"People have asked me why I don’t just drop the price again, but I refuse to give my home away cheaply just because of the ridiculous economic climate we’re in"

Israel Jails Soldiers Involved in Jesus Statue Hammering — After Granting Soldiers in Rape Case Impunity The decision comes after Israel dropped charges against soldiers caught on film allegedly raping a Palestinian detainee.

The Israeli military is removing and detaining the soldier who was shown sledgehammering the face of a Jesus Christ statue in southern Lebanon this week — just weeks after dropping charges against five soldiers who were allegedly caught on camera raping a Palestinian detainee.

Profiles in Courage "It's the right thing to do"

I don’t think that Starmer should resign because of what he said to Parliament about vetting. But if he can't appoint a team that can deliver, and if he continues to believe that problems are of everyone else’s making, it does seem he might not be in the right job.
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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.

I wouldn't mind, you know, if every pundit and party leader who went along with "We know he's dodgy but we also know why he got the job and agree with that," resigns from their job too and never tries to do it again.

"legitimate concern" = "we want you to grant legitimacy to our point of view, particularly when it can't earn it and probably can't bear any sort of scrutiny so that we don't actually have to embarrass ourselves trying to make a logical argument"

The people this is meant to appeal to will never buy this shit from Labour when they can buy what they think is the real deal from Reform. No one who’s that anti immigration is going to find Labour’s immigration policies authentic when they know the rest of the party are against it.

Those "concerns" are not legitimate and she should not be encouraging people to think they are.

Shabana Mahmood swears at ‘white liberal’ hecklers over Reform remarks Home secretary accuses protesters of trying to ‘delegitimise’ concerns people have over immigration

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.
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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.

Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

A read of this is worth a few minutes of your time. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/why-did-bb...

This, (from AP) … Listed under “Entertainment” is weird.
But this an indictment against America.
As if 90% of Americans aren’t already the most undereducated, insular, illiterate and dumbed down people on the planet they’re Still banning books FFS!
It’s no wonder you’ve got the dumbest President!

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Shouldn't even depend who wins anything, or take any longer to get started than tomorrow.

"Legitimate concerns" is just a euphemism for "legitimising hate"

Which I think translates as 'He's as Corrupt and as duplicitous as both Donald and I am, with many of the same Russians, too, and so we would all get along fine ...

Which, as long as the security services were watching Mandy like a Hawk would have been fine !

I'm old enough remember the occasion with George Osborne on Oleg Deripaska's Yacht, so of COURSE Mand was chosen because of his 'connections' (AND it helped McSweeney)

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

As Much as I Appreciate the Trenchant Commentary on the American Healthcare System, I’m Here at The Pitt Because My Appendix Burst “The Pitt is severely underfunded, and if nurses are dealing painkillers just to make rent, that says something troubling about economic instability. It also...

"This might sound harsh, but I gotta be honest: It’s not my fault the guy in the next room doesn’t have insurance, and I’d really appreciate it if the doctors stopped giving me dirty looks because my coverage is good."

Remember when Trump literally had fake electors try to overturn the election?

Nothing happened to them. This is a federal crime. Why haven’t they been prosecuted?

The thing that really annoys me about all this Mandelson stuff is that the US Ambassador role was not vacant! There was already a highly qualified and competent woman in the position

And now this thing about finding a job for Starmer's ex Head of Comms?

Jobs for the Boys alive and well

Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS | Polly Toynbee Ed Miliband has a rare chance to do for the climate what Nye Bevan did for health: create something future generations will be proud of, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

"Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS".

I agree. More power to Ed Miliband's elbow. Sod the haters in the rightwing press. They hate him because he's winning.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’d often go further and say Trump literally does not understand polisci 101 concepts like free speech and couldn’t define “journalism” if someone asked him. The mob boss model of how he thinks is pretty good.

The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees.

A small conservative legal group used direct access to the Federal Communications Commission chairman’s office last September to accelerate a complaint targeting Jimmy Kimmel and his employer, ABC

TAT: [Corruption | Suppressing dissent]

1/ "This is the pivot point in the energy transition folks. Fossil chaos drives people to electrotech, as this is the first oil shock with a superior alternative. " says @ember-energy.org @kingsmillbond.bsky.social
We argued similarly last week at Wesleyan (slides here)
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The SAVE act died in the Senate.

As politely as I can, it is hard to overstate how stupid GOP voters are. Anything not GOP is "Marxism and communism" according to them.

If they don't have the same rules for Donald Trump as they do Eric Swalwell, this isn't about accountability.
You may want to let them know this.

Never get this from greens who do t care about the environment anymore and no one else obviously

Entire population of pub last night, me excepted, "knew" that Starmer lied about that. And there is no way they'll even see what Robbins says here, let alone take it in.

Will never forget giving evidence to a committee and having like four MPs in a row just try to bait me into dunking on their political enemies.

Like dude, it's 2018 and I'm trying to explain how trade works since you and your muppet friends just blew it up, shut the fuck up and let me cook.