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Fuck you, RFK Jr.

On a lighter (but gross) note.
Today I learned that the Thanksgiving turkey is deep-fried.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 27, 2025 8:46 pm On a lighter (but gross) note.
Today I learned that the Thanksgiving turkey is deep-fried.

Democrats win the race to become Mayor in Miami.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/1 ... 6-00684351

MIAMI — Former Miami-Dade County Commissioner Eileen Higgins is heading to the Miami mayor’s office, becoming the first Democrat elected to the position in 28 years. And Democrats in Florida and nationwide are exuberant over the results.

Higgins easily defeated Republican Emilio Gonzalez to become the city’s first woman mayor, with Sunshine State Democrats predicting it was just the beginning of brighter days ahead after multiple cycles of statewide woe at the ballot box.

Higgins campaign adviser Christian Ulvert said the victory showed voters wanted to get back to uniting communities and addressing kitchen-table issues.



“We have a plus-five registration advantage in Miami, but we over-performed to an 8 point turnout advantage — that shows it can be done,” Ulvert said from Higgins’ victory party at the Miami Women’s Club in Edgewater. “It also reinforces what Commissioner Higgins has been saying all along: When you show up and get the work done, voters stand up and stand with you every day.”

Higgins’ campaign is likely to be studied carefully by other Democratic hopefuls in Florida. She ran not on social justice or culture war issues, but on improving affordability and making government work better. She agreed with Republicans that the city’s finances needed a careful look.

AAnd now it's Piracy.

US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w9lg11jw0o

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth was aware of the operation, and the Trump administration was considering more actions like this, a source told CBS.

When asked by reporters what the US would do with the oil on the tanker, Trump said: "We keep it, I guess... I assume we're going to keep the oil."

Can we now start referring to Yankistan as a rogue state?

Considering Mango Mugabe now seems to want to interfere in European elections, yes...

I, like many on here, am wary of hyperbole, but this escapade in Venezuela looks every inch like state-sponsored piracy.

Nicolás Maduro has lost much of his initial legitimacy, but a race to the bottom doesn't look like state-craft by any measure. These vandals deserve each other - I just hopelessly wish that decent, normal people could be shielded from their cock-waving silliness.

The issue here is wealth and these white men's access to untold riches. This wealth is, by its very existence, devaluing human life and deeply racist.

To quote Marina Hyde, "there’s such a fine line, isn't there, between statecraft and the-absolute-state-of-it craft".

Even if we shy away from piracy (or privateeracy), it's a clear demonstration of Gladstone era gunboat diplomacy

Police intensify search for MIT professor's killer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly08y25688o

Should we expect a similar reaction to Charlie Kirk's murder?

Doubt it.

"what do you call a intelligent American?"

"an immigrant."

This is almost comical. I can't actually tell whether this is deliberate sabotage or not, or whether this Bari Weiss doing her best. If you don't know who she is, she was a jobbing writer at New York Times, who resigned because "woke", and has got herself appointed Head of News at CBS News.

https://bsky.app/profile/lindaholmes.bs ... layfwams2g

Don't worry, Bari has a top explanation.

Nicked from the Guardian:

Yesterday Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, issued this statement saying:

The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose. These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states—in each case targeting American speakers and American companies. As such, I have determined that their entry, presence, or activities in the United States have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.

The state department has sanctioned five Europeans.
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators

The list includes two Britons: Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, and Clare Melford, who runs the Global Disinformation Index. Ahmed used to work for the Labour party and he is close to Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff. According to Politico’s London Playbook, Ahmed is based in Washington, where he has an American wife and child, and he now faces deportation. Politico also says Melford faces having her US visa revoked.

Last night Sarah Rogers, the under secretary of state for public diplomacy at the state department, posted a thread on X defending the decision. She said the Trump administration was targeting the “censorship-NGO ecosystem”.

Today, the United States issued SANCTIONS reinforcing the “red line” I invoked on @GBNEWS. Namely: extraterritorial censorship of Americans.

Today’s sanctions target the censorship-NGO ecosystem.

These sanctions are visa-related. We aren’t invoking severe Magnitsky-style financial measures, but our message is clear: if you spend your career fomenting censorship of American speech, you’re unwelcome on American soil.

She also took a swipe at the Liberal Democrats.

None of those sanctioned is a current UK or EU official—however, we know that foreign government officials are actively targeting the United States. This week, the UK’s Liberal Democrats claimed President Trump’s National Security Strategy amounts to “foreign interference” by a “hostile foreign state” because it correctly* identifies mass migration and decaying national sovereignty as existential European security concerns.

*In your opinion, sweetie. I'd say far too many people being overtly influenced by US media and social channels is the real cause of decay in this country.

Two things:

One - can we refuse to have American hate speech in Europe and bar them from Europe? Can we ban Meta and X, for starters?

Two - is GB News now the official outlet for American bilge?

What's this word "now?"

The US Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's bid to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area, over the objections of local and state officials...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4xzn04x03o.amp

A few weeks ago they blocked his attempt to send the National Guard to Los Angeles, now he can't send them to Chicago. Nice to see someone's standing up to the cunt.

Republican-appointed judges on lower courts have often been OK. The Supreme Court has been mostly making it up, but occasionally does the right thing.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Dec 26, 2025 1:13 pm Republican-appointed judges on lower courts have often been OK. The Supreme Court has been mostly making it up, but occasionally does the right thing.

Another of those great quirks of life - a written constitution has problems with the separation of powers while our make it up as you go along version has survived the centuries.