Who in Reform UK Wales thought it was a smart move to announce policies about face coverings but disguise it as a tribute to the Aberfan tragedy?

This is as grossly offensive as you could possibly imagine.

Was the bird dead?

I see the perennialy dishonest Banks has joined the "ackshully, the Nazis were socialist" fuckwit club.

The “private security team” the Reform council hired under the guise of keeping women safe, have assaulted two teen girls by HANDCUFFING them despite having zero lawful right to do so.

So the only notable thing that Operation Vanguard has done is *checks notes* assault girls.

Three leading social media companies have failed to act over animations that are spreading hate and lies about disabled people who receive benefits at an “alarming” rate.
#PIP #Instagram #Facebook #TikTok
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A Russian operation made AI deepfakes of a real former student accusing James Talarico of sexual assault. The real student says "it's not me" and that Talarico "never messed with me." The video still passed 850,000 views on X in its first 24 hours.

Here's how it worked.

On that X lists as signed up from Romania posted the video, claiming abuse when Talarico taught middle school in San Antonio. Lead Stories reached the real Zyon Lewis, and he called it "very bad AI." Detection tools rated the videos more than 99% likely to be AI-generated.

Three research teams attribute it to Storm-1516, the same Russian operation that ran fake scandals against Tim Walz in 2024. Fifteen bot accounts shared it right away. About 12 hours later, big verified accounts reposted it, including a pro-GOP account with 185,000 followers, and it exploded. NBC calls it the most prominent example yet of foreign meddling in these midterms.

It's not the only operation. Bloomberg reviewed 130 fake videos and doctored front pages from a second Russian network, called Matryoshka, including fake ABC and CBS clips, AI videos of De Niro and Cher attacking Democrats, and a made-up claim about Jon Ossoff's properties.

On October 21, the top Democrats on both intelligence committees said a classified briefing showed Russia targeting Democrats right now.

Nobody is saying Russia changed votes. It doesn't have to. It makes the lie, and Americans spread it for free.

"Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet."

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Trump ordered to sit for deposition in BBC lawsuit bbc.in/47vF8sP

@cem_uk_ I thought this was a joke but no, it's true (see here: gov.uk/government/pub…); this would not pass peer review if it was an academic study

Henry Cooke is the dumbest person I have seen today but I haven't actually looked very hard

As the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal is launched today beware of the ‘Poppy Nazis’. These traitorous pro-Nazi turds slither among us under false colours. They are pissing on the graves of the Allied war dead and monuments.
#NeverAgain #PoppyAppeal

@Nigel_Farage If charity begins at home, how come 97% of Reform’s funding has come from dodgy overseas sources?

The Jeremy Vine formula is so predictable at this point.
1. Find an extreme quote to make people furious about welfare.
2. Immediately follow it up by asking if we should slash benefits.
It's not a debate, it's just conditioning the public to agree to cuts. 🔄 @theJeremyVine

@TiceRichard Being a politician does not put you above the law

A reminder that EIGHT Senior Reform UK officials are under current criminal investigation

VICTORY!
(It’s the hand-dryer, not the urinal, but a win’s a win.)

@robwitwer i love the only people who have issue with this have no idea what they are lol just complaining cuz the mayor is muslim or democrat 😂

We've tried two local takeaways and they were terrible so how about tonight we go to the Biffa bins out the back of those very same takeaways and just eat whatever we find instead?

Like or loathe Dan Hodges, you can't deny he's 100% bang on balls Adam Brooks.

Never had a single original thought or opinion in his life, just sees what the populist agenda is and then repeats it, claiming it as his own.

See also; Grimes and Cocoran.

I wonder if I could start my own think tank? The art of pontificating seems to be very lucrative at the minute. I wouldn't research anything to do with disable people though, if I'm gonna do this think tank thing properly, I can only produce insights on things I know absolutely fuck all about.

That's what the rest of them seem to do.

The man Tommy Robinson brought in to pray for him ahead of his trial is Australian Brett Murphy, who was sacked from the Free Church of England after leaving the Church of England.

After being kicked out of the church, Murphy raised more than £140,000 in online donations to buy just a big grifters circle.