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Silvio Berlusconi: How the former Italian PM changed Italy A media mogul and a populist politician, the former Italian PM had an outsized impact on his country.

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There’s a sucker born every minute, as Barnum said.

Imagine what these children will do when they grow up. The trauma will be unending.

It’s not artificial intelligence, it’s average intelligence.

So little, so late.

British doctor comes back from Gaza and confirms two things we knew: 1- the Israelis *specifically* confiscate formula feed to starve children 2- there is a clear pattern in gun shot wounds pointing to the fact that IDF soldiers are playing games hunting humans.

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This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.

Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.

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Or a gong of sorts? I bet we’ve got some special vanity gongs we could dish out to really very important foreigners. Trump kneeling to Charlie with a sword in hand would put the cat among the pigeons.

Page One in Scotland.

Boiling point was so last week. We are all just a bit rain soaked these days.

Penciling in Reliably Incorrect Political Pundit as one of the jobs AI could actually replace alongside CEO and Venture Capitalist.

YouTube video by TransgenderEquality The Gender Recognition Bill Becomes Law in Ireland

Today is the 10th anniversary of Ireland's gender recognition act. Ireland's gender recognition is through self-declaration without the need for permission from a doctor, panel or judge etc. In the past decade nothing bad happened.
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Context if you've forgotten:

“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner.

But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"

Using social media to develop opposing group norms, then putting them against one another, is both as old as time and also a new way to sow dissent from a distance.

Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out

Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut

Kicks 10 million off health insurance

Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut

Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts

The Undeclared War - Wikipedia

This was the one.
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Is it the Russian Internet troll factory again? The Channel 4 drama showing how they drive these devisive situations was quite enlightening.

The swamp, it’s always about the swamp with these guys but I don’t think they’re draining it…

Also part of the Hedging Your Bets party?

I’m sure after all the arrests and public shaming they’ll have learnt their lessons. It’ll be fine. 🫣

(Was that Iceland I’m thinking of?)

#NoLongerFitToLineTheRabbitHutch

Shunned Myanmar leader thrilled at US contact after Trump tariff letter Min Aung Hlaing expresses ‘sincere appreciation’ for letter from US president threatening 40% tariff

That sinking feeling when you accidentally send a tariff letter addressed to the leader of a ruling military junta that the United States refuses to recognize or (otherwise) engage with.
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Yes, all true, and...

the US govt refused to regulate social media in any way similar to regs for broadcast networks/radio/advertising etc. Pelosi's 90M stock portfolio was more important. So governments have to do *something* to combat disinfo and Nazi recruiting. And it won't be great policy...

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The amount of wealth leaving Canada would be eye-opening for many Canadians Kim Moody: Government needs to reward successful Canadians to keep them from leaving. Read more

There is no tax rate low enough that the rich won't bitch and moan and threaten to leave over it, so the most logical reaction to their *constant* overreaction to *any amount of taxes* is to tax these whiny plutes at a rate that actually hurts them.
Because their reaction will be *exactly* the same.

He's no Boothroyd or Bercow, but Lindsay Hoyle does have his moments, like here after a PMQs q about Covid loan fraud.

Farage's face is hilarious.