The only straw I can grasp from Trump's truly degenerate response to the Reiner murders is that one day, hopefully very soon, we'll all have the chance to pen a few carefully considered words of our own to mark his long overdue passing.

Watching an intvu with this yr's Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Corina Machado, and marvelling how Trump could possibly have been mentioned in the same breath as this modest, unassuming - yet steely - woman as award winner. The right person thankfully won. The wrong person thankfully didn't.

Remember that 'ceasefire' Trump claimed to have negotiated between Thailand and Cambodia earlier ths year, in his endless bid for a Nobel Peace Prize ? They're fighting again...

A television news legend. Still packs a powerful punch

Europe to Musk: "Play By Our Rules - Or Fuck Off" Vance highly peeved. "So unfair !"

If/when the Dems manage to regain complete control of both Houses, their #1 priority must be tamper-proof, future-proof legislation to drastically reduce Presidential powers/privileges to ensure this yr's shitfest can never be repeated by any person/party. Ever.

Convinced the US is now a giant Robert Altman film. The US Pres nodding off in the middle of a cabinet meeting right out of Nashville/MASH. Altman would *so* appreciate the dark, dreadful comedy the US has become. Mock Trump mercilessly until he cracks. Unhinged rants are signs this is happening.

Bloody Hell ! This is *seriouslySERIOUSLY* good. Stop whatever it is you're doing and watch. And repost.

Q from a non-American... Are any...(or how many) major US media outlets are outraged and/or giving major prominence to Trump bombing boats/machine-gunning survivors...and pardoning a major narco figure planning to import 400 tons of toot into the US ?

TRUMP PARDONS ADOLF HITLER "Much misunderstood ! A true patriot ! Led the fight against communist domination !"

If I hear a US soldier/sailor/pilot referred to one more time...JUST ONE MORE TIME... as a 'Warrior' I'm going to mercilessly hunt down whoever's responsible and projectile vomit over them. (If there really is a God, it'll be Hegseth) Thank you for your attention to this matter.

There's a certain grim humour surrounding efforts to keep the Washington shooter alive, so he can be put to death.

OK - so thanks to global time differences, I get my first daily Bsky hit when the US is asleep - and have to say Tue is off to a pretty good start. Really does seem the US is now at Trump/GOP breaking point *and* with plans for challenging/resisting current status quos. Good start ! More please !

This goes along with my brand new article. This 9th-grade girl shouldn’t have to school Megyn Kelly about child rapists like Epstein, yet here the hell we are.

So I assume we're going to eventually reach the point in the Epstein sex trafficking case where Trump starts claiming that the REAL victims were the rich men who were *clearly* seduced by unscrupulous young women pretending to be of legal age as part of an old-fashioned (not crypto) honeypot scam? 🙄

The BBC has told Trump he can sit'n'swivel as regards his $billion law suit. Sorry about the bad edit - but that's about as far as it goes. Wonder what'll happen next...?

Next time a GOP time-server starts ranting on abt 'ANTIFA', could some plucky journo plse ask for...uh...clarification abt what they think 'Antifa' actually means, and if then being Antifa identifies you by definition as being pro-fascism. Or 'Profa' as those of us who are tremendously hip call it.

Bring it on Lard Butt. We're waiting...

Guess who'll be firing a few of his people for not suggesting this. Or if they did...wishing he hadn't decided he was too busy....or didn't want to meet a bunch of old losers... Guess who did this not because he had to...or because someone told him to...but because he wanted to...

BBC vs USA OK...so...here's the deal... You get yr choice of either Australia...or Canada. TBH, they both hate us, and we're not crazy about them either. Esp Australia, who always beat us at cricket. Which Canada doesn't play. (Sez a *lot* abt them...) God Save The King ! (Charles btw..not Elvis)

Ooops ! Sorry - my bad ! (Indianapolis, if you're wondering... Local police keeping a v. tight lid on the how/why. The cleaner - and her husband who was with her - from Guatemala. So don't expect a rush to justice)

Not only will Mike "I know nothing about anything" Johnson not know the results, he won't know there's been elections...

The fevered excitement in the US about getting ex-Prince Andrew to tell-all about Epstein could be made a lot clearer if the celebrated client list was published. Now...who could possibly be the best person to make that happen ?

Guy due to arrive at my rural fastness at 10am tomorrow to install fibre optic stuff. Uh...yay ! I think...

Maybe not the best idea to name the world's biggest warship after the US's most gaffe-prone Pres. Expect the vessel to run aground...attack the wrong target...get lost...sink, anytime soon...

The journo in me increasingly irritated by "Thank you for your attention to this matter" which - rather than "Thanks for attending to/taking care of/seeing to/doing this" - is what someone not having English as a first language might write. Which makes me wonder how far the Pres got in school ?

Just seen Trump on TV from the White House. For once attention not on his usual BS, but on the astonishing TACKINESS of the gold 'embellishments' dripping from every available surface. Las Vegas Pimp Chic Has ANYONE come out publicly to express praise for this spectacularly awful waste of money ?

@mrs-eclectic.bsky.social PLUS...any where that sells oil AND odds/sods like Panforte, Tiralli etc wld be really good. (Keep it quiet, but we tend to still cook Italian2/3 times a week...) Other than that - hope yr enjoying a life of ease ! xxx

@mrs-eclectic.bsky.social G'day from La Belle France...hope all's good with you both ! Need some expert knowledge...looking for an Italian outlet that'll send decent oil to France (made from local olives - instead of "from Italy" or "from the EU" but bottled in Italy).....

Best observation of the day...

@witwarrior.bsky.social Tks for the reposts - chq on way...

Long-ish read - but *extremely* well-written with all assorted issues lucidly explained *Definitely* worth 10 mins of yr day...

@nadjacravensworth.bsky.social *Nice* profile !

@magsd72.bsky.social Stellar profile !

To the Trump Staffer(s) who came up with the idea of the jetshit plane and turned it into reality... We will discover who you are and extract such humilating and endless global shame and revenge, you'll wish you'd kept the idea quiet...

Hi Mr President ! I'm the new Prime Minister of Japan and I just wanna say "Wooooooooooooooooo" !

Thank goodness Pres Trump assured us there'd only be minor changes to the White House during Ballroom construction !

So...um...although you didn't know them very well, you still accused them of funding terrorism ? Have I got that right Mr President ?

When you consider what this woman has done over the past year...and what Trump has done...it's astonishing there was any debate at all over who should've won.

What I'd *really* like to see is the Nobel Peace Prize given to Joe Biden

Guess here's as good a place as any to vent about the appalling, abusive, loutish behaviour of US golf 'fans' at this wk-end's Ryder Cup in NY. That most walked out soon as it became clear the US couldn't win speaks volumes. As does the silence of the US Team Capt and officials. Trump's America...

Out of idle curiosity, when did 'liberal' stop being anyone in the US who was easy-going, tolerant, slightly left-of-centre, and a firm believer in freedom of speech, equality and personal choice, and start being someone who made Stalin look like a wishy-washy moderate ?

Encouraging and heartening to see some American on-screen talent using wit, irony and satire to in response to hamfisted attempts to keep them quiet. Rapier-sharp mockery always better than indignant ranting. And so much more entertaining. "Taking the piss", as us Brits say...

As an ex-broadcast journo in the UK for 33 yrs, just want to express solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel. That is all

You'd of course be a crazy libtard to think anything else

🎶And here's to you Tyler Robinson🎶 🎶We all love you more than you can know🎶

Now that the Kirk shooter's been unmasked as an ordinary white kid from a good family, funny how death penalty demands have suddenly disappeared. If only he'd been a radical far left crack-addicted black Puerto Rican freedom-hating cop-killing lesbian, life would've been so much easier...

For anyone of a certain age, a long memory, a sense of humour, and a love of hyper-loud rock (with amps cranked up to 11) this is good news !

This is actually GROTESQUE. Human Resources use AI to process job applications, so people use ChatGPT to write them, then HR uses AI to filter AI applications. Effect? You spend 10 weeks average looking for a job. Pure algorithmic hell - robots rejecting robots while humans barely survive.

Watching France's feared - and famed - CRS Riot Police cracking a few heads in Paris today, and wondering what it'd take for Messrs Newsome and Pritzker to hire a squad or two. ICE would be off over the horizon and never seen again.