Ivan White

Left of centre, pro-EU, pro-choice, atheist, anti-royals. MAGA morons, racists & plastic patriots are blocked. Like dogs, cats, foxes. Prostate cancer survivor.

[Truth or consequences @dandersen9465]

@CalltoActivism Trump has his Stock Broker on speed dial & doesn’t
care who knows.
GOP gave Trump all 3 Branches of government,
SCOTUS gave him ‘Immunity, why are we surprised at all!

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

SCOTUS just cleared an Alabama redistricting map that just 3 years ago a federal court ruled was illegal racial gerrymandering. Even after SCOTUS gutted the VRA, judges still said this map was unconstitutional.

But SCOTUS is allowing it for this election. Corrupt.

https://t.co/r993mqmHLU

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Justice Sotomayor BLASTS Trump’s justices in a scathing dissent over yet another rubber-stamping of Republican racist election-stealing shenanigans!

She didn’t hold back…

The right-wing conservatives on the Supreme Court just voted to allow Alabama to use a 2023 map which was so obviously racist that a three-judge panel of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump appointees again found that the map was unconstitutional.

But nothing except Republican power matters to Trump’s justices on SCOTUS, who voted 6-3 to allow Alabama to use the racist map anyway.

Justice Sotomayor eviscerated her fellow justices in her dissent, writing that they “disregard both democratic values and the rule of law.”

“In addition to being wrong on the merits, the Court’s decision inflicts two grave harms on the public. It debases the democratic process by upending Alabama’s entire election in the name of permitting Alabama to discriminate against Black Alabamians.”

“It also corrodes the rule of law by rewarding Alabama’s gamesmanship and outright defiance of court orders.”

“It is long established that ‘he who comes into equity must come with clean hands.’ Alabama’s hands, however, are far from clean. Instead, it defied the District Court’s order in these cases even after this Court affirmed it, and took utterly irreconcilable positions at different stages in these cases to suit its own purposes.”

“Now the Court is squarely faced with a record of the turmoil it has caused and the harm it has wrought. Yet just as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos. Because I choose to defend the rule of law and the right of all Alabamians to participate equally in democracy, I respectfully dissent.”

It is absolutely abhorrent the way that Trump’s justices have allowed state Republicans to play legislative Calvinball with the law and the rules, arguing one thing one day and against that very same thing the next when it suits them.

No precedent matters, no good faith interpretation of the law, nothing matters except the exercise of power and advancing the MAGA agenda.

Once we retake power, impeaching Trump’s justices and reforming our courts has to be a top priority – because if we don’t, they will pack the courts even more and entrench one-party rule forever.

Like and share to spread her powerful words to EVERY American!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 The Most Shocking Part Of The Alabama Redistricting Case Isn't The Map.

It's What The Supreme Court Said About It.

According to critics of the ruling, the Court acknowledged that Black voters were being denied equal political representation under Alabama's congressional map.

Yet despite recognizing the problem, the Court ultimately allowed the map to remain in place.

That's why opponents see the decision as so consequential.

The debate is no longer over whether discrimination occurred.

It's over what happens when a court identifies it and the map survives anyway.

It's a fight over whether voting rights protections still have teeth.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

WAKE UP, AMERICA.

The Supreme Court majority just admitted it’s a PARTISAN operator willing to TORCH the rule of law to advance its ideological agenda.

In an unprecedented move with a brief UNSIGNED order, it: 1) IGNORED the central basis of the lower court’s decision, 2) DISREGARDED its own precedent (that it had assured just weeks ago remained good law), and 3) REWARDED Alabama's defiance of a federal court order.

All to help Republicans squeeze out one more seat in the midterms. And on Election Day for millions of Americans no less!

This is sick.

“Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court's decisionmaking.” — Thurgood Marshall

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Kyle Kulinski: “Jake Tapper wrote a motherfucking book about Joe Biden and his cognitive decline and the massive cover-up. Well Jake, why don’t you get to work on your Trump book now because I guarantee you the cover-up that’s happening with him is way worse and way more severe and they’re covering more extreme stuff. His body is failing and his mind is failing on a regular basis”

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Jake Tapper’s obsession with the Biden family is truly deranged.

Trump and his family are out here pillaging the country in broad daylight, cashing in, cutting deals, and treating the government like their own private ATM, and Tapper wants to keep attacking you guys?

This is exactly why America is where it is. The corporate media held Joe Biden to impossible standards while giving Trump endless oxygen because chaos gets clicks and ratings.

When the history of this country’s decline is written, people like Tapper and Thompson won’t be remembered as journalists. They’ll be remembered as willing accessories who helped normalize the corruption, the cruelty, and the collapse.

They saw the danger. They just chose the ratings.

[Ivan White @ivanwhite48]

@holteend30 @itvpeston @Peston @RobertJenrick @KemiBadenoch Can't imagine why Sky and now BBC's Newsnight keep platforming the odious Annabel Denham to spout her hard-right views in such a posh, butter-wouldn't-melt-in-my-mouth, voice. Her defence of Farage and his latest incitement was disgusting.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is repeatedly heckled by MPs as he calls on Keir Starmer to end "two-tier policing"

Starmer: "His response has been to appeal for rage. That’s his response to a father who lost his son & asked for this not to happen... it shows exactly who he is"

#PMQs

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

@TimesRadio @AVMikhailova @RobertJenrick Jenrick choosing to call out Badenoch for going on the media "on this day of all days" to criticise another political party leader - and in so doing he's going on the media himself "on this day of all days" to criticise a political party leader.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Nigel Farage's work over the last 11 weeks broken down:

- Parliamentary votes registered (including on immigration): 0

- Violent racial divisions stoked: 1

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Economist Mariana Mazzucato says Brexit led to businesses leaving the UK, shrank market opportunities and damaged investment.

She tells The Fourcast that Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have still not been held accountable for what she calls one of the country's biggest economic mistakes.

Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have both denied lying to the public.

[chris amdorble🇺🇦🇺🇦 @chrisamdorble]

@PolitlcsUK Interesting that Farage didn’t condemn the thugs & violence in Southampton.

I thought about Trump, his speech on Jan 6th & him pardoning Jan 6th criminals & rioters.
Are these the standards we would see here if (God forbid) Farage ever gained power? #PMQs

[chris amdorble🇺🇦🇺🇦 @chrisamdorble]

I am appalled at Farage. Words matter & he knows the influence he has amongst those who hang on to his every word. The riots were clearly predictable & politicians who deliberately or negligently encourage ‘rage’ should be held to account #PMQs

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Nigel Farage is the front man. Tommy Robinson is the delivery unit. #PMQs

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

Farage is humiliated by Starmer at #PMQs and shown to be not only a pathetic little racist but actually a danger to the UK.

Farage should be in prison for what he did yesterday.

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Watch Keir Starmer call out Nigel Farage over his response to the Henry Nowak murder:

"He pretends to have respect for Henry's family & then acts in this way... his response has been to appeal for rage... it shows exactly who he is."

#PMQs

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Farage at #PMQs today, the first time he’s shown his face in Parliament for months. I suspect he may regret it. He was absolutely slated for failing to condemn the violence in Southampton, for ignoring the appeal made by Henry Nowak’s father, and for using his son’s death to stir up hate and division. #Farage #FarageRiots #PMQs

[Dean 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @deanbegley1]

What a fucking disgrace Nigel Farage is

Utterly disrespectful to Henry Novaks father & family

Thankfully he was rightly put in his place by the house

Farage is a grifting scumbag

#PMQs