The Google Map went funny - so probably only 12 miles as I visited Dad, Brother and Nephew on my new Ridley FB Kalazy. Cracking bike! Merry Xmas to one and all.

1987 I did an investigation as a student teacher into Teacher Stress. The main cause was "Pressures of Time." This year, an extensive survey by @sstatradeunion.bsky.social HWB Committee did a massive survey investigating teacher well-being. Conclusion? Excessive workload. @jennygilruth.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/67Gc... Glorious exploration of neurodivergence and creativity.

My first band.

Russell On Brand

Watched John Wicks 4. I can assure you he scored more than 4.

Mrka!

"Sit if you did not fart!"

🔥Thirty people dying in ICE custody isn’t a glitch — it’s a system built on neglect and zero accountability. If any other agency had a death toll like this, there’d be national outrage. With ICE, we’re told to look away. I won’t.🔥

...1 of every 4 women has experienced sexual assault. IMAGINE OUR OUTRAGE that the Felon-in-Chief and others are NOT BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!!! #JUSTICE.NOW

"Imam Fouad’s death is not an isolated tragedy, it is the predictable outcome of a violent detention system that continues to cage people for profit and punishment."

I’m shocked that 30 people have died in ICE detention this year (per agency).

youtube.com/watch?v=ug44... Genius!

Fascinating review. I am moving this way...going to sell my hardtailTrek Roscoe 6 (Large) MTB and an older Cannondale CAADX (56cm) and stick to my Diverge Gravel and Ridley FB gravel. youtu.be/UovJf66SN8k?...

Unionists neither like the polls nor democracy and would leap into bed with Reform and rut with them like drunk teenagers, update:

Russia is prepared to confirm in a legal agreement that it has no intention of attacking the European Union or NATO. This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Monday. Sometimes something unplanned happens. Some agreements are not worth the paper they are written on.

CBS has become state regime media.

60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi sharply summarizes the appalling decision of Bari Weiss not to run her CECOT story: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”

#GVerse 😂😱🤣

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus Censorship. Bari Weiss

Share and tell CBS to air this! Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.

Now, this does NOT mean that there aren't many people who go into journalism for the right reasons and have integrity. There are and they do good work that makes society better. But the chances of them ever getting to be in charge are slim to zero while oligarchs do the picking.

Did you know that in journalism it is surprisingly easy to find people who aren't burning to tell truth to power? Who have no moral and ethical tether. Oligarchs who own media for political influence spot them and put them in charge. They don't work for you, dear reader. They work against you.

State Sgenography USA from the free speech warriors.

“Wow! They put TRUMP in front of KENNEDY?”

@sstatradeunion.bsky.social Three unrelated matters…

Trump has begun lifting American sanctions on companies that sell weapons to the Russian military. The Russians have finally offered enough money to the Trump family and Trump is 100% on Russia's side now.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Not good

Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…

Joyous

Great redaction black outs of the week. 1. Epstein Files 2. Football at the Tottenham v Liverpool game.

Tree of the Day

Xavi Simons making sure he gets a long Xmas holiday there. @tottenhamhotspur.com @liverpoolfc1.bsky.social

Just thought, if the world’s press announced that “Epstein: The Worlds Greatest Paedophile!” I bet Trump would be along within an hour saying, “No, I am a better one!”

Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!

LOL THE SEARCH FUNCTION WORKS GREAT!

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

Since David Frost has NEVER been right about anything at any point when it comes to Brexit, this feels like a strong endorsement for our participation in Erasmus.

All we're going to learn is that rich and powerful men of all political and cultural stripes exist in a murky world where bad stuff happens without ever knowing who did specifically what.

The Epstein Files, everybody!

That’s the woman who said whatever that guy is saying, 5 minutes ago, but got ignored.

I was appalled that Russia was kidnapping tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, but even more shocked when they put their photos online in a searchable database with hair color, age, and eye color, to auction them off to the highest bidder. Who's going to be attracted to that?