Oh dear. Commiserations. Hope the weekend brings better.
08.10.2025 16:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@tonymillett.bsky.social
Retired hack with a PhD. Gentle politics & ungentle books films + birdlife. Aged over 80 - OK?
Oh dear. Commiserations. Hope the weekend brings better.
08.10.2025 16:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Ouch...looking really serious today. Hope all is well with you. Or perhaps it's just that Wednesday feeling. Yes?
08.10.2025 15:47 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.
Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.
My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow
These people are all such frauds
08.10.2025 08:38 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 0How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
08.10.2025 08:20 โ ๐ 1748 ๐ 451 ๐ฌ 76 ๐ 95Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. Iโll take a look at it. Iโll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.
Reporter: But sheโs convicted of sex trafficking
Trump: Iโll have to take a look at it.
Yes, yes- red is you. Tremendous contrasts in this photo. Excellent. (Though I do have a surviving soft spot for the green!)
07.10.2025 15:18 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0She's not making a very Sure Start to her leadership campaign.
07.10.2025 10:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Daily Mail has a wilting relationship with the English language...and it's getting worse online.
06.10.2025 17:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yes - so it looks more and more like a way to prevent/postpone the publication of ALL the Epstein papers.
06.10.2025 16:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Goes so well with the silver dress. Suits you better than the pink. However, I really prefer your natural red...and not because I'm just an old socialist!!
06.10.2025 10:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Bloody hell. The French PM has just resigned!
06.10.2025 07:47 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 3This makes me want toโฆ๐คฌ
05.10.2025 16:09 โ ๐ 58 ๐ 31 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 2So are the British media.
05.10.2025 13:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A very good morning to you. Another terrific MJ photo.
05.10.2025 10:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A significant body of opinion from mental health experts says that Trumpโs behaviours typify narcissistic personality disorder, describing him as a โposter boyโ for narcissism who displays nearly every symptom in exaggerated form. This video gives a frightening insight into his fantasies of power.
03.10.2025 19:20 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0History repeats.
04.10.2025 06:54 โ ๐ 11612 ๐ 5601 ๐ฌ 275 ๐ 301We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow thatโs turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
05.10.2025 07:04 โ ๐ 5006 ๐ 1705 ๐ฌ 264 ๐ 70ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. โI was screaming that there was a baby,โ cried the mother. โBut they didnโt care,โ and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.
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02.10.2025 16:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Two supremely elegant appearances to mark Thursday - thank you so much MJ.
02.10.2025 15:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Important thread here re PPE Medpro etc.
02.10.2025 09:09 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Jonathan, just a reminder that it's Murdoch paper and has been for too long. The Times is Fox News with some posh bits added for cover.
02.10.2025 08:58 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The robber barons are at large. They defy the rule of law...for their own benefit. Well done that judge.
30.09.2025 19:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Good evening MJ. Lovely as ever - and relaxed. Wearing a tie. Since I retired I only wear a tie on very special days. How special was your day?
30.09.2025 19:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In the Olde UK, we used to call for the 'men in white suits' to take this sort of meandering drivelling person to a place of safety and treatment.
30.09.2025 19:33 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Looks like the next pandemic is going to be athletes' foot.
30.09.2025 15:39 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Most nations who join Geneva Conventions etc etc, do so to help their own military (& civilians) being subjected to death from war crimes. Hegseth is openly putting US military in danger of illegal lethal force by others. Stupid.
30.09.2025 15:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0