Ukrainian drone attack now underway on Russia’s largest oil refinery at Omsk, a whopping 2500 km from the frontline. It’s one of only two refineries in the top ten that had not been hit by Ukraine and was being counted on to help battle the fuel crisis. #explodey

Hang on - the wife of Nigel Farage, a man who said he could spend his £5m donation from that crypto-billionnaire "on ferraris if I want", is named *Laure Ferrari*?

Think it shows both how divisive and culturally tasteless and uninventive the US admin is that the 250 celebrations weren't even marginally interesting on a global scale. (Except for laughing at) The big rich country with huge cultural heft should have been able to do more.

A new week begins and again Russia has attacked on a Monday morning. It's Day 1594 of the Kremlin's invasion of a sovereign state - as history tells us, what Moscow can't get, it destroys. This is THE daily🧵for Monday 6 July 2026

Has FIFA told us what the final score in Monday’s USA v Belgium game is going to be yet?

The Conservatives are for "the super rich" says Robert Jenrick, whose own campaigns have been funded by a billionaire Israeli mining heir and a firm controlled by a sanctioned oligarch

Would Jenrick also like to explain how £5Mill Farage hawking gold bullion and grifting for crypto and fossil fuel billionaires while pledging to scrap the Equality Act, bin new employment rights and lower the minimum wage is not working for the super rich, against the interests of the rest of us?

The Israeli war has also reshaped Gaza's countryside. With farmland damaged and thousands of beehives destroyed or abandoned, beekeepers are struggling to keep producing honey As a bee-keeper this absolutely infuriates will me 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️

The interesting thing about why Norway dominates at international sports is that they have a culture of not permitting ranking or competition in kids before they turn 12. It promotes cooperation and enjoyment instead. Along with affordable access, it means sports there are more equitable.

This really does change everything. Nigel Farage’s crypto-gambler ally used Reform UK business cards

Got to see this wonderful mosaic in person at the Leeds Museum over the weekend. The happiest, derpiest wolf in all of art history 😁 She makes me smile every time. #ancientBluesky #mosaicMonday

For reasons that happen far too often, I do have heightened suspicion about people who go on about Pride and trans kids and "protecting children". inwhoseinterests.uk/2025/09/17/w...

Can this country please stop selling shit off to Americans so they can asset strip it?!

6 July 1962: prams outside supermarket in Eisenhüttenstadt, a town with one of GDR's lowest average ages - 26.2 years (via Bundesarchiv)

There is no shortage of things that should astonish us about the West’s indifference to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, but the treatment of children stands apart.

‘In the years that followed the war, officials visited every town and village in Punjab in an effort to record the names and fates of each of the 320,000 servicemen who came from that state alone.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The bill was rushed through both houses in about a month. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

2030 years ago we would get bits of news about Russia, North Korea or China. How many times did you hear “that would never happen here”? Well, it has and it’s much worse in many ways. Why? Because we are still told we live in a democracy.

As the revelations pile up, the excuses get thinner and thinner. But this is always the story with the extreme right. It's a racket, a deception perpetrated against the public. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is NOT what the FIFA World Cup is about. The FIFA World Cup is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

There are many things wrong with the British system, not least that elections are by FPTP and we have an unelected second chamber, but that the PM *isn't* a President with a personal mandate but governs at the sufferance of Parliament is not one of them.

People need to shut the fuck up about "mandates" generally. That's not how the system works. We live in a representative democracy and the Prime Minister is whoever can command the confidence of a majority of those representatives, who we vote for to make such judgements.

I lived in DC. I can tell you when there is approaching half a million people in the city for an event you can feel it. When two million came for Obama streets were blocked for miles. People everywhere. Like nothing I ever saw before. No one noticed this crowd. It was a normal Saturday on the mall.

Still, I’m sure the midterm elections will all be totally above board.

Sadly, not "fuck off, you lying sack of shit".

Such a wonderful evening in Sheffield. Thank you everyone for helping to make hope normal again. We can win this. 💚🥰

#booksky #pride #lgbtqia #twodads #queerkidlit

I don’t give a shit if “Reform denies rules were broken” because the rules are that u have to declare any gifts over £300 for 12 months prior to becoming an MP. So unless they’re saying the Times fabricated the entire story (they’re not), then the rules were very much broken. Denial is irrelevant.

There is a non-zero chance that Farage could leave politics again.

Let's go Sheffield! @boldpolitics.bsky.social with Bimini! 💚🙏🏽

This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense

Should start a podcast called There's No Such Thing as a Two Point Poll Lead, which is just me sobbing every week about the number of pollsters reporting non-statistically significant differences as meaningful.

Happy Fourth of July from Willie and me!

If you appoint people to your top team like Josh Simons who allegedly hired investigators to spy on journalists and James Purnell a corporate lobbyist for oil and gas - then I don't think you can be described in any way as progressive.

Director of a Gaza Hospital, Dr Hussain Abu Safiya is in horrific danger to his life. The Foreign Secretary must demand Israel provides urgent treatment and releases him. He's been detained by Israel without charge since 2024 and reported to have new life threatening injuries.

Heatwave No 3 of the year incoming Not as extreme as in June, but could be very significant for its longevity

Crying, sobbing, hyperventilating, nearly throwing up because the mayor of New York made a routine recommendation for AC settings in a heat wave.

“Burnham has brought hope back to Labour – but he must understand how quickly it can be punctured” - with headlines like this it’s clear that the media are the problem. Because in my opinion he hasn’t brought back anything, other than more of the same. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A novel moment of fleeting self-awareness.

So, these people collaborated closely with Britain’s most poisonous media outlets on a project that made the public despise the anti-austerity and anti-racism movements, on the understanding this would boost the Clueless Careerist Centrist Cunt movement, which has now crashed and exploded.

The unified project of Britain’s Sensible Moderates for ten years was destroying the British left and utterly demonising them as hated, foreigner-loving Muslim extremists, which created weapons the far right will never tire of using. Let’s open up the big prize box, and see what we’ve won!

These horrible, awful people deliberately destroyed a movement built by a bunch of nice teachers and nurses and social workers so they could get their Taylor tickets back, and in return we all get fascism, and they don’t even get their fancy PriceWaterhouseCoopers job because they fucked it so badly

Gov. Beshear should demand proof of life. If his state has lost a senator, its people deserve to know and deserve a replacement. The seat doesn‘t belong to the Republican Party.

Honestly think it should be illegal to conceal the death or incapacity of an elected official.

aged beautifully