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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · May 12

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 3h

It will be interesting to see how much notice (if at all) voters pay to these sorts of story ahead of next year's local elections - where Reform might be expected to make further gains. 🚒🔥🧑‍🚒

Kent fire authority 'in disarray' amid Reform UK video leak row

A firefighters union claims Reform UK suspending councillors is impacting the local fire authority.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 4h

Trump pardoned a drug dealer with ties to the Kushner family, and today that man was sent back to federal prison for threatening to kill a woman, groping his family's nanny, and several other crimes.

Seems relevant, given Trump has admitted he has no idea who he's pardoning...

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 6h

This guy is an imbecile. An actual imbecile.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 6h

Reality show where a different member of the Democratic caucus is locked in a room with Bill Kristol for 24 hours

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 7h

The algorithm must know it is a big problem out here in our villages (we must have coffee some time!).

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 7h

English Catholics in 1678:

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 8h

You know that time that a major British news organisation mistakenly sought out a random dude who happened to share a name with a former New York mayor in order to go after a left wing New York mayoral candidate? Did anyone resign?

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 8h

This is worth reading... the economy still matters, stupid.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14h

Donald Trump is Joe Biden now

POTUS's job approval on prices is where Biden's was during peak inflation in 2022-23. Voters say 2:1 that Trump has made the economy worse. Oh, and consumer sentiment among independents hit a new all-time low in November, www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...

Donald Trump is Joe Biden now

The president's numbers on prices are where Biden's were during peak inflation in 2022-23.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8h

First Trump is trying to expropriate $230M from DOJ for himself, now this

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.

And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?

Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 9h

Haha, yeah - the 8 yo is currently into Mr Bean, so that has suddenly started appearing. No idea where the knife self defence ads are coming from!

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 9h

The juxtaposition of this evening's YouTube ads is a little dark...

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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 10h

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches

Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 11h

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The truth about impartiality at the BBC

And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

open.substack.com

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11h

If Trump does sue the BBC for $1bn it may leave some of his ideological fellow travellers here in a tricky situation. Do the Conservatives and Reform join in with BBC bashing? Or will doing so be seen as unpatriotic? After all, it would be the British public who would ultimately pay for any damages.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

My theory: these people have driven themselves so mad that they are now so terrified of ethnic diversity that when he passes Brasserie Zedel and some tourists and two black people come out, what he sees are machete-wielding militiamen.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 11h

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 11h

Just imagining the media on Earth 2 on a day when President Harris's aides are fighting to withhold food stamps and raise healthcare prices for tens of millions of Americans while she hosts a former affiliate of al-Qaeda and ISIS in the Oval Office

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot.

But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia

My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

What the Heck Happened in Coffee County, Georgia?
Anna Bower
Tuesday, August 15, 2023, 2:21 PM
Share On: f X in $ ₴ A detailed look back at the computer intrusion that features prominently in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's election interference
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12h

I didn’t realise he was a fan!

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 13h

Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!

Crisis at the CSC | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

From the desk of Lord Kronsteen, founder and proprietor of the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation. To all staff, It is with a heavy heart that I take pen in hand to inform you of the resignation of both…

thecritic.co.uk

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h

the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore

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They're too busy burning American Eagle jeans at socially distanced bonfires to have noticed that the shutdown ended.
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 13h

New:

On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers

He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...

STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): I've been invited to speak across the country about January 6. And now that I'm relaunching Oath Keepers, I'm getting more invitations to come speak as well. So, yeah, I'm relaunching the organization and rebuilding it.

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They tried to take us out after January 6 but what man means for evil, God will use for good. I came out stronger after it, and so my goal is to rebuild the organization stronger than ever because it's an essential mission. Absolutely.

JIM HOFT (HOST): Oh, that's wonderful news. So the Oath Keepers is going to have a relaunch here, and Stewart's breaking that news this weekend?

RHODES: Yes, sir.

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RHODES: I mean, I have to make sure that if I'm ever taken out again or if I'm or when I'm taken out again, that the organization can drive on without me. That's not what happened last time.

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So we want to make sure it's got resilience and redundancy built in that it can drive on strong. With the same mission, though. You can't call yourself an Oath Keeper if you're not willing to protect people against radical antifa and other leftist violence in the streets.

STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.

Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.

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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.

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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 13h

Obviously I enjoyed using the Long Walk analogy for my new Prospect piece but I especially enjoy this fantastic Stephen King / Keir Starmer image mashup.

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 14h

Despite the press’s salivation over the prospect of Farage becoming PM, we are a long, long way from the next general election. And a lot could change before then, writes @benansell.bsky.social.

Labour’s long, tortuous walk to 2029

There are more than three years of unease left until the next general election. What can we expect along the way?

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 14h

Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years

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Edge of Tomorrow (2014) was sunk by confusing marketing and a forgettable title, yet it turned out to be one of the smartest and most entertaining sci-fi films of the last decade. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at their absolute best.
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Man on Fire (2004) sits at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, proof that critics don't always see the vision. Tony Scott turned vengeance into poetry, and Denzel Washington gave one of his most quietly devastating performances.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 14h

Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 14h

I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h

The U.S. military killed six people on Sunday in two more strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, without providing evidence. The strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people.

U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says

The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.

nyti.ms

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 14h

This book is now out: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... A successor to the very much liked book of the same name edited by Andrew Leftwich. very pleased to be in the new one, edited by Colin Hay, with a chapter on 'politics as crisis management'.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14h

Donald Trump is Joe Biden now

The president's numbers on prices are where Biden's were during peak inflation in 2022-23.

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