“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

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They’re dancing around these things but it’s pretty clear from this panel neither wants to put the kibosh on the other and get second place. It’s in both their best interest

All I care about is Sultana’s getting out in front of everybody else and already in conversation with Polanski that they’re going to do it as a coalition

Eh Sultana’s got her foot on the gas at the morning panel

My bodged team placed third, with a small spread from the winner. I think the bronze as good enough

Polanski’s surprise guest appearance as presenter for the pub quiz was, on the other hand, quite enjoyable for everyone involved

If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

Fair point.

To be fair to the party leadership, they are currently to the left of Labour on most issues, but that reflects Labour’s massive rightward shift

People, generally, don’t like hearing the truth about a moribund party they’re also a member of, but I see nothing wrong with them peeling off Labour votes

They’re fbpe types, with all the negative things that entail. Not against Brexit for any principled reasons, in my estimation. Very middle England. Always considered them a nonentity when it comes to left-wing politics

My controversial take is LibDems, like most British people, are racist and anti-immigrant by default, they just don’t run on racism and anti-immigrant policy like more overt right-wing parties. I also happen to be correct

Quite a feat to go from this to "and therefore universities must ban faculty and students from belittling conservative ideas"

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Not really. They were in coalition with the Tories and originally split from Labour. They’re probably closest to a centrism of homeowners and landlords that are racist and aren’t keen on immigrants in practice, but in the normal British mode of operation, not the right-wing type that are overtly so

it's giving Germania

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

Good 🧵

Machado has embraced the United States's indiscriminate murder of Venezuelan mariners in international and Venezuelan waters in the Caribbean Sea. She thinks it will help her gain power.

This is your white "peace".

The first episode of Collateral Damage, my reported podcast with The Intercept, went up today.

Hope you’ll check it out and, if you enjoy it, give it a favorable rating or review.

Eternal thanks to my producers @lauraflynn.bsky.social and Andrew Stelzer for making it happen.

Three cheers for the inflatable frog!

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile starts... now.

Has anyone ever asked this man to explain what the is wrong with being Palestinian? Seems like a simple follow up question. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I don't even know anymore man