Trump starts playing QAnon music during his bizarre slur-filled NRA speech

2015: Jim Ratcliffe, 'I don't like doing things if we have not been really rigorous in our analysis.. I don't like people winging it'

2024: Jim Ratcliffe, 'Well Brexit sort of unfortunately didn't umm, it didn't turn out as people anticipated'

BREAKING: Donald Trump just glitched out and froze at his rally tonight. He is clearly unfit for office. Retweet so every American knows Trump is senile.

Andrew Rawnsley Excellent piece, as ever, Andrew.

Students at Dartmouth got an amazing graduation gift from their commencement speaker Thursday —billionaire Robert Hale surprised more than 1,100 graduates with $1,000 each. But it came with just one catch. cbsn.ws/3K7LbrK

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili vetoed a draft law on foreign agents, but her decision could be overridden by another vote in parliament
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Fentanyl is now almost certainly the biggest killer of Americans between the ages of 18 and 49. Economists may have at last found a convincing explanation for the crisis econ.st/4aXcj8w 👇

Superb 🤣

Yakima Canutt doubles for John Wayne in this insane stunt for John Ford's 'Stagecoach' (1939), a key influence on George Miller's approach to the #MadMax franchise.

Discussed in my new video: youtube.com/watch?v=Z3RTET…

#MAGA : “Name 1 racist thing Trump ever did”
Real America: “Refused to rent to Blacks, insisted Blacks be removed from construction jobs, called African countries “shitholes”, ran a full page ad condemning the (innocent) Central Park 5, is a ‘Birther.’
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The National Rifle Association is formally supporting former President Donald Trump, an expected endorsement that came Saturday at the group’s annual convention in Dallas. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

It's not hard to know what kind of energy Trump is conjuring and it's not economic anxiety.

NEW: 'The long arc of harassment, assault and murder of Palestinians by Jewish settlers is twinned with a shadow history, one of silence, avoidance and abetment by Israeli officials.' An investigation with Ronen Bergman and Natan Odenheimer נתן אודנהיימר ناتان اودنهايمر nytimes.com/2024/05/16/mag…

Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica

'Do not be put off by the fact it is in black and white or in Italian. It is the most beautiful film about a father and a son than I’ve ever seen.'

--- Danny Boyle

Trump: If the Democrats get their way, they will pass a federal law protecting abortion rights

Trump: I never got credit for what we did with COVID

(Over a million Americans died and he told us to inject bleach)

Fantastic work by The News Agents and Lewis Goodall - concluding, astutely, that Georgia is “ground zero” for the struggle between Russia and the West; liberal democracy vs illiberalism; misinformation and cultural wars…traits coming to infect all our politics. A cautionary tale

In your dreams. Unfortunately

The plan is working, Rishi Sunak Races Up the Rich List as Homelessness Soars
#GeneralElectionNow #ToriesOut680 #SunakOut

bylinetimes.com/2024/05/17/ris…

Reposted from AGES ago because it just popped up on my timeline again :-)