Every time I see Shabana Mahmood on telly I think of Alexei Sayle

I have another serious question: how are people able to enjoy listening to this? Not because of what he is saying but because of how he says it. What does it say about New York Times reader types that this level of preening (and this level of swallowing every third syllable) appeals to them?

THREAD: THE TEXTS: I’m not ready to comment on the veracity of the alleged texts sent from the shooter to his roommate, but if the FBI fabricated them because they have marching orders to pin this on the LGBTQ community or "antifa", then the shooter is going to walk free. 1/

3/ The best line of argument for the administration might be that the law of armed conflict somehow applies.

But if so (and it doesn't), that means the US War Crimes Act applies too, including the prohibition on murder.

Finucane spells out that implication here:

4/ If law of armed conflict does not apply (and it does not), then...

DoD has long-standing view that assassination and murder are part of customary international human rights law that applies to U.S. military action beyond U.S. borders.

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“Are you really gonna die on this hill of drug smugglers” will be the response

And that’s how it starts

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

Andrew Cuomo is why people hate the Democratic Party and Zohran Mamdami is the antidote to that.

I know it's taking a lot of you some time to get there, but that's where we are and this whole fighting fascism thing will go a lot better when you catch up.

I regret to inform you that Starmer’s been tweeting dehumanising videos of migrants again.

These videos have been shown to increase support for Reform, by increasing salience of migration.

He has to go.

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

EXCLUSIVE: watch the trailer for "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack", the film the BBC didn't want to air. The trailer features, among others, Dr Adnan al Bursh, later killed by Israel.

Zeteo is proud to be airing this documentary to paid subscribers across the world on 2 July at: gazadoctors.film

Israel (who has nukes) points the finger at Iran "you can't have nuclear weapons because you're psychopaths!" - Israel then proceeds to bomb Iran, who do not have nuclear weapons.
We're not defending the Iranian regime here - they have issues, but this is fucking stupid.

A reminder that none of this is true about AOC, it’s demonstrably and provably untrue, and it’s being pushed by the kind of C-list (ok, D-list?) celebs who flock to Trump and MAGA:

College degrees can be revoked. Your move harvard

Trump budget proposes $1 trillion for defense, slashes education, foreign aid, environment, health and public assistance | CNN Politics The White House unveiled a budget blueprint Friday that would pump more money into defense and homeland security, while taking an ax to programs that the Trump administration has already targeted, inc...

The Trump-Musk Budget is out.

It tortures to death every program the average American family benefits from while (1) ensuring that no department that helps Elon Musk’s companies is harmed one iota, and (2) dumping endless wads of cash on a missile-defense scheme Trump was already told won’t work.

also...
Genocide Dems & GOP

no international presence. focus is almost all USA focused

Wisconsin Judge Monica Isham Threatens Not To Hold Court Over Hannah Dugan Arrest Wisconsin Circuit Judge Monica Isham is threatening to refuse to hold court and even raise bail on defendants because of the arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah

Monica Isham is the 1st woman & 1st minority to serve as a circuit court judge in Sawyer County.

In an email to all Wisconsin state judges she said: “If there is no support for us, l will refuse to hold court. If this costs me my job or gets me arrested, then at least I know I did the right thing.”

NEW: In a SCATHING decision, Judge Briones of the Western District of Texas absolutely SAVAGED the government over this case, tearing to shreds ICE’s hearsay “evidence” that this husband and wife were in Tren de Aragua as “completely and wholly unsubstantiated” — and ordered their immediate release!

i’m seeing a lot of this now with immigration policy as well. the reason that this much state power exists for e.g. ICE operations is continuity of applied executive power across every presidential administration since 9/11. it’s easier for cognitive dissonance to say that it’s purely a trump thing

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Before the approval, the Murugappa group had donated only Rs 21 crore to the BJP over a decade.

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The Rs 125-crore donation made the group the BJP’s third-biggest donor in the year leading to the 2024 general elections.

@sighyush.bsky.social reports

My thoughts on Bluesky verification as someone who was deeply involved in an analogous scheme (selecting trusted root CAs for browsers) at Mozilla many years ago. The analogy is not exact: not trusting a verifier just means no checkmark, while not trusting a root CA means nasty security warnings 1/

The next general election may not be until 2029.

But we could be only days or weeks away from Labour making a catastrophic mistake that will guarantee a loss.

If they reach a deal with the USA that precludes us ever getting truly close to the EU again, let alone rejoining, then it's "Game Over".

This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case.

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Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants

the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever

they aren’t going into universities’ endowments

they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

Correct.

This is textbook asset stripping.

District hospitals being handed over to private players will only make healthcare more expensive.