10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist. At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk

Notice how almost EVERYTHING inside Obama’s Presidential Center bears someone ELSE’S name: The Eleanor Roosevelt Garden The Nancy Pelosi Pavilion The Nelson Mandela Skyroom The Ann Dunham Water Terrace The list goes on… REAL leaders don’t feel diminished by sharing the spotlight 💙

“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.“

Remember when they got mad about how Michelle Obama planting a vegetable garden would ruin the landscaping.

"Bread and circuses": To mark Trump's birthday, UFC fights are taking place in front of the White House today for the first time. While the US grapples with political crises, social division, and the consequences of his own policies, Trump stages bloody cage fights in front of the White House to mark his birthday. This is reminiscent less of a modern democracy than of ancient Rome: bread and circuses—spectacle over responsibility. A president who turns the nation’s highest institution into a stage for bloody entertainment reveals one thing above all: his penchant for self-aggrandizement, displays of power, and distraction from the country’s actual problems.

Honor Guards are trained for state funerals, fallen soldier ceremonies, and dignitary protocol. That is their sacred operational mandate. Trump just deployed them as set dressing for a UFC card. You don’t get to call yourself a patriot and applaud this.

People can’t afford health insurance, inflation is through the roof, gas prices are soaring and immigrant children are locked in prison camps, but sure let’s do motorcycle flips on the lawn of the WH to celebrate an egotistical president‘s birthday.

🚨 NEW: Biden-appointed judge orders Trump to immediately restore slavery exhibits in national parks. These exhibits were destroyed by the Trump Administration earlier this year.

JUST IN: Kennedy Center officials confirm they have removed President Trump's name from the building, website and other aspects of the Center's public. presence, including email signatures and letterhead. documentcloud.org/documents/…

A rainbow appeared when Trump’s name came off the Kennedy Center. An elephant peed on the floor at the Texas GOP convention. Now all we need is a thunderstorm at the UFC fight on the White House lawn. Is that too much to ask?

Someone needs to tell that algae it’s the golden age.

Donald Trump’s name has been removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. The move follows a court ruling that found Trump’s name had been added to the building illegally. Judges also rejected an emergency appeal seeking to block its removal. In December, Trump added his name to the centre after replacing several board members and later becoming chairman of the board. The Kennedy Center opened in 1971 as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.

Eventually, his stupid name will be removed from everything he ever slapped it on.

An increasing proportion of my feed is now nonsense AI videos or similarly useless AI-written posts by automated accounts. If this trend continues it will be less and less worthwhile staying here. Which would be a shame.

They hung a curtain after 1 am to try to hide the letters being taken down. AP got a photo nonetheless, and this morning Trump’s name is completely GONE!

ALERT: Judge Christopher Cooper has formally ordered the Kennedy Center has until 12p to finish taking Trump’s name off the building and to CERTIFY compliance

Hoping this is the start of a trend, where the artefacts of his narcissism and self-obsession can be reversed.

Crews begin removing Trump's name from Kennedy Center after missing Friday night deadline, video from a CNN crew appeared to show. cnn.it/49U102z

BREAKING: Judge Angel Kelley blocks Interior Sec. Doug Burgum's “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” Order as "a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization" and orders DOI to "restore and reinstall" removed materials "forthwith." ORDER: storage.courtlistener.com/re…

MAJOR BREAKING: Trump must restore history, science materials related to like slavery ‌and climate change at parks, US judge rules.