Who thinks young Donald screamed and screamed and threw his toys out of the pram whenever adults said no?

Trump is that desperate to distract everyone from the Epstein files, he's willing to threaten Western Europe with war. One can only conclude that the contents would finish him.

3 years ago @ahandvanish.bsky.social, @lisamccorkell.bsky.social, @julialmv.bsky.social and I published a review on #LongCovid. Since then it has been downloaded nearly 2 million times and is #4 of >500,000 papers published since by @altmetric.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As Trump declares economic sanctions against most of Western Europe, for refusing to let him just annex a Danish territory, even the most loyal of his followers must surely now be thinking, you know what, maybe he was a Russian stooge all along?

So if you openly accuse Trump of being a child molester and he sues you, can you use the power of discovery to gain access to the files he has still not released that might prove the accusation to be correct?

A man called Chris Rokos paid himself £477m last year. It’s not clear what he does to earn it. Welcome to the Bermuda Triangle of the wealth-shuffling classes app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72144/...

A governing board for #Gaza that includes no Arabs and no Muslims is not a board for peace. It would be laughably absurd if it wasn't so serious an abuse of power.

Kyiv continues to battle a humanitarian crisis caused by russian attacks on critical infrastructure. In the freezing cold, people are left without heat or electricity. They gather at aid centers to find warmth, support, and a chance to recharge in all senses. Proud of my capital!

Bets on Kemi Badenoch sacking herself for plotting to join Farage's private company?

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

The American nuclear bomb lost in or near Greenland... news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/e...

Instead of talking about many things we should be doing in collaboration with each other...

The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

this is what patriotism looks like

More power to Jack Smith... www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

UK law: "Taking, making, sharing and possessing indecent images and pseudo-photographs of people under 18 is illegal. A pseudo-photograph is an image made by computer-graphics or otherwise which appears to be a photograph." Charge and extradite Elon Musk, and others.

At least some Republicans are starting to see sense and a few are willing to take a stand. youtu.be/Qyzzj_a7Tnw?...

"Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump says he's the rightful, dominant authority for all the Western Hemisphere. So including most of the UK. In which case, when do I get my vote?

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

In case you were wondering how coherent Trump's foreign policy is, they only just published the new US National Security Strategy. It doesn't mention Greenland, Denmark or doctrine even once. Trump makes up policy anew every day - it's his daily 'wall of noise'. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Defense of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, April 27, 1951 An extension to the North Atlantic Treaty... avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century...

European countries should rapidly deploy a Brigade sized force, led by Denmark, to #Greenland. Or watch the US do it, led by idiots.

The USA, a country I have long been fond of, is making rapid progress to becoming a failed state.

The criminally authoritarian US President had a criminally authoritarian President kidnapped and arrested. If justice was a natural order they'd both be imprisoned long enough to repent their sins.

With randomTwitter accounts open.. MAL “operation room”

Watching The Report tonight, which features real footage of John McCain condemning the CIA's use of torture. How low the Republican Party has since slid. It's now inconceivable that anyone like McCain could speak for them, never mind be their chosen candidate for the White House.

youtube removed it, but

A wise U-turn: "We have listened closely to farmers across the country and we are making changes today to protect more ordinary family farms. We are increasing the individual threshold from £1m to £2.5m which means couples with estates of up to £5m will now pay no inheritance tax on their estates."

"A new chart showing month-to-month changes to the job market since November 2020, when Trump lost his reelection bid to Biden. "The red columns show the months in which Trump was in the White House, while the blue columns reflect Biden’s term." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

U.S intelligence report. So correct, so obvious, and still beyond the comprehension of the U.S. own government.

Is there any legitimate reason not to appoint an independent #SpecialProsecutor and Grand Jury, giving them unredacted access to everything in the Epstein files?

Has a day gone by under Bondi when the DoJ hasn't actively perverted the course of justice?

Hands up those who think the US pausing the UK-US trade deal is leverage to support Trump's absurd claim of $10billion from the #BBC? Trump after all is nothing but transactional in every area of policy and as corrupt as they come.

Much like Trump then... "Maduro is widely considered a dictator, leading an authoritarian government characterized by electoral fraud, serious human rights abuses, rampant corruption, and severe economic hardship." [Wikipedia]

Countries that claim to support the International Criminal Court should impose the same sanctions against Donald Trump as his Government has imposed on staff of the #ICC.

President Zelenskyy is in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region today ‼️🤯 ​The town, declared "liberated" by russian propaganda, remains a fierce battleground. In reality, our forces destroyed the majority of the invading troops. Yet a few pockets of fighting remains.

“The really exhausting and the really repulsive labours instead of being better paid than others, are almost invariably paid the worst of all...." John Stuart Mill

Not so long ago conservative parties all over Europe and the US would have proudly proclaimed themselves to be #anti-fascist.

Moira Donegan on Trump's latest retreat to race hate. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So once you put some performance politics to one side, it turns out that Trump really was a Russian stooge all along.

There's much misinformation on the relative cost of UK pensions and other welfare benefits. As a proportion of Government Total Managed Expenditure, we're spending less than we were over recent decades, not more. Health spending is up, as is debt interest. Data to 22/23, IFS.

Only two countries have banned me from travelling to them. Syria under Hafez Al Assad and the USA under Donald Trump. Sign of the times.

The links between Farage and his Brexit-Reform colleagues and Russian money would make even Donald Trump blush. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Caolan Robertson. Still reporting from the front line in Ukraine. youtu.be/Jq2RTlhvqbc?...

The 2026 World Cup is looking ever more like the 1936 Olympics. In years to come people will ask why we didn't all boycott the whole thing. There won't be credible answers, beyond money.

91 UN member states have supported the adoption of the UN General Assembly resolution “Return of Ukrainian Children,” initiated by Ukraine together with 46 co-sponsors.

Mark Sedwill would make a fine #UKambassador to the USA. He should have been appointed when Mandelson got the nod and should be now.

If Elon Musk wants help in giving away money to charities doing great, impactful work, I'm happy to help. Having a Foundation that repeatedly fails to give away the required amount of donations will be seen by many as a deceitful tax dodge.

Reeves is right to extend the freeze on tax thresholds & right to raise the tax on high value properties & right to scrap the two child benefit cap, but still fails to grasp the need to fairly tax super wealth and income. And the new tax on electric vehicle mileage is bonkers. #budget