UPDATE: New adds to our running list of judges who have ruled on ICE's mandatory detention policy.
For the admin:
-Judge Susan Brnovich (Trump)
-Total: 38
Against the admin:
-Bridget Brennan (Biden)
-Joseph Saporito (Biden)
-Total: 400
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
The song that rhymes ‘pepperoni’ with ‘feeling okey-dokey’: the UK’s odd new Eurovision entry is here
That Iranian Navy ship we torpedoed had no ammunition on board because that was a requirement to participate in the MILAN 2026 exercise (organized by the Indian Navy).
The US Navy knew this because IT ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE EXERCISE. What a national embarrassment.
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British *influencer* hires jet for £100k to flee Dubai
“Standing outside a private jet in Muscat airport, Oman, the investor-influencer said: “I don’t know why everyone is not doing this. There’s literally planes waiting for you”.
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Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Almost 1 in 10 Reform councillors have quit!
The latest to leave are two women from West Northamptonshire council, who quit amid complaints against the leader, fears about child safeguarding, and suggestions of misogyny from colleagues.”
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I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime.
That puts a whole new spin on things.
Propagandists in pocket of regime.
It's why all the messaging is the same.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...
POLITICS Trump prosecutor running for appeals court judge Fulton County Deputy DA Will Wooten qualified Thursday to run against Judge E. Trenton Brown III for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals. Fulton Deputy DA Will Wooten (left) and and special prosecutor Nathan Wade were part of the prosecutorial team in the case against Donald Trump. (Jason Getz/AJC 2023) By Anna Bower - For the AJC
SCOOP: A prosecutor who helped build the Georgia election interference case against Trump is running to unseat the appeals court judge whose ruling helped bring the case to an end.
Will Wooten will challenge Trent Brown, who wrote the opinion disqualifying Fani Willis.
Me for @ajc.com (link in 🧵👇)
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
“Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour”
Stella Creasy
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Trump is having to be reminded that when you threaten an EU member on trade, in this case Spain, the EU comes to your defence.
That's one of the key perks of being part of a bloc which negotiates trade as one cohesive unit: nobody can pull you out of the pack and savage you.
Lower net migration in the UK could reduce population growth and hold back the country’s economic growth potential, according to new forecasts from the OBR, the Government’s official forecaster
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I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.
Adam Fleming: “You’re living in a place where you can face 2 years in prison & a fine of £40k if the authorities don’t like what you post on social media”
Isabel Oakeshott: “I have no issue with the authorities here…”
AF: “And if Starmer introduced that law?”
#PoliticsLive
Lets see those thanks paid out in full. $$$
If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...
BREAKING: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls for an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged foreign intelligence ties.
A democratic candidate just won in the *checks notes*
Arkansas state house special election.
Flip from R to D.
I am educating my brother about Hoopla and Libby. He wanted me to help him buy him an audiobook on Spotify and I said, "But, WAIT! Do you have a library card? Cause, that audiobook you want to listen to? The library has the whole series! For freeeeeee!!!"
Does anyone remember that during the Brexit campaign, one of Nigel Farage’s arguments for leaving the European Union was to allow the UK to adopt a fairer immigration system for Commonwealth citizens?
Now he’s saying they shouldn’t be allowed to vote proving yet again the sort of country he wants.
Shabana Mahmood has written an opinion piece about immigration for the Guardian. It's like a laundry list of Reform talking points.
Read it. Please. That's the only way to understand just how far down the rabbit hole Labour have gone.
They are lost. Doomed.
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For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.
Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?
Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.
Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?
Noem: My condolences to their families
Raskin: You lied about them.
GB News has lost £131.5m to date Cumulative losses in £
Keep not watching GB News guys... it's lost £131.5m to date but I'm sure it can do a lot worse than that.
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Day 1466 of my 3 day war. It's going so well that all I can send Iran are thoughts & prayers and even the Belgium military are not afraid to board my ships. I didn't even know they had one!
I remain a master strategist.
"The Constitution vests the power of declaring War with Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject, and authorised such a measure." Washington
you know what? If you come on here and you say, "There is no use in voting. We're never getting out of this by voting," you're going to get pushback. And you should.
If you have suggestions, fine. Make them, but right now, we are actually flipping districts that haven't been Democratic for 40 yrs
