Equilibria

He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution.

Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”

Translation: No.

Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.

Oh.

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman

Byline Times is facing major DDOS (malicious traffic-flooding) issues on our site apparently after this article went live...
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"Musk isn't going to obey the law, so who cares."

"The Supreme Court will just throw out the case, so who cares."

"Republicans aren't going to let us have elections, so who cares."

I'm blocking these people on sight now.

Doomerist defeatism isn't helping anyone here. Log off and touch grass.

Illegal meat on most UK High Streets, official says Post-Brexit checks are undermining efforts to keep out potentially disease-ridden meat, official says.

🚨🚨 #brexithavoc news: The boss of the Dover Port Health Authority, Lucy Manzano said illegal meat, which has not been through proper health checks, was now available on "most high streets" in the UK. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Labour cannot 'out-Farage' Reform UK — and shouldn't even try Labour's rightward shift to counter the threat of Nigel Farage's Reform is doomed to fail and will only hasten voter exodus in years to come, says Taj Ali.

Here’s the reality: Labour will never out-Farage Nigel Farage

No matter how hard they try, their immigration policy will never satisfy the far-right & Europe has shown us the danger: when centre-left parties adopt far-right talking points, they don’t win over voters — they embolden their opponents

Truly abysmal goings-on at the Mirror, as reported in Private Eye. Literally holding my head in my hands reading this.

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

Labour’s letting water companies take the pee with rising bills ANDREW FISHER on the contradictions, ironies and utter inadequacy of the government’s approach to the water company polluters; plus even more Council Tax rip-offs coming our way At the end of…

Labour is letting the water companies off the hook - and we're all paying for it

My latest column for @insidecroydon.bsky.social
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This supposedly complimentary story about one of Musk's greasy goons embodies one of the core problems of DOGE: they were so incompetent they didn't do basic version control or backups, and so lost all their work.

Such people are unfit to be anywhere near critical government infrastructure.

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

More than 500,000 in England waited at least two months for vital cancer care Experts say thousands more patients will die early unless NHS tackles delays, following figures from Radiotherapy UK

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Brexit five years on: A triumph of lies The promises turned out to be false. The warnings turned out to be true.

"The first thing to understand about Brexit is that it is defined by lying. It was itself a lie, at its base, as a concept. It was sold through lies. It was delivered through lies. And it has now served to place the notion of lies right in the heart of our politics"

Of course, it’s possible that all of the people accused of ‘over-reacting’ were actually under-reacting all along…

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

I worry that politicians often appear to not understand the nuts & bolts of CU v SM & what each achieves (or doesn’t do).

This is likely to result in onward confusion in the minds of citizens & disappointment, even tho’ some improvement is achieved, when red tape still creates post Brexit barriers

And Ed, despite the nonsense he came out with, still spoke more sense than anyone else Kuenssberg had on.

I mean Ed makes a good point about the fact that we have to abide by EU regulations anyway even though we now have no say in them, but that's an argument for rejoining the SM, not an argument for joining a CU. (Obviously we'd join both if we had any sense.)

Frustrating watching @eddavey.libdems.org.uk on #bbclaurak. Neither he nor Kuenssberg understand what a customs union is. It's nowt to do with EU regulations. That's the single market. And Kuenssberg can't grasp that a CU between 2 countries with different growth rates will increase growth for both.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or scream... or all of the above.

I love this man's wit so much, it's almost sexual. Basically, I am gay for Henry.

Well, I am gay anyway, but even GAYER for Henry.

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
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$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million.

That is a lie.

The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.

To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."

Professor Alexis Jay said that starting a new inquiry could hinder the implementation of the recommendations from her 2022 report. "We have set out what action is required and people should just get on with it," she told the BBC. She added: "I've certainly been very unhappy about the politicisation of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse in the way that many people, sometimes in a very uninformed way, have waded into the argument."

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:

Pressure mounts on EU to use legal weapons against Musk’s interference European Commission says it will study whether X gives unfair boost to far right in German election.

What are you waiting for, Brussels?

Elon Musk’s decision to host German far-right leader Alice Weidel in a livestream on X is sparking fury from European Union leaders and lawmakers, who yesterday urged Brussels to deploy its full legal might to rein in the billionaire tech magnate.