Holy shit this is real Soviet/N. Korean style stuff. After the dismal jobs report Trump is going to fire people who compile the data and replace them with hacks. The markets and American people will never be able to trust these numbers again.

Nick Timothy here, still making inflammatory falsehoods about migration

A charmless admission from Nick Timothy that he credulously believes racist falsehoods bsky.app/profile/best...

Thank You Bluesky 💙💙 for banning JDVance open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

What should frighten us all is that this is not common knowledge. This explicitly anti-life ideology is being successfully enacted in the US right now, and without unified pushback it will spread.

Is it just me, or has the @DailyMailUK become especially unhinged lately? I mean - what on earth does living in a cul-de-sac have to do with attempted murder?

Trump lifts sanctions on Syria after Syria’s new President pitches a Trump Tower in Damascus.

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@privateeyenews.bsky.social on top form as usual this issue.

In a letter to the editor, Bridget Heriz writes to express her dismay at her local newspaper’s unquestioning promotion of the local MP @eastangliabylines.co.uk

MAGA is big mad that Eminem led a “f*ck Trump” chant at his concert. 🍿

We’re a long way down a dark path www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

America, 2025. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It begins....

Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

I did a walkthrough, here’s a timelapse. This is probably the biggest demo in D.C. so far post-inauguration, brought together by the 50501 Movement which originated on Reddit. Everyone was chanting “fire Elon!” while I was filming this.

"It would not be unfair to say that Murdoch hacked the British state. But his intrusion into public affairs is nothing like the extent to which Musk has now hacked the United States" @peterjukes.bsky.social How did we go from Murdoch to Musk? A free preview from the new edition of Byline Times! 🔽

Starmer's decisive approach (and I am otherwise unimpressed by his EU "reset", among other things) is as impressive as Badenoch's is spineless.

The world is on fire and Kemi Badenoch is giving a speech to a Tory think tank in which she says that "as the world becomes more complicated" it is "pronouns and DEI" that are "the real poison in our society". Sunak has given full support to Starmer on Ukraine. She still has not responded.

This caught fire on X.

OH FFS,HERE WE GO He’s gonna let us die If they were so worried about the population,maybe dumbass shouldn’t have let millions DIE!Now he wants everyone to start having babies to populate the wealthy’s work force FUCK OFF Will he let millions more die again?? m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

I hate that I was right about #Amerexit

Glad that readers are responding so forced to the marriage notice of the Guardian to OpenAI. If you want to read the background to this deal & support a new independent outlet, please read this from 3 weeks ago & sign up for a new edition out soon. Yours, A Human open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

“Wellington! He was a chump!!”

« #Ukraine is fighting for all of us », J. Nyman, X

I wonder, because of the completely broken media these days, whether Americans have any clue about the chaos they have unleashed on the world, and their complete loss of status

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):

Hey, nice to meet you! We’re the European Medicines Agency or simply EMA, and we make sure medicines in Europe are safe and effective. We talk about new medicines in the EU, latest health advancements, public and animal health news and much more. Follow us #health www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJl-...

The UK population wants closer trade with EU over the US. Only Reform is different.

🚨🚨 Characteristically astute analysis by David Gauke reflecting on how the recent interventions by Ed Davey and Kemi Badenoch suggests that the tide is turning against #brexit.🧵 www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

New platform, same mission: representing you, listening to you. Follow for updates, insights, and debates from your Parliament - and be part of the conversation about the future of democracy 💬

The European Parliament is here! 🇪🇺 👋

Post a pic you took with no description to bring some zen to the timeline ✌️

Can we all commit to posting this relentlessly next Monday 🤷‍♀️ It’s what she’d have wanted

Follow the estimable @pwnallthethings.bsky.social for initial looks at the newly released Jack Smith report on the case against Trump.

This Reeves stuff is a good example of the bit in my book where I say the Lobby goes feral when you stop feeding them news. Just invent stories to have something to write.

When you’re a grown adult whose greatest ambition in life is apparently to be allowed to say ‘retard’ without comeback

Elon Musk is amplifying far-right figures, spreading harmful disinformation, and meddling in UK politics. Let’s stop billionaire interference—join me and sign this @hopenothate.org.uk petition today: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/163807/...

5 years ago on @bylinetimes.bsky.social ‘Rape of Britain’: Russia Rolls Out the Red Carpet for 'Tommy Robinson' bylinetimes.com/2020/02/23/r...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Please watch this speech by Jess Phillips in the HoC to guage how pationate she is about the victims of Child Sex Abuse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0C6...

Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist www.france24.com/en/live-news...

New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

Never trust a person who doesn't like dogs, always trust a dog that doesn't like a person

Support our call for an inquiry on our future relationship with Europe. "Tinkering around the edges of hard Brexit will not deliver for the British people. We need bold, clear, and informed action."

Please sign this. We can’t sit around and wait forever - we need to show our politicians there is popular demand for rebuilding relations with the EU. I think it’s called “the will of the people!”

Let’s also not forget leaving the ECHR could result in UK’s trade deal with the EU being terminated because the convention is written into the 2020 Trade & Co-operation Agreement & would also breach the Good Friday Agreement which requires the Convention be directly enforceable in Northern Ireland

KNEECAP, one of my favorite movies of the year, is streaming on Netflix now! It’s Ireland’s Oscar entry & it’s a propulsive, anti-colonialist music-driven comedy. I reviewed it for Variety and interviewed the band and director Rich Peppiatt for NYT. I’ll put links in the thread.

We’ve updated our Clacton billboard to tell voters their MP just took £40k from a US firm that advises clients how to offshore their money and pay less tax. For the full story see video below 👇

I felt this too. After 2008, Europe as a whole was going through a tough time. Instead of pulling together with the team to tackle shared problems, Britain took it as an opportunity to attack our neighbours and jump ship. It was selfish, mean spirited and shortsighted. And it’s backfired.