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The Tory Implosion Offers a Warning for Both Parties in America Once the model for modern conservatism, Britain’s Tories are now flailing for relevance — and embracing Trump-style populism as a lifeline.

COLUMN: Once the model for modern conservatism, Britain’s Tories are now flailing for relevance — and embracing Trump-style populism as a lifeline.

The Tory implosion offers a warning for both parties in America, writes our politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin.

Baltimore gang leader provided feds ‘incalculable’ cooperation for years Former Black Guerrilla Family leader Ricky Evans has been waiting seven years to be sentenced. That's because he's spent that time helping authorities make other cases.

My latest: For 7 years after Black Guerilla Family gang leader Ricky Evans pleaded guilty, nothing happened in his case.
Or so it seemed. He spent that time helping the feds solve dozens of murders and other acts of violence: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

psychedelicarchives on Instagram: "In this 1977 SNL sketch, Dan Aykroyd’s Jimmy Carter takes a live call from a teenager tripping on LSD—and calmly walks him through …" In this 1977 SNL sketch, Dan Aykroyd’s Jimmy Carter takes a live call from a teenager tripping on LSD—and calmly walks him through it like a seasoned psychonaut.The sketch aired during Season 2 and captured the hilarious intersection of politics, parody, and psychedelic panic. Long before “harm reduction” was part of the cultural lexicon, Carter’s character offers grounded, compassionate advice to the distressed caller.And to top it off, the President displayed an impeccable taste in southern psychedelic rock.Source: Saturday Night Live.

Any time someone as high and mighty as a House speaker joins @cspanwj.bsky.social and takes calls, all I think of is “President Jimmy Carter” talking that kid down off a bad trip, telling him to listen to the Allmans.

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O'Neal is pushing "The Post into video podcasting, according to people familiar with the matter, aiming to launch a show hosted by Megan McArdle next month and a flagship program in January. The marquee show, I’m told, will be helmed by O’Neal himself."

The GOP’s Texas Senate mess

Even the trainwrecks are bigger in Texas
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Councilman Mark Conway files to challenge U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume Mark Conway is challenging Kweisi Mfume. In a heavily Democratic district that includes most of Baltimore and portions of the county, the winner of the primary election is all but guaranteed to win th...

Baltimore Councilman Mark Conway files to challenge U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

My most curmudgeon take is that pitch comm is dumb and I miss the days when catchers painted their nails to better give signs

Border czar Tom Homan was investigated by DOJ for potential bribery, MSNBC reports In statements to POLITICO, senior Trump administration officials confirmed an investigation but slammed it as "blatantly political."

Border czar Tom Homan was investigated by federal law enforcement last year and allegedly accepted $50k in cash from agents who were posing as business executives seeking government contracts, MSNBC reports.

How censure lost its bite

Congress has gone senseless over censure. I report for @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

How censure lost its bite

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Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

Exclusive: President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer.

Sources said the package would have been “more lethal” than past rounds of aid to Taiwan, including munitions and autonomous drones.

After football, Andy Nelson’s barbecue connected him to Baltimore The former Baltimore Colt started a pit beef stand in a nursery parking lot to supplement his NFL paycheck. The idea would grow into Andy Nelson's Barbecue Restaurant on York Road in Cockeysville.

After football, Andy Nelson’s barbecue connected him to Baltimore

I have no clue what Purdue just did.

How the UK became American conservatives' worst nightmare

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How the UK became American conservatives' worst nightmare

The new nightmare for the American right isn't the U.S. turning into Russia or Venezuela. It's the U.S. turning into the UK. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

How the UK became American conservatives' worst nightmare

How the UK became American conservatives' worst nightmare via @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

How the UK became American conservatives' worst nightmare

The new nightmare for the American right isn't the U.S. turning into Russia or Venezuela. It's the U.S. turning into the UK. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

New Weird & Wild!

You'd think I'd learn never to use the word "impossible" to describe anything in baseball. But that Orioles win in the Yamamoto game? Impossible!

Plus:
That 8 minute HR trot!
Schwarber!
An AL pitcher HRs!
Jonah Tong!
Wild box scores!
Lots more!
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Norton Says Little as Bills to Clamp Down on D.C. Advance

Rich @anniekarni.bsky.social read on Eleanor Holmes Norton's weakness at the DC oversight hearing.

"She often stumbled and sounded as if she was not following the meaning of what she said, emphasizing words that did not make sense to emphasize."

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realized today that the sopranos is about rapid disruptive changes to a long-established industry and that tony soprano was basically a media person trying to figure out how to navigate the rush to AI

U.K. dismisses ambassador to U.S. over links to Jeffrey Epstein British Prime Minister Keir Starmer fired Peter Mandelson after diplomats said “additional information” emerged about his links with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer fired the U.K. ambassador to the United States on Thursday, after officials said “additional information” came to light about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. https://wapo.st/46a7hG1

Pat Buchanan now has such a significant place in the MAGA pantheon that his face was on notebooks handed out at the National Conservatism Conference along with Nixon, Reagan & Teddy Roosevelt. I write for @politico.com on how this is now fully Pat Buchanan's GOP www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Best I can tell from available play by play data, there has never been another game in recorded NL/AL history in which…

A pitcher lost a no-hitter on a HR with 2 outs in the 9th and then …

His team lost the game.

Baseball!

On Truth Social, Trump channels Apocalypse Now and proclaims "Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR"

Pat Buchanan gets the last laugh

Pat Buchanan beat George H.W. Bush for the 1992 GOP nomination. It just took 33 years to count the votes. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Mayor Adams speaks to the inaugural class of HBCU Prep, a new HS partnering with Delaware State University.
“You are the Eric Adams and the Ericas of tomorrow,” he tells them.

The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II.

Prominent far-right influencers have been attempting to rehabilitate Hitler's reputation. That's not an exaggeration; it's easily documented. I wrote about why they are doing this, what they hope to gain, and what it means for America.

Paul Renner enters Florida governor’s race, taking on Trump-backed Byron Donalds “I’m a pro-Trump, pro-DeSantis Republican, through and through,” said Renner, a former Florida House speaker.

Paul Renner has entered the Florida governor’s race, taking on Trump-backed Byron Donalds.

Harmeet Dhillon at NatCon: "When the next group of elites comes to demand we stop protecting fairness in hiring, confidence in our elections, safety in girls sports, we're going to answer them the same way that Leonidas answered on the eve of the Battle of Thermopylae: Molon Labe. Come and take it."