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BREAKING: TACO TUESDAY: Donald trump delays ethnic cleansing and war crimes again by extending the ceasefire indefinitely.
Just Dan Hannan quoting Enoch Powell on the subject of immigration [two dark screenshots]....
Hannan has previously said multiple times over multiple years that he *disagreed* with Powell on immigration [white screenshot - example from 2018].
So that's that then.
A Labour leftwinger who said something like this about Braverman/Patel would prob get vilified. (A stupid thing to do as either politics or "banter"). I think a Tory/Reform politician who said this about Lammy/Mahmood would be taking a big risk. Maybe saying 'deport Ed Davey' generates cover
While obvs intended as a joke, I think Theresa May, Priti Patel or Suella Braverman would be v criticised for doing taser + deportation jokes. (Windrush scandal ought to deter them).
Politics of racism & deportation is much more visible since July 2024 + Trump making legitimising these jokes ???
'Don't delegitimise my right to a voice because of what you believe I should think' is fine: assert a right to own view+voice.
But this involves delegitimising criticism - based on your own characteristics & those of your opponents - while claiming that criticism does that to you.
This was the Home Secretary (Labour, a British south Asian woman) arguing that the personal characteristics of another MP (the LibDem Home Affairs spokesman, a white British man) invalidate his argument, because he does not share her characteristics or experiences.
Is the Home Secretary's hypothesis that Yvette Cooper wouldn't be criticised if tabled the same asylum/settlement reforms?!
The personal characteristics of Nigel Farage/Zia Yusuf, Chris Philp/Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood/Starmer seem v marginal to who supports/opposes their immigration plans!
"The United States, by contrast, appears to be ignoring this critical factor of modern war....The current administration’s approach...has begun to erode one of America’s greatest strategic advantages."👇
This is also good stuff from @gtconway.bsky.social: He says only one of the major parties is functioning as an actor in a democracy, and that this is unsustainable.
"We can’t survive another 33 months of what we’ve seen for the last 15," he tells me.
newrepublic.com/article/2091...
"Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent," said Chad Mizelle, former chief of staff for Bondi. "Many career prosecutors are not interested in this kind of work. It's a very small group of people."
Bondi's former chief of staff Chad Mizelle: "Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent."
From @paulareidcnn.bsky.social and other @cnn.com folks:
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.
“[Trump] didn’t win in spite of who he is. He won because of it. If you carried resentment, he gave it a microphone. If you harbored prejudice, he wrapped it in language of patriotism. If you saw the world where cruelty is strength and empathy is weakness, he didn’t challenge you, he crowned you.”
While I am firm in my belief Starmer should go, and soon, isn’t it weird we’ve got sucked into a side argument over the process for a security clearance for Mandelson, the turning down of which had nothing to do with Epstein? It’s the British political class at its worst, I think.
No answer from them as to why measles cases suddenly spiked under Trump if immigration is the problem
This is a common line from antivaxxers. It’s how the MAHA cohort online have been defending against the child measles deaths since Trump got elected
Wow 🤯
I honestly don’t see how the USA will survive the moral bankruptcy, democratic wreckage, and loss of international credibility caused by Trump 2.0
Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
From Flickr: President Donald J. Trump accepts a DoorDash delivery from Sharon Simmons outside of the Oval Office, Monday, April 13, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
The official White House photographer will post black and white photos sometimes and they almost always just make everything look like a horror movie
Just thinking about how *even Viktor Orban* realized that acknowledging election outcomes is a good thing.
I feel like we get really hung up on "Was the Biden economy good for people or not" which I don't think is the right question. The real confounding thing that I have yet to see anyone have a good answer for was "Why did people think the Biden economy was worse than the Trump 1 economy?"
Cortez Masto to Warsh: In 2007, you said 'subprime mortgages have gotten a bad name.' You said you have no regrets. How can we trust that you're accurate now when you were wrong then?
A really easy question to answer, a telling one to get technical on.
Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."
Excl: Half of Londoners are considering voting for Zack Polanski's Green Party in the upcoming local elections according to new polling by @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social, shared with the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
"The civil service is effectively saying the appointment was politically questionable... Meanwhile, the Prime Minister appears to argue the reverse: that the appointment was defensible, but that officials should somehow have stopped it after the fact...An unrealistic expectation of officialdom..."👇
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
I think this is interesting, because there are plenty of non-white liberals who rightly think Mahmood‘s policies & attitudes are disgusting. I suspect she knows this, so the insult is extremely cynical. Her enemies are liberals & internationalists, her allies are nationalists & bigots.
there should never be redemption for someone like Carlson.
He certainly wasn't "tormented" by the decades he spent spewing hate online (and will continue to)
Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.
