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Trump has commuted the sentence of David Gentile, 59 yo resident of Long Island, who defrauded people of $1.6B in a phony investment scheme.
Gentile spend just seven days in prison for a seven year sentence.
Grift sees grift
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
"Where are the firings and denunciations? Where is Turning Point USA, the White House, Speaker Johnson? Where are all the MAGA faithful who claimed to believe or did believe in the vast conspiracy among elites to abuse children?" lnk.thebulwark.com/48p9ywR
01.12.2025 18:30 β π 217 π 72 π¬ 8 π 4stewie crying while looking in the dug hole for the coffin - my boss crying at my funeral - "how could you, we are short staffed today" @mtkyuan
01.12.2025 16:39 β π 49 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
David Davis said there wouldn't be a single downside to Brexit.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-2024.
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Illustration of a wacky colourful bird creature surrounded by flowers with text that reads: donβt give your money to billionaires, support artists and goofballs and wild wonderful weirdos
A reminder this holiday season and always
30.11.2025 18:41 β π 1032 π 481 π¬ 2 π 2β¨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. π #thread
28.11.2025 07:13 β π 613 π 170 π¬ 16 π 8A thing about the AI boom that Iβve never understood: many of the fantastical/possibly dubious things that AI boosters claim will be brought about by the AI revolution would theoretically *also* be ushered in by quantum computing.
But weβre only really flooding funding to one of those things.
Back from Your Party conference now. Some thoughts...
It was very messy indeed.
And 2,500, while a good number, looked tiny given initial hopes of 13,000, and the huge size of the venue.
The party is deeply divided and I can't see that dying down any time soon (1/x)
>>SATIRE HR Department Asks if You Plan on Being Chronically Ill Next Quarter, Too MyBodyIsTryingTokillMe.com [pic of paperwork being handed over table]
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Great Brexitannia, day 1,793.
Reality bites at The Times.
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90 countries that helped US after 09/11 never asked for anything in return
30.11.2025 09:58 β π 19 π 9 π¬ 2 π 1Mate π
30.11.2025 17:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Unfortunately removing the risk scores does not remove the risk
30.11.2025 15:08 β π 159 π 52 π¬ 10 π 11This is the most alarming story Iβve read today. Giving up the fight before itβs started
30.11.2025 09:57 β π 3118 π 1185 π¬ 329 π 325Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
30.11.2025 14:23 β π 31361 π 7852 π¬ 809 π 460Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
29.11.2025 19:13 β π 694 π 264 π¬ 43 π 47Those fishermen obviously didn't pay enough in "ballroom contributions".
29.11.2025 20:51 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Farage is refusing any investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia.
Gosh, I wonder why? It's a mystery.
www.thenational.scot/news/2564728...
So... this just happened.
archive.ph/2025.11.29-1...
Venezuelaβs government condemned Trumpβs βclosedβ airspace remarks, describing them as a βcolonialist threatβ against the countryβs sovereignty
29.11.2025 19:54 β π 474 π 134 π¬ 23 π 7When Ukrainian soldiers are wounded in action, Russian drones target both them and the people who come to rescue them.
Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
βwhy the fuck are we invading Venezuelaβ should really be on at least a couple of chyrons
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