“It is lovely seeing people from different cultures celebrate together” | North East Bylines northeastbylines.co.uk/region/wears...

Trump, Bruised and Unpopular Turns to State of the Union for a Formal Ass-Whooping!

Continuing on: in a world that refuses to be quiet | A Minnesotan writer and artist shares her first-hand account of life under ICE occupation during a bitterly cold winter | Manuela Thames

Lovely view for #ThickTrunkTuesday

Completely in love with the cosy oddness of Small Prophets. Imagine pitching that one! Top marks for the use of Bright Eyes too.

Why sexual predators target the emotionally vulnerable The Harrods abuse scandal reveals that predators depend less on secrecy than on disbelief, silence, and the failure of institutions to act by Justine bylines.cymru/voices-lleis...

Jamie Dimon says AI euphoria, record stocks and banks doing ‘dumb things’ could lead to another financial crisis https://fascinating.news/r/WdLRhBO6

"Dirty Business" dramatizes the UK's water pollution scandals. Can it wield the same influence as "Adolescence" and "Mr Bates vs The Post Office?"

This won't be easy watching but we must. Dirty Business factual drama, Channel 4, starts Monday 23rd February www.tvchoicemagazine.co.uk/tv/terrestri... #dirtybusiness #riverpollution #riversewage #protectourrivers #protectourwaters #keepsewageoutofourrivers

Channel 4's Dirty Business. I've just watched the first episode 🤬I am so angry.

We're taking 14 years of 💩to Emma Reynolds. If you're sick of 💩in our rivers and seas 😡If 'Dirty Business' has left you feeling shocked and angry 📣If you want to protest at Thames Water wanting to carry on polluting illegally for the next 14 years 💪Join us in High Wycombe next week

Who has been controlling the water industry, and to what purpose?

🚨NEW: Peter Mandelson's lobbying company worked for Water UK, the body representing the private water industry. At the same time, Labour's review of the water industry refused to even consider public ownership as an option. In our open letter to Steve Reed MP, we ask: 1/2

Parliament is debating the use of private finance in the NHS today. PFI has been a disaster for NHS Trust finances - leading to £80 billion repayments for just £13 bn actual investment. With Keep Our NHS Public @KONP, we say the public should be consulted on all new finance initiatives. #NHS

Elias Law Group is litigating 85 voting and election cases in 40 states. This is the largest litigation docket we have ever carried as a firm and I expect new cases to be filed this week. We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.⚖️🗳️🥊

Mouse say one thing and one thing only... #UberGothic The Victorian era saved many if not most of England's fine churches but in some there was an architectural price to pay. This arch is part of the price #StGeorgeEastonInGordano #NorthSomerset #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

This Epstein administration and all their republican enablers have got to go!! Vote Blue! 🔥🔥🔥🌊🌊🌊

Denmark rescued a sick US sailor after US forces were incapable of providing modern medical care. The US sailor was evacuated by the Danish warship HDMS Vædderen off Greenland. The incident embarrassed Trump The Rapist to blurt out that he’s sending a “hospital boat”.💙💙🤣

Seems to me if a president illegally taxes the American people , that should be an impeachable offense offense ! Cost us $1300 to $1700 in the last year . And no plans to return it ..

New Fivers just landed.

Of all the showmen who have visited the region, few have been more memorable than Mexican Joe northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/when...

This Stinks!! How can the Cabinet Office investigate itself?? open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years. That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”. Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives. This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.

Gorton and Denton - last big weekend push! Keep hope alive. Reject division & hate from Reform and Labour. Vote for Hannah Vote for @greenparty.org.uk Vote for #hope

Useless same as rest of them 😂🤣😂🤣

3 steps to better drug and alcohol regulation: 1. Harm reduction 2. Harm reduction 3. Harm reduction Notice how punishment and demonisation don’t appear on the list?

Labour delivering very good economic news this week alongside some big news for Wales and SEND education. Also new tech for illegal waste is already delivering with multiple arrests. A special call out to Rachel Reeves this week. 👏👏👏👏

Professional conman, voted in by morons, accrues circa $287 billion from US public with illegal tariffs says they won’t get it back without a legal battle that would last years.. Farage must be rubbing his hands with glee hoping to do same here❗️

"Why aren't reporters asking whether the president has the legal right to launch another Middle Eastern war?" From my Zeteo piece/newsletter today: zeteo.com/p/an-illegal...

John Roberts ends Trump’s big Supreme Court winning streak https://fascinating.news/r/5dHjACBw

Yes,Especially Now,In Chumplandia....... 👇👇

The war on drugs has been a catastrophe and Scotland has suffered as a result. We need the power to control our own drug laws and we need to reduce the harms caused by drugs, not add to them as the UK government is doing.

The White House said he was going to Georgia to talk about the economy. Jobs. Wages. Inflation. The fact that working Americans are still staring at grocery receipts like they’re crime scene evidence. That was the assignment. And within minutes of grabbing a microphone,

We're marking World Pangolin Day by remembering that Roman soldiers would routinely dress as pangolins before going into battle.

If you denounce the Iranian massacre of protesters, but not the Gaza genocide, you're wrong If you denounce the Gaza genocide, but not the Iranian massacre of protesters, you're wrong The very same applies to the US invasion of Iraq, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine It's called *consistency*.

21 February 1906 | A Polish Jew, Jakub Kutner, was born in Łódź. A driver. In #Auschwitz from 4 September 1941. No. 20380 He perished in the camp on 17 October 1941. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

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Geneva advanced ceasefire enforcement mechanics, but drones and energy strikes still decide the nights—and Ukraine keeps hitting Russia’s logistics deep in the rear. In the U.S., the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, sparking new legal and political fallout.

He served 10 days, so he was released before he committed the offence.

A time-travelling prisoner? On 8 Feb 1870, John Jones was committed to Gloucester Prison for being drunk and riotous in Gloucester...on 15 Aug 1870. (Summary Convictions Register, 1868-71. Image from ancestry.co.uk, Gloucestershire Prison Registers.)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #gloucester #gloucestershire #photography

Between 1722 and 1790, 8 prisoners were executed in Gloucestershire on Friday the 13th. The unluckiest of these was probably Ann Williams, who was burnt at the stake on Friday, 13 April 1753, for murdering her husband. You can read her story on my blog. gloscrimehistory.uk/2014/02/12/t...

To be fair, this is every Friday and Saturday night in Brighton.

The only Winter Olympics footage you need to see today.

The lovely wild Newent daffodil is just one of the highlights of Acton Mill garden in early spring. This woodland garden in Iron Acton also has snowdrops and riverside walks. Open with Algars Manor from 1-4pm on Sun Feb 22. Combined entry £7. Details: buff.ly/eDgIl2p #opengarden #daffodils

I attended a school by Tewkesbury Abbey where the bones of Edward IV’s younger brother are stored in an underfloor vault. George Duke of Clarence did a lot of misconducting in his various public offices and he was eventually drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine. Sometimes we got to see the bones. ☠️

When Thomas Taylor was executed at Gloucester in April 1773, the Gloucester Journal commented that he appeared 'rather sulky'. Lots more inciteful reports on the behaviour of prisoners at the scaffold appear in 'At the Tree: Executions in Gloucestershire, 1722-1790'. Details in pinned post.

Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎