Roses are red
Your Brexit plan’s credulous pic.twitter.com/sNYJ1G4OkQ— Doug Saunders (@DougSaunders) December 14, 2018
🎶 It's beginning to feel a bit like Second Referendum…🎶 https://t.co/40nLNIL9Lo
— Robert Hutton (@RobDotHutton) December 14, 2018
Tony Blair sees another Brexit referendum as most likely outcome https://t.co/TBOoS0h9UI pic.twitter.com/CNhbFbKIAf
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) December 14, 2018
The Scottish Tories are preparing to back a second Brexit referendum https://t.co/Kzk9b7Ecuk
— Prof Tanja Bueltmann (@cliodiaspora) December 14, 2018
.@Nigel_Farage tells me he now believes a second referendum is likely and will be preparing for it with a message to the people of “never trusting the lying, repugnant politicians” ever again and to this time win “by a margin so big they can’t ignore us”.
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 14, 2018
YouGov latest polling data on Brexit:
Remain: 62%
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May’s deal: 38%Remain: 57%
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No deal: 43%3-way choice:
Remain: 54 %
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No deal: 28 %
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May’s deal: 18 %Will of the people.#PeoplesVote
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) December 14, 2018
British PM Theresa May, who took office after the 2016 Brexit referendum, inherited the thankless task of 'unpicking 45 years of laws, regulations & habits, while trying to keep the country together,' writes John Lloyd. The result has been sheer torture. https://t.co/JaxhUea1iL pic.twitter.com/FevjXAut8r
— Reuters Opinion (@ReutersOpinion) December 14, 2018
Last night and Salzburg both confirmed something terrifying about Theresa May: Her public evasiveness doesn’t hide some grand secret strategy that she refuses to divulge. The whole strategy is meaningless platitudes. There is nothing behind the curtain https://t.co/5NQcuaDjxG
— Jon Stone (@joncstone) December 14, 2018
With the WTO route, Instead of the endless muddle and postponement that haunt the proposed transition, we’ll be out, which is what we voted for. By Charles Moore https://t.co/TOE0iR4vzP
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 14, 2018
FT WEEKEND: May threatens to crash Brexit deal after summit showdown #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/6K22kL2dcb
— Helen Miller (@MsHelicat) December 14, 2018
Remind me: did the EU kick us out or did we vote to leave?#Brexit pic.twitter.com/8QGMEwX6kq
— Hughesy (@Hughesy53) December 14, 2018
Gammons proudly blocking delivery of vital medical treatment is a pretty perfect Brexit metaphor.https://t.co/gfotQSiLvS
— LAD (@LADFLEG) December 14, 2018
How deep do Brexiters need to be in their own shit before they realise jumping in a pile of their own shit was a really bad idea?
— Huw (@ed_son) December 14, 2018
#Brexit .. I wonder when will the penny drop in the DUP camp how its behaviour is imperilling the Union and at the same time realising a step change in so many nationalist minds?
— Eamonn Mallie (@EamonnMallie) December 15, 2018
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TRUMPWORLD
ProPublica story has Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who is a key factor in the nascent SDNY probe into inaugural spending, expressing concern about the rates being spent at the Trump Hotel. https://t.co/fnm2DPiHAc
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 14, 2018
#BREAKING: Ivanka Trump was involved in negotiations over what inaugural committee paid for Trump hotel venues: report https://t.co/NsWj0tABfX pic.twitter.com/5APBLw2pxI
— The Hill (@thehill) December 14, 2018
It. Was. His. Inauguration. https://t.co/GKPxHUw4Y0
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) December 14, 2018
That time Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev bought Trump's Palm Beach mansion for $54 million more than Trump had paid to buy it just four years earlier.
Rybolovlev made the purchase without conducting an inspection or obtaining an appraisal
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) December 14, 2018
What is absent from this exchange is that, in fact, Putin did win in 2016. Today, the GOP is the pro-Putin party. He owns the Majority Leader, if not the departing weak-knees Speaker. (Ryan is a legacy Speaker — worst in modern American history.) https://t.co/O4PtJ0QVld
— John Dean (@JohnWDean) December 14, 2018
Schiff plans to subpoena information on Trump's personal business transactions from Deutsche Bank https://t.co/u2yBI9z7cg pic.twitter.com/gtKdAkXyLk
— The Hill (@thehill) December 14, 2018
Trump is so outmatched by @RepAdamSchiff that it’s not even a fair fight. I knew when he was my con law student that he was dynamite, and now it’s obvious to the world. Read this spot-on profile by another superb former student of mine, @JeffreyToobin:https://t.co/kESSsQMP1X
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 14, 2018
There was no crime
There was a crime, but it wasn’t a big crime
Hey, at least Trump didn’t murder anyone https://t.co/4UbPBNNhvS
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) December 14, 2018
I talked to a Mulvaney aide on the phone 30 minutes ago who claimed to have no idea. https://t.co/pZplplywL2
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) December 14, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Russian agent Maria Butina claimed she had a "signed cooperation agreement" with the NRA https://t.co/nCjIGtNP5a via @MotherJones
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) December 14, 2018
"It took more than a half century to reach the point where faced with a choice between democracy and power, the party chose the latter," argues George Packer. https://t.co/0xBA9wyXmV
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) December 14, 2018
For Trump, it is becoming hard to imagine how he survives politically or legally https://t.co/wNOkygIZnc
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) December 14, 2018
Ladies and gentlemen, the “Law and Order Party”… https://t.co/iUSUaOdXsg
— David Bowman (@MichellesDude) December 15, 2018
Guess we are Supreme Court bound all over again https://t.co/NZmxJh4NBy
— Raju Narisetti (@raju) December 15, 2018
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WORLD
What this girl + her father must have survived to reach our shores. The things he must have told her in the darkest moments — about a country worth the journey, a place where the suffering would stop. Instead, this. Devastating. https://t.co/ggbt0pNjiS
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) December 14, 2018
Last night, Tucker Carlson opened his show by saying immigration makes America “poorer, and dirtier, and more divided."
An offensive, dehumanizing and racist statement.
That segment ended with an ad from @pacificlife. pic.twitter.com/ryjauzYloq
— jordan (@JordanUhl) December 14, 2018
Blame the victim? Why was she in U.S. custody for 90 minutes without treatment Madam Secretary? https://t.co/NjD1WWftaa
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) December 14, 2018
Breaking: The Weekly Standard to shutter after 23 years https://t.co/yKTlWN9w8J
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 14, 2018
There's precious little that I agreed with in The Weekly Standard, but its demise after not marching in lockstep with the Trump-whipped GOP is a big loss. It offered what is nonexistent in the Trump White House: intelligent discourse. https://t.co/Mpo0Jwr0Dl
— Clyde Haberman (@ClydeHaberman) December 15, 2018
Australia’s ‘marsupial lion’ was a meat-ripping, tree-climbing terror https://t.co/ALZ38OwUG1 pic.twitter.com/gKXx7mGMgn
— New Scientist (@newscientist) December 14, 2018
Megachurch pastor struggles to defend $200,000 Lamborghini purchase https://t.co/M2l15AsS99
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) December 14, 2018
The Overnight Note 