Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.

I'm already feeling deeply sad that my fellow countrymen would vote for reform. And i really don't want to live amongst those people.

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

I actually can't believe that Farage and his party of xenophobic shitbags are running and polling so high and that the media are just treating it like it's normal. It's nightmarish to watch.

Officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blocked the ​publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used ‌vaccines against COVID-19 and shingles, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson said. The w... TAT: [Attacking science | Controlling information]

🧵 'It's like thinking about climate change for the first time—this is going to affect EVERYTHING' As deaths permanently overtake British births, I've been delving into UK's baby bust I could hardly believe what I found - here with no paywall till Monday www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Just going to put this out there ahead of the inevitable Labour post-mortems from Friday - there probably aren't realistic policies which will markedly positively change cost of living or growth trajectories before the next general election.

Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules. Mentions per MP. LibDems: 645 Tories: 5,116 Greens: 7,763 Labour (the actual govt): 27,438 Reform: 70,732 Anyone surprised they're ahead? bebroadcast.co.uk/politics-who...

Palm Beach International Airport is now officially renamed to Donald J. Trump International Airport. The airport will be required to purchase official Trump merchandise, directly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

The question almost no-one is asking is what exactly is Harborne and the other crypto billionaires bankrolling Farage getting in return for all this money? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Stupid, ignorant...not usually words associated with the president.

In case you’re wondering, this is a real post.

While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits. Yes, $30 million per HOUR. All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.

The Supreme Court is apparently only there to remove the rights of women and minorities, at this point.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

While Boris Johnson was mayor of London there were 72,000 knife attacks, 16,000 gun crime offences, and at least 62,000 racially motivated violent crimes. But apparently, those didn't count.

"safe and secure for the rest of my life" I wonder how many of his Clacton constituents, for whom he should be working, feel that warm glow of financial security?

I don't know how widely understood it is that the US is now conditioning lifesaving, utterly essential health aid to African countries on access to minerals and other ~sweet deals. I probably only know about it bc of the @unbreaking.org team that tracks it. healthpolicy-watch.news/ghana-rebuff...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Genuinely historic day

$400M for Trump's ballroom? On top of: -$1.5T for the Pentagon -$170B for ICE and Border Patrol -$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet -$496M to send National Guard into cities -$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" -$100M for Trump's golf outings But nothing for working people.

Sometimes all you need is a good book, a fresh pastry, and an Oxford comma.

"The math only adds up if you're trying to build a police state." Miles Taylor, former DHS chief of staff, tells Rachel Maddow that the system of immigration prisons that Donald Trump wants to assemble is much bigger than the stated purpose of the prisons; unless Trump has some other use in mind.

😎🌵🪴 thank you #Hilton for turning a horrific situation positive

Oo-er...

Just really embarrassing...

*sniff*

Is bluesky a "left leaning platform" or are a lot of the others, extreme right leaning ones?

Lindsey Graham says they are going introduce legislation that’s going to authorize 400 million dollars to be spent on building the ballroom: We pay for it by offsetting it with customs fees. The sooner we get the ballroom built, the better it is for the country.

He never had the money to pay for the ballroom. It was always a scam. We were always going to have to pay for it. They were just waiting for the right moment to hit us with the bill. This is now the time.

If elected to the US Senate, Republican Party primary candidate for South Carolina Mark Lynch plans to * squints at notes * retake Constantinople (now Istanbul) from the Ottoman Empire (now Türkiye) so that Hagia Sophia can once again be a Christian church. Utterly, utterly bonkers.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Is this real?

Some good news: New research from Harvard Medical School found youth suicides were 11 percent lower than expected after the launch of the 988 hotline in 2022. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.

How do I snub thee? Some British researchers are counting the ways, asking people around the country to send them swear words and insults that might be little known to outsiders. Can you find the genuine British insult among the fakes? Take our quiz.

From September 2026, Google is pushing a forced, irreversible update that removes your ability to install software they haven't approved on a device you own, with no consent and no way to reverse it.

None of this makes any difference; it's merely a hood ornament for a massive "führer bunker" hidden underneath, big enough to outlast a civil uprising that will make Jan 6 look like a teddy bears' picnic.

Not to be seen on the BBC TV News, doesn’t suit their agenda . Also not to be seen in the Telegraph, Express, Mail, Sun, etc. And nowadays not in the Guardian either.

Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."

This Lego video for drunk FBI Director Kash Patel is fantastic. 🔥

Labour MPs need to realise this isn’t about getting rid of Starmer it’s about destabilising the Labour govt and getting rid of all of you .. for Nigel and his mates ! The media have been on overdrive on this since July 24 .. it’s the latest attempt but not the last !

A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending America’s gun‑violence epidemic is a moral oblligation.

This👇🏼takes the BBC’s Pro Reform campaign to another level it’s fcuking unacceptable - here is how to make a complaint, I will www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

With Farage making a shed load of money from bitcoin and an assortment of weird companies, we’ve launched a map and live tracker of his income 👇🏻👇🏻

If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.

Presidents since Reagan have been promising a tool like Direct File. Elon Musk even proposed an IRS app for taxpayers. IRS actually built it! Users loved it, but then DOGE killed it after a meeting with the private tax preparation industry. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

This is a choice.