Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs

Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs

Kash Patel sues the Atlantic over article alleging excessive drinking

Magazine has stood behind the story which was written by national security reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick

The FBI director filed a defamation lawsuit in US district court for the District of Columbia that seeks $250m in damages

Democrats say Trump administration ‘imploding’ after third cabinet member steps down – live

Lori Chavez-DeRemer departs administration just weeks after Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi also exited from their roles

Reform’s Richard Tice posts picture with telltale signs of AI manipulation, say experts Deputy leader’s image on X was almost certainly generated or altered using AI, according to Peryton Intelligence

Reform’sTice posts picture with signs of AI manipulation, say experts

On inspection the image looks to many observers more like something else: sausage fingers, melted faces, and AI manipulation
One woman has six fingers on one hand and longer ones on the other
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Trump labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigns amid misconduct investigation

Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down, the administration announced on Monday, after a series of misconduct allegations including having an affair with a subordinate and drinking on the job.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, a long supporter of Trump, says president’s feud with the pope is a ‘distraction’

Senator Kennedy, a long supporter of Trump and the ultraconservative Maga movement, condemned the president’s attacks on the pope during a Fox News interview on Saturday

B.B. King with Lucille #bluesmusic
Vicksburg, Mississippi, 2007.
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🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

A black-and-white studio portrait photograph of Emma Lucy Braun, the pioneering American botanist and plant ecologist widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists in the study of eastern North American forests. Shown from the shoulders up against a soft, neutral gradient background, Braun appears in her later years with a calm, intelligent gaze directed straight at the viewer. Her white hair is neatly styled and swept back from her face, and she wears delicate round wire-rimmed glasses. A gentle, knowing half-smile softens her expression, conveying quiet authority, warmth, and scholarly poise. She is dressed in a light-colored, pleated blouse with a gathered neckline and a prominent dark floral brooch pinned at the center of her chest; the visible sleeve features subtle decorative patterning. The tight, centered composition focuses entirely on her face and upper torso, creating an intimate and dignified mood that emphasizes intellect and dignity over ornamentation.

Botanist/plant ecologist E. Lucy Braun is one of the most influential ecologists in North American history.

+ First woman President, Ecological Society of America, 1950
+ Helped establish plant ecology as a rigorous academic discipline

She was born #OTD in 1889. #WomenInSTEM #conservation #ecosky

@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social "It’s the tax Tice failed to pay on profits from his property firm deposited in 4 shell entities: Tisun 1, 2, 3, 4.Their parent then donated to Reform."Just checked #BBCNews #website no sign UK, Home, Politics. Why? #BBCiplayer Laura Kuenssberg asked about it on her show. Please excuse me for not being able to reproduce all of a very long piece. I posted important clips yesterday on Bluesky.

@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social "It’s the tax Tice failed to pay on profits from his property firm deposited in 4 shell entities: Tisun 1, 2, 3, 4.Their parent then donated to Reform."Just checked #BBCNews #website no sign UK, Home, Politics. Why?
#BBCiplayer Laura Kuenssberg asked about it on her show.

How Christians
Justify Evil.

If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

Many people prompting Tice to resign over his unpaid taxes. Quite rightly in my view, but he won’t go and Farage won’t sack him so we’re stuck with them!

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

Tice failed to pay £100,000 tax on profits of firms linked to Reform — story via The Sunday Times

Richard tax-cheat Tice.
And remember when Farage’s partner bought his Clacton house somehow, so he could avoid paying taxes on it?

That is all Reform UK Party Ltd exists for: money.

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED HERE......

Trump tests his luck with the religious right amid feud with pope and AI Jesus posts Trump appears to have crossed a line with his Christian supporters. Will it come back to bite him in the midterms?

Trump tests his luck with the religious right

He appears to have crossed a line with his Christian supporters.

(Jimmy Kimmel was correct in saying, Trump is administering comfort, one paedophile to another)

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Trump energy secretary says gas prices might not drop back under $3 a gallon until 2027

Chris Wright says ‘I don’t know’ when asked about lower cost of gas as average price soars to $4 a gallon in US

JD Vance could yet save his political skin. But it will mean turning on Trump – and soon | Simon Tisdall The vice-president has endured his most humiliating – and damaging – week as his boss’s fall guy. How much more can Maga’s great hope take? asks Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

JD Vance could yet save his political skin. But it will mean turning on Trump – and soon

The vice-president has endured his most humiliating – and damaging – week as his boss’s fall guy. How much more can Maga’s great hope take?

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Reform UK’s Richard Tice allegedly failed to pay £100,000 in corporation tax

Deputy leader ran shell companies that reportedly did not pay tax on profits from 2020 to 2022, during which time his firm donated £1.1m to party

Kash Patel denies excess drinking amid officials’ US security concerns

The FBI director, is denying allegations detailed in a new report that he drinks to excess and has been unreachable at times during his tenure in office.

It also stated that Patel is concerned he might soon be fired.

Two more Reform local election candidates accused of offensive posts

Labour calls on Nigel Farage to sack candidates and says his party’s checks ‘clearly not fit for purpose’

Trump leaves Situation Room to play golf as ships report attacks and Iran closes strait of Hormuz

The Israeli military killed two Unicef-contracted truck drivers at a water point in the northern Gaza strip, forcing the UN agency to suspend its operations in the area.

The Fallen by Louise Brangan review – an enraging account of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries The horrifying story of the Catholic-run institutions that incarcerated thousands of women and girls

The Fallen by Louise Brangan review – an enraging account of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries

The horrifying story of the Catholic-run institutions that incarcerated thousands of women and girls

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Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes on 27 February. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination.

Guardian. 🇬🇧

The president has opened fissures in his base by starting a war he couldn’t finish with Iran, stoking inflation and offending Christians. Barred from running again, he may feel he has nothing to lose

Green MP: Labour caricatures working-class people over greyhound racing Hannah Spencer says minister ‘continuously offends people by saying working-class people don’t care about dogs’

Labour MP's accepting bribes from gambling companies in order to increase the gambling debts of many poor people.

Disgusting. Yet another reason why I will not vote for Labour again.

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Trump’s pardons are costing shooting survivors millions A Trace analysis found that revenue from fining white-collar criminals is drying up – due to presidential pardons

Trump’s pardons are costing shooting survivors millions

A Trace analysis found that revenue from fining white-collar criminals is drying up – due to presidential pardons

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