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What goes on in Leavitt’s head??!!

10.03.2026 19:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is utter bollocks. The First Amendment was written by, and for, humans.

10.03.2026 19:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You put your right foot in
Right foot out
In out in out
Shake it all about
You do the Hokey Cokey
And you turn around
That’s what he’s all about.

10.03.2026 19:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Impound Facebook!

10.03.2026 18:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Middle East crisis could push UK inflation back up to 3%, warns OBR Government economic watchdog believes pressure on energy prices could push rate close to 3% by end of 2026

Well at least our children won’t get blown up.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

10.03.2026 18:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reporter: Sensible question.
Farage: Angry angry angry angry angry.

10.03.2026 11:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Impromptu press conference with Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick on a pop up stage in a petrol station forecourt with altered signage.

Like you do.

Impromptu press conference with Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick on a pop up stage in a petrol station forecourt with altered signage. Like you do.

Hogwash more like.

10.03.2026 11:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Things are not going to get better as long as oligarchs rule the roost in our democracies | George Monbiot If we want the kind of fair, functioning state Britain saw post-1945, we need to take on the economic powers that wrecked it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

From 1941 to 1952 in the UK, the top rate of income tax was 98%. A luxury goods purchase tax introduced in 1940 later rose to 100%.
Result? The share of incomes captured by the richest 0.1% fell from 7% in 1937 to just over 1% in 1975. That's what we need today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

10.03.2026 07:50 👍 762 🔁 255 💬 14 📌 8

He's a man who believes in invisible fig leaves.

09.03.2026 19:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But he's already a minority ... he's a twat!

09.03.2026 19:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

An explanation would be good - or a link to one.

09.03.2026 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump says he won’t sign new legislation until Congress passes strict voter ID bill – live President says lawmakers must ‘immediately’ pass SAVE America act, which would require proof of citizenship at voter registration and significantly curtail mail-in voting

We had a word for this kind of person when we were kids - someone who, for example, stormed off home with his bat and stumps when he was bowled out in cricket.

Mardy!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

09.03.2026 15:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

Appropriate!!

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

09.03.2026 15:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A bit like an orgasm then ... which is exactly the purpose it serves for Trump.

09.03.2026 14:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Orpheus
Orpheus YouTube video by The Mekons - Topic

This song …

youtu.be/RDJLvkskQEk?...

09.03.2026 11:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You beat them to it.

09.03.2026 10:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Generating that picture is possibly the only valid use of AI that I can think of.

09.03.2026 08:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Who are you?“

09.03.2026 08:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tin can phone being used by two idiot children.

Tin can phone being used by two idiot children.

Not forgetting this.
(And what is the point of a stock photo which shows this classic device with a non taut string?).

09.03.2026 08:27 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Must be those goddam newspapers failing to do their job.

08.03.2026 21:06 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FOX NEWS: "We want to acknowledge all the mistakes that we have made over the last 10 years. All scheduled programming has been put to one side for the next 8 months to allow for this."

08.03.2026 19:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Patriots.eu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot...

08.03.2026 16:14 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Actual shot of Trump at dignified transfer event.

08.03.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Labour won in 2024 because finally, finally, the electorate were sick to death of the Tories.
Labour had a huge opportunity to do things very differently ...

08.03.2026 13:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘Call my Bluff’.
When I watched this as an early teenager in the
mid-60s I actually found it amusing. Something to do, no doubt, with my immaturity, but also because it rose slightly above the general tone of taxidermic stupor that characterised most UK TV at the time.

But it’s awful!!!!!!

08.03.2026 09:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Camel-faced“ is definitely a possible epithet for those who choose to chase the Insta-Kardashian facial landscape with reckless over-enthusiasm.

08.03.2026 09:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blair comes out in favour of Trump.

Blair comes out in favour of Trump.

Takes a self-obsessed, self-important, messianic war mongerer to support a self-obsessed, self-important, messianic war mongerer.

08.03.2026 09:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A true Trump follower.

07.03.2026 16:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You WILL win.

07.03.2026 16:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dare to be first.

Atrévete a ser el primero (I think!).

07.03.2026 13:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0