"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible." To "I could sit in the middle of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and kill an entire civilisation, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible."

On the eve of Tory conference in Birmingham, Kemi Badenoch tells @Alison1mackITV that she doesn’t think Birmingham is the country’s second city… 👀

The Atlantic spoke with more than 40 sources: Just weeks before the midterms, Kash Patel is desperate to help Trump's Justice Department deliver numerous indictments on Trump's 2020 election lies just to please Trump. In meetings, Patel has expressed frustration that there have been no new findings — instructing staff to "look harder" or "look again." theatlantic.com/politics/202…

NEW: President Trump directly told Russ Vought to find the funds to finance the ads glorifying him. The agency’s general counsel and WH counsel both signed off on the move as legal. The president and WH chief of staff spoke to the DHS secretary. nytimes.com/2026/10/02/us/po…

Marjorie Taylor Greene is exposing the Republican playbook heading into the midterms and the furious Maga replies only made it more satisfying thepoke.com/2026/09/28/marjo…

Trump’s past 24 hours of desperation: — posts Sen. Tom Cotton’s cellphone number and tells people to call him over daylight saving time
— again tries to scam voters with fraudulent promises $5,000 checks to every adult citizen if Republicans win the House and Senate
— says if Democrats win it will be “a 1929 disaster” and an economic depression, essentially admitting he believes his term will lead to a Great Depression
— tells a Mobile, Alabama rally to close their eyes and “pretend I’m on the ballot”
— says he’s giving $100 checks to 20 million seniors

Breaking News: Democrats have leads in some reliably Republican states where they are trying to flip Senate seats, new New York Times/Siena University polls found. nyti.ms/4zdhAVg

Donald Trump offered a new prediction for when the US war with Iran will end and prompted a facepalm so loud it echoed off the moon thepoke.com/2026/09/28/donal…

President Trump gives out Tom Cotton’s cell number over the daylight savings bill.

One day after @jaredkushner took to this platform to insist his work diplomatically is unconnected to his business interests, the Times drops this one

On BBC Question Time, Suella Braverman said she does not consider herself English - seemingly because she does not see Englishness as something a non-white person can claim. Yet the cover photograph for her newly launched book, which she most likely would have approved, portrays her several shades lighter than her natural rich, deep golden-brown complexion 🤷‍♂️ The idea that you cannot be English unless you are white was the worldview of openly racist organisations such as the BNP and National Front. It is genuinely shocking to hear a former Attorney General and former Home Secretary give legitimacy to that premise on national television. Perhaps it is less surprising given her time as chair of the European Research Group: an organisation built around division, nationalism and pulling Britain out of the EU. When a Black man born in England challenged her from the audience, saying she was repeating racist tropes, she did not reflect or qualify what she meant. She doubled down. It is also rather sad that someone born and raised in England feels able to call herself British, yet not English - as though Englishness remains a club she can never belong to. So it seems Suella Braverman seems to support the principle of self-identification after all, at least when it is her identity she wants everyone else to respect. Maybe she is a secret trans ally after all 🤷‍♂️

I wonder what Robert Jenrick would do if he encountered someone erasing children’s murals.

EXC: Members of the Shadow Cabinet say Kemi Badenoch should abandon the Tory commitment to the triple lock. 💫”It’s unaffordable in the long term, of course we should keep our options open,” a member of the Shadow Cabinet told The i Paper. “I see why Kemi’s doing it, but I don’t think we should commit to it so far away from an election.” 💫Another member of the Shadow Cabinet warned the Tory policy commitment is unlikely to last until 2029, when the election is due, “unless a miracle happens and the public finances pick up. We’ve still got to find the money for defence.” 💫 But the timing of an election is exactly why Badenoch is sticking to her guns. Even though Andy Burnham and his No 10 team have spent most of the last month hosing down the idea of going to the country before 2029, the Tory leader and her key allies think the Prime Minister could call an election as soon as next May.  💫 The Conservatives are so concerned about an early election that Badenoch has instructed Tory MP Neil O’Brien to draft the party’s next manifesto. 💫According to an aide, Badenoch’s commitment to the triple lock is because she is “very hot on the idea of contribution”. “It’s the idea that if you’ve paid in, then you have made a contribution and you shouldn’t be penalised for that and that is where we start when it comes to pensions,” the aide added. 💫 As the Tories gather in Birmingham instead of calling this a normal, workaday conference, the party is dubbing it a grandiose “festival of ideas”. 💫Last year, organisers held Badenoch’s keynote speech in a smaller side room to avoid embarrassing photographs of empty chairs, but this year she will deliver it in the city’s International Convention Centre’s 2,200-seater Symphony Hall. 💫This will be the first time a leader’s speech has been held there since former prime minister Theresa May memorably walked out to ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” in 2018. 💫Read the whole piece here: inews.co.uk/news/politics/ad…

I actually find this quite psychologically disturbing that 1) someone came up with this idea 2) Kemi thought this was a good idea

Boris sing song: 40 new hospitals Kemi new sing song: 50k prison places The level of lying shit peddling Tory desperation is fucking endless

MT "No Candidate can promise a Utopia just by voting this way or that. The (have learnt) to shape my own opinions judging on the evidence alone. I promise to consider all matters of policy in this light, and in Parliament I should vote as my conscience & not party line dictates"

I have sold out (partially) I am using Elon's platform I may not have sold out (completely) But that is little consolation To wading through the far right populist hellhole of this site

Here is Trump completely passed out on live television for 4 minutes straight

Not to worry Kate We hold all the cards They need us more than we need them No deal is better than a bad deal We have a plan We have many solutions to the NI border etc

Jared Kushner is complaining about fake news that's allegedly been written about him. Rest assured, this piece is 100% factual. motherjones.com/politics/202…