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2026-02-07 12:38:15 GMT

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More direct hyperlink:
https://thenational.scot/news/25834517.full-secret-notice-peter-mandelson-just-sent-uk-media/
#TheNational #IPSO #PeterMandelson #UKPolitics #EpsteinFiles #DonaldJTrump

2026-02-03 19:39:25 GMT

Damn!
Happily searching the #EpsteinFiles for bizarre inclusions of computer software stuff (e.g. Adobe Flash README, #NetBSD, Python), I tried looking up qmail.
I stumbled upon #PeterMandelson e-mails that the journalists won't find because one has to understand Received: headers to know whom they are from, and the base64 encoding of the body hides the text from the search engines.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00754474.pdf
#UKPolitics

2025-10-07 11:48:24 GMT

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People don't realize how far gone this is.
A state of emergency was declared, under several provisions of federal law, half a year ago.
I stopped counting how many emergencies had been declared. But back in May 2025 it was in the double digits.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/114269041345118934
The tariffs, the National Guard mobilizations, and other stuff, have all been done through emergency powers.
#USPolitics #DonaldJTrump #USLaw #MartialLaw #EmergencyPowers #fascism

2024-10-19 06:30:51 GMT

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As @cstross has pointed out, you then have Vance to worry about.
By the way: #DonaldJTrump dying before 2024-11-02 has different consequences to xem dying before the Presidential election on 2024-12-17 (if I have my "first Tuesday after the second Wednesday" right) which in its turn differs from the farcical situation of xem dying in the 5 week window after winning the 2024-12-17 election (c.f. discussion in the hyperlinked thread).
https://mas.to/@Barbramon1/113306868053951013
#USPolitics

2024-09-06 10:06:52 GMT

Imagine a person from the past visiting the present.
S.F. people generally overestimate the culture shock. People from the past accommodate the present all of the time, after all.
Funnily enough, all of the old people did *not* have to die off to let us switch to fuel in litres and decimal coinage. (-:
But imagine someone from the 1920s coming to the 2020s and finding that *Labour* is concerned about Russia funding and supplying the propaganda for the *Conservative* Party.
#UKPolitics

2024-08-11 08:49:51 GMT

Andrew Kerr and Mary McCool of #BBCNews present Scotland's lack of involvement in the #EnglandRiots as some sort of great mystery …
… yet name the English Defence League as soon as the piece gets past the first quote.
People dressed in the English flag, shouting about how the non-English are bad, associated with the people in C4's RUK exposé talking about "proper English" things.
And 2 professors and an expert journalist cannot figure out why this is unattractive in #Scotland‽
#UKPolitics

2024-08-07 22:53:31 GMT

It is a total non-surprise that the fascist criminal gangs failed to turn up in #Birmingham *again* today.
They have yet to turn up in Birmingham and the West Midlands in this supposed "U.K." rioting that #BBCNews and others have misportrayed it to be.
They didn't turn up in #Bristol today either, according to the Bristol Cable, and it almost goes without saying that Scotland and Wales are still not parts of this.
#UKPolitics #UKRiots

2024-06-29 10:55:12 GMT

#UKGeneralElection propaganda in newspapers & on the WWW that tries to scare you about a "supermajority" is lying to you.
In countries such as the U.S., Germany, Ireland, and France, the written constitutions specify that a few things can only be enacted if ⅗, ⅔, or even ¾ agree. That is what a #supermajority is.
There is no such thing in the U.K. Parliament. Anything over ½ counts.
Remember that this was even true for constitutionally fundamental things such as Brexit.
#UKPolitics