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Realistically optimistic, which is a bit of a triumph in these hard times (and out of character for an O). Largely swapped teaching History and Politics and worrying about 6th Form, for golf, and worrying about the Orient
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JUST IN: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold administration in contempt of court for defying his order to turn around planes, demands new details in order for officials to “purge” their contempt. Details TK

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.

submitted 3 days ago • 226 comments

Oh my! Blondie and bagpipes!!

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Blondie in concert 1979 at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow on BBC Four 9:10

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Play Sugar Minott, you cowards! #totp

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Did my mate Robin Gandy book the bands for this episode of #totp? He had terrible taste but loved this crap

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Oh FFS. Saxon. Not everything from 1981 was worth preserving #totp

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

submitted 7 days ago • 2372 comments

The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.

submitted 8 days ago • 128 comments

It's amazing how few people in the UK realise that the last time the world went in to a massive financial tailspin, albeit one not directly caused by the President of the USA, it was Gordon Brown & the late Alistair Darling who provided the sort of international leadership desperately needed now.

submitted 10 days ago • 290 comments

Curious phrase in Wellens' post-match interview, explaining O'Neill's latest injury. He blamed it on "people who want to rush him back too quickly, when he's not ready." Notwithstanding how unlikely it is to imagine anyone telling him how to pick his #lofc team, I am curious who those "people" are

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I guess two slightly contrasting propositions about #lofc can both be true at the same time. The loss of form and momentum means we've wasted a huge opportunity, and that's maddening. But at the same time, it's still been a good, often exciting season, and we may yet finish higher than last year

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We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

submitted 12 days ago • 177 comments

Tomorrow is #LOFC 's last Saturday 3pm home game of the season. That means 10 out of 23 home league games will have been on Saturday at 3pm.

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I'm fascinated by this picture of Noddy Holder & Dave Hill from Slade that looks like they've been cast to play Paul O'Grady & Ken Dodd teaming up to solve murder mysteries on the Wirral.

submitted 33 days ago • 21 comments

She's no Lena Lovich #totp

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Now I understand why this is a radio classic ... #totp

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Sly and Robbie can do no wrong. Apart from singing with him. Bring back the Cool Ruler #totp

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🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

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We've been talking an awful lot about how the Trump tariffs will hit the big players: the UK, China, Canada, France, Germany etc But it's time to talk about the ones who DON'T have loud voices. Because some of the poorest countries in the world are going to be crippled by what happened last night

submitted 14 days ago • 42 comments

Whatever you think of using tariffs to reorder the world economy on the merits, Congress did not in fact delegate the power to impose tariffs for this purpose

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

1930

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The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.

submitted 14 days ago • 76 comments

Extraordinary thread.

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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

submitted 14 days ago • 180 comments

I don't think I have ever seen a single post draw such universal and damning condemnation.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Is it really too much to ask media outlets reporting on invading Greenland & Canada to lead with "THIS IS WILDLY ILLEGALLY UNDER BOTH OUR NATO AND UN TREATY COMMITMENTS, WHICH ARE ALSO PART OF US LAW"? The normalization of this is wildly inappropriate & there is no excuse for it.

submitted 15 days ago • 149 comments

If billionaires are allowed to engage in this kind of vote buying scheme, that's pretty much the end of democracy

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

submitted 19 days ago • 2530 comments