Chris Connolly
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Lucky for Trump that Democrats in the Senate jumped in to stop the decline!
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Lucky for Trump that Democrats in the Senate jumped in to stop the decline!
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Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
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I don't think the biggest problem is that this relief exists. The total allowance is 60k. That's just mad.
You can also park 20k in your ISA, 9k in JISA per kids, 2.8k in JSIPP per kid.
A family of 4 can shelter just over 183k per year from tax.
You can also park 20k in your ISA, 9k in JISA per kids, 2.8k in JSIPP per kid.
A family of 4 can shelter just over 183k per year from tax.
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I don't think the biggest problem is that this relief exists. The total allowance is 60k. That's just mad.
You can also park 20k in your ISA, 9k in JISA per kids, 2.8k in JSIPP per kid.
A family of 4 can shelter just over 183k per year from tax.
You can also park 20k in your ISA, 9k in JISA per kids, 2.8k in JSIPP per kid.
A family of 4 can shelter just over 183k per year from tax.
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"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
Go flurries!
I assume this is a sportsball reference?
I assume this is a sportsball reference?
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Go flurries!
I assume this is a sportsball reference?
I assume this is a sportsball reference?
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This week I have written about whether the government's proposed changes to school accountability - Progress 8 - make sense (£/free trial). timleunig.substack.com/p/school-sta... @daisychristo.bsky.social @branwenjeffreys.bsky.social @schoolsweek.bsky.social @beckyfrancis.bsky.social
School standards
What to do about secondary school accountability measures
timleunig.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This week I have written about whether the government's proposed changes to school accountability - Progress 8 - make sense (£/free trial). timleunig.substack.com/p/school-sta... @daisychristo.bsky.social @branwenjeffreys.bsky.social @schoolsweek.bsky.social @beckyfrancis.bsky.social
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OTD - November 10, 1969 Sesame Street airs for the first time on National Educational Television, the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Corporation, with a goal to "master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them".
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
OTD - November 10, 1969 Sesame Street airs for the first time on National Educational Television, the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Corporation, with a goal to "master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them".
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BREAKING: Trump just got loudly booed at the Commanders game.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
BREAKING: Trump just got loudly booed at the Commanders game.
*smiles in CIA*
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
*smiles in CIA*
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We sent the presidencies of Harding and Nixon straight to hell for a fraction of the corruption that happens every hour of every day on camera in this regime
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
We sent the presidencies of Harding and Nixon straight to hell for a fraction of the corruption that happens every hour of every day on camera in this regime
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
Since Trump took office:
- Job cuts up 65%
- Hiring down 35%
It’s the economy, stupid.
- Job cuts up 65%
- Hiring down 35%
It’s the economy, stupid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Since Trump took office:
- Job cuts up 65%
- Hiring down 35%
It’s the economy, stupid.
- Job cuts up 65%
- Hiring down 35%
It’s the economy, stupid.
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Jake Tapper show yourself, you duplicitous charlatan
Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Jake Tapper show yourself, you duplicitous charlatan
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
New reaction GIF just dropped.
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
New reaction GIF just dropped.
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Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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You don't end up potentially nuking your career under Corbyn, ending up where he has in the party or on trans rights if the only thing you want is to be leader
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
You don't end up potentially nuking your career under Corbyn, ending up where he has in the party or on trans rights if the only thing you want is to be leader
It’s past bonfire night and we have the weather of a disappointing summer’s day. Crazy!
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It’s past bonfire night and we have the weather of a disappointing summer’s day. Crazy!
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When I was working for a Chinese government contractor in 2019, my mainland colleagues insisted that Trump was a fellow traveler who was just doing Chinese communism very badly, and would fail because of the US’ public’s independent streak.
FWIW, I think they’re completely correct now.
FWIW, I think they’re completely correct now.
So when are we allowed to do comparative politics between the CCP and the Republican party?
Trump: "I want my cabinet to behave like [Xi Jinping's staff]. I'm demanding that....I've never seen men so scared in their lives...JD doesn't behave like that. JD butts into conversations."
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
When I was working for a Chinese government contractor in 2019, my mainland colleagues insisted that Trump was a fellow traveler who was just doing Chinese communism very badly, and would fail because of the US’ public’s independent streak.
FWIW, I think they’re completely correct now.
FWIW, I think they’re completely correct now.
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The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
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One of my favourite things to do as homework is get students to find a poem they think should be studied is lessons. Today, a student brought this poem and the class loved exploring it.
Things I Have Stolen
by Caleb Femi
Things I Have Stolen
by Caleb Femi
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
One of my favourite things to do as homework is get students to find a poem they think should be studied is lessons. Today, a student brought this poem and the class loved exploring it.
Things I Have Stolen
by Caleb Femi
Things I Have Stolen
by Caleb Femi
Classic Leopard Partyism.
something that the dems have always struggled with (for at least 15 years now) is that the public doesn't believe the GOP is actually like that, it's always a "negotiating tactic" or "just red meat for the base", even if it's literally written GOP platform stuff. anyways:
"the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn’t know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don’t like it." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Classic Leopard Partyism.