FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

This is my new mantra.

Herod Goes to the National Cathedral and is Disappointed - emptywheel Trump's reaction to the National Cathedral prayer service yesterday says a lot more about him than it does about Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

From Peterr's great reflection on the entire ceremony of which Bishop Budde's plea was just one part: "They protected a poor, vulnerable refugee-to-be from a vengeful tyrant who feared for his own power."

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The sketchwriter’s gift | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine Kemi Badenoch rose in the House of Commons to challenge the prime minister with a vast range of possible targets. The cost of government borrowing had risen to the highest level since the financial…

Could be said that Badenough had several open goals available at PMQs, but instead she asked 6 questions about grooming gangs and got spanked.

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I’m surprised they don’t wanna rebrand it as the Trump Golf!!

‘We stand by Jess’: Telford survivors criticise Musk’s attack on Phillips Exclusive: Victims of male violence sign letter praising minister for devoting life to ‘fighting for women and girls’

Survivors of Telford abuse crimes & the mums of two women murdered by boyfriends say of the Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips that ‘no one in public life has done more to support victims and survivors and to advocate for their interests’

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Here is the key section of that train wreck of an interview by Robert Jenrick on #r4today.

Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister?

Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it.

Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA

Hi Alison, I share these sentiments too. I live in the UK and couldn't sleep the night of the US election. I felt real despair when I found out the result..... That has subsided somewhat because of people like you who are willing to stand up to tyranny and not just roll over like most of the GOP!

"This new type of battery has the potential to power devices for thousands of years, making it an incredibly long-lasting energy source."
#Energy

You can rightly deplore the venal charlatans who sold us this economic suicide, but I also now blame everyone in our political class, including those in government, who continue to bury their heads in the sand and insist we cannot reverse this most catastrophically stupid error. Shame on them all.

Day 2 of my (b)advent calendar highlighting the top 20 worst fox hunting crimes with @huntsabs.bsky.social . . . it’s a recent one from the West Somerset Vale Hunt

This isn’t trail hunting , it’s wildlife crime .

#RealBanNow

As a child I needed free school meals, as mayor, I provide them. And this policy works – here’s the proof | Sadiq Khan Critics questioned my landmark policy but a new report backs it – and the big winners are children and their families, says the mayor of London Sadiq Khan

“As a child I needed free school meals, as mayor, I provide them. And this policy works – here’s the proof”

Sadiq Khan👏

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