Jimmy Kimmel on Maga: ‘It’s such a delicate balance between stupid and evil’
Jimmy Kimmel talked about Pam Bondi and this week’s judiciary hearings as well as the latest climate-destroying victory for the Trump administration.The late-night host said that Donald Trump “might be feeling a bit lonely this Valentine’s Day” as his recent fundraising email leads with the question: “Do you still love me?”Kimmel said that then, “like a lot of dirtbag boyfriends, it asks you for money”.He said that for Valentine’s Day, Donald and Melania Trump will be enjoying dinner – “separately of course” – before speculating that over at JD Vance’s household, the vice-president won’t be getting his wife a gift as “he likes it when she makes him go sleep on the couch”.Kimmel joked: “That’s his sexy time.”This week Vance has been “weakly defending his boss” with yet more anger over “what are now known as the Trump-Epstein files” given how many times the president is mentioned in them.
Bondi, the attorney general, put on “a nearly five-hour Karen-thon” in front of the House judiciary committee as she was put to task over the handling of Epstein,A photographer managed to take a picture of her notes, which showed that she has been tracking the search history of Congress members without their knowledge, aiming to use it against them during the hearings,She even printed it out and put a title on top, leading Kimmel to note that “it’s such a delicate balance between stupid and evil”,He said it was a “deeply disturbing” discovery, yet when asked about it, House speaker Mike Johnson guessed it was a mere oversight,“That’s a bad guess,” Kimmel said.
“You mean somebody forgot to not track and document everything elected members of Congress were privately looking up? That is a hell of an oversight.”He added that for the 535 members of Congress, there are only four computers available to look through the 3m pages of the recently released files.“Pam Bondi has spent more time investigating the people who are reading the Epstein files than the people who are in the Epstein – I mean Trump-Epstein – files,” he said.This week the House also voted to nix Trump’s Canada tariffs, which led to anger from the president.“Trump has really had it in for Canada ever since he heard about that gay hockey show,” he said.
Kimmel said that “unless he’s able to cheat his way through the next election”, it’s looking like Democrats will take back control of Congress in midterms.It would make Trump “a lame duck with greatly diminished influence”.Kimmel said that he also earned the title of “greenhouse gas-hole of the year” as he scored “a great Maga victory” with an order that allows for people to pump whatever they want into the environment without regulation.He also mentioned the latest bizarre interview with RFK Jr, who said he once snorted cocaine off a toilet seat.“That’s how he killed the brain worm,” Kimmel said.
This weekend might also see a partial government shutdown, which would pause funding for the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats want Immigration and Customs Enforcement to revise policies with some “very basic requests”, essentially the “same guidelines that police have to follow”.
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Shares in trucking and logistics firms plunge after AI freight tool launch
Shares in trucking and logistics companies have plunged as the sector became the latest to be targeted by investors fearful that new artificial intelligence tools could slash demand.A new tool launched by Algorhythm Holdings, a former maker of in-car karaoke systems turned AI company with a market capitalisation of just $6m (£4.4m), sparked a sell-off on Thursday that made the logistics industry the latest victim of AI jitters that have already rocked listed companies operating in the software and real estate sectors.The announcement about the performance capability of Algorhythm’s SemiCab platform, which it claimed was helping customers scale freight volumes by 300% to 400% without having to increase headcount, sparked an almost 30% surge in the company’s share price on Thursday.However, the impact of the announcement sent the Russell 3000 Trucking Index – which tracks shares in the US trucking sector – down 6
Tony Blair’s oil lobbying is a misleading rehash of fossil fuel industry spin
Ex-PM’s thinktank urges more drilling and fewer renewables, ignoring evidence that clean energy is cheaper and better for billsA thinktank with close ties to Saudi Arabia and substantial funding from a Donald Trump ally needs to present a particularly robust analysis to earn the right to be listened to on the climate crisis. On that measure, Tony Blair’s latest report fails on almost every point.The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) received money from the Saudi government, has advised the United Arab Emirates petrostate, and counts as a main donor Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, friend of Trump and advocate of AI.The latest TBI report calls for an expansion of oil and gas production in the North Sea, despite the additional greenhouse gas emissions this would generate, and abandoning the UK government’s target to largely decarbonise the electricity sector by 2030, arguing that doing so is necessary to power AI datacentres.The report claims renewable energy is too expensive
UK economy grows by only 0.1% amid falling business investment
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Jim Ratcliffe apologises for ‘choice of language’ after saying immigrants ‘colonising’ UK
Monaco-based billionaire Jim Ratcliffe faced implicit criticism from the football club he co-owns, after widespread condemnation of his claims that the UK is being “colonised” by immigrants.The Manchester United co-owner was forced to issue a heavily qualified apology on Thursday after citing inaccurate immigration statisticsin comments labelled hypocritical and reminiscent of “far-right narratives”. Following a day of censure from the prime minister, football fans, union leaders and anti-racism campaigners, Ratcliffe said he was sorry his “choice of language has offended some people in the UK and Europe”.Just hours after Ratcliffe’s apology, United took the extraordinary step of publicly asserting their “inclusive and welcoming”. In statement that did not name Ratcliffe but clearly referred to his claims that the UK is being “colonised” by immigrants, United affirmed their commitment to “equality, diversity and inclusion”, adding: “Our diverse group of players, staff and global community of supporters reflect the history and heritage of Manchester; a city that anyone can call home
To revive manufacturing we must first change attitudes towards labour | Letter
Re Larry Elliott’s article (How can Britain regain its manufacturing power?, 5 February), the basis for the revival of our manufacturing industry requires first a shift in attitude that brainwork is superior to manual labour.Changes to the curriculum are needed so that technically oriented students can pursue courses that are a first option rather than second best. Part of my training as a designer-pattern cutter involved a placement in a factory, an experience now rarely available to fashion students. In the 1980s, the government set up the Enterprise Allowance Scheme to encourage innovation, but there was no follow-on support to encourage production; successful entrepreneurs had to apply for personal loans from banks, limited to the value of their houses.I wanted to be part of a trade mission to Germany so I could follow up export inquiries, but I was told my business was too small
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