Feels like I am going to have to keep writing this piece every other fortnight, forever. @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/e624...

I do really wish more reporters would just ask "Speaker Johnson, do you think it’s appropriate for the Speaker of the House—third in line of succession to the presidency—to be so consistently unfamiliar with current events?"

Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles

It’s the Epstein Administration. No wonder Bondi spent the entire hearing screeching and deflecting. H/T: @aaronparnas.bsky.social

Imagine a President bulldozing 1/3 of our Historic White House pocketing $300 million and that doesn’t even crack the top 100 most destructive, vile, disgusting things he’s done, yet here we are

It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.

Raskin to Bondi: "You're not showing a lot interest in the victims. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as AG you're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims."

Thanks to all the charlatans, quacks and fools who've allowed measles to reach my child's secondary school in London

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Their vote had no effect. The loan was approved by 458 to 140, with 40 abstentions. But why vote against Kyiv and “with Moscow” after four years of trying to distance the RN from Putin since the invasion of Ukraine? 3/

Here is a breakdown by member state - showing how much of an outlier France and the RN is on this, next to only Slovakia and of course Hungary:

Ratcliffe is, quite obviously, factually, morally & intellectually wrong about immigration. But his racist comments will be 'both-sided' everywhere because people who simply don't like seeing non-white faces aren't ashamed to say so anymore.

Even tho there are brave combative Dems, this is the current reality. Perhaps the Schumers of the party should consult the history books of Vichy France in WWII.

“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston “Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

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Shame on Bondi. Shame on you Bondi!!! How dare you.

Staggering behaviour from the US AG. No sliver of hope for America while this current administration continues.

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Bondi’s infamy knows no bounds.

British billionaire can’t find the time to travel around the UK with his eyes open news.sky.com/story/the-uk...

🇺🇦❗️This is the first time I hear about the “intention” to announce the election plan on February 24, — Zelensky. “I have said many times that we come to the elections when there are appropriate security guarantees.” ⚡️ I can't come to Moscow for talks with Putin, – Zelensky

Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."

“Jaded cruelty” Bondi and Blanche; the only certainty is their worlds will shrink to a cell, at some point.

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The UK needs to follow…

Maybe it should be a bigger story that Republicans apparently never know what's happening

Trump’s allies who are profiting from ICE and his mass surveillance agenda are trying to buy the midterms for Trump agenda-aligned candidates in both parties. We can’t protect our country if the people leading it can be legally bribed. End corporate and dark money in politics.

Definitely level one weird shit

Worrying. Must find the dots to connect.

Trump has attacked pillars of #democracy, says Human Rights Watch www.globalbankingandfinance.com/trump-attack...

All flights to and from El Paso, Texas, have been grounded for ten days for “Special Security Reasons”, the Federal Aviation Administration announced. Shutting down airspace of a major US city for such an extended period hasn’t happened since the aftermath of 9-11.

Former MI6 Chief Richard Moore: “Putin would already have lost were it not for the Chinese support he has garnered. Xi is behind Putin.”

One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does. Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision. We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore. This is something significantly bigger and scarier.

“Appeasing powerful lobbyists” through Mandelson under the Brown government. During a period of high global growth and prosperity Blair/Brown gave away too much for too little in ways that should be put under greater scrutiny. Or at least seen for what it was.

Once again, Russia can hardly be said to be engaging in a battle of wits if the other side keeps turning up unarmed. abcnews.com/Internationa...

When is child abduction no longer child abduction?

Minneapolis approaching the Anne Frank stage of (techno-) fascism and the world is having to rely on Bsky and Substack to stay informed.

I'd like anyone who's having feelings about the humanity of a software program to try having feelings about the humanity of, say, a person they dislike first.

But Chuck Schumer never met leverage he couldn't waste.

It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

WATCH — @balint.house.gov on the unredacted Epstein files: “There’s a bunch of sick fucks… so many people knew…. Trump never kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago. That’s a lie.” (From @dropsitenews.com )

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

refused to sign a petition calling for Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; another Polish MP noted pointedly that: “The times when Nero, under threat of punishment, demanded recognition for his musical talents have been regarded as the beginning of the decline of the Roman empire.”

Imagine how undistracting a Labour leadership contest is going to be.

Congratulations Portugal. Far-right populists can’t be allowed to undermine a free and democratic Europe. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...