Trump claimed the presidency cost him money. In reality, his family made $3.4 BILLION in office — $2.37B from crypto, hundreds of millions from hotels, media, & merch. The guy who ran on “draining the swamp” built the most lucrative swamp in history.
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
"Here are my principles; if you don't like them, I have others."
Nothing to see here. Move along.
As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”.
The man is a fraud.
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol.
We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.
Melania Trump declined Jill Biden’s invitation for tea at the White House, and yet I haven’t seen a single Republican call her out for disrespecting “protocol.”
Never has the fake 'patriotism' of the British right-wing tabloid press been more powerfully displayed than this week
What goes around comes around
interesting story about Liz Truss, who is also a 'freedom of speech' campaigner
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Prof Alexis Jay, chair of public inquiry into child sexual abuse, says further national inquiry into grooming gangs isn’t needed & would delay action.
“The time has passed for more inquiries, we’ve had enough… We’ve set out action required & people should just get on with it, nationally & locally”
APRIL 2024: That time Tory Party Deputy Chair, James Daly MP, demanded police investigate Angela Rayner, then toured studios for days unable to say what for.
SPOILERS: Police concluded (again) there was no offence and Mr Daly was thrown out by voters in July. ~AA #BfBviralvid
LOL
317 would-be BXP MPs were stood down by Farage at that last-but-one election. His perpetual bellyaching about how they failed shows you he only ever wants the running battle, never the victory. That gives him the perpetual victor/victim paradigm, where he can stay in the limelight and get paid
Correct verdict. Dr Proudman shouldn't have been taken to task in the first place
www.theguardian.com/law/2024/dec...
Shelter have produced a report showing a massive increase in homelessness, and you can bet there are some politicians this side of the pond who agree with this. It's bone-chilling
That's awful, sorry to hear that
Gosh that's awful (both the symptoms and the lack of response for it) - it just must add to the stress
Yet, somehow, it was all just Project Fear, and anyone asking how complex setups like this would continue adequately were just shouted down...
Nigel Farage’s biggest backer asked an associate to donate £50,000 on his behalf so that it would appear that the Brexit party had a broader donor base, according to messages seen by the Financial Times
scoop via @annasophiegross.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/8977...
Twitter is like one of those front organisations hiding serious wrongdoing behind it
Willem Dafoe suggests the existence of Willem Dafriend
I call myself Tommy Tindaloo on some other social media platforms. Tonight I had an actual tindaloo. In Portsmouth, where I discovered tindaloo, and indeed curry
James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
just signed a petition to replay the 1991 world snooker final
Human sadden me at times
Solar epaulettes
