UK PM Keir Starmer has called the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” antisemitic

[But Greater Israel is OK!!]
"During a speech before the UN, Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a map that shows Israel stretching 'from the river to the sea'"
www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Michael Gove personally intervened to ensure that a Conservative donor's firm was awarded a multimillion pound covid contract.

Private correspondence reveals that Ciga Healthcare’s Brexit-supporting owner had pushed Gove to “take control” of the process.

The contract was awarded just days later

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The ENTIRE White House East Wing has been demolished (despite Trump PROMISING it would not be touched) as the 34x convicted felon moves forward with $300M+ personal ballroom

Q: Your response to people who say you haven't been transparent enough about demolishing the East Wing?

TRUMP: I haven't been transparent? Really? I showed this to everybody that would listen. 3rd rate reporters didn't see it because they didn't look. You're a third rate reporter. Always have been

While making an arrest or conducting a search, ICE MUST present either a signed, judicial warrant to enter private property, or an admin. warrant from the government agency authorizing an arrest or seizure. Spread the word!

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Just had flu and Covid vaxes and last week I had pneumonia vax.
Happy, healthy winter and Christmas!

Brad Setser:
The Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund is rapidly becoming the Peso Stabilization Fund. "Traders estimate the US Treasury sold between $400 million and $500 million [dollars], which they say is its biggest intervention so far"

Trump now plans to demolish the ENTIRE East Wing of the White House so he can build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom for his billionaire friends.

The teardown could be finished as soon as this weekend—destroying a structure built at the turn of the 20th century during Teddy Roosevelt’s administration.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

THIS.

We are all aware that he is an idiot

Jordan has a massive bag of baggage. He is married to Jake lipsett, the scammer behind mothership strategies which siphoned literally hundreds of millions of $ out of the pockets of dems, away from actual dem campaigns

Excellent work! Thank you. One major donor that connects Trump, Epstein, & Russia is Leon Black. In Russia with Trump in 1996 bsky.app/profile/chri...

An Idaho mother was brutally beaten and zip-tied by ICE in front of her three U.S. citizen children.

First moments after the Russian attack on a daycare in Kharkiv.

Kids crying for their moms, rescuers and civilians rushing to get them out of the building...
Heartbreaking.

Air Force One will fly you straight to Washington DC to party at the White House new Ballroom 🚩🙋😱

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

“We bow our heads in immeasurable sorrow as the evidence accumulates that Israel’s actions will be judged to have met the legal definition of genocide,” the letter reads.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

(CBS News) - A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”