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Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit The US president told reporters on Air Force One that he will take legal action against the broadcaster and will call Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend.

PM: Your Majesty we need to give the President another state dinner

King Charles: Another one?! Prime Minister you said 2nd one was to be the last

PM: Yes, but we got this thing with the BBC

King: Oh, alright…Suppose he’ll want a carriage ride too

PM: Yes, thanks for understanding Your Majesty

If he is pushing for investigations of John Pierpont Morgan and Samuel P. Chase, how long before he unleashes the dogs on William Jennings Bryan and Mary Todd Lincoln? 🙄

These recent designations makes you wonder how long before the State Department puts the Judean Peoples Front and the People’s Front of Judea on the list.

Think JD is confusing “Science” with “the research” of a drunk uncle you argue with at the Thanksgiving table because, for example, he believes someone when they said you should inject bleach into your body to combat a respiratory virus.

Following today's apology by the BBC of its clumsy editing of Trump's January 6th speech, this is one of the better summaries of the situation

(Note: Edit may have been clumsy, but his supporters on the day showed they understood what he meant and know the BBC did not misrepresent his directive)

Man who took Hamilton bus on joy ride 'did a great job' driving, left no dings, say police | CBC News He made several stops along the way, allowing passengers to get on and off, police say. He was then arrested.

A very Canadian bus joy ride.

"The man made several stops along the way, allowing passengers to get on and off at bus stops.

"There was not a ding on the bus. He did a great job"

"He even went as far as to deny someone looking to board with an expired bus pass"

Very good 🧵on important role BBC plays in the UK as a kind of societal ballast.

Comparison to US, whose polarized & polarizing media landscape should be seen as cautionary tale by UK gov, compelling efforts to strengthen BBC to fend off attacks by unscrupulous opportunists, both domestic & foreign.

Felon Freed by Trump Is Sentenced Again, This Time to 27 Months

Pardoning only those most deserving. 🙄

“Mr. Braun, whose family used a connection to Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to obtain the commutation in January 2021, is at least the eighth convict to whom Mr. Trump granted clemency during his first term who has since been charged with a crime.”

In April, ahead of the anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social had an interesting conversation with Sen. King on concentration of power in the executive and standing up to Trump. In light of recent events, be good to revisit that conversation and update the strategy.

Probably does not change where this was going, but wouldn’t it have been better politics for only 7 Dems to vote to move the CR?

Make it, at least for a few days, all about the Republicans being unable to get their house in order because they can’t convince Rand Paul to support it.

@durbin.senate.gov you have been a good public servant for the state of Illinois, but if you no longer have the strength needed for the challenge of this moment, maybe you should move up your retirement and let @govpritzker.illinois.gov appoint someone who better understands what is at stake.

All his blundering and bluster makes it sound a lot more like 1914 than 1939 and some triggering event (with or without an Archduke) is going to put us on the path to calamity.

When he's done being president, looks like he might be a perfect fit for a revival of the Larry Bud Melman character.

Just needs to remember there is only one Calvert DeForest.

PS. Happy to hear the man who collapsed is Ok.

The Kennedy Center Crackup

Interesting look inside Administration's make-over of the Kennedy Center

"Mr. Trump wrote..."I am doing the same thing to the United States of America, but only on a ‘slightly’ larger scale!”

He's not lying, its all here:
-Cronyism ✅
-Incompetence ✅
-Gutting an American Institution ✅
-Unpopular ✅

When does overinflated valuation of TSLA, foundation for overinflated pay package, meet reality?

Market values Tesla at nearly 6x Toyota, yet it generates less than 1/3rd revenue and 1/4th earnings

And TSLA sales are shrinking

CEO's M/O is over-promise / under-deliver.

When does the fever break?

Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict

The best way to think of FIFA is not as a sport’s governing body, but as a postmodernist satire of a sport’s governing body.

It then all makes sense and we can all share in a knowing chuckle.

And, as Nina Totenberg points out, Trump is hoisted by petard of his own making.

His SG argues tarifs are "regulatory ... not revenue-raising tariffs." (i.e. Taxes)

But the SG's own client disagrees:

"Trump has repeatedly cited the amount of revenue tariffs have brought the federal government"

Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Trump's tariff arguments At issue is whether the president can bypass Congress and impose tariffs by citing national security.

Nearly 3hrs of SCOTUS oral arguments in tariff case, filled with so much repetition and pedantry makes you understand lawyering profession's dependence on billable hours

5 Min Approach:

-Is tariff a tax?
-Which branch has tax power?
-Did Article 1 delegate this power to Article 2?

Next Case

This is really happening:

Mayor of the capital and largest city in UK is British Muslim of Pakistani heritage.

Mayor of largest city in US will be an American Muslim of Indian heritage.

Expect an increase in cricket discussion and maybe some LFC vs Arsenal chat, otherwise:

Keep Calm and Carry On

Dale Murphy over Dwight Evans??

Both very good players, but for me (admittedly a biased #RedSox fan) Evans was a very good player for longer part of his career

100+ Games Played:
Evans: 11 800+ OPS / 4 900+ OPS Seasons
Murphy: 8 800+ OPS / 4 900+ OPS Seasons

Also think Evans is better Outfielder

I know it means very little right now, but the Toronto #BlueJays were outstanding this whole postseason.

Saying this as someone whose team competes in the same division, baseball is much better when the Jays are good and Rogers Centre is rocking.

Congratulations Toronto on a great season!!

Someone will correct me, but believe Mookie Betts just became the only player with 4 #WorldSeries Championships in the 21st century.

Congratulations #Mookie !!

Mookie with the 6-3 double-play and the #Dodgers win a great game 7, win the #WorldSeries and repeat as champions.

Yamamoto should be the WS MVP.

Congratulations to LA!

Think this is the one and only scenario where you can make a good case for changing the clocks:

Extra innings of Game 7 of the #WorldSeries

#Fallback

You have to kidding!!

And we go to extras in Game 7!

Wow! Miguel Rojas!

He hits game tying home run with one out in the 9th of game 7 of the #WorldSeries

He has been questioned about some of his decisions in this series, but playing the struggling Rojas the past two games is not one of them.

Before it gets too late and one of these teams wins the #WorldSeries and write this as a complete neutral (thankfully) this has been a great Game 7. Close, tense, well-played, and the outcome still in the balance heading to the 9th

Any chance they can play best 2 out of 3 to decide Game 7?

Would like to see a replay of that Clement check-swing and see it compared to Kiké Hernández’s earlier.

Not saying Clement went around, but appeared close and unfortunate Fox has not shown a replay.

All the #CapitalOne commercials contaminating the #WorldSeries broadcast are proving the adage that More is not necessarily More.

Enough already with that bank guy!

Wow! Wow! Wow!

Kiké to Rojas for the double-play to win Game 6 for the #Dodgers

#Game7 here we come.

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