“The loss of retirement income has made a significant impact on our daily lives. Our inability to meet our housing expenses necessitated in us taking on credit card debt to maintain our home in which we provide housing for our handicapped son. You can imagine the anxiety this has caused us in providing for his and our needs. We now have over $100,000.00 in credit card debt in addition to the interest we have incurred to allow us to maintain our mortgage and remain in our home. At the time of this investment we had NO credit card debt! As elderly senior citizens at the age of 82 and 76 our ability to find additional income is extremely limited. We are now at a point of looking at our belongings to sell to allow us to stay in our home. The emotional stress of this has taken a fiscal and mental toll on our ability to function. We felt we planned well for our retirement years and feel robbed by the actions of this crime.” D.E. DOJ0002356. • “Since the GPB fraud stated, we have lost well over half of our family[’]s net worth [and] a large portion of our income . . . At 74, I have been unable to retire now. My wife [] has contracted cancer and has ongoing treatment. And our daughter [], who has cerebral palsy, has had to ensure the ensuring stress from all of that.” M.F. DOJ0001930.

Here are just two of the victim impact statements in the David Gentile sentencing memo.

We need to find a way to start talking about the victim impact of Trump's crime endorsement wave.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Honestly, he is *this* close to blurting out the "n" word. I expect it any day.

Not sure she’d recognise one if she saw one 🙃

The Conservative Party is dead. No pulse. Starting to smell…

Look how visibly excited Robert Jenrick is by his brilliance as a statesman; how high on his own supply.

It is astonishing that this bitter, angry, talentless bingo-caller is considered a serious prospect in a major party. If he or Badenoch are the best they can do, what does it say about the rest?

piss-drunk embarrassment finds his fall guy Chickenshit Pete will betray you in a heartbeat

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Anyone with an ounce of self-awareness or humility might show just an iota of contrition, perhaps even some shame, when shown their failings in such forensic detail. But Johnson and Cummings, the one girdled by his sense of entitlement, the other by his misplaced intellectual vanity, are incapable of humility or shame. As for Frost, he shows the self-awareness of a toilet seat. One might as well expect Liz Truss to refrain from pontificating about “sensible economic policy”. But the more important point is not their all-too-obvious personal inadequacies, it is that these mesh seamlessly with the doctrinaire refusal to accept responsibility which permeates their entire world-view. As with Nigel Farage, nothing is ever their fault. Thus, if there were ever to be a public inquiry into Brexit, it can be said, not speculatively but with certainty, that Johnson, Cummings, Frost, Farage, and all those who had leading roles within it, would never, ever accept the truth of the damage they did. This matters, even though such a public inquiry is not in prospect, because it helps to explain why Brexitism persists in British politics, and why, as regards Brexit specifically, Britain is stuck in an impasse. On the face of it, that shouldn’t be so. There’s really no longer any room for doubt about the damage Brexit has done, most obviously economically, and no serious analyst claims otherwise. And public opinion has firmly turned against it. This leads some to suggest that it should be (relatively) easy to at least begin the process of ‘rejoining’. But there is no realistic route to that whilst a powerful phalanx of politicians and, perhaps as important, media owners and commentators remain as an obdurate, shameless, unrepentant blockage to it.

And this, from @chrisgrey.bsky.social just today, highlights one of the real problems in SM/ a CU/ Art49.

chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brexit-reminders...

the US is what rampant militarised populist nationalism looks like. Don't stop paying attention.

Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info

Sonia Sodha, "The state pension has gone up, but the threshold that young people have to repay their student loans has been frozen"

"Graduates in their 20s and 30s pay an extra 9% of income tax"

"There are people in their 20s that will never own their own home" #BBCQT

The Mirage 2000-5F jets recently supplied by France have proven extremely effective, claiming a 98% success rate intercepting drones and missiles, including at least 12 Russian Kh‑101 cruise missiles. Still, the pilots warn that the Mirage 2000-5F needs more long‑range weapons to stay effective.

It’s not unimaginable. This is the same peace deal the kremlin peddled to Trump in 2016 via Kilimnik. And don’t forget Jared’s multiple Middle East “peace deals” that never included Palestine. There’s been like three of those.

Yes! Go after *all* of them. Eventually Farage will float to the top of the list like a turd.

Billion-dollar money-laundering gang helping fund Russia's war effort | Global News Podcast YouTube video by BBC News

Russian money laundering and how it supports the Russian war effort youtu.be/4C3CXQrsFPw?...

This is SO stupid. We have known since 1798 that prevention is infinitely better than cure- a vaccinated world is a better world and a safer world for all

This is excellent. And depressing.

First Sea Lord: The UK Is Not Afraid Of Calling Out Russian Sabotage As the Russian threat to UK security grows, General Sir Gwyn Jenkins – the first Royal Marine to be appointed First Sea Lord – talks to Matilda Mar...

As John Healey once again draws attention to the Russian Yantar ship, my interview with the head of the Royal Navy (in which he discusses the Russian threat) feels worth resharing

His claim that the UK is not afraid to call out Russia also rings true

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein

'The Movement'. Farage's partner Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Shocked, shocked that the plan would sell out Ukraine

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

Boxing has been a joke for a long time now. It’s pantomime but without the gags.

Such a long way from classics like Hearns v Hagler etc.

@roberthutton.co.uk on marvellously mordant form.

Essential reading

So good. 😁

How the EU plans to get troops and weapons across the continent to deter Russia “Significant barriers to effective military mobility in the EU persist,” says a communication due to be announced on Wednesday.

The European Commission plans to slash red tape and pour money into making it easier to move troops and weapons across the continent, according to the Military Mobility Communication obtained by POLITICO.

🧵As he did in 2018, Trump denied that MBS had anything to do with the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. But this time he has enablers who felt differently in 2018. Thread with some receipts. Reporters should ask Rubio and Graham about it. 👇

Especially when you are paying the president tens or hundreds of millions of dollars (in blatant violation of the Constitution) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

Polish PM says railway track blast was 'unprecedented act of sabotage' An explosion that damaged a Polish railway track on a route to Ukraine was an "unprecedented act of sabotage", Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday, and he vowed to catch those responsible for an incident he said could have ended in tragedy.

www.reuters.com/world/explos...

Very glad to see that some Labour MPs still have Labour values and are prepared to talk about them.