It’s reassuring, in a way, to have been rejected for a job by someone who admired Peter Mandelson enough to make him British Ambassador to the United States.

The appointment of Mandelson didn't pass the sniff test on any level. Nor does the awarding of huge contracts to Palantir given security and ideological risks. Especially given what is happening with US defense and ICE (see Palantir and Minneapolis). The sniff test is helpful. That's the memo.

Rope swings are inevitable: if nature and climate have conspired together to create a tree whose bows offer the perfect height for a swing, in a location looking over a river or steep slope, at some point in time one will appear.

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A forest fire burns in the mountains of Epuyen, in the Patagonian region of Chubut province, Argentina. Argentina has declared an emergency in Patagonia, where wildfires have ripped through vast tracts of forest since the start of the Southern Hemisphere summer 📸 Gonzalo Keogan

The average American male has a one in 1.7 million chance of being mentioned in the Epstein Files and a 0.0059% chance of knowing another man named in the Epstein Files. Let that sink in.

I’m off to play golf with my son, then meeting mates in town for a drink before the match. Later, I’ll come home and cook for my wife of 15 years and put my kids to bed with a story. Yet, I’m the ‘lefty weirdo’ and millionaire Farage is a ‘man of the people’? People are so easily brainwashed.

I’m off to play golf with my son, then meeting mates in town for a drink before the match. Later, I’ll come home and cook for my wife of 15 years and put my kids to bed with a story. Yet, I’m the ‘lefty weirdo’ and millionaire Farage is a ‘man of the people’? People are so easily brainwashed.

Wow, imagine trying to steer this Milkman Amsterdam, 1953

Science matters. Truth matters. That’s why they’re under attack.

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social argues that the UK will be next - and we map Thiel’s network🧵 www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

'Drain the swamp'? You *are* the swamp.

After Australia kicked kids under 16 off a host of social media platforms in December, France is leading the charge in Europe with a bill that would prohibit social media for under-15s as soon as this year. Here are five things to know 👇 www.politico.eu/article/five...

Children, Father, Mother 1949 📷Shoji Ueda

Every time one of this repulsive grifter’s companies begins to fail, he rolls it into the company most likely to keep it afloat with taxpayer cash.

The average American male has a one in 1.7 million chance of being mentioned in the Epstein Files and a 0.0059% chance of knowing another man named in the Epstein Files. Let that sink in.

If you believe the bots, Musk didn’t repeatedly try to arrange visits to Epstein’s island, despite e-mails showing that he did, nor did he sexually assault a Space X employee who Space X later paid $250,000 to sign a non-disclosure agreement…🤔

Musk’s damage limitation exercise is in full swing today. Let’s get it straight, he repeatedly attempted to gain access to Epstein’s island for ‘wild parties’. His deluded and compromised acolytes are either idiots…or they think you are.

🚨 Breaking 🚨 In 2019, Musk indicated to Vanity Fair that his contact with Epstein was minimal. Yet, the Department of Justice’s latest batch of Epstein Files released today shows they made travel plans together long after Epstein was first convicted of sex crimes. futurism.com/future-socie...

🚨 Breaking 🚨 In 2019, Musk indicated to Vanity Fair that his contact with Epstein was minimal. Yet, the Department of Justice’s latest batch of Epstein Files released today shows they made travel plans together long after Epstein was first convicted of sex crimes. futurism.com/future-socie...

"Trump and Steven Miller want a race war. They think they’ll win it. They think white people will tune in for it. Their operating theory is that most white people are viciously racist, like they are, and that most whites secretly pine to live in apartheid South Africa."

NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge futurism.com/future-socie...

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

The collapse of America’s international reputation under Trump and his MAGA ghouls will have hugely negative consequences for American security, prosperity, and influence. This is what happens when you put criminals, fascist billionaires, social media grifters, and right wing podcasters in charge.

This is straight out of the same playbook Imperial Japan used to justify invasion of China and Imperial Russia used to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Trump will be claiming Albertans are ‘persecuted’ and require U.S military protection next. Canada, take note - unity is strength.

‘Why is my high street abandoned?!?m they ask…while shopping online and opposing any attempts to improve the public real that involves not putting drivers first. It’s a real mystery, guys!

This is straight out of the same playbook Imperial Japan used to justify invasion of China and Imperial Russia used to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Trump will be claiming Albertans are ‘persecuted’ and require U.S military protection next. Canada, take note - unity is strength.

Britain’s government is turning into Martin Lewis with nukes

Big Oil and their paid mouthpieces in Parliament, Tufton Street, and the media want to keep us hooked on fossil fuels, but a different, cleaner, more optimistic Britain is possible, if only we have to courage to seize it with both hands…👇 youtu.be/i4ct0TQvCX4?...

The wave of protests in Iran, which broke out on 28 December over the collapse of the rial currency and the rising cost of living, saw between 6,000 and as many as 30,000 people feared killed by the Tehran regime.

A study by Nature Foods reveals that a diet consisting of the most affordable foods would also be a diet best for the planet open.substack.com/pub/platingp...

The flagrantly fascist actions of the Trump White House have upended even the milquetoast logic of traditional Democratic acquiescence, writes @chrislehmann.bsky.social. The moral case for dismantling ICE is beyond dispute. https://bit.ly/4k2rkeK

I spent my holidays in Brittany and Paris last year and it was wonderful by every metric, despite a far lower GDP than the U.S. The anti-European propaganda of Trump and his MAGA ghouls is a psychological operation designed to convince Americans that there is no alternative.

I spent my holidays in Brittany and Paris last year and it was wonderful by every metric, despite a far lower GDP than the U.S. The anti-European propaganda of Trump and his MAGA ghouls is a psychological operation designed to convince Americans that there is no alternative.

After the past week, it's now time for the Government to step in on this. We should be backing the BBC to the hilt. The message should be "we have got your back but you have to get back to journalism without fear or favour. No more fawning. Stand up, do your job." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When he spoke at Davos this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney referenced a 1978 essay by Vaclav Havel, written when Czechoslovakia was under Soviet control.

U.S Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller has made Trump even more of a laughing stock, irreparably damaged relations with America’s allies, weakened the U.S, & strengthened China. In the space of two weeks. Can’t be long before the Trump throws Miller to the wolves, surely?

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

More good news today, if you can believe it! The picture in the thumbnail below is one of the multi-million £ public realm improvements which Lutfur Rahman wanted to rip out to turn this street back into a traffic sewer. Utterly unhinged stuff, much schadenfraude at his ignominious defeat today 🥳

Japan and the European Union have reaffirmed their cooperation to ensure a stable supply of critical minerals such as rare earths, industry minister Ryosei Akazawa says.

This will get massively overshadowed today and as ever the devil is in the detail, but is should be one of the best things Labour has done. It has the potential to improve the lives and finances of millions of people. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524489...

Seriously, WHEREVER you are in the world, I recommend watching all of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s powerful & already famous speech at Davos. Can’t underestimate its leadership importance. Key line: “Middle powers must work together, because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”

Every ill advised social media post in the middle of the night, every off the cuff tirade by IQ47 should illicit this kind of response. Danish pension fund to sell $100 million in U.S. Treasurys share.google/aAowr0v7OXkf...

I see Tom Skinner is Reform’s latest ‘star signing’. ✅ Grew up loaded with Lamborghinis in the garage, but cosplays as working class. ✅ Privately-educated. ✅ Convicted criminal. ✅ Failed to pay back £50,000 Covid loan. ✅ Betrayed his Mrs. He’ll fit right in.

California governor says world leaders are ‘played’ by the US president and urges them to stop rolling over

We have - as many of us repeatedly warned - been betrayed and humiliated by President Trump. The only ‘special relationship’ that exists is with our European allies. Sooner or later we’re going to have to bite the bullet and admit Brexit has been a failure on every level.

Britain is underprepared for this crisis ft.trib.al/7banVNy

Echoing concerns of Pope Leo XIV over a new era of unilateralism and warfare, three highest-ranking archbishops said “the moral foundation for America’s actions in the world” has been thrown into question by a resurgence in the use of military force.