A retired CIA analyst has claimed that President Donald Trump attempted to invoke nuclear codes against Iran during an emergency meeting on Saturday, and that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Dan Caine stepped in to stop him. Larry C Johnson ma...
TAT: [Foreign policy | Undermining democracy]
Last year, four huge companies pledged tens of millions of dollars to help fund the creation of Donald Trump’s presidential library. The companies—ABC; Paramount; Meta; and X, formerly Twitter—entered into the agreements with Trump to settle legal cases he’d brought against the...
TAT: [Corruption]
The U.S. federal consumer finance watchdog agency on Tuesday formally ended certain civil-rights-era antidiscrimination requirements for the lending industry, according to a notice in the federal register. The change from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau m...
TAT: [Weakening civil rights]
All the talk is of a blue wave in the 2026 Midterms. But Republicans do not need to get more popular to hold the House - they just need to stop enough Democrats voting in key seats.
I've done a deep dive in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-republ...
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Tonight I gave a public lecture in the City Hall in Bonn as you (should) do if you are a publicly funded prof. The women all showed up on time (really, just women at first). The men piled in late. Who do you think dominated the discussion and even questioned the point of my research? Not the women.
Is the Home Secretary's hypothesis that Yvette Cooper wouldn't be criticised if tabled the same asylum/settlement reforms?!
The personal characteristics of Nigel Farage/Zia Yusuf, Chris Philp/Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood/Starmer seem v marginal to who supports/opposes their immigration plans!
We’re in the truly weird position where McSweeney had to go for giving the PM the advice to appoint Mandelson and Robbins had to go for not stopping him.
The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department and faces possible charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center previously paid informants to inf...
TAT: [Suppressing dissent]
On reflection, I think post the Robbins appearance, KS will have to resign — OR torpedoed the government’s line to the HoC in three crucial regards.
On top of everything else, the level of 'embattled' behaviour going on with senior ministers and their comfort zone of lashing out of their traditional supporters shows the government is both in disarray and denial.
Every single piece of evidence in the UK shows that ethnic minorities are nore pro-migratiion than white British people. Ethnic minorities like white British people have mixed pro, balancer and sceptical views but they are more liberal + softer sceptics.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Meg Russell has done a fantastic job at the @conunitucl.bsky.social since 2015.
In a pretty stormy period for the Constitution - with Brexit, the Miller cases, the suspension of Parliament, Covid & the Johnson/Cummings era - the Unit has been the indispensable place for impartial academic analysis.
You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?
The Justice Department.
Well let's see how this strategy of telling "white liberals" to "fuck right off" works out in the local elections
Trump posts on Truth Social in praise of Apple's Tim Cook, but says he used to offer 'big help' to Cook when he called asking for favours during Trump's 1st and 2nd term
TAT: [Corruption]
Trump attacks Democrat leaders and mainstream media organisations for criticism of his Iran operations, including the attack on nuclear facilities last summer
TAT: [Controlling information | Suppressing dissent]
a carrot
Very detailed and impressive article about the obstacles for Democrats at Mideterms....
Crackers.
Seven people have been arrested in the U.K. on suspicion of conspiracy to commit an arson attack targeting the Jewish community in London.
Good. It’s easy to forget that climate change denial & shilling for fossil fuel companies provided a template for Tufton Street, Brexit & pretty much every egregious example of persuading populations to vote against their own interests. The story of Don Pearlman should be taught in kindergartens…
You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.
The U.S. Department of Justice has demanded that Michigan’s Wayne County turn over all its ballots from the 2024 election just weeks after it made similar requests in Georgia and Arizona.
TAT: [Undermining democracy]
I dunno, seen from the USA, I'd think it might be clear why bulldozing your mates into key political roles, while ignoring their past actions, incentives and criminal connections might be detrimental to your government's ability to deal with these things.
It’s the most Bluesky thing that’s ever happened: Comment is Freed x London Centric local elections prediction collab just dropped. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-loc...
The idea that you need to send corrupt sociopaths as Ambassadors to DC is so funny, because it's a standard we have never applied anywhere.
We don't appoint corrupt gangsters to embassies in Moscow or religious fanatics to Tehran.
Also, Mamdani is able to handle Trump fine without becoming him.
Todd Blanche says Americans should be 'happy' Trump is deeply involved in Department of Justice (DoJ). Asked in an interview with NBC News about a communication Trump sent to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi in which he publicly implored her to i...
TAT: [Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]
