FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

This is my new mantra.

From Peterr's great reflection on the entire ceremony of which Bishop Budde's plea was just one part: "They protected a poor, vulnerable refugee-to-be from a vengeful tyrant who feared for his own power."

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Could be said that Badenough had several open goals available at PMQs, but instead she asked 6 questions about grooming gangs and got spanked.

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Survivors of Telford abuse crimes & the mums of two women murdered by boyfriends say of the Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips that ‘no one in public life has done more to support victims and survivors and to advocate for their interests’

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Here is the key section of that train wreck of an interview by Robert Jenrick on #r4today.

Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister?

Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it.

Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA

"This new type of battery has the potential to power devices for thousands of years, making it an incredibly long-lasting energy source."
#Energy

You can rightly deplore the venal charlatans who sold us this economic suicide, but I also now blame everyone in our political class, including those in government, who continue to bury their heads in the sand and insist we cannot reverse this most catastrophically stupid error. Shame on them all.

Day 2 of my (b)advent calendar highlighting the top 20 worst fox hunting crimes with @huntsabs.bsky.social . . . it’s a recent one from the West Somerset Vale Hunt

This isn’t trail hunting , it’s wildlife crime .

#RealBanNow

“As a child I needed free school meals, as mayor, I provide them. And this policy works – here’s the proof”

Sadiq Khan👏

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