Tim Morton

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

The Musicians' Brawl (flipped), by Georges de La Tour, 1625-30, 📸 by @MauleIan

Senator Jim Banks V @SenatorBanks Follow g.. The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states. It included illegal immigrants and handed Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it. Zinited Statcs SScnate MASHNORON DEYNN October 6, 2025 an. Thow arewutn Socretary U.S. Department of Commerce Washington, DXC 20230 Dear Secretary Lutaick: I urge you to investigate and correct erroes from the 2020 Census that handed disproportionntd political power to Democrats and illogal alicns. The Census Burcau adoptod a now and opaque voting districts. As preparod by the Biden administration, the 2020 Censas roports miscountod the population of fourteen states, ' wrongly allocating six congressional scats aod Electoral xx conwuu tmora uy, toc taroro tu mot đoo tnn Cunu lc pung t imber of votine districts. And the reoorts de aniovety inchaded ilecnl nhens widhout track those aliens' citiz enship status, If left uncorrected, these erroes will coetinue diluting the political power of American citizens. Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding Under the Constitution, cach state gets Congressional represcotutives and Electoeal College votes- based on "the whole number of persons" within the state." The number of persoes is in tum clabaabod by a consttubocalty-mandalcd dcccacaal ccavas. Pcual agcco nely on census data to allocate billions of dollars in federal funding, much of which hinges ee opulation. And states use consus data to deaw congrossicnal and voting districts, »hich the The it eiy of tie soaren alie n tor dur at ce hor inc ae oam toy ee n nght wilbout statsica ly signilicant ciroo. Diffcrcntial privacy is opaque and liable to mistakcn count totals. Sure cnough, the 2020 Ccnsus ovarocunted the noculation in cicht states and undercounted it in six." Tihe most extrcmi andercount was Arkansas, at 5.04%, and the larg…

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Colour me surprised

Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

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Ukrainian soldiers captured an Indian national. Majoti Sahil Mohamed Hussein, a 22-year-old citizen of India, spent only three days on the front line. He said he came to Russia to study but was caught with drugs and sentenced to seven years in prison.

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This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

Thought Jesus loved a sinner

I love that the Pope is not following 45 accounts or 47 accounts but 46 accounts.

Jenrick & his ilk, hopefully.

I suspect when Jenrick imagined saying the final words "let's build this new order, let's take our country back," his voice BOOMED and the roar of the crowd was DEAFENING. In the event, his voice cracked and was met with the politeness of a local baking contest won by "a not-bad lemon drizzle". ~AA

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

Arguing with the Tories over their "we're going to make a British ICE gestapo and deport 150,000 people a year" plan over the cost and practicalities is a bit weak.

Shout it down for the immorality not the "you'll have to increase VAT to pay for the barbed wire" bullshit

Kemi Badenoch says her favourite author is Terry Pratchett. One wonders what draws her to the Discworld. The Vimes Boots theory of inequality? The celebration of diversity in Ankh Morpork? The lesson that those who claim to have the answers are not to be trusted?
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The Conservatives must never have any part in Farage’s po... To describe asylum seekers as thieves or rapists encourages the worst sort of prejudice. We don’t need Trump’s mouthpiece anywhere near No 10

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"Above all, we must make clear that we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Nigel Farage.
We have to deal with president Trump for the next three years. We don’t need his mouthpiece anywhere near No 10."

Why the Tories must unite to fight ‘Trump mouthpiece’ Farage The Conservative Party must return to the sensible principles that once made it great, says Tory grandee Michael Heseltine – before populist extremism finds its way into No 10

“Above all, we must make clear that we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Nigel Farage.” Michael Heseltine, praised this morning by Robert Jenrick, writes for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/independentp...

The toddlers in Trump's Cabinet all think of him as their daddy and they get very very cross if anyone says anything mean about their daddy and their daddy is going to beat up your daddy just you wait

Robert Jenrick holds up a judges wig like a puppet during his speech to the Conservative Party Conference.

We have an independent judiciary in this country. Robert Jenrick wants puppet judges.

The Conservative Party once believed in the rule of law and our shared British values - no longer.

Tory meets Whig

Well the Basil Brush Show has totally gone to shit.

How about this: We don't pay members of Congress when they cannot keep the government functioning?

Do you even hear yourselves?

Durbin is retiring, but this is a classic "Dem leaders are old" line.

Most conservatives now think Nixon did nothing wrong. Do people born after 1990 know what Nixon did? Doubtful

there's a conspiracy theory going around that actually Travis Kelce wrote the songs on the new Swift album that everyone seems to hate and torn between stop making excuses everyone does bad work at some point and these are the sort of conspiracies we need as a society

Also assumes they will be happy with 88% of the population being immigrants.

Everyone who advocates for turning the UK into the UAE assumes they'll be the one with a marina penthouse rather than the guy working on a building site in 50c heat

An original one-sheet poster for “Fail Safe,” featuring the tag line, “The screen zeroes in on the most suspenseful adventure drama of our age!” Three quarters of the poster is an illustration with a red background, on top of which are multiple nuclear bombers flying left to right, as well as something that looks like a stylized destroyed skyscraper in the foreground. At the bottom are black and white photographs of many of the actors in the film in various scenes.

A full page advertisement in the October 7, 1964, edition New York Daily News for the film: “Today Fail Safe Explodes on the Screen!” The “T” in “Today” forms an arrow that points down to the bottom of the page. It overlaps a copy of the cover of the book on which the film is based, with the cover image shattering as if hit by something very powerful. At the bottom of the page is a listing inside a box of the various theaters where the film was showing, with a prominent note inside a smaller box above the top right corner: “No one seated during the last 10 minutes of feature!"

A black and white screenshot from the film of three men looking at a large display inside Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, showing the position of six US nuclear-armed bombers about to penetrate Soviet airspace.

A black and white screenshot from the film showing a conference room in the Pentagon. Multiple men in military uniforms, others in coats and ties, sit around both sides of a V-shaped table (with more men standing behind them) looking toward the camera with concern at an off-camera screen.

Today in 1964, “Fail Safe” opened in theaters in New York City.

“Don’t you see, sir, this our chance. We never would have made the first move deliberately, but Group 6 has made it for us, by accident. We must take advantage of it—history demands it!”

— Prof. Groeteschele (Walter Matthau)

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