An American president threatened to use military force against American cities while on foreign soil.

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Jim Himes: "Where does this stop? Do we now start executing drug dealers on the corner of Brooklyn? Where does it stop if all of a sudden the government, without, telling anybody anything, can take this kind of lethal action just because they've decided they've got the right to."

#TheDailyMail, 🇬🇧 lovingly nicknamed "The Daily Fail," is a British right wing tabloid

Activists grabbed some copies, put some more accurate sleeves over them, and snuck them back on the news rack

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VPN usage is exploding in the UK — here's how it compares to Europe and the US The UK has become one of the world's top VPN-using nations, and the trend is accelerating

The UK has surpassed US in VPN use. Just a few months into the disastrous roll-out of the Online Safety Act, the UK the number one G7 nation for VPN downloads and one of the fastest growing VPN markets in the world.

It's competitors? Repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Singapore.

This 'no brainer fair tax' that would make SNP £20 million for pubic services The First Minister has been told to begin preparatory works on a private jet tax

John Swinney is being urged to rollout a private jet tax after new analysis revealed it could have generated an extra £20m this year.
Campaigners say it would “send a clear message ultra-wealthy polluters won’t be allowed to continue to get off virtually scot-free”.
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A photo of Sonya Massey on the left, and Sean Grayson on the right

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.

Team Newsom @governor.ca.gov is taking bold, concrete steps to reduce dependence on a chaotic federal health landscape.

California is now producing its own insulin through CalRx, an innovative and timely model that leverages their purchasing power to reduce healthcare costs for Californians.

Happy 85th Birthday #AngelaDouglas, here as guest star alongside Roger Moore in the episode “The Death Game” (1967) from the 🇬🇧 British mystery spy thriller television series “THE SAINT” dir. Leslie Norman

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Interestingly, one important thing about the law of defamation is that, to recover on a claim, you have to show damage to your reputation, which requires, at the very least, that you have a reputation that could somehow be damaged

🇳🇿🇬🇧 A New Zealand company run by a British family of marine insurance experts has helped Russian and Iranian “shadow fleet” ships transport $35 billion worth of oil and petroleum products, - Reuters.

Maritime Mutual insured nearly one-sixth of the tankers targeted by Western sanctions.

Shady ICE Gestapo tactics, but the internet is FOREVER! The idiot ICE agent sent texts, admissible evidence! LOL! #iceout

Mike Johnson allowing Jeffrey Epstein to keep Arizona’s 7th congressional district without representation for now nearly 8 months.

700,000 more Epstein victims thanks to enabler Mike Johnson, who has weaponized the files against them.

This is why a #NationStrike2025 is LONG OVERDUE.

We The People HAVE THE POWER.
We The People HAVE THE POWER.
We The People HAVE THE POWER.

We need to use it.
In every city. Every town. Every village. Every neighborhood.

We. The. People. HAVE THE POWER.
WE. THE. PEOPLE.
HAVE. THE. POWER.

It also needs to be illegal for wall street to own residential real estate portfolios and trade them .

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Three frames. Intro: “Humans are a funny lot. They make up rules, establish principles, then contort themselves to get around them. Frame 1: Fellow holding IPCC report. “Science says we must act NOW to save the planet!” Below, same fellow lying down legs crossed, writing asterisk on paper from off stage. “But business and politics mean we just put an asterisk in the legislation.” Frame 2: Same fellow, holding page with FOI, NACC ets, says, “A healthy democracy requires transparency and accountability….” Below, bent over backwards, “still, it might destabilise the nation if they knew what govt got up to.” Frame 3: fellow holding bible, “God says every life is sacred and we must not kill…” Below he strikes an awkward pose, “But God wants us to BOMB the CRAP out of those barbarians.”

Contortions.
My @smh cartoon.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

“An unspecified buyer dipped into their pocket for $2,857,500 – so far a record for any guitar previously owned by a Beatle”: The story of the Framus Hootenanny, the resurrected John Lennon favorite t... Loved by the Animals, the Stones, and most famously John Lennon, what was it about this Framus 12-string that made it a staple of ’60s rock tone?

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Indeed

Speaker Johnson keeps the #EpsteinFiles hidden.

Does that short arsed gimp hear or see anything?

The first episode of the 🇬🇧 British sitcom "KEEPING UP APPEARANCES" created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Josephine Tewson, Geoffrey Hughes, Judy Cornwell, Shirley Stelfox and Mary Millar was broadcast #OnThisDay in 1990

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It's been 36 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

I'm no economist but the fact that more than 42 million Americans (1 in 8!) are on SNAP (i.e., food stamps) says that the federal minimum wage is way too low.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

PS. - Terry Pratchett, Snuff