Secretary of War Pete Hegs... • © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t.

You dumb chucklefuck.

Absolutely appalling

I like the phrase “ambivert,” as someone who is smack dab in the middle of the extroversion/introversion scale; I love people, I love spending time around them, I love meeting new people, but I also love hanging around at home and my social battery is not particularly large.

Do I hear the distant sound of Chaos with Ed Miliband??

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.

fuck yes

Following on from last week's bs "investigation" which absolutely misrepresented the scale and nature of people potentially claiming asylum under false grounds, it is exceptionally hard to see how this is in any way acceptable and not blatant bias. This is an advert not a news piece.

Some government lawyers have had a busy weekend.

To be clear: some of the people I love most in this world are trans, and if you do anything — from prejudice, ignorance or malice — to make their lives more difficult, then I will work to oppose you and expose you as the shitty excuse for a human being that you are.

Trans rights are human rights.

Orban “endowed” the Mathias Corvinus Collegium with more than $1bn of Hungarian taxpayer property, much of which was spent funding U.K. & U.S “public intellectuals”, viz grifters, to promote Fidesz’ pro-Putin/Trump anti-EU propaganda. Its Chairman was his political director.

Struck by @stephenkb.bsky.social today on Keir Starmer. It's a grim irony that after the least serious PM of the modern era Boris Johnson (ignoring Liz Truss, best ignored), again we have someone with no interest in policy who wants meetings to end as quickly as possible.

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Tony Glover's policies Statement to voters I was born in Bethnal Green Hospital and my family are from Tower Hamlets. Full statement I worked as a civil servant for cabinet ministers and in Parliament and subsequently represented the energy industry in media, government and Parliaments. A key part of this was championing the role for gas in our energy mix. As a result I am a strong critic of Tory Net Zero policy and don’t believe we should be ripping out our gas boilers.

Reform candidate in Lambeth boasts of being a lobbyist for the oil & gas industry

"[I] represented the energy industry in media, government and Parliaments. A key part of this was championing the role for gas in our energy mix." "As a result" he opposes net zero
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It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

We were so busy replacing all the employees with objectively worse performing AI that we forgot to ask who would buy all the software licenses.

Aaargh! I thought the Met had binary search explained to them but they are STILL using this excuse!!! onodi.co/bisect/

The last few days feels like a sea change in starting to have to say the obvious.

For decades, men from Milwaukee voided even the appearance of cannibalism. Jeffery Dahmer is taking a different approach.

future generations will need to study like the atomic bomb was studied how a guy so generationally bad at lying found so many people who didn't care because they liked him lying to them

Radio the same. And the word “populist” does not cover it.

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Soros Organization has taken over Hungary”

Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about going out of their way to defend this guy against charges of antisemitism.

Trump is going to break with Rome and become formally head of his own church.

Every day I lose a little more faith in what I thought America could be.

Trump now ordering naval blockade of Vatican City, also unaware that it is landlocked.

Photo of large sign saying 'Islamabad talks', with a smaller yellow 'No entry' sign in front, and an empty chair. Headline reads: Trump says US to 'blockade' Strait of Hormuz after talks failed over Iran's 'nuclear ambitions'

Also Trump: US will 'force bears to shit in the woods'

Except that they really came in with diplomats, experts and information.

The USA sent a real-estate nepo-baby and a guy that used to hate his boss and is now more famous for being overly amorous with a sofa.

Ah. The cards. David Davis appears to have lent his magic Brexit pack to Donald Trump.

Peep Show screengrab with Jeremy saying 'And I will section you so help me.'

Trump's threats to blockade the Strait of Hormuz remind me of the sectioning episode of Peep Show, if Jeremy's response to being threatened with sectioning was to threaten to section himself.

Abolish the Home Office

Spurious Home Office decisions rejecting student visas are threatening universities' ability to enrol young people from abroad, it is claimed. New rules come into effect in June that will punish universities if more than 4 per cent of study visas are rejected by the Home Office. However, the changes coincide with a marked increase in the numbers of visas being refused by the Home Office on spurious and inaccurate grounds, according to research by universities that has been shared with The Times. Neither students nor universities are able to challenge the decisions, which are often taken months after a university has accepted the applicant and in some cases just days before they are due to start studying.

UKVI carries out discretionary "credibility interviews" to ascertain that a student's intentions to study here are genuine. In another interview, when asked why they had chosen to apply to their chosen institution, the applicant said they had considered several factors, including the university's ranking, employability support, student satisfaction while also noting that it was an ancient institution and cited the year it was founded. The UKVI rejected the application, explaining that they were not satisfied the applicant was genuine given they had quoted the wrong founding year. The university subsequently confirmed that the applicant had provided the correct year and the UKVI caseworker was incorrect, but the decision could not be reconsidered.

In another case a foreign student was rejected from obtaining a visa to study at the University of East Anglia due to a dispute over whether the university was in Norfolk. The applicant asserted correctly that it was, but the UKVI caseworker appeared to confuse Norfolk with Norwich, which is the capital of the county, and rejected the application - believing the applicant was wrong.

In another credibility interview the applicant was asked to describe some of the taught modules they would be studying as part of their degree. The applicant explained that they had been offered a place to study a PhD in biomedical engineering which was fully research-based so did not have any taught modules. Despite this, the UKVI refusal letter stated that they were not satisfied on the basis that their answers were "vague and generic" and had failed to explain the taught modules they would be studying.

It is almost, almost, impressive just how Labour have taken the massively dysfunctional and incompetent Home Office and managed by dint of policies and rhetoric to make it even more dysfunctional and incompetent. It is a true testament to how hostile they are to migrants.

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