In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
The newsworthy component here may be the apparent graft and sycophancy. But it’s shocking every day anew how much of a narcissist and how childlike the president is. The whole post is about how smart he is and how great it is to flatter him.
Same guy is trying to negotiate himself out of a war!
Reform said they would pay my energy bills. They haven't Residents of winning street in Nigel Farage's fuel giveaway stunt complain they have missed out on prize
In "bears crap in the woods" news.
Chart showing fall in GDP per person caused by Brexit
The economic damage caused by Brexit may be almost double the 4% impact assumed by the OBR, the Resolution Foundation has revealed.
Can’t help but wonder if this might have a domino effect
It’s long, but forensic and authoritative. And having seen a few ill informed and frankly just plain partisan “analyses”, a lot of people would benefit from reading it.
There are phrases that if used by any voter should automatically ban them from voting.
This is one of them.
Very normal stuff.
"Aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful...
"At one point Trump mused he should award himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor...
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Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022.
He's now offering to "put things right".
Go on then Richard - resign.
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When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸
Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in.
This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale.
Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar
The sheer bare-faced chutzpah of this...!
#hypocrite #reflection #arrogance
More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.
So so grim
Stealing Ukrainian children, then harassing them for speaking Ukrainian …and threatening older ones with conscription to the Russian army.
Sick russian state and people
“There’s no escaping this conversation. The damage Brexit has done to this country is obvious now to everyone. We wasted years of our lives pursuing a project whose only possible outcome was to mutilate and embarrass us”
This conversation cannot happen soon enough.
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The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history
Number crunching: Iran war
From the new Private Eye, out now.
It hardly matters if you “do good stuff” if all the signals you give off in every other respect are that your moral compass is missing its needle.
Last year Keir Starmer said Brits would "sail through" EU e-gates. The chaos this week shows that was a lie.
Long queues at airports are the latest symbol of the Brexit disaster – and Labour’s failure to fix it.
"I don't think people are sufficiently prepared notwithstanding what happened in 2021, for the possibility that he will try to fuck with this election. And he will. He's already basically telling us that's what he's going to do, just the same way he told us he would do that in 2020."
Sounds ... delicious.
I am eagerly awaiting the San Francisco Chronicles detailed instructions on how to prepare it.
You know, I really think the Home Office should be the last who gets to decide if Windrush claims should be compensated.
What a vile organisation.
How do you lose the room when starting from the commanding vantage point that he started with?
An extraordinary political skill that will be wondered at for generations to come.
He embraced every unforced error with eager, open arms.
This is a fun dilemma for Keir Starmer: having just sacked Olly Robbins for not telling him about Mandelson's vetting, it now turns out his new Cabinet Secretary also didn't immediately tell him about it.
One suspects Robbins' already high chances of getting a payout just increased.
Is that something also “bright” and “spring-like” ... and charred to extreme bitterness?
Apparently the taste of spring is carbonised meat.
There certainly is a sizeable cohort of voters who "passionately dislike this country and the society they live in" but I'm pretty sure they aren't young female Green voters
I cannot believe that *STILL* people are getting excited about the prospect of Ed Miliband, agreeing to the re-application of licences for Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields.
Even if extraction begins, it will not be the saviour everyone thinks. A short 🧵…1/
There are well established procedures for the appointment of Ambassadors. To avoid any possibility of embarrassment, appointments are not announced until all the necessary steps have been undertaken. We now see the wisdom of these safeguards, even for political appointments. Why was this one rushed?
