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Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.

submitted 18 days ago • 886 comments

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

submitted 76 days ago • 819 comments

I wondered for a while why Trump was so excited by Brexit, even to the point of getting Farage to fluff him. It was simple, really: proof that, with the support of enough bent media, bad people selling bigotry & lies really could persuade people to vote to punch themselves in the face forever.

submitted 83 days ago • 130 comments

This explanation seems horrific but sound. 10%tariffs if your balance of trade is roughly equal. It’s a shakedown & a protection racket. He’ll lift them by domestic sector and even maybe individual companies, as well as perhaps the occasional nation, as a reward for pledges of blind allegiance.

submitted 85 days ago • 66 comments

In 72 days, Donold has taken 14 days off and spent $26 million of taxpayer money at his golf clubs.

submitted 85 days ago • 310 comments

they should invent transcripts for audiobooks

submitted 90 days ago • 284 comments

Naturally…

submitted 107 days ago • 107 comments

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.

submitted 110 days ago • 108 comments

The last seven days? What we have always feared? What an irredeemable fraud he is. Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’. And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’. Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”

submitted 110 days ago • 338 comments

Pretty much sums it up

submitted 118 days ago • 235 comments

As a European, watching the leaders of Europe fret about the actions of the Trump govt. is infuriating. Understand that the US and Russia align perfectly in their need to keep Europe weak and destabilised.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

So tired of this idea that billionaires are our "betters" whose opinion is super important because they have a lot of money. It's bullshit. They're mostly greedy sociopaths who have no problem destroying people who get in their way. That doesn't make your opinion one to be valued, in my opinion.

submitted 143 days ago • 398 comments

Mexico denied a US military plane from landing with deported immigrants today, foiling Donold’s plans.

submitted 153 days ago • 1507 comments

Airbus chief urges closer ties between Europe’s rival fighter jet projects https://www.ft.com/content/fc50fe7d-4e4f-427c-b1b3-ec9e81e62f10

submitted 163 days ago • 4 comments

Has everyone forgot the story about Trump telling Netanyahu not to make a peace deal until he could claim it was down to him? Because it’s like broadcasters have collective amnesia.

submitted 162 days ago • 12 comments

How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded today when I asked which of the communities living in the UK she was referring to when she described them as "peasants"

submitted 163 days ago • 184 comments

I wonder if the Douglas Carswell who supports "remigration" is related to "Douglas Carswell" who is an immigrant "by choice" and who lives in Jackson, Mississipi.

submitted 165 days ago • 79 comments

Trump 1.0: Alternative facts. Trump 2.0: The end of fact checking.

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submitted 197 days ago • 300 comments

The irony of criticising overseas territories...City of London? www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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