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  1. "The FBI director, Kash Patel, is denying allegations detailed in a new report that he drinks to excess and has been unreachable at times during his tenure in office.

    Patel threatened to sue the Atlantic over the story published on Friday, which detailed his alleged heavy drinking and how members of his security detail have on multiple occasions had difficulty waking him."

    A MAGA lout and lager lout in one?

    #MakeAmericaGrateAgain #US_Politics

  2. "It’s also evident that Trump wanted to come back into office in part to revenge himself on a country that in 2020 had rejected him, the way an ex-partner sometimes becomes a murderous stalker of the woman who dared to escape him, and specifically revenge himself on the individuals and institutions that had prosecuted him for crimes or otherwise thwarted him. Trump at some level knows he’s failing politically, cognitively and physically and wants to take it all down with him, the way that ancient rulers were buried with their slaughtered horses and servants. He’s also, as mortality breathes down his neck, trying to grab some immortality by sticking his name on buildings and park passes and currency."

    #MakeAmericaGrateAgain #tRump #US_Politics

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  3. "Truss has boasted she will be “bringing together conservatives from all parties” in order to save “woke” Britain from “terminal decline” for the event in London on 16-18 July, with tickets on sale from tomorrow."

    No, don't snigger...

    #tRuss #UK_Politics #US_Politics

    theguardian.com/politics/2026/

  4. "Truss has boasted she will be “bringing together conservatives from all parties” in order to save “woke” Britain from “terminal decline” for the event in London on 16-18 July, with tickets on sale from tomorrow."

    No, don't snigger...

    #tRuss #UK_Politics #US_Politics

    theguardian.com/politics/2026/

  5. "Truss has boasted she will be “bringing together conservatives from all parties” in order to save “woke” Britain from “terminal decline” for the event in London on 16-18 July, with tickets on sale from tomorrow."

    No, don't snigger...

    #tRuss #UK_Politics #US_Politics

    theguardian.com/politics/2026/

  6. "Truss has boasted she will be “bringing together conservatives from all parties” in order to save “woke” Britain from “terminal decline” for the event in London on 16-18 July, with tickets on sale from tomorrow."

    No, don't snigger...

    #tRuss #UK_Politics #US_Politics

    theguardian.com/politics/2026/

  7. "Truss has boasted she will be “bringing together conservatives from all parties” in order to save “woke” Britain from “terminal decline” for the event in London on 16-18 July, with tickets on sale from tomorrow."

    No, don't snigger...

    #tRuss #UK_Politics #US_Politics

    theguardian.com/politics/2026/

  8. Meanwhile in MAGA lout land...

    "The streams, many of which are not publicly available but remain accessible behind a paywall on Schwemmer’s Gumroad page, also contain previously unreported material from his earlier broadcasts. In one, he walks a user through a sequence of antisemitic leading questions on the Omegle platform before directing her to Fuentes’s streaming site. In others, he claims gay men are “weaponizing” gyms “to give you Aids” and celebrates a DNA test he says proved “I’m 0% Jewish”."

    #Racism #Xenophobia #Homophobia #US_Politics #GOP

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

  9. "Republicans talk about “running the country like a business.” Sure. They’ve run it the way Trump ran his businesses: with massive debts, a string of failures, and payouts for the folks at the top, while average workers get shafted again and again."

    #MakeAmericaGrateAgain #US_Politics #USPolitics

    robertreich.substack.com/p/hon

  10. "Trump voted in the race via mail-in ballot, despite criticizing the practice as “mail-in cheating” during an event in Tennessee this week. The president has long attacked voting by mail, describing it as a scam and arguing it creates fraud in elections. He still opted to vote by mail in the race although he was recently in Palm Beach, where early in-person voting was under way until Sunday."

    #Hypocrite #MakeAmericaGrateAgain #Florida #US_politics

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

  11. "Trump voted in the race via mail-in ballot, despite criticizing the practice as “mail-in cheating” during an event in Tennessee this week. The president has long attacked voting by mail, describing it as a scam and arguing it creates fraud in elections. He still opted to vote by mail in the race although he was recently in Palm Beach, where early in-person voting was under way until Sunday."

    #Hypocrite #MakeAmericaGrateAgain #Florida #US_politics

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

  12. "Trump voted in the race via mail-in ballot, despite criticizing the practice as “mail-in cheating” during an event in Tennessee this week. The president has long attacked voting by mail, describing it as a scam and arguing it creates fraud in elections. He still opted to vote by mail in the race although he was recently in Palm Beach, where early in-person voting was under way until Sunday."

    #Hypocrite #MakeAmericaGrateAgain #Florida #US_politics

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

  13. "Trump voted in the race via mail-in ballot, despite criticizing the practice as “mail-in cheating” during an event in Tennessee this week. The president has long attacked voting by mail, describing it as a scam and arguing it creates fraud in elections. He still opted to vote by mail in the race although he was recently in Palm Beach, where early in-person voting was under way until Sunday."

    #Hypocrite #MakeAmericaGrateAgain #Florida #US_politics

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

  14. "Trump voted in the race via mail-in ballot, despite criticizing the practice as “mail-in cheating” during an event in Tennessee this week. The president has long attacked voting by mail, describing it as a scam and arguing it creates fraud in elections. He still opted to vote by mail in the race although he was recently in Palm Beach, where early in-person voting was under way until Sunday."

    #Hypocrite #MakeAmericaGrateAgain #Florida #US_politics

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

  15. "The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright."

    It hasn't been a democracy for a long time.

    It's a corporate kleptocracy, to which one can currently add the adjective kakistocratic.

    #MakeAmericaGrateAgain #US_Politics

    theguardian.com/world/commenti

  16. My suggestion for anyone is: [Aa, Etou: DIO DA!]
    Apologise with no minimisation for exactly what you now wish you hadn't done.
    Explain what you will choose in future, instead.

    Describe what your ideal outcome was, compared to what your ideal outcome is now.
    Include clear reasoning for why it was harmful.
    Outline how people can check you are progressing toward your goals.

    Don't expect forgiveness.
    Apply your analysis of this situation to other areas of your life.

    youtube.com/watch?v=dosD33zi6rI

    #NonApology #SorryNotSorry #MAGA #MakeEuropeGreatAgain #FarRight #politics #US_Politics #Republican #RepublicanLite #RightWing #MAHA #HowTo #HowToApologize #Tutorial #Explainer #Guide #Idea #Ideas #Restorative

  17. My suggestion for anyone is: [Aa, Etou: DIO DA!]
    Apologise with no minimisation for exactly what you now wish you hadn't done.
    Explain what you will choose in future, instead.

    Describe what your ideal outcome was, compared to what your ideal outcome is now.
    Include clear reasoning for why it was harmful.
    Outline how people can check you are progressing toward your goals.

    Don't expect forgiveness.
    Apply your analysis of this situation to other areas of your life.

    youtube.com/watch?v=dosD33zi6rI

    #NonApology #SorryNotSorry #MAGA #MakeEuropeGreatAgain #FarRight #politics #US_Politics #Republican #RepublicanLite #RightWing #MAHA #HowTo #HowToApologize #Tutorial #Explainer #Guide #Idea #Ideas #Restorative

  18. My suggestion for anyone is: [Aa, Etou: DIO DA!]
    Apologise with no minimisation for exactly what you now wish you hadn't done.
    Explain what you will choose in future, instead.

    Describe what your ideal outcome was, compared to what your ideal outcome is now.
    Include clear reasoning for why it was harmful.
    Outline how people can check you are progressing toward your goals.

    Don't expect forgiveness.
    Apply your analysis of this situation to other areas of your life.

    youtube.com/watch?v=dosD33zi6rI

    #NonApology #SorryNotSorry #MAGA #MakeEuropeGreatAgain #FarRight #politics #US_Politics #Republican #RepublicanLite #RightWing #MAHA #HowTo #HowToApologize #Tutorial #Explainer #Guide #Idea #Ideas #Restorative

  19. My suggestion for anyone is: [Aa, Etou: DIO DA!]
    Apologise with no minimisation for exactly what you now wish you hadn't done.
    Explain what you will choose in future, instead.

    Describe what your ideal outcome was, compared to what your ideal outcome is now.
    Include clear reasoning for why it was harmful.
    Outline how people can check you are progressing toward your goals.

    Don't expect forgiveness.
    Apply your analysis of this situation to other areas of your life.

    youtube.com/watch?v=dosD33zi6rI

    #NonApology #SorryNotSorry #MAGA #MakeEuropeGreatAgain #FarRight #politics #US_Politics #Republican #RepublicanLite #RightWing #MAHA #HowTo #HowToApologize #Tutorial #Explainer #Guide #Idea #Ideas #Restorative

  20. My suggestion for anyone is: [Aa, Etou: DIO DA!]
    Apologise with no minimisation for exactly what you now wish you hadn't done.
    Explain what you will choose in future, instead.

    Describe what your ideal outcome was, compared to what your ideal outcome is now.
    Include clear reasoning for why it was harmful.
    Outline how people can check you are progressing toward your goals.

    Don't expect forgiveness.
    Apply your analysis of this situation to other areas of your life.

    youtube.com/watch?v=dosD33zi6rI

    #NonApology #SorryNotSorry #MAGA #MakeEuropeGreatAgain #FarRight #politics #US_Politics #Republican #RepublicanLite #RightWing #MAHA #HowTo #HowToApologize #Tutorial #Explainer #Guide #Idea #Ideas #Restorative

  21. "Draw a political line, fold, draw a political line on another issue, fold differently..." seems to be the Democratic strategy and somehow they think it's a winner.

    (Of course, the constant drone in the background is genocide, where no line is drawn, even performatively.)

    #US_politics

  22. This democratic national convention is actually something I thought I never would say, it's actually hype as fuck!
    It's no secret that I am more of a democrat than anything, I value getting a choice over what I do and how I would make a living.
    And even though I don't live in that country called America, I am always watching over it as at some point I would hope that those with disabilities could get to a point where we could really start forming a business there some day, and we would need people that don't or won't tell us men or women no, but people who would side with us as much as they can going forward.
    So this election I hope that those with disabilities will pick the people who would stand up for the future blind business makers, and those who will fight for the small and much, rather than the big and little.

    #US_Politics #Politics #Democratic_National_Convention

  23. OH: #Democratic identity politics; We want to ensure that your group is represented.
    #Republican identity politics: We want to ensure that only your group is represented

    #uspol #us_politics @us_politics

  24. OH: “you’re not respecting the democratic process!” says party who has had two presidents in my lifetime that lost the popular vote, and had a lethal insurrection attempt to undo the most recent presidential election

    #us_politics #gop #us2024 #uspol

  25. @[email protected] the gatoraide and seltzer ain't bad.

    Have you tried HOT gatoraide yet? because you need to cycle through the full range of sickness beverage options and combos.
    #us_politics #local_government

  26. @[email protected] the gatoraide and seltzer ain't bad.

    Have you tried HOT gatoraide yet? because you need to cycle through the full range of sickness beverage options and combos.
    #us_politics #local_government

  27. @[email protected] the gatoraide and seltzer ain't bad.

    Have you tried HOT gatoraide yet? because you need to cycle through the full range of sickness beverage options and combos.
    #us_politics #local_government

  28. @[email protected] the gatoraide and seltzer ain't bad.

    Have you tried HOT gatoraide yet? because you need to cycle through the full range of sickness beverage options and combos.
    #us_politics #local_government

  29. @[email protected] the gatoraide and seltzer ain't bad.

    Have you tried HOT gatoraide yet? because you need to cycle through the full range of sickness beverage options and combos.
    #us_politics #local_government

  30. #politics #election2024 #Facebook #voteRigging #US_Politics

    Episode 4 of The Gatekeepers describes how 26 Facebook bot accounts were able to influence 3 MILLION voters in the Phillipines, and how this was only a dry run for the 2016 US Presidential election.

    Steps taken by Facebook to prevent a recurrence of such malign influence in 2024 cannot so far guarantee similar tactics won't work again.

    (Listeners outside the UK may need a VPN or other way to spoof a UK IP address to use the BBC iPlayer service)

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wq29

  31. #politics #election2024 #Facebook #voteRigging #US_Politics

    Episode 4 of The Gatekeepers describes how 26 Facebook bot accounts were able to influence 3 MILLION voters in the Phillipines, and how this was only a dry run for the 2016 US Presidential election.

    Steps taken by Facebook to prevent a recurrence of such malign influence in 2024 cannot so far guarantee similar tactics won't work again.

    (Listeners outside the UK may need a VPN or other way to spoof a UK IP address to use the BBC iPlayer service)

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wq29