By the way, if anyone isn't watching this season of #Traitors, it's worth watching. Starts a bit slowly but tonight's episode was very good, particularly some of the detective work by the players.

I guess we'll find out whether 'absolute immunity' applies to state charges.

I haven't worked out the implications of this.

Iran, by the way, in case anyone's wondering.

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

What she says.

Well, that's one way of dealing with it. I suppose if no-one enforces the law, then it's a bit of a moot point anyway. Does have implications though.

Well said.

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If you're monitoring the storm, the people who produce this map have a new app out. play.google.com/store/apps/d...

It was not a super flu year and why I think government and NHS messaging was wrong and counterproductive - my latest post christinapagel.substack.com/p/it-was-not...

Also applies to UK reporting of this.

I take it he will defend his employees that are forced to use X and - by no fault of their own - download illegal material. Because they personally will be criminally liable, not their employer.

Good point.

This is very silly. $600 million - $6 billion to buy a *country* (in perpetuity). Compare to the $1 *trillion* US military budget *per year*. Not serious. But that's probably by design.

404 Media has obtained material that explains how two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

I hope it's not bin day in Cornwall.

I think the JD Vance question is what one might call 'loaded'.

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

exactly. like renaming the Gulf of Mexico. He can just do it with a sharpie and then what?

This is also a field test. If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with. Nothing.

Don't think £25 will put that many people off mind. Interesting to see a 1974? advert *in black and white*, and also vigilante grannies.

“.. No one wants to go in there when a random fucking tweet can change the entire foreign policy of the country.” @financialtimes.com 🇻🇪 www.ft.com/content/84e0...

One of these countries is scarier than the other

Pubs the most important thing according to The Telegraph

*Mark Corrigan voice* "JOHNSON?"

Interesting choice. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Just listen to this.

Front page of BBC News. "Trump says the woman was attempting to run over ICE agents. Local leaders disagree." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

The back stop being Rammstein I suppose.

The 'finders keepers' school of international diplomacy.

The Danish government has significantly prioritized the Armed Forces' finances, increasing the appropriations to over 68 billion kroner in 2025. That's a funding increase of over 80%. www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2...

ICE-style raids in the UK are all well and good* until it's you that is shot in the face. * they're not, obvs

JD Vance: "The way that we control Venezuela is we control the purse strings, we control the energy resources. And we tell the regime, 'You're allowed to sell the oil so long as you serve America's national interests.'"

BBC World Service Newsday headlines dominated by US actions: - Shooting of a woman by ICE - Venezuelan oil - US threat to acquire Greenland www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

X's owner has decided he has seen enough to declare the Minneapolis ICE shooting an act of "self-defense"

??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.

Tim Walz: "What we're seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines, and conflict. It's governing by reality today and today that recklessness cost someone their life. I've reached out to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and I'm waiting to hear back ... I'm angry."

This is interesting because when I went for my first Covid vaccination, Farage arrived and pushed straight to the front of the queue.

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Hmm. So, their argument is it isn't discriminating if you *only* target *elite* public schools? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Electric Road right of way update: Campaigners are now looking for people aged 55+ who used the Bulstake Path or the Electric Road before 2000, (ideally before 1980), even if they no longer live in Oxford, in order to establish evidence of regular use of the paths for at least 20 years before 2000.

I'm not stealing from you, I'm controlling the flow of revenues from you. Gotta give him credit for that.

“think Trump at his angriest and most dystopian, without any of the president’s impish humor” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Wonder if they stayed at a Hilton.

Sounds like he needs to look at my basic vaccine explainer. Not that he will

Nige You brush your teeth every frigging day. It doesn't make it a bad thing for your health.