I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Cynics will call me naive and stupid. But, it’s always easier to tear things down, and find fault, than try to work through fiendish problems. Of course it lack details, is fraught with risk, and will be attacked by all sides. But, this sickening conflict has to stop. bylinetimes.com/2025/09/30/w...

... all we get are insults and hate because the major parties have decided their immigration policies are best shaped by extremists. This began with Brexit and now we are where we are with Reform as a result. I accept that the UK's media landscape does not help, but the problem is more fundamental.

‘For a sense of how much Moldova has mattered to Putin, one only has to look at how much Russia has spent to rig this election and the widespread bomb threats.’ Great piece on the significance of the Moldova election by @snellarthur.bsky.social. ~AA bestforbritain.substack.com/p/in-their-d...

Every day, a hideous new story of petty cruelty

this is excellent by @peteroborne : government should not be run by political advisors, who know and care nothing about good policy, principles , integrity, just “winning” open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

I’m *almost* as angry at the uselessness of the current Democrat Party leadership as I am about the Republican Party collusion and corruption.

bsky.app/profile/alex... Exactly. Either there is no point in the Supreme Court or no point in having Congress, given recent decisions. Roberts face and shame should be on billboards throughout America, and the court should be inundated with letters and phone calls, as a starter.

What’s the point of Supreme Court if it abandons its duty to uphold constitution. It’s supposed to act as check on executive overreach, not an enabler of it. There’s no way this ruling is consistent with Congress’s right to determine the budget. Tens of thousands of people will suffer from this.

“No confirmed information…?”🙄what on earth do YOU think might have attracted ICE’s attention to this man? Racist bastards.

My essential point here is that by allowing ourselves to become too dependent on the US for security, we’re now subject to Trump’s whims and inconsistencies, with no quick or easy Plan B available to us.

'America's Allies in Europe and Asia Are Stuck Between Trump and a Hard Place' @alexhh.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

What is the MATTER with these people? This is what Nazis did to Jews arriving at concentration camps - tearing children from their parents arms. I can’t believe these scenes. Why aren’t there mass protests? Why is Congress silent?

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

“No confirmed information…?”🙄what on earth do YOU think might have attracted ICE’s attention to this man? Racist bastards.

My essential point here is that by allowing ourselves to become too dependent on the US for security, we’re now subject to Trump’s whims and inconsistencies, with no quick or easy Plan B available to us.

Yup bsky.app/profile/bria...

Reading headlines in my daily US paper each am has become a moment of dread, fear, and shock. Today’s horrors include indictment of Comey; likely govt shutdown; threats against Soros Open Society; further govt grab of foreign aid funds allocated by Congress; more dangerous nonsense about autism.

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Viewed from the perspective of the constitutional order of states like Germany or Belgium, I've always found paranoia in UK politics over ID cards rather baffling. UK liberals who oppose it viscerally have never been quite able to explain why other functioning democracies seem to cope with them

Brilliant businessman accidentally gives employees 7-month paid vacation.

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

I'm Not a Lawyer, But™ ♦️Sure looks like an unprovoked assault. Captured on video. In a country with a functioning justice system, this ICE agent would serve a prison sentence, and his victim would receive enough compensation to deter other agents from acting this way. In our current system: 🤷🏼‍♀️

Imagine being a non-White person in the UK. Now imagine being constantly asked for your Digital ID, just because "We are checking." It is going to be like that, it ALWAYS is.

“Who do you think you are? Killing thousands and flattening neighborhoods, then wrapping yourself in Judaism like it’s some shield from criticism. You’re making life for Jews miserable.” Netanyahu makes a South Park appearance

Climate of impunity, entitlement and lawlessness growing

This sort of violence no doubt appeals to some elements of American society. But I expect most Americans are horrified and disgusted by this behavior. Hopefully US politicians pushing back on this administration’s abuses recognize that reality.

Do not look away.

All that humiliating and costly state visit for nothing.

Trump‘s America. Don’t let this be Farage’s Britain.

Spread the picture of this guy.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Dear friends, @olexmsv.bsky.social and I, we need your support again to get an SUV for the 1st Battalion of 110th Mechanised Brigade in Zaporizhzhia direction. We need a lot of visibility because this fundraiser is bigger than our usual ones. Please share! PP: [email protected] #NAFO #fellas

The new Tylenol ad just dropped. Sound up!

I don’t love the “feud” framing, as much as I do appreciate the mayor standing up to Trump. Sadiq Khan is not feuding with anyone. He was the target of a vicious, racist attack and is standing up for himself and others.

Full Jimmy Kimmel opening monologue from last night here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Hello? Media? The news story isn't that an escalator stopped working at the UN. The news is Trump gave a batshit insane, lie-filled, egocentric, incoherent speech there in front of the world's leaders.

DC/DMV folks: When Jimmy Kimmel fails to air at 11:35 tonight because Sinclair Broadcasting wants to punish him, light up the station’s switchboard and tell them you will be contacting and boycotting their advertisers.

I can’t stop thinking about this. Two additional thoughts: there’ll be many in Europe who’ll agree with his arguments that immigration is destroying Europe, and that nations should work harder to preserve their unique cultures and traditions. But, I think it’s a question of attitude: 1/5

Well, I made myself listen to Trump’s speech in full. While full of boasts, distortions, disgusting attacks on Biden, weird asides about the mayor of London, National Guard in DC, his MAGA hat, and unsubtle hints about wanting the peace prize - there WERE some hard uncomfortable points there too 🧵

Federal immigration agents grabbed the man's 5-year-old daughter in an attempt to coax him out of the house. There are no limits to the Trump admin's cruelty.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Even more extreme: ♦️ 1947: UN partition plan gave less than half of Palestine to #Palestinians (who were 2/3 of population). ♦️1948 War: Israel took additional land, bringing its share of prewar Palestine to 77% So Palestinians are now asked to accept an undetermined % OF ~23% of pre-1948 homeland.

Critics say conditions should’ve been attached to Palestinian statehood. If so, perhaps we should also attach conditions to our recognition of Israel? Perhaps we shd de-recognize Israel until it stops killing, allows in aid, and itself accepts 2 state solution. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The consequences of this irresponsible, criminal embrace of medical quackery is going to be devastating. Democrats should form a rival health authority of genuine experts, to issue science- based health advice for regular people, who can no longer trust federal agency advice.

This is exactly the problem. It’s not a failure of ordinary people, but a craven, abject failure of elites and people in positions of influence, who all know better, but for reasons of self-interest, opportunism or corruption, enable America’s catastrophic fall from grace and self-sabotage.

So reassuring for people in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, Burma, DRC, Yemen, political prisoners, victims of war, humanitarian crisis, natural disasters or famine, to know that “the leader of the free world“ has a hat to sell them…