Michael

Just here for the Lolz and to occasionally howl at the moon.

[Man at C&A @BeardedBrownMa1]

I can't get used to how footballers look these days. In my mind, footballers must look the way they did when I was growing up in the 70s. As far as I'm concerned if they don't look like this they're not a footballer #worldcup #football

[𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓮 @charlotteukcity]

This is powerful!!

The video strikingly illustrates the game of misinformation that’s being played by Nigel Farage & others. It shows who’s actually benefiting from it.

Absolutely worth watching!

Video sent to me by @nowayjomo

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Neil Young showing off his luxury car collection in 1984 will make your day.

[Michael @noddingoff123]

@batcountry1980 Monty: I think the carrot infinitely more fascinating than the geranium. The carrot has mystery. Flowers are essentially tarts. Prostitutes for the bees.

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Willie Nelson's Tips to Living a Long Life:

1. I try to eat pretty sensible.
2. Sometimes I’ll get up and shave, and sometimes I won’t.
3. Shut up.
4. Smoke every day.
5. Have a good garden full of vegetables and maybe a freezer full of some good meat.
6. Worrying will make you sick. If you can’t do anything about it, why the hell worry about it?
7. I see the funny side first.
8. Don’t be an asshole. Don’t be an asshole. Don’t be a goddamn asshole.
9. If you’re thinking negative about anything... erase that.
10. Keep your legs crossed, your nose clean, and stay out of trees.
11. We’re all going to die. There’s not a lot we can do about it. If you hear of anything, let me know.

📸: Pamela Springsteen

[Dewi Jones @Dewijones97]

Disgusting stuff from Reform. Apparently you can’t be black and Welsh.

Don’t let these people anywhere near power next week.

[Fick Nerrari @FickNerrariLBC]

“The Strait is open, and the ships are having a tremendous time. Probably the most tremendous time anyone’s ever seen before”

[Anthony Etherin @Anthony_Etherin]

WORD FACT

Plenty of new words in this, the greatest printing error of all time (from the OTD 1979 edition of the Peterborough Standard).

Enjoy.

[Michael @noddingoff123]

Bluebells in west Wales. Flowering earlier than usual this year.
#wildflowerhour
#WoodlandPlants

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

What has Europe provided?
Democracy. The concept you are currently stress-testing to destruction.
The Enlightenment. The intellectual foundation upon which every single item on your list was built.

The scientific method. Without which there is no medical innovation, no space programme, no AI, no computing, and frankly no list.

The internet, since you mention it, was built on protocols developed at CERN. In Switzerland. In Europe.
The Renaissance. The printing press. Penicillin. The theory of relativity. Quantum mechanics. The jet engine. The World Wide Web. Radar. The telephone. Television. Aspirin. X-rays. The combustion engine.
The accumulated body of philosophy, literature, art, music and architecture that gave Western civilisation something worth calling civilisation in the first place.
And the largest trading partner the United States has ever had, generating trillions in mutual prosperity across decades of genuine cooperation.

Europe is not a charity case that received American gifts. It is the foundation upon which the American project was built.
And if you are European yourself, perhaps a moment of quiet reflection on what that actually means would do you more good than a list on the internet.

[Michael @noddingoff123]

#GBNews nutters losing their minds tonight over the King not respecting Easter enough together with some faux outrage over effing marmalade.

[Peter Reynolds @TweeterReynolds]

Gary Youds has spent nearly 20 years opening #cannabis cafes in Liverpool, getting raided, getting jailed, and refusing to stop. Instead of adopting his safe, sensible model which reduces crime and supports communities, the UK government prefers violent gangsters to control the cannabis market. #drugspolicy https://t.co/ZWaNzKjGeB

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump’s birthright citizenship scheme implodes after lawyer’s JAW-DROPPING courtroom blunder about Native Americans.

Donald Trump sent his top lawyer to the Supreme Court to argue that birthright citizenship should be stripped from hundreds of thousands of American-born babies. It went so badly that his own solicitor general nearly argued Native Americans aren't citizens either — and had to be rescued by a Trump-appointed justice.

In one of the most jaw-dropping exchanges of Wednesday's already disastrous hearing, Justice Neil Gorsuch — appointed by Trump himself — pressed Solicitor General D. John Sauer on the logical consequences of the administration's own legal theory. The exchange was as stunning as it was revealing.

Gorsuch asked a simple question: under the administration's proposed test for birthright citizenship, are Native Americans born today automatically citizens?

Sauer's answer was a slow-motion legal train wreck. First, he said yes — obviously. Then Gorsuch pushed him to set aside the statutes granting Native Americans citizenship and answer based purely on the administration's own constitutional theory. Sauer's answer changed: "No." Under the 1868 congressional debates, he explained, children of tribal Indians were not considered birthright citizens.

The courtroom went quiet.

Gorsuch pressed harder. But under your test — the domicile test you want this court to adopt today — are tribal Native Americans born on U.S. soil birthright citizens?

Sauer fumbled. "I think so... I have to think that through, but that's my reaction."

"I'll take the yes," Gorsuch replied — essentially throwing the solicitor general a life preserver before he could drown any further.

Let's be absolutely clear about what just happened. The Trump administration walked into the highest court in the land with a legal theory so sweeping, so poorly thought through, that when a justice applied it logically, the government's own lawyer couldn't guarantee that Native Americans — people whose nations existed on this continent thousands of years before the United States did — would qualify as birthright citizens.

This is the constitutional chaos that Trump's executive order invites. Once you start unraveling the 14th Amendment's guarantee that all persons born on American soil are citizens, there is no clean stopping point. The administration's own lawyer proved that in real time, in front of the entire nation, while Trump was still in the building — before he turned tail and fled.

The 14th Amendment was written to be clear precisely because America had already lived through the horror of deciding that some people born here weren't really citizens. The Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship for 157 years.

And Trump's lawyer just demonstrated, in spectacular fashion, exactly why those 157 years of precedent exist.

Please like and share this post if you believe the Constitution means what it says — for everyone born on American soil.

[Michael @noddingoff123]

We've had enough of Michael Gove.
#bbclaurak

[Ron Manager Remembers Nottingham @ronmanagernottm]

There's Steve McQueen cool and then there's Sid James on a Raleigh Chopper cool.

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

I’ll just drop this little nugget right here.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

This man betrays his country at every opportunity. Why would he expect us to trust him to lead?

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

James Carville EXPLODING on Trump is a must watch today.

His point is this. Millions of Americans aren’t “afflicted” with Trump Derangement syndrome. They are blessed with it:

“Look, you fat f*ck Trump — if you listen to this, you listen good!

I got Trump Derangement Syndrome. I hate the motherf*cker! And you know what? I don't want to get rid of it. I don't want to get better! I want to get WORSE! I want to hate him MORE!"

"I pray to God in heaven: God, reign the righteous reign of Trump Derangement Syndrome on me. Pray for me, Lord. I'm your vessel on this earth."

"Pray for the people that listen to this. We want MORE! We want to HATE the son of a b*tch so much that we can't see straight!"

[. @jdpoc]

On Iran, the FT gets it.

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

Sometimes the broiling sea of imbecility gets too much. Wave upon wave of cretins.