Sandra Wood

Trump's mental decline has been obvious for years, see the stuff he said during his first term, but it is becoming clearer by the day that it has now reached a point where his personal greed, corruption , and bigotries are not the most dangerous things about his presidency.

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If Joe Biden had said this we'd have had weeks of media speculation about his mental fragility.

Nick Timothy has always been an unpleasant authoritarian racist but the direct endorsement of racist mob violence (and attacking the police for preventing it) is genuinely a new low.

This is worth reading. It could be 'make your mind up time' for the Swiss.

Is there anything much more repulsive than a very wealthy, safe, privileged Tory/Reform MP/commentator targeting deliveroo drivers and asylum-seekers in dismal hotels with their anti-immigrant, racist bile - to whip up civil unrest that they hope to use as their lever into power? No.

Southwest Ohio to lose two health clinics over federal, state budget Medicaid cuts • Ohio Capital Journal Southwest Ohio is going to lose two reproductive health clinics due to the federal budget changes to Medicaid, a loss that could mean more abortions will happen, according to the leader of the clinics...

"While the budget changes bar health providers who perform abortions from being a part of Medicaid, the clinics being closed did not offer abortion services.

Their services included tests for sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, cancer screenings..."

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Those "concerned parents" outside "migrant hotels" remind me a lot of the paedophile mob panic created by the News of the World's "name and shame" campaign in 2000.

Same idiots. Same press. Same mentality.

Yes - the News of the World.

Remember why they shut down?

Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting In an extraordinary move to counter Republican redistricting in Texas, dozens of Democrats in the state House are landing in Illinois to deny a quorum.

In an extraordinary move to counter Republican redistricting in Texas, roughly 30 Democrats in the state House are heading to Chicago today to deny a necessary quorum for the GOP to move forward with those efforts. They plan to stay for the week, in a plan brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.

2016: Prime Minister David Cameron, "There are times when it is right to ask the people.. The British people have voted to leave the European Union"

2025: The Sunday Times, "Only 29% would back Brexit now"

When are we going to respect the will of the British people and rejoin the European Union?

Photo of Sunak in front of his ‘STOP THE BOATS’ lectern Immigration and asylum Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have 'shaped backlash against antiracism'

The report added: "One stark example of the partnership between parliament and the news media in framing public perceptions of immigration in the UK can be found in connection with the ‘stop the boats' political slogan. "The explicit use of this slogan by rioters in the summer of 2024 on banners and in chants demonstrates that the hostile language we have identified in our analysis has emboldened sectors of the UK public to engage in racist violence.

I wonder if Sunak regrets throwing all that red meat at the racist monster that now snarls at him and clamours to deport him… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We’ve all been there

Chris Annous, More in Common, on Times Radio,

"When we asked Britons how our relationship with the EU is going, many of them say, overwhelmingly say that things aren't going very well"

"It's not surprising that people, if they were to reconsider, are more open to remaining in the EU"

Indian journalist mocks President Trump in a lengthy rant

Padilla: "Let's understand why Trump is asking for 5 more seats out of Texas. It's bc his policies, especially his economic policies, has been so bad ... if Rs were confident of their policy agenda, they'd be eager to defend, but they know they're in trouble. They're trying to rig the system."

NEW POLL: This is quite the turnaround.

A majority would vote to Remain - and by a long way.

In fact, if you were to remove “don’t know” & “wouldn’t vote”, that’s 64% vs 36% in a referendum.

See: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Smacks of the Tories' racist "Are you thinking what we're thinking [about immigration]" in the 2005 election.

Blatant racism is never far from the surface with Tories, as Tom Swarbrick is demonstrating on @lbc.co.uk right now.

Caller 'Chris' to @tomswarbrick.bsky.social: "I grew up in South London, and I don't recognise it anymore... [too many migrants]"

Swarbrick: "I agree with you, Chris..."

@lbc.co.uk is now just Daily Mail radio.

This 'we speak your mind' Telegraph campaign of 2025 seems to be a more didactic copy of the 'are you thinking what we're thinking?' 2005 Conservative General Election campaign under Michael Howard

"Prride in your country"

I don't have time to list them, but there are so many academic research projects that, on their face, could have been described as pointless or a waste of time & money, but resulted in massive medical or scientific advances that have made all of our lives safer or healthier or more productive

Apart from anything else what does that ridiculous phrase on the billboard even mean?

See the way it works is the victims identify the perpetrators not another sexual predator involved in human trafficking and sexual abuse.

Just use the victims’ statements and evidence.

Maxwell is a criminal who will lie 100% guaranteed, especially about Trump.

Heartbreaking story of a Maxwell and Epstein’s survivor who underwent horrific abuses and remembers the predominant role of Maxwell in the molestation.

Maxwell is worse than Epstein. As a young woman, you automatically feel safer with a woman and Maxwell used that to her benefit.

So those thinking that Epstein was worse. I disagree!

It’s so sad what she did to these young women.
#Pinks 💖 #OV1

No way older grey Epstein could go into a mall, or a fitness club, and entice children to go with him - only a posh sounding woman can do the enticing, fishing, and entrapment. This is Maxwell - she is NOT and never HAS been, a victim. She is just as evil and guilty, if not more so.

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