Whoa! The 1876 result was rigged! Entrenched Jim Crow for a century plus. Coming off an admjnistration as corrupt as Harding, Reagan, Bush II or Trump.
OTOH they did stop the Sioux from building nuclear weapons or threatening Israel
Just did a live spot on BBC Scotland about the World Cup prep in USA - & got to tell the story of my time managing the broadcast of WC 94 in Chicago and Diana Ross missing her penalty shot. I had another better story ready toi! #scotland2026 #worldcup
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
Your government refusing to prosecute sexual predators, but protect them instead, only makes sense when you realize your government is being run by sexual predators.
The year is 1969. Man lands on the moon. Back on Earth, the Concorde flies its first test for a commercial supersonic airline.
The year is 2026. Man circles the moon and will, a few years later, land. Back on Earth, there is a concept of a plan for commercial supersonic flights.
All that worry and anticipation! Bless!
But isnt AI unemployment way up? Save the machines!
It’s TACO Tuesday, again. (And that’s a good thing.)
Trump Extends Cease-fire With Iran www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
Septics stop the rot on Sewage Island!
TBH proportional representation would be easier to enforce...
Funny how Trump has taken us back to 1926, if not 1876
All true. I might increase the list to five.
4. Bring public utilities back to public ownership
5. Related to 3 & 4: Reverse privatisation of NHS
Wealth tax and ending Trident would "pay for" that, anticipating Keunesberg kwality kweries
Starmer/Mandelson = sideshow. Getting Palantir out of UK govt business is a priority for what's left of his term of office. The 3 things he needs to do:
1. Get as close to EU as EU will allow ie undo worst of Brexit
2. Defence of Ukraine
3. Terminating with extreme prejudice all Palantir contracts
Inviting Trump to speak at the White House Correspondents Dinner is like inviting a food critic who only reviews arson.
So Claude is Ryan Pace? Interesting.
I checked this too.
*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.
*No other* party logo displayed.
In local election purdah.
This is not normal. At all.
Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!
I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public
📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.
Best of British Sovereignity means UK won't interfere with corporate profits
You can call it a hoax. You can call it a staged event. But mostly you can call it the workings of a sick, demented man.
It's the Philip Johnson neo Nazi look.
Trump's own Albert Speer
Were they in the act of shooting?
"I am in a panic of terror about finance, politics, society, and the solar system, with ultimate fears for the Milky Way and the Nebula of Orion. The sunspots scare me. Ruin hangs over the Polar Star." -Henry Adams, 1893 to Elizabeth Cameron, re Brooks Adams' book, The Law of Civilization and Decay
Jalen Brunson took a kick to the nads and the foul was announced as “dead ball contact to the groin area” and my inner 12yo boy may never stop laughing
Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic
is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?
A striped cat appears to be “yelling” at a kitten with the exact same coloring. The kitten’s eyes are wide open and their ears pinned back.
you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now
Only the New York Times, run by a fourth-generation nepo baby for an imagined audience of other elites with Roman numerals after their names, could treat such a small-bore common-sense tax proposal as the peak sign of a class war.
If this is the peak of the "anti-rich current," they'll be lucky.
Nigel Farage: People tell me they've always voted Labour, but not any more The Reform UK leader is expecting a political earthquake' in the local elections next month — but insists the era of Tory defections is over Nigel Farage refused to rule out a confidence and supply deal with the Conservative Party if Reform fails to secure a majority at the next general election Steven Swinford, Political Editor Friday April 17 2026, 10.15pm, The Times
The Times seems to be backing their man in the run up to the local elections. Chummy, unchallenging ‘interview’ that reads much more like a Farage advert.
Free passes handed out on his racism, misogyny, corruption, Trumpism, Orbanism, useless councils, dire candidates, failed Brexit…
Really shabby.