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On February 12th 1946, Isaac Woodard, an honorarily discharged veteran of the war in the Pacific, was set upon by officers of the South Carolina police force and blinded. The NAACP contacted Orson Welles, who used his ABC radio show to call for justice for Woodard 1/
There are sheets of plasterboard that have a greater grasp on government and the economy than Elizabeth Truss.
🗣️ 'Are you suggesting that as PM I should go online and do my own research?' - @trussliz
Sky's @WilfredFrost challenges the former prime minister on why she wasn't aware of the risks before announcing her mini-budget.
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I can't tell you how bad Lula's victory in Brazil is for Bannon's global plans.
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mad how quickly the Burnham project went from 'bring back hope' to hoard bottled water and prepare to bayonet a Russian any day now
All the tweets this morning saying ‘Josh is doing so much better’.
Better than what? A haddock? Three dogs in a raincoat? Your mother?
Introducing my husband to LA Confidential tonight.
Me: I figure you can handle some violence.
Him: how much
I truly don’t think that this woman has entertained the thought that her husband could be going down. If she had, she would be conducting herself with a bit more empathy for the women who are testifying from the depths of their trauma, a bit more humility and a bit more decorum.
Russell Brand, on video with his wife Laura Gallacher, jokes about his rape and sexual assault trial.
Laura says “I got nervous before going to court the other day.” Russell replies jokingly “Why? What’s the problem?”
Laura: “The nerves were actually that I’m not used to interfacing with uh well they weren’t really necessarily aggressive but when you get out of a car and there are people that are taking a picture, paparazzi, press, reporters, onlookers, just even people stopping in the street and suddenly like oh all swept up into a moment. Because it’s a moment, there’s a moment where you get out the car and there’s people there and they’re taking pictures. And I was absolute—and you know what’s funny? So I was just explaining to Russell about my sort of fascination with storms because we have been watching this storm…”
Old Big Bum (copyright @youwouldknow) has been peerless comedy this week
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I’m not actually sure there is a way to convey the message “Lindsey Graham was gay and had it away with rentboys” to any living member of the human race and be met with anything even approximating surprise. You could morse it through to people as-yet-unborn in their mother’s wombs, bellow it across the surf to the natives as you make harbour on North Sentinel Island… not one soul unbriefed on this matter will you find
