Ah, I appear to have once again written my op-ed for the Independent about Europe needing to be ready to face Russia without the support of the United States. It's getting harder and harder to find different words to say it each time. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Thomas Mann’s books fall out of copyright (UK/EU) next month, which means - new editions and translations! Here are two from Pushkin Press: Death in Venice, and three stories (Tonio Kröger, Disorder and Early Sorrow, and Mario and the Magician). All translated by Lesley Chamberlain.

In the absence of the Digital Services Act/the EU, national law of Member States would regulate social media - and some Member States might have been quicker to act/more stringent than the EU has been towards X

If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.

I wish this was a bigger thing https://www.boycottusa2026.org/ #boycottusa2026 #worldcup

I'm not quite sure where to start

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

The radio silence about Farage from people who are usually supremely vocal about antisemitism is so so telling.

Perhaps what we need is a Constitutional Oversight Committee of Constitutional experts who stop all the abuses of power immediately. No judges, Congress, or President gets to piss on the Constitution anymore. Regular people with deep knowledge of it monitor and track every unlawful action taken.

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working. Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.

The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

So it appears that the donor of £9m to Reform UK also owns 10% of a crypto-currency company Russia has been using to avoid sanctions!?!

Ex-Israeli Supreme Court president: judiciary under 'systematic delegitimization campaign' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Clacton, another Friday with no Nigel Farage MP surgery. In fact doesn’t appear to have even visited. #AnywhereButClacton

If only American journalists had the same amount of integrity, or ANY integrity.

Poland hit with precision

Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

Farage attempts to campaign in Scotland: "I've got a friend of mine, by the way, who's got a Scottish mum." Even the Reform UK audience couldn't help laughing at his desperation.

The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers. Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...

“no matter what our estimate of heritability is, for human behavioral phenotypes we have essentially zero knowledge of how genetic differences produce behavioral differences” ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/missing-he...

Every American who wore the uniform from Valley Forge to now took an oath against tyranny, making them textbook antifascists. The military's entire purpose is defending democracy from authoritarianism. Declaring antifa "domestic terrorism" means our founding principle is now a prosecutable offense.

Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism? Odd that.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

MacKenzie Scott’s Higher Ed Philanthropy Tops $1 Billion For The Year

Breaking: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Federal judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida.

Keystone Kash, his girlfriend, and her friends having the time of their lives using and abusing taxpayer funded resources and civil servants. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

The Golden Age.

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

For those who do not know this town is birth place of President Zelensky

"About 25% of children who develop chronic hepatitis B will die of their infection." --Dr. Andrew Pavia, pediatric infectious disease specialist, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Utah, and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America

So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them. www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...

Normal for two sides of a negotiation to have different views. Unless the EU expects to get everything it asks of the UK. I suspect not, and is using aggressive briefing to cover up obviously split Member States. Plus they know a naive UK won't handle this well. www.ft.com/content/773b...

Facts that are available for anyone to view. Trump 1.0 left Biden the 9% inflation rate, and Biden had to work to get it down to 2.9% and handed it off to Trump 2.0, so he could and IS screw up our economy AGAIN. It will get worse and will only be corrected with the removal of Trump in 2028.

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

It is interesting that Jeremy Corbyn has been an MP for 42 years and led the opposition for 5 years. He's been on Question Time once. Nigel Farage, 44 times. Our Media is corrupt, corrupt to the core. #CorruptMedia #JeremyCorbyn #Farage

Is the FIFA thing in part because he kept stealing teams’ trophies and they wanted to stop that from happening again?

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.

NEW: Carol Loennig tells Nicoll Wallace on MSNOW that the DOJ intends to try and indict Letitia James a THIRD time. The trouble with that is these multiple tries help James prove her vindictive and selective prosecution bid, and bolster a case to get the grand jury materials.

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

A judge has ordered the unsealing of grand jury transcripts from the 2005 & 2007 investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act compels the DOJ, FBI and federal prosecutors by 19 December to disclose the tranche of materials amassed during investigations into Epstein.

Journalist-source confidentiality is about the public’s right to know. Its fate should not be decided in secret hearings about secret documents. That's why we filed a motion to lift the secrecy in journalist Catherine Herridge's reporter's privilege case. 🔗 freedom.press/issues/fpf-d...

The simple fact that we can no longer trust any arm of the government including JUSTICE to a) tell the truth, b) work for the best interest of the people and c) follow the law, not the emotions of a very ill man, is horrifying. Nothing that comes out of this administration can be trusted.

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...