Q: Who's the chap shaking hands in this photo from the ballot-count in Makerfield?

A: I don't know, but the bloke whose hand he's shaking is the famous Count Binface...

#StateOfTheUnion
#UKpol #Labour #Starmer #Burnham
#MakerfieldByelection
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-andy-burnham-reform-labour-b1286766.html

Trump could have persuaded Americans about the need for an #IranWar during his recent #StateOfTheUnion speech, or during his even more recent 19 minute speech to the American people. He failed to do so.

Polls show that the #IranWar is an unpopular war. Susan Glasser, an American journalist, said Trump's 19 minute speech was a lot like a Truth Social post. Truth Social, despite its name, is a place where truth is hard to find. It is partially owned by often dishonest Donald Trump..

Senior Trump officials seem to have no idea what ICE agents are supposed to be doing at airports

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-confusion-ice-tsa-airports

Last night during our banned book club meeting I learned that I.C.E. kidnapped some people from the parking lot of our local grocery store with the help of our police department last week and our state penitentiary subcontracts prison labor to corporations.

Great. Now I have two local issues to be depressed about this morning.

Maybe I'll just go back to bed.

#Sigh
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#StupidestTimeline