monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

No other president in our lifetimes and longer has behaved like such a Stalinist thug.

That certainly appeared to be deliberately deceptive on your part.

in my moral universe.

Nothing new.

He may be a one-term President.

Media reports Home Secretary Priti Patel is distrusted by intelligence chiefs and bullied her staff have been dismissed as "false" by the government.

Officials have denied that MI5 held back information from Ms Patel, following allegations that officials lacked confidence in her abilities.

She has also been accused of trying to force out Sir Philip Rutnam, the most senior civil servant in her department.

The pair were both said to be "deeply concerned" by the "false allegations".

A spokesman for Ms Patel and Sir Philip added the pair were focused on delivering their department's "hugely important agenda" such as an overhaul of the immigration system, putting more police officers on the streets and combating terrorism.

Saudi officials have called for the arrest of a female rapper who released a music video for her song Mecca Girl that praises women from the holy city as "powerful and beautiful".

Social media users reacted angrily, calling the authorities "hypocritical".

In 2018 the crown prince of the conservative country began a programme of reforms.

But activists say repression has increased and there is a crackdown on freedom of expression.

The video was released on YouTube last week by a young rapper who identifies herself as Asayel Slay.

She raps about women in the city of Mecca, which is Islam's holiest site where millions of Muslims go on Hajj or pilgrimage annually.

"Our respect to other girls but the Mecca girl is sugar candy," she sings in the video while men and women dance in a café.

It was widely shared on social media, and people used hashtag #Mecca_Girl_Represents_Me to praise it.

On Thursday governor of Mecca Khaled al-Faisal ordered the arrest of the people behind the video, tweeting that it "insults the customs of Mecca" and using hashtag "They're not the girls of Mecca".

US Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg said Friday that he's willing to release at least three women from non-disclosure agreements that prevent them from speaking publicly about sexual harassment or discrimination suits filed against him and his company over the last three decades.

Dozens of lawsuits have been filed against his company over the years. Bloomberg said his company has identified "3 NDAs that we signed over the past 30-plus years with women to address complaints about comments they said I had made.

"If any of them want to be released from their NDA so that they can talk about those allegations, they should contact the company and they'll be given a release," Bloomberg wrote in a statement released Friday.

He added: "I've done a lot of reflecting on this issue over the past few days and I've decided that for as long as I'm running the company, we won't offer confidentiality agreements to resolve claims of sexual harassment or misconduct going forward."

Bloomberg was attacked repeatedly this week in his debut debate for declining to release women from the nondisclosure agreements. The former New York City mayor was caught flat-footed during much of Wednesday night's debate when rival Elizabeth Warren blasted his company's use of non-disclosure agreements in cases of sexual harassment. She sought to portray such agreements as endemic of a broader culture of sexism at the company, Bloomberg LP, when he was CEO.

Bloomberg's response was dismissive. He said some of those who alleged misconduct "didn't like a joke I told" and argued that nondisclosure agreements were "consensual" deals supported by the women involved.

The U.S. district judge presiding over Roger Stone's case swatted down his request to disqualify herself over further proceedings because of alleged bias.

In a strongly worded order issued Sunday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson dismissed the Stone defense team's claims, arguing that the motion to have her recuse herself lacked "any factual or legal support."

"At bottom, given the absence of any factual or legal support for the motion for disqualification, the pleading appears to be nothing more than an attempt to use the Court's docket to disseminate a statement for public consumption that has the words 'judge' and 'biased' in it," Jackson wrote.

The U.S. district judge presiding over Roger Stone's case swatted down his request

trump's disdain for the rule of law

he should be voted out of office and locked up.

If it happens it's another clear evidence of trump's disdain for the rule of law and why he should be voted out of office

and locked up.