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Trump: Katie Zacharia told everyone she was a lawyer. But what I wanted in the job was a liar! New Private Eye on shelves now.

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

I honestly don’t know much about El-Sayed, but this is a perfect answer from him. It’s also hilarious that Tommy used to work for Josh Hawley and was paid 250k for influencer marketing AGAINST El-Sayed. They might want to get a refund. What a spectacular backfire. The walk of shame at the end. 🤣

Chaos in Washington The new Private Eye is out now.

“It's funny how little we reflect on the fact that we assassinated the leader of a country.” From killing its Supreme Leader to breaking nuclear agreements, @rhodesben.bsky.social argues that Iran has no incentive to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. anymore. zeteo.com/p/why-on-ear...

NEW: The leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey:

Musk is an enemy of Europe. There is no justification for continuing to use his products

This is pathetic. Ukraine tested Starlink speed restrictions in Europe and had no issues - the restrictions only exist in Ukraine. The Trump administration is actively helping Russia kill Ukrainians - and risking the lives of US and NATO advisors in Ukraine.

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This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.

And 3 Weeks Before An Election, Shameful racist fascist Trump.......

The days of 'going along to get along' are fucking over. We're done watching Dem's pretend we can just move forward after the Rapepublicans ignored the Constitution, committed crimes against humanity, and completely lost their collective minds. We want consequences. We want justice.

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Who amongst us hasn't been provoked into saying black people are animals and the King is a secret Muslim who should be decapitated?

You have to appreciate the fact that these idiots always make these comments and never realize the context and facts.

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They should all be doing this because they know that he's a prolific liar and a con man with absolute bad intentions toward this country. If they don't, then they're complicit.

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

The Triple Locke From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1627, July 2024.

So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…

Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.

Ed Miliband, 'Every experience I've had in the two months that I've been Foreign Secretary tells me: our future lies in a deeper, stronger partnership with the EU." So much more refreshing and honest than Keir Starmer's disastrous make Brexit work nonsense.

Our polling with YouGov shows that 99% of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. And Labour promising to rejoin the EU could stop a Reform UK government. Now is the time to talk about EU membership. https://www.ft.com/content/a1614884-7c8c-4320-bf61-4eaaa8f6960b?syn-25a6b1a6=1

The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.

AB: "I don't think you get the welfare bill down with crude cuts. It plunges people into crisis and they show up in other parts of the system which end up costing more." LK: "Yeah, you've said this before, but I'm looking for a specific commitment you will cut the bill by the next election." WOW

“The occupation is responsible for what happened to us. If they hadn’t bombed the building at the start of the war, it wouldn’t have collapsed.” Journalist Mohammed Al-Astal reports from Gaza City where buildings continue to collapse and kill Palestinians. Read more: zeteo.com/p/in-gaza-wh...

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.

"Proscribe the extreme far right groups before it's too late" via The UK Against Hate

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

WAPO is reporting that at least four more service members have died in the war in Iran than DOD is publicly acknowledging. CNN is reporting that the US almost seized a Chinese vessel because AI incorrectly identified it as containing Iranian nuclear material. Clown show.

That's pretty funny.

If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

I usually attribute Trump's bizarre ramblings to either his psychopathic lying or his psychotic delusions, or some combination of the two. But this is just him being an economically illiterate moron.

Absolutely unhinged response from the Israeli government, trying to revoke the citizenship of people who make critical films about the armed forces. Symptomatic of a national descent into far-right authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

This is all probably impossible - Ceta ratification alone seems challenging ahead of European elections - but the imagery is very welcome. Carney has the best vision of a post-US world order and the EU is the best vehicle to make it happen.

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

Katie Phang on a Russian oligarch bankrolling Don Jr.’s wedding: “They’re so dumb, we see it happening in real time. But because there’s no consequence or accountability, they just do it in the wide open.”

The video of this is genuinely unsettling. He literally appears to have no idea what the journalist is talking about when she mentions January 6—even when she clarifies that she is talking about 2021 and about the rioters at the Capitol that day. He looks at her blankly. Scary.

It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here.

As @sundersays.bsky.social just pointed out, these “costumes” are really uniforms, banned under the Public Order Act 1936

This is what people voted for. Then they complain endlessly . . . and vote for it again. Geez people, look at what is actually happening, not what you're being told, and recalibrate.

So much truth here! 😢