Excellent 🧵. The combination of hubris and incompetence illustrated by the present administration is staggering. I don't know how the US ever recovers from this.

Every. Single. Word.

A dipper about contemplating a dip in Edinburgh's Water of Leith #BirdsOfTheDay

What a day difference 250 years makes: Bondi et al covering up for a president and other grubby associates of Epstein compared with a King wholeheartedly supporting an independent police investigation into another grubby associate of Epstein who just happens to be his brother.

Le dessin du jour, par Coco. Royaume-Uni : William et Kate très "préoccupés" par les révélations de l'Affaire Epstein

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

British soldiers coming home from Afghanistan 💔 #TrumpMustApologize

A must-watch and rather sobering discussion between @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Robert Kagan. The UK and Europe need to wake up and disentangle themselves from the US as soon as possible, however due to the lunacy of Brexit that may not be so easy for the UK. youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0?...

FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

In one. Big clue though. Unzoomed #724 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

New Year's resolution is to do more birding. Started strong with this flock of White-fronted geese near Lewes. #ornithology #newyearsresolution #bto #sussex #geese

A few of this year's favourites. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social Autocracy explains perfectly the behaviour of odious men like Trump. The Plot Against America could have been written yesterday, and the negative impact of the British upon much of the globe by @sathnam.bsky.social is extremely sobering.

Nice stroll in the sunshine to my local birding patch. Great to see shelduck, shoveler, and teal among others #sussex

Astonishing figures and a mind-blowing act of national self-harm.

Wild pansy seen in an arable field now left to do its own thing near Barham, Kent #wildflowerhour

📚 Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin… Ces milliardaires «techno-fascistes» qui programment la fin de la démocratie Dans «Apocalypse Nerds», Nastasia Hadjadji et Olivier Tesquet analysent le projet autoritaire des patrons de la Tech, entre haine de l’Etat et délires transhumanistes 👇

Some good news from America.

More small scabious. This time on the Wouldham to Detling Escarpment SSSI, Kent, on 30th October #wildflowerhour

Small scabious on the downs outside Lewes, East Sussex. #wildflowerhour

So Bugsy got something in his eye and due to excess wriggling the vet couldn't remove it 🙄. Cue synthetic morphine to chill him out, here he is as it kicked in, result: totally baked dachshund, no wriggling, foreign object duly removed.

Lunchtime pint, Basketmakers, Brighton.

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

A wonderful week visiting old haunts in Aix and Marseille.

#flyday Canada geese heading to Arlington Reservoir, Sussex.

Hats off to Jamie Raskin. Telling it like it is to the POS that is Nigel Farage. This should be on every UK news channel and perhaps worth a mention tomorrow @mrjamesob.bsky.social

This is how it’s done.

Goat's beard with a supporting cast of common knapweed at Fore Down, East Sussex. #wildflowerhour #daisyfamily @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sussex looking just fine.

"Alaska stands with Ukraine" and "Zelenskyy should be here" #3E #StandWithUkraine #AlaskaWithUkraine

Much like in the US, in the UK it's fashionable (especially in the conservative media) to dump on cities, specifically London. Crime-ridden, declining, etc. etc. All the same shit they say about NYC or DC. Here's Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, saying "fuck off, cities rule."

🧵🧵🧵 In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.

How true.

Is Mexican coke really better? The president’s son thinks so.

#hairyplants you say, here's a nettle-leaved bellflower with hairy petals seen on a road verge near Lewes,East Sussex #wildflowerhour

This is really worth a read.

Round-headed rampion, The Pride of Sussex, growing on the chalk downs near Folkington @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflower #sussex

Trump team axes contract with reality, evidence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Betony at Lullington Heath NNR #wildflowerhour

A small percentage tax increase on the super-wealthy would benefit us all yet governments continually find excuses to prevent them from implementing such a simple, straightforward policy. Time for a mindset change.

Beautiful marsh helleborine seen today at Greywell Fen, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Knapweed broomrape (Orabanche elatior) seen near Cliddesden, Hampshire #wildflowerhour

I still can’t believe the UK did this to itself. Most importantly - to its youth and their opportunities, chances and aspirations.

This monologue 🔥

A wonderful few days in Paris. The Canal St Martin and surrounding area was a real revelation. Already planning the next trip. #paris

According to AP, the typical pay package for S&P 500 CEOs rose to $17M last year — an increase of 9.7%. At half of the companies surveyed, it would take the median worker 192 years to make what the CEO did in one year.  This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

30 year Treasury above 5%. Also, I successfully used AI to do a Trump/Truss crossover, putting a Trump wig on a lettuce paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-liz-trus...