardian as a safety instinct.
Notice they don’t deny it.
Corruption and grift at every turn. 🇺🇸
As the kids say today, “Clock it.”
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
every new recruit gets a white hood and a copy of mein kampf
The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
Birds of a feather…..
This mother fuc*er is part of a huge flock.
Totally not a cult.
