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The Alleged Trump Victim's Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape - emptywheel One day before Jeffrey Epstein suicided, the woman who claimed Donald Trump had abused her told the FBI that Epstein and Trump had spoken about blackmail in front of her.

The Alleged Trump Victim's Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape

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Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

It's a pretty simple recipe for saving our democracy 👇

Unexpectedly?

Also important to note that the Home Office's *own figures* imply that care workers/dependents are a fiscal *benefit* in terms of the government's fiscal rules (and on every year for next 30 years).

It is Mahmood who has a fiscal "black hole" to fill.

I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump.

There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.

Axel Springer agrees to buy UK's Telegraph in $766 million deal German ​publisher Axel Springer said on ‌Friday it had agreed to buy in an ​all-cash deal Britain's ​Telegraph Media Group for ⁠575 million pound ($766.30 ​million).

The Telegraph wird zu FBPE

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Good morning with good news: Combined solar and battery plant's global average cost is 44% LOWER than the cost of combined-cycle gas turbine plant!

Solar & battery: $57/MWh
Gas plant: $102/MWh
Solar: $39/MWh
Land wind: $40/MWh
Offshore wind: $100/MWh

WOW!
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Somewhat lost under the hideousness of Shabana Mahmood’s plans is the fact that immigration is a bloody good thing. We need more of it, not less.

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

One wonders if our politicians will ever take a second to consider why they always have to make stuff up to justify being cruel to immigrants? That perhaps they could consider policies that align with the evidence?

Perhaps one for @eddavey.libdems.org.uk and the @libdems.org.uk to raise in Parliament? I can't imagine the Tories or Reform being particularly bothered by this specific potential breach of the Ministerial Code.

Right now govt is making up an obviously false “saving” to justify its imm, while ignoring the obviously true cost of that policy (treasury projections assume a level of net migration Home Sec opposes and which is unlikely to happen). And these ppl wonder why trust in politics is declining.

It's far from unprecedented for the Israelis to go after civilians. There are arrest warrants out and everything...

oil now reaching the 'um, guys? we sure this is all ok?' stage

Are we fighting the fascists again, or are we just bombing the muslims this time?

Adding Qatar’s energy minister to the list of oil and energy market types beginning to really freak out.

www.ft.com/content/be12...

Can't help thinking a fairer solution would be investing more in schools so that closeness to a good one doesn't drive house prices. Any other approach would seem to condemn a lot of kids to a second-class education, effectively placing barriers in front of them reaching their full potential.

Remember though folks, there's no issue with munitions.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

"Unserious" hardly covers this.

Actual real world children have been killed. Without any apparent goal in view, other than the killing of an 86 year old.

Does anyone know the current status of those who made the accusations against Trump? Clearly the regime knows their identities. Are they alive? Safe? Are they dead? If so, how?

Only took 2 days for this to come true

Those proud bastions of free speech Reform UK banned @willhaycardiff.bsky.social from their manifesto launch because they are scared of the scrutiny he would provide. Imagine what these cowards will do in power.

Oh…..

At least they had the benefit of an unstable, backwards-looking, government nearby to use as a reference point.

‘Why is it important for wars to have clear aims?’ Amol Rajan asks guest talking about war in Iran

When did Today become this demotic?

One reason all IT folks need to learn AI is so that they have a better idea how to fix stuff when their agents go rogue...

LIVE UPDATES: UN refugee agency says over 330,000 displaced by hostilities in Middle East, beyond Visit the post for more.

UN refugee agency says over 330,000 displaced by hostilities in Middle East

I can guarantee the ones who support Netanyahu & Trumps war, will be the same ones screaming from the rooftops about refugees on dinghies with:

"Send them back"

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260105-eur...

Bensky: And then we have the moment where all of my information is released. All of these other survivors — all of our information is literally out there for the world to see. And you’re like, “Wow, the DOJ really — our government doesn’t care.”