Robert Mackey

Headline: BBC under pressure to pull Sally Rooney dramas over vow to fund Palestine Action

Headline: Tory minister Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at far right protest.

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

“the states are an agent of the federal government” is the most substantive thing here and even i, someone with dim view of state sovereignty, understands this to be false.

and also, an executive order banning mail-in voting has the legal authority of a social media post

Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October.

JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ

continue to think that a major issue is the extent to which too many elected democrats are mentally captive to the politics of the 1980s and 1990s in ways that leave them unable to try new things

"About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’

“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’"

THREAD: Centering the conversation on crime - which is always too much and terrible and devastating- suggests that violent crime justifies the presidential takeover of an American city. Trump declared a crime “emergency” in Washington, D.C. His power emanates from that declaration. 1/

anyway this entire thing screams stephen miller and like everything he does, it does not seem as if he's thought past the initial provocation.

the message from the white house is that you live in a city run by people the president doesn't like, you will be occupied like you are an enemy of the state.

GOP chief of staff for Walberg (MI-05) marries DEM chief or staff for Dingell (MI-06) Rep. Debbi. ‹ A @RepDeb... • 1h My chief Meg married Tim Walberg's chief Mike in a beautiful wedding in Michigan ... both Michigan Grads. GO Blue

If I was a congressman, and my chief of staff married a Republican chief of staff, I would literally fire them on the spot

Reservations plunge across DC restaurants after Trump's police takeover Online reservations dropped more than 25% in the days following President Trump's announcement that he was federalizing DC Police, according to OpenTable data.

WUSA-TV - DC restaurants saw a more than 25% drop in diners in the days following President Trump’s takeover of the city’s police department. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Sandwich man posters next to Dupont circle metro stop

Outside Dupont north metro

US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care Program providing key aid halted after complaints from Laura Loomer, the far-right influencer close to Trump

US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care after 'proud Islamophobe' Laura Loomer objects www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

One thing I did not include in my profile of Trump's BLS nominee, E.J. Antoni, is his boosting anti-Churchill far-right histories!

Every member of the US delegation at the 2018 Helsinki working lunch has denounced Trump since then. Putin was flanked by three top aides who were with him in Alaska today, when they skipped lunch. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left

Heinrich: And what was really stunning to me as someone who has been in a lot of these press conferences a few things very unusual. You had Putin come out and address the press first. We are on U.S. Soil here

Putin should have been arrested while on US soil

Every member of the US delegation at the 2018 Helsinki working lunch has denounced Trump since then. Putin was flanked by three top aides who were with him in Alaska today, when they skipped lunch. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Hard to tell which happened:

1) Putin didn't say this, he wouldn't make the embarrassing error of "no country has mail-in voting" when many countries like Germany and UK allow it for all voters.

2) Putin really did tell Trump this knowing Trump would repeat it and humiliate the U.S. even more.

🤷‍♂️

Of course, this makes no sense. If that were true, then why doesn’t Putin agree to a ceasefire, as Trump has asked?

Trump says no Ukraine agreement after Putin talks as he advises Zelenskyy to ‘make a deal’ – live US president tells Fox’s Sean Hannity meeting with Russian leader in Alaska was ‘10’ out of 10 and puts onus on Ukrainian president

In 2024 debate, Harris told Trump that Putin 'would eat you for lunch' in Ukraine talks. But lunch was canceled. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

this person should get a lawyer, and, if they don't have a lawyer, my number is easy to find

This fits pretty squarely in the classic definition of assault in that it a) is unlawfully directed at constitutionally protected activity and (b) causes the victim to reasonably fear imminent physically harmful contact

Trump sending ICE agents to Newsom’s press conference is thuggish totalitarian behavior, but more than that it’s deeply pathetic, insecure, and petty.

Antoni on Jan 6

incredible

The DC sandwich guy has been charged with assault for shouting at a CBP officer, throwing a sub into his chest, and then running off.

"I did it. I threw the sandwich," he said while he was being processed.

of course the president’s BLS nominee is a jan 6er

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.

Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)