Laura Wooster-Hoare

This administration is just randomly pro-pain

In 2019, Trump claimed he hadn’t spoken to Jeffrey Epstein in “15 years.”

In 2017, Jeffrey Epstein was telling friends he was spending Thanksgiving with Trump — then in his first year as President.

You can’t just pick out the email where the convicted pedo calls him dirty Donald and the one where Epstein says Donald was in the room with a victim for hours and the one where he says Donald knew about the pedophilia and the one about Donald and teens in bikinis, you’ll give people the wrong idea

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NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Water lilies - 1914/1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110500

Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

Epstein in emails: Trump knew about the girls. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey

Qanon believers, you are in for a hell of a plot twist.

Why children’s books matter | The Observer

Children’s fiction has the power to suggest an alternative way of being. We need it now more than ever.

Read more as Penelope Lively argues why children's books matter:
https://bit.ly/4r2xKO7

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a landscape with autumnal fields over distant hills and with a row of trees in the mid-ground

Machine embroidered lanscape artwork by Alison Holt, UK textile artist #WomensArt

At Downing St this morning with British Dental Association Chair Eddie Crouch.

The crisis in NHS dentistry was made in Westminster and it CAN be solved in Westminster.

‘DIY’ dentistry is a stain on this nation.

Reform is promised, but change has to start at the Treasury

The BBC is bigger than news | The Observer

‘In large parts of the country, BBC regional news is the only local news people see’

🔗 Stephen Armstrong on the BBC

https://bit.ly/47zICLz

When my depression’s especially bad I bring myself to the garden centre for the very good fractals. Ngl I’m tempted to buy myself a tiny Christmas tree & handmake all the decorations as a project to help my brain.🌿
PS I found that rowan leaf on the ground.

Opinion | Most Women Can Still Get Abortion Pills. That May Soon Change. American women need the freedom to determine the course of their own lives.

Republicans "are working hard to restrict telehealth abortion through a combination of state and federal action," the editorial board writes. "For abortions to remain as accessible as they have been in the past three years, defenders of reproductive health and freedom will need to fight back."

"All those Reform voters - let them ask Nigel Farage why he wants them to pay a licence fee to Donald Trump.”

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey pushes back on Trump’s $1 billion threat to the BBC, accusing Farage of “egging him on.”

Wait till he hears about the Electoral College..

Rachel Reeves has called out Brexit for what it is - an act of economic sabotage, and our report shows that Brits agree with the Chancellor on Brexit.

Before the Budget, write to your local news editor to show Brits know Brexit has been a failure.

https://bit.ly/43W6k2i

Owen Jones is demanding an apology cos I encouraged people to vote Labour.

To be fair, I did have a go at Jones for writing what I thought was a stupid column. It's just my opinion. Yours might differ.

But here's proof (from before GE2024) that I wasn't blind to Starmer.

god this room he shows off as a a preview of the ballroom is hilariously and horrifying tacky. worth watching in case you just swallowed any poisons recently and need to induce vomiting

"I build many ballrooms...and that's my greatest strength, actually."

The US President's greatest strength is... having someone else make ballrooms for him. Incredible, sir, just what we needed.

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Opinion | Teaching History in the Trump Era Readers respond to an article about how the teaching of U.S. history is changing. Also: Democratic pragmatism; emergency care at risk.

“When we can no longer agree on basic facts, or even on the frameworks that help us interpret them, our capacity for meaningful civic dialogue is deeply compromised,” Julian Kenneth Braxton, a high school history teacher, writes in a letter to The Times.

Bookstore Food Drives Help Food Stamp Recipients During the government shutdown, booksellers are collecting food for Americans who receive federal aid to buy groceries.

During the government shutdown, booksellers are collecting food for Americans who receive federal aid to buy groceries.

Even the corruption is just crass.

'Not the Sign of a Healthy Society': Inside the Bold New Doc on the School Shooting Industry

“I feel really angry that this is what we’re living with. There is a rage I feel that this is the best we can do."

The new documentary, 'Thoughts and Prayers,' takes a fresh — and deliberately unsettling — approach to America's active-shooter dystopia.

One specific building in Chicago that has a remarkably high vacancy rate (and has had since it was built in 2009) is Trump Tower, largely because the retail space is so badly designed nobody wants it

This entire article points out that there is no plan. His own Treasury Secretary says he doesn’t know anything about it. So why does media keep running these kind of headlines? He keeps making these Truth Social posts and media keeps running stories as if it is something real.