Top: Pete Hegseth — suit snug, hair oiled, buzz on — signing a missile on Arsenal of Freedom tour. The sign is half cut off, though, so it reads The ARSE of FRE Bottom: the surface of the missile, which reads “Maybe it's the beer talking, Marge, but you've got a butt that won't quit. They've got these big, chewy pretzels here... meddanrtargym... five dollars?! Get outta here!”
Me, bearded and sunglassed, looking at the camera in front of a sandy beach and still bay under blue sky.
Gorgeous day today. I don't deserve your sponsorship. But Ukraine does!
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This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters.
If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.
Seems like a good day to share my fundraiser for 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇺🇦
I'm jumping in the chilly North Sea every day (from 2 Feb to 20 March) to raise money for the heroic but freezing Ukrainians, via the charity KHARPP.
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As a Minister of Justice in apartheid South Africa is supposed to have complained: you appoint judges on the basis of their loyalty to the regime, but once they get there, they think they’ve been appointed on merit.
As Nigel Farage makes Robert Jenrick his Shadow Chancellor, here's a quick reminder of the sort of man Reform wants to put in charge of the nation's finances
You can't fire them? Counterpoint: you can fire them whenever you like, and they have no employment rights.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe lives in Monaco, which has been colonised by immigrant tax dodgers.
Have checked, this is not a shitpost.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
Totally backwards to spend the first 2 years after winning a majority worrying about people on the opposite end of the political spectrum. Do your thing.
But is it because, despite that mandate, he didn't actually get on and fix the country? I thought he would and wished he would, but he consistently disappoints
Might be attractive to offer voters the chance to turn back the clock and vote for "chaos with Ed Miliband"
Or the same AI social post writer. But I think you're right that something's up.
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
UPDATE: "Lindsey Vonn sustained an injury, but is in stable condition and in good hands with a team of American and Italian physicians." - U.S. Ski & Snowboard
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I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
I yield to nobody in my hatred of these blockchain tokens, but this isn't quite right.
There is no "con", nor is it "pyramid scheme" nor are the buyers "rubes." If any of that were true, the value would have hit zero years ago.
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Mark Rutte:
During my visit to Kyiv today I saw a civilian heating plant targeted by Russian missiles.
No military value whatsoever - attacks meant only to make people suffer.
But Ukraine stands strong. And NATO stands with you.
“We still haven't destroyed London or Birmingham…We haven't wiped all this British scum from the face of the earth."
We haven't kicked out the goddamned BBC with that Steve Rotten-berg. He walks around looking like a defecating squirrel…he's a conscious enemy of our country!"
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in exchange for asking them nicely to try and not wear masks anymore, the democrats agree to fund ICE while they build concentration camps.
"shut the entire government down" is not a radical position. it is the bare minimum.
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Konstantin Kisin straight up lying on #bbcqt
Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?”
Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”
Kyiv residents share photos and videos on social media showing their freezing apartments and how they are trying to keep warm.
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
