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"Defense attorneys are telling us they can’t get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because they felt they’re better off spending their money on a political donation."
The fall of the DOJ is both exactly what you suspected & yet still shocking. Gift link:
The fall of the DOJ is both exactly what you suspected & yet still shocking. Gift link:
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"Defense attorneys are telling us they can’t get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because they felt they’re better off spending their money on a political donation."
The fall of the DOJ is both exactly what you suspected & yet still shocking. Gift link:
The fall of the DOJ is both exactly what you suspected & yet still shocking. Gift link:
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The comedian I saw tonight picked an audience member who said he worked for ChatGPT, and the crowd booed him, and then the comedian gave him shit for it repeatedly.
Which is kind of an interesting sign of the times.
Which is kind of an interesting sign of the times.
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The comedian I saw tonight picked an audience member who said he worked for ChatGPT, and the crowd booed him, and then the comedian gave him shit for it repeatedly.
Which is kind of an interesting sign of the times.
Which is kind of an interesting sign of the times.
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Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kidlington fly-tipping: Criminals dump mountain of waste in field
The enormous pile of rubbish is called an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Steve immediately regretted his decision to 'give pegging a try'.
It looks like they've both just woken up after a really ill-advised one-night stand.
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Steve immediately regretted his decision to 'give pegging a try'.
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As I have said before, this Number 10 briefs far too much.
Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
As I have said before, this Number 10 briefs far too much.
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If he offers to take Allison Pearson, I am afraid I retract all my bad words against him
Donald Trump’s administration is considering offering political asylum to British “thought criminals”, The Telegraph understands.
Read more here ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/trump-thought-criminals/
Read more here ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/trump-thought-criminals/
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If he offers to take Allison Pearson, I am afraid I retract all my bad words against him
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Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
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This is an excellent idea, where can I nominate people
Donald Trump’s administration is considering offering political asylum to British “thought criminals”, The Telegraph understands.
Read more here ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/trump-thought-criminals/
Read more here ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/trump-thought-criminals/
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is an excellent idea, where can I nominate people
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"Nobody writes about the BBC board without observing that it is a strange beast."
Ceri Thomas traces how the escalating attacks on the national institution read like the plot of a crime drama, complete with a cast of prime suspects.
https://bit.ly/43x0QuN
Ceri Thomas traces how the escalating attacks on the national institution read like the plot of a crime drama, complete with a cast of prime suspects.
https://bit.ly/43x0QuN
Boardroom dramas, backstabbing and the BBC‘s darkest hour | The Observer
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Nobody writes about the BBC board without observing that it is a strange beast."
Ceri Thomas traces how the escalating attacks on the national institution read like the plot of a crime drama, complete with a cast of prime suspects.
https://bit.ly/43x0QuN
Ceri Thomas traces how the escalating attacks on the national institution read like the plot of a crime drama, complete with a cast of prime suspects.
https://bit.ly/43x0QuN
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Wales football team: We only need to score one more than them to win.
Wales rugby team: Guys, I think the round ball chaps are on to something.
Wales rugby team: Guys, I think the round ball chaps are on to something.
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Wales football team: We only need to score one more than them to win.
Wales rugby team: Guys, I think the round ball chaps are on to something.
Wales rugby team: Guys, I think the round ball chaps are on to something.
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Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York: The disgraced financier's recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone. No, seriously, it’s pretty much all change and it’s not worth looking into to see if it hasn’t changed. Nothing to see here!, my editor assures me,
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York: The disgraced financier's recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone. No, seriously, it’s pretty much all change and it’s not worth looking into to see if it hasn’t changed. Nothing to see here!, my editor assures me,
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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OTD in 2009 Sergey Magnitsky was beaten to death for exposing a massive tax fraud scheme. I've always told Ed Snowden to relax as we only kill our own whistleblowers.
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
OTD in 2009 Sergey Magnitsky was beaten to death for exposing a massive tax fraud scheme. I've always told Ed Snowden to relax as we only kill our own whistleblowers.
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Checking my contacts for someone called "bubba".
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Checking my contacts for someone called "bubba".
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The Daily Mail has been relentlessly attacking the BBC over the editing of Trump quotes in a documentary and look:
It completely fabricated a quote from a BBC presenter. Robinson should sue them for, ooh, at least $2 billion dollars as it’s worse than what they accused the BBC of.
It completely fabricated a quote from a BBC presenter. Robinson should sue them for, ooh, at least $2 billion dollars as it’s worse than what they accused the BBC of.
November 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The Daily Mail has been relentlessly attacking the BBC over the editing of Trump quotes in a documentary and look:
It completely fabricated a quote from a BBC presenter. Robinson should sue them for, ooh, at least $2 billion dollars as it’s worse than what they accused the BBC of.
It completely fabricated a quote from a BBC presenter. Robinson should sue them for, ooh, at least $2 billion dollars as it’s worse than what they accused the BBC of.
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Donald Trump is astonished that Norway is vastly wealthy, the richest Government in the world, because of the North Sea oil and gas, but the UK with the same North Sea is poor
I'll cure his astonishment it is because it has been completely privatised in the UK, and not in Norway
I'll cure his astonishment it is because it has been completely privatised in the UK, and not in Norway
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Donald Trump is astonished that Norway is vastly wealthy, the richest Government in the world, because of the North Sea oil and gas, but the UK with the same North Sea is poor
I'll cure his astonishment it is because it has been completely privatised in the UK, and not in Norway
I'll cure his astonishment it is because it has been completely privatised in the UK, and not in Norway
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Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
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⚡️Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later.
Natalia Khodymchuk, widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv after suffering severe injuries in a mass overnight Russian attack on Nov. 14–15.
Natalia Khodymchuk, widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv after suffering severe injuries in a mass overnight Russian attack on Nov. 14–15.
Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later
Natalia Khodymchuk, the widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv overnight on Nov. 14–15 after suffering severe injuries in a mass Russian attack on t...
kyivindependent.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
⚡️Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later.
Natalia Khodymchuk, widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv after suffering severe injuries in a mass overnight Russian attack on Nov. 14–15.
Natalia Khodymchuk, widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv after suffering severe injuries in a mass overnight Russian attack on Nov. 14–15.
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Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
www.motherjones.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
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The BBC should shame the American broadcasters for their spineless capitulation by refusing to be bullied, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.
The four-word message the BBC should send Trump about his $1bn lawsuit
The corporation must show it will not be cowed, unlike American broadcast media, and call the president’s bluff
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The BBC should shame the American broadcasters for their spineless capitulation by refusing to be bullied, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.
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Still, an absolutely fuming All Blacks to come next week...Tandy's team of analysts about to spend their whole week researching whether rugby has a mercy rule
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Still, an absolutely fuming All Blacks to come next week...Tandy's team of analysts about to spend their whole week researching whether rugby has a mercy rule
Wales scrape past a team with a single point that Ireland put 40 points on last week.
November 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Wales scrape past a team with a single point that Ireland put 40 points on last week.