https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/15/fly-tippers-dump-mountain-of-waste-in-oxfordshire-field

>Fly-tippers dump ‘mountain’ of waste in Oxfordshire field

>Area’s MP says it would cost more than local council’s annual budget to remove the 10-metre high pile of waste

Fly-tippers have dumped a “mountain of illegal waste” in Oxfordshire so large that removing it could cost more than the local council’s annual budget, the area’s MP has said.

Hundreds of tonnes of waste, stacked 10 metres high, appeared in a field between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington. One charity called the huge dump of rubbish “an environmental catastrophe unfolding in plain sight”.

Calum Miller, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bicester and Woodstock, told parliament the “estimated cost of removal is greater than the entire annual budget of the local district council”.

He added: “Criminals have dumped a mountain of illegal waste weighing hundreds of tonnes in my constituency on a floodplain adjacent to the River Cherwell. The Environment Agency said it has limited resources for enforcement.”

Friends of the Thames said the illegal rubbish dump was created about a month ago by an organised crime group. It said no visible containment or mitigation measures appeared to be in place.

The charity’s chief executive, Laura Reineke, said: “This is an environmental catastrophe unfolding in plain sight.

“A mountain of waste has been allowed to build up just metres from the Rver Cherwell – an illegal landfill sitting on the floodplain of one of our most important waterways.

“Every day that passes increases the risk of toxic runoff entering the river system, poisoning wildlife and threatening the health of the entire catchment.

“The Environment Agency must act now, not in months or years – which is their usual reaction time.”

MAGA mayhem triggered by President Donald Trump's rage again against Marjorie Taylor Greene, as MAGA supporters exclaimed that Trump rescinded support for Marjorie but made a fresh endorsement for Ramaswamy -- as MAGA equations are changing.

Greene objected to Trump's H-1B stand and said America does not need foreign workers. Greene said she would introduce a bill to stop H-1B visa program completely though Trump believes America needs certain foreign talent.

The H-1B row amid MAGA was triggered last year during Christmas when Vivek Ramaswamy called out American culture and said American education system does not produce enough STEM workers needed for American tech companies and hence companies have to rely on H-1B. Ramaswamy was cornered, he exited from DOGE and chose Ohio politics for his future.

A viral post has claimed that Vivek's ethnicity is not the problem, but the fact that he's "culturally Indian' makes him an outsider in MAGA. Some posts claimed that Vivek should have converted and changed his name if he took the Ohio election seriously.

"Vivek has insane ideas of what America should look like, as if EVERY AMERICAN needs to be a hyper-productive AP-Calculus HS Robotics Champion and Computer Engineering major--and if that's not what America is, America is a failure. No nation has ever been exclusively that, no population has ever consisted entirely of top 5% engineering performers--BY DEFINITION," the viral post said slamming India's average IQ.

"Indeed, his OWN CULTURE, India, has an AVERAGE IQ of 76. Mentally retarded is 75. So it's fair to say that ON AVERAGE Indians are retard adjacent. India itself is not a nation full of engineers, and that's before we even consider the 20% who even in 2025 habitually sh** on the ground every day," the post read.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/vivek-ramaswamy-is-culturally-indian-maga-debates-why-they-hate-trump-backed-ohio-guv-candidate/articleshow/125355294.cms

Top Democrat, Californias Chief of Staff, Dana Williamson and Secretary of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Alex Podesta are federally indicted for corruption of public office and embezzling covid relief funds
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/14/how-californias-ultimate-power-broker-went-down-00653137
How California’s ultimate power broker went down
Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff scaled the heights of California politics with a take-no-prisoners style. This week, it came crashing down.


Soon after Dana Williamson re-entered the inner echelons of California’s Democratic power structure in early 2023 — taking over as Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff — she was discussing directing a senior attorney to resolve a state discrimination lawsuit against a former corporate client, according to an indictment unsealed this week.

And when a whistleblower began seeking public records about the Newsom administration’s involvement in that case, Williamson derided the request to her close associate and alleged co-conspirator Alexis Podesta.

“Fuck her,” Podesta said, according to a transcription of the secretly recorded June 2024 conversation included in the indictment against Williamson. “They don’t really know who they are messing with.”

“They really don’t,” Williamson replied. “It’s bad for them.”

Few people in California politics have accumulated as much influence — or as many detractors — as Williamson did while serving multiple governors and cementing herself as a sought-after counselor to campaigns and interest groups in Sacramento. She built a reputation as a ruthlessly effective and at times caustic operator with a penchant for dealmaking and an expertise in wielding power, earning both fear and respect in Sacramento.

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have you ever considered that people engage in ban evading not because they're so bent on shitposting but because the bans are unreasonable in the first place?
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https://apnews.com/article/trump-pardon-biden-justice-department-ed-martin-d525b1911534a40f70394fddf396acc1

Justice Department quietly replaced ‘identical’ Trump signatures on recent pardons

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of President Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.”

The replacements came after online commenters seized on striking similarities in the president’s signature across a series of pardons dated Nov. 7, including those granted to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon. In fact, the signatures on several pardons initially uploaded to the Justice Department’s website were identical, two forensic document experts confirmed to The Associated Press.

Within hours of the online speculation, the administration replaced copies of the pardons with new ones that did not feature identical signatures. It insisted Trump, who mercilessly mocked his predecessor’s use of an autopen, had originally signed all the Nov. 7 pardons himself and blamed “technical” and staffing issues for the error, which has no bearing on the validity of the clemency actions.

The questions about Trump’s signature come amid a new flurry of clemency and weeks after the president claimed to not even know Changpeng Zhao, a crypto billionaire he pardoned last month. He said in an interview with 60 Minutes that the case had been “a Biden witch hunt.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c891jp9j79do
US President Donald Trump has said he will take legal action against the BBC over how his speech was edited by Panorama, after the corporation apologised but refused to compensate him.

Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday evening, Trump said: "We'll sue them for anywhere between $1bn [£759m] and $5bn, probably sometime next week."

On Thursday, the BBC said the edit of the 6 January 2021 speech had unintentionally given "the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action" and said it would not be broadcast again.

The corporation apologised to the president but said it would not pay financial compensation.

The BBC released that statement after Trump's lawyers threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn in damages unless the corporation issued a retraction, apology and paid him compensation.

"I think I have to do it," Trump told reporters of his plan to take legal action. "They cheated. They changed the words coming out of my mouth."

The controversy stems from the way in which Trump's 6 January 2021 speech was edited by Panorama for a documentary which aired in October 2024. During his address, he told supporters: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women."

More than 50 minutes later in the speech, he said: "And we fight. We fight like hell."

In the Panorama programme the clip shows him as saying: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol... and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell."

Controversy around how Trump's speech was edited has led to the resignations of BBC director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wv4dx05q5o
President Donald Trump has withdrawn all support for Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a firebrand conservative who long supported Trump's agenda but recently criticised several of his policies.

Trump said in a nearly 300-word social media post that the Georgia lawmaker had gone "far left", and called for her to be unseated in next year's midterm election by a Republican challenger.

The falling out comes after Greene questioned whether Trump was still putting "America First" on his agenda. She criticised his focus on foreign policy and handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Greene said Trump was lashing out to try and deter other Republicans from voting to release the files.

"All I see "Wacky" Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!" Trump posted, while en route to his home in Florida on Friday night.

He claimed that she turned on him after he suggested that she shouldn't run for governor or senator.

"She has told many people that she is upset that I don't return her phone calls anymore," Trump said, adding, "I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day."

Trump also said that voters in her district "are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support".

Trump has long faced criticism from both parties over his handling of the US Department of Justice's files related to Epstein, the late financier and convicted paedophile.

Trump was a friend of Epstein's for years, but the president has said they fell out in the early 2000s, two years before Epstein was first arrested. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.

Greene is one of four House Republicans - including Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, and Thomas Massie - who joined Democrats in signing a discharge petition calling for the release of the Epstein files.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-trump-shooter-patel-bondi-b2865550.html
More than a year after Thomas Crooks opened fire on Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, one of the most influential figures in conservative media says Trump’s hand-picked Justice Department leaders are concealing important information about how the 20-year-old would-be assassin got within a rifle’s distance of a former president — and what motivated him to do so.

In an episode of his eponymous podcast released on Friday, Carlson took aim at current FBI Director Kash Patel, his predecessor Christopher Wray, and Patel deputy (and ex-Secret Service agent) Dan Bongino, each of whom he accuses of concealing key facts about Crooks and the security failures that led to him coming within “a quarter-inch” of making what would’ve been a fatal head-shot on Trump.

He also broadly impugned the Department of Justice, headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, which has oversight over the FBI.

“Thomas Crooks came within a quarter inch of destroying this country, and yet, a year and a half later, we still know almost nothing about him or why he did it. That's because, for some reason, the FBI, even the current FBI, doesn't want us to know,” Carlson said.

The former Fox News host continued, telling viewers that the Justice Department and FBI “have hidden from the public what they know” about the would-be assassin and stating that his report would “reveal details of Crooks’ social media accounts” while asking why the FBI was keeping his views a secret.

He then launches into a surprisingly detailed account of how he and his staff came to possess and authenticate copies of much of Crooks’ social media history and online footprint, which he says leads to the conclusion that Crooks “was not some secretive lone wolf who never warned anyone that he was planning violence.”