@KerryHolmekb First Ladies face an impossible set of expectations. They are simultaneously expected to be approachable and traditional, while also being policy advocates. When they step out of those narrow expectations, they are attacked for personal, rather than substantive, criticism.
Have you considered the possibility that anti-vaccination propaganda could be an attempt by the Russians or the Chinese to weaken the health of the United States population? 🤔
WATCH: “When you don’t stand up to it you inherently make it ok.”
@Kanew calls out reporters who stood by as Trump said “QUIET PIGGY” to @catherine_lucey, and says by not standing up to his misogynistic, authoritarian bullying they let him bully journalism into irrelevancy.
Quiet Piggy?!?!? AYFKM? The audacity is amazing.
Could you imagine if a reporter said some of the same back at him?
(IE. You're a terrible person and a terrible President.). He told a reporter "You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter."
Nothing should be off the table after that one.
A 49-25 blasting at the hands of Texas A&M calls into question both short and long term problems with the direction of the LSU program.
#LSU
https://t.co/E8Vseb1CSE
I mean HOWWWWW can you as an ATHLETE on @LSUfootball go into halftime w a 4-pt lead and absolutely come out in the 2H with ZERO ENERGY, ZERO PISS AND VINEGAR & let aTm go up 3-scores in a blink of an eye….
Don’t ask a fucking thing from the fans until changes are made #LSU
Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience.
I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take.
They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks.
We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend.
Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border.
Criminals will work around it.
Honest citizens will pay the price.
It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to.
It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life.
One breach and your life is exposed.
Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life.
Here is the risk that ministers will not admit.
Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider:
It lies quiet for months. It rolls through the backups. On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted.
Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch.
Centralise identity and you centralise failure.
Do not fall for the pitch.
Function creep is certain. It starts as login.
It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services.
It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors.
It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target.
It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online.
It will centralise risk and outsource blame.
It will not stop fraud.
It will not stop illegal migration.
It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth.
If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay.
You do not need a national ID to do any of that.
We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason.
Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status.
Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.
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Republicans announced Tuesday that the House of Representatives will call it quits a day early and head home in the face of persistent Democratic efforts to force Republicans into voting on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Research points to several psychological mechanisms that explain why some Trump supporters remain loyal despite controversies. Confirmation bias leads them to seek information that aligns with their beliefs, often from sources like Fox News or right-wing media, while dismissing
The media landscape reinforces division. Supporters often consume news from outlets that amplify Trump’s narrative, creating echo chambers where alternative views are rarely encountered. This insulates them from challenging information, making it easier to dismiss criticism as