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I Am Incorrigible
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Libidinous curmudgeon & faux intellectual snob. Not Red or Blue. Merit not Money. Evidence not Ideology. #CSA survivor. Blogger. Existentially Geeky. © Rights reserved.

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It's a Monday in America.

#MassShooting #GunControl #RhodeIsland
February 16, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.

“God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...

www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...
Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center
The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...
www.dallasnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh
"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"

Direct quote.
February 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
It's a truth as old as time.

When we used to watch the grovelling to the tyrannical leader in some movie or read about it in a novel, it was sometimes difficult to imagine it ever happening in a 'civilised' Western democracy, certainly not in our post WWII endless golden age.

How myopic we were.
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Setting up a UK/EU payment system outside of Visa/MasterCard should be an imperative.

The US has already weaponised payment systems against Trump's perceived enemies using the sanctions regime.

Literally anyone who angers him could be next, including entire nation states.
The thing about weaponised interdependence is that other people, including your allies, might try and escape it, even if you don’t actually weaponise it.
UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears
Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov
My Trans Bill of Rights protects the freedom for all trans people to live as their full, authentic selves. It’s time to get this passed!
February 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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Most people sound like this if you transcribe every uh, um and like. I know this because it's how interviews with sources look when I run them through a transcription tool.

But most journalists clean it up. We don't quote people like this.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Ugh. I almost lost my dinner.
My wife went on holiday with her friends and left me with a 'to do list'. I bought a robot vacuum cleaner to make things easy. I programmed it and went to work. Came back to a dog with a bad stomach, made much worse, by a robot dog poo paint roller.
February 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
It should be noted that the state of dentistry in the Bournemouth area also leaves a great deal to be desired.

#Panorama #BBCPanorama
This Panorama investigation into a possible Dorset police framing of an innocent man for murder is comprehensive in its debunking of the prosecution case, and utterly damning.

That Omar Benguit is still in jail (after 23 years) points to something deeply rotten in our justice system.

#BBCPanorama
February 16, 2026 at 8:23 PM
This Panorama investigation into a possible Dorset police framing of an innocent man for murder is comprehensive in its debunking of the prosecution case, and utterly damning.

That Omar Benguit is still in jail (after 23 years) points to something deeply rotten in our justice system.

#BBCPanorama
February 16, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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Yesterday GB News aired yet more commentary complaining about advertisers avoiding their notoriously toxic channel...

Yet rather than reflect on whether the *content* of GB News might explain this reluctance, the ad industry as a whole was blamed for "not standing up to #StopFundingHate" 🤔 /1
February 16, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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It's 2028.

Elon Musk has just tweeted an endorsement of Reinvent GB, the party created to the right of Reimagine England which was a right-wing splinter of Reignite Albion formed because Restore Britain was too woke in its conservative critique of Reform UK.

Starmer somehow still losing to all 5.
February 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Well, Keir Starmer promised "change", and here we are, he changed Tory anti-migrant hate into Labour's racist policy.

The change you voted for?

#Remigration #ILR #C4News
“Over 2 million people will face much tougher requirements to remain in the country than they expected when moving here. The majority are people who came to work.”
'The new rules won’t simply mean a longer wait for ILR. They will mean many people don’t qualify for ILR at all and have to leave the country'. @jamesbowes01.bsky.social on the government's earned settlement proposals ukandeu.ac.uk/remigration-...
February 16, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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What offends me about this is just that it's so fucking stupid. Every time some group brutalizes another, the brutalizers conclude the people they're brutalizing are inhuman savages. It's happened 100,000 times before in history. Congrats to Brianna on being 100,001st, what an achievement.
February 16, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
It's impossible to overstate the damage that talk radio has done to the cultural cohesion of the UK and US.
A "Keir Starmer fan" currently telling @lbc.co.uk that he's massively impressed by Rupert Lowe... pull the other one.
February 16, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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🥾 Give GB News the boot, #Salomon.

💥 TAKE ACTION 👉 tag #Salomon in our posts and comment on their pages, urging them to stop running ads on GB News' YouTube:
FB: www.facebook.com/share/v/1Kfk...
Threads: www.threads.com/@stopfunding...
Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DU05jPEkwF...
February 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM
In case your mental arithmetic is a little rusty:

170,000 students claiming £5,000 each in Covid compensation

= £850,000,000

(Eight hundred and fifty million pounds).

Not sure the universities have that much to spare just now, tbh.

#C4News
February 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM
True, but we measured Johnson's abilities in the same way we would measure anyone from any party, right?

#C4News
Johson did have the BBC and the tabloids telling the country how good he was.

#c4news
February 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Amazingly, Starmer is beginning to make Boris Johnson's govt look competent.

#C4News
February 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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One in five children infected in the recent London measles outbreak were reportedly hospitalised.
Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”.
It isn’t.
February 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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I sort of love this.

www.ft.com/content/c30d...
February 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Suspect Goodwin thinks he can bully the female Green candidate.

She should accept, I'd bet she has much bigger balls than the racist and misogynist Reform candidate.

#bbcpm
Matt Goodwin of Reform wants a head to head debate with the Greens, suggesting a Green-friendly host like Novara.

Why?

Normally an underdog/challenger tactic, not a frontrunner move

And/or Goodwin wants to boost Greens - and frame as Reform v Greens, more than Reform v Labour
February 16, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Another part of McSweeney's legacy which has come back to bite Starmer in the backside, and may well prove to be his undoing in May.

#bbcpm
Following legal advice, the Government has withdrawn its original decision to postpone 30 local elections in May.

Providing certainty to councils about their local elections is now the most crucial thing and all local elections will now go ahead in May 2026.”
February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM