Absolutely. Might want to trust us on lots of other stuff, too.

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

What would it have cost to say, "Free speech is our right in the UK, but I cannot support any march led by a man whose bigotry is a matter of clear public record, and this country is for everyone."

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

#00sTop30 7: Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós (2005) youtu.be/JAYb8ZyjzD0?...

Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.

🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy. Slava Ukraini!

This about covers it.

Every piece I read about a spouse losing their partner to ICE but remaining MAGA, I remember that Trump’s trick was making Scientology affordable. Something to believe in, something to hate, no barrier to entry.

This is absolutely key to what's happening. The soft left fought hard to keep its house in order and to defend its values in the Corbyn era. But the soft right has basically completely collapsed, organisationally and ideologically.

2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?

Hugh Muir recalls the response of London Mayor Ken Livingstone to 7/7 from Singapore. I agree that, despite his flaws & failings at other times, that this was an important message www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ironically this isn't even the first time this has happened *with Personal Independence Payment*. George Osborne insisted that PIP should replace DLA with the goal of saving 20% of DLA costs (in fact costs went up).

The country of free speech

Thank you @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social for your thoughtful, calm, compassionate articulation of the argument for assisted dying to be a legalised human right in this country. I was very moved by the outcome of this vote - to reduce suffering at the very end of life for those who choose it.

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

This is vitally important, and deeply concerning.

In the 1950s and 60s, that era that occupies a unique place of nostalgia in so many conservative minds, the US taxed the wealthiest at a marginal rate above 50%.

God the tabloids and Brexit dinosaurs were boring today… 🦖 Braying the same “betrayal” lines they’ve brayed since they got what they wanted… then found they had no benefits in it whatsoever. Still they came out today to play victim yet again. But the world has moved on.

Fantastic, if not unexpected, observation from Iannucci on his show - and for life really, bullying doesn't work. Being a nice person is an asset not a liability

What a dreadful idea.

The propaganda derived from the intersection of alternative medicine and the anti-vaccine movement is a bottomless pit of science illiteracy.

FT op-ed by Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg: Citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish (a rare double byline oped in the FT) www.ft.com/content/dcc4...

Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue. Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Go into any nursing home in the land and tell those who have come to the UK to work there that they are part of this "incalculable damage."

Vital reading, folks

Not a cult.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

‘purple fingers and halo of drunken flies’ Simon Armitage from ‘Blossomise’ @nationaltrust.bsky.social #poetry #writingcommunity #poetlaureate

Emmanuel Macron President of France

OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.

Blimey. The Boston Anti-Trump Protest

Paul Nowak General Secretary @tuc.org.uk 👏

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible. I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible. I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.

In a nutshell from @pkrugman.bsky.social

With #RebuildGP at Parliament today.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

I’m normally against high taxes but I think we could balance the budget here via a 100-percent levy on morons

Bertrand Russell wrote this over 100 years ago, in 1923. Hasn't aged a day.

How it started how it’s going

Arguably one of Jimmy Carter's greatest achievement is bringing the world to the brink of eradicating the Guinea Worm. From 3.5m cases a year in the 80s to less than 15 the last few years. It's an astounding public health achievement.