Great to see them putting women right at the front of sport …

When did Congress last do anything ?

News in April 2023, as fallout from the Dominion voting machine lawsuit. There is no doubt that Carlson was fully aware of Trumps dishonesty then. He supported his reelection in 2024. The idea that he has finally “seen the light” is insultingly ridiculous

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Tucker Carlson has been suggested as the next Republican president - it’s known he has ambition. His sudden repudiation of Trump is only interesting because it may signal to some republicans that the only way to get re-elected is by renouncing Trump. Carlson was fired from Fox

Was asked at a press conference about the incident when he couldn’t access his work computer and freaked out, believing he had been fired and locked out.He denied any such incident and that it was just lies from the media. In the lawsuit against the Atlantic, his lawyers confirm the event occurred

@mrjamesob.bsky.social FBI head Kash Patel has launched a $260m defamation suit against the Atlantic for stories of his drinking. By doing so, he has given the publication right to “discovery”, they can subpoena witnesses and have them testify under oath before the trial even begins. Yesterday he

The UK even manageable anymore? I regard Starmer as pretty hopeless, but wonder if managing the country is any longer possible. It is entirely dysfunctional and where there is opportunity for recovery the press barons will brief against it

All under singular management and seen as utilities not money making opportunities. The EU joined based on facts not lies and bigotry. Watching from the outside, it seems like starting with Thatcher, the UK has purposefully been put into endless crisis so that the few can profit from the chaos. Is

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Civil servants used to run the country. Some stability was retained despite the zealotry of governments passing through. Facts and figures were collated and provided by state employed statisticians, not think tanks and lobby groups. Services like trains,water,electricity were

The irony here is that the same people who mocked her time running a bar, are the same sort of belligerent, drunk, washed up, sexist bigots that she will have experience dealing with.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Trump is deranged, but he always has been. And a good portion of commentators declaring his madness as a recent development are using it as an excuse for why they previously supported him. Point to a time when his behaviour was acceptable ?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social in case you missed it, Sean Hannity renounced his Catholicism over the weekend - citing corruption in the church. - clearly Trump is a more perfect god.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social it’s long been known that Kash Patel was paranoid. (Forcing senior agents to take lie detector tests) it was the revelations that FBI officers had had to use “breaching equipment” to gain access to a passed out drunk FBI director that was raising questions of suitability

Ideally, a standard form for the battery would be adopted. Same dimensions, same terminal set up. Otherwise manufacturers will just change specs with every new model and you will be changing batteries as you once changed chargers and interfaces

Go out and look at your lawn mower. Or snowblower - or car. You’ll find a sticker saying it conforms to California Emmisions standards. When a significant market sets a standard, it’s easier for a manufacturer to just do it. There are 450m people in the EU

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Mandelson was forced to resign from cabinet twice and was widely referred to as the Prince of darkness for the way he operated behind the scenes. Couldn’t have got a job as a postman - or at KFC with that work record. Should Starmer have needed anymore?

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

He can excommunicate Hegseth though. Which would be excellent timing, as his book on how he became a Catholic is published in about ten days

A large crowd as always at the weekly march in Tbilisi. Georgians have been protesting in 8+ cities every day for the last 507 days.

noticing a theme

Firing Kash Patel would take te heat off Trump for other stuff for half a day ?

It’s a metaphor. But trust me, they planned provisioning better than they did the war.

It’s especially depressing that Kash Patel, when he feels he is in trouble will try to gain favour by firing agents to please Trump - typically agents who investigated charges against Trump. Careers built on excellent work that served the public, thrown away because Patel got caught behaving badly

FBI Director Kash Patel Yelled at Agents to Drive His Girlfriend’s Allegedly Intoxicated Friend Home: Report FBI Director Kash Patel allegedly demanded agents assigned to protect his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins drive her intoxicated friend home after partying in Nashville, according to a MS NOW report.

It’s been there all this time.
Patel has a security detail for his gf, the beard. He ordered FBI agents assigned to her to drive one of her drunk friends home after partying in Nashville. If they refused, he yelled at them.
This is our tax money he using folks—

Presumably getting there on his tax payer funded plane?

Kash Patel's Erratic Behavior, Heavy Drinking Alarming Colleagues: Report The FBI director's conduct "keeps me up at night," one official said.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Original story broken by the Atlantic, but here less beset by advertising ca.news.yahoo.com/kash-patels-...

The WPR wouldn’t necessarily have bought the conflict to an end. But it would have allowed the house to discuss it and have an input over it - as the constitution demands. What they voted for was to surrender that right. They voted that the people should have no voice

He was selected because sending a scumbag to deal with a scumbag seemed like a good idea. But Starmer’s timidity around Trump means he can never say that

He’s a New Yorker. They don’t use the term - it’s bodega - but do you think Trump has ever been into any store of that type?

@lbc.co.uk there was a widely held assumption that Mandelson was picked as ambassador because a sleaze bag ambassador was the ideal person to deal with a sleazebag president. Given Starmer’s terror of Trump, he can’t really come out and say that