ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

And the first yellow goes to… an England player. 🙄

Is punching someone in the back of the head not a red card now?

Hydration break

Changed my mind, break Simeone's legs

Highlights package of this match so far

Save the Children clashes with Labour after accusing Starmer of ‘complicity’ in Gaza deaths

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

“The researchers struggled to confirm the full scale of the injuries, because ‘visual investigative techniques cannot adequately assess invisible injuries, such as chemical injury or chronic pain or hearing loss’. “‘The true number of injuries is likely far greater,’ the report adds.”

Same old Labour

Amazing! ICE kills a man ~7:30 am. 1st news report is an hour later. ~1:30 pm, a group of 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 marches in Main Street and "storms into the Biddeford office of [U.S.] Sen. Susan Collins." Would be hard to do in NYC. Biddeford pop. = 22,000! www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

In case there was any doubt. Restricting access to benefits isn't enough for Conservatives/Badenoch. They want to deport/"remigrate" people who came here on legal work visas, not because of (debunked) claims about benefits/fiscal costs but because they've embraced an openly ethnonationalist agenda

New w @pamherd.bsky.social: Mamdani just announced PIT Crew — an NYC tech unit that will build digital public products. Takeaway: Mamdani is reclaiming a vision of tech in govt for progressives, one not driven by consultants and which solves real problems. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll just received Trump's $5 million — plus interest. Despite Trump's repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll's legal team this week. www.ms.now/news/e-jean-...

It's a big club, as George Carlin said, and you ain't in it.

Rubio has near total control of the nation’s finances, resources, and government, reported The New York Times.

Lindsey Graham’s grotesque loyalty to Felon Trump has resulted in Americans suffering from a parade of countless horribles. He’s been in office since 1992 & it’s time for a change. That breath of fresh air is @drannieandrews.com who is now poised to unseat Graham. youtu.be/hMGMN1etqyE?...

I'm so old that I'm still kind of scared to put spaces in file names

I’ll put a finer point on it: The actual solution to our birth rate “problem” is substantially increasing immigration. Lyman Stone is a virulent racist and nativist bigot, so he rejects or ignores this solution in favor of pushing heterosexual Christian couples to reproduce more. That’s my response.

[Exit Queen.]

1/3 of the US Senate is older than Lindsay Graham.

Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win

Music contributes 8 BILLION per year to the UK economy, and has been critically damaged by UK governmental neglect across the music ecosystem since 2010. Apparently that neglect will continue. Receipts via @ukmusic.bsky.social www.ukmusic.org/news/new-rep...

Remember how it took the press literally six weeks to tank Boris Johnson to hated public enemy status simply by noticing what Johnson is and how he behaves? This is like that: Farage has become embarrassing and surplus to requirements, so now he has to go.

A fascinating investigation into the funders of Restore from @bylinetimes.bsky.social - and an interesting link to Camelot Castle in Cornwall. A hotbed of Scientology! bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/w...

It was on this day 241 years ago that jeweller Charles Auguste Boehmer wrote to Marie Antoinette to ask where the money was for the necklace she’d bought. She destroyed the letter—not because she was greedy and didn’t want to pay, but because she hadn’t a clue what they were on about 🧵

HE'S HOME!!!! 40 posters around the area. Probs 100 or so doors knocked on yesterday. A young girl had come to the door with her dad at one, when we'd knocked. She spotted him while coming home from a park. She and her friends alerted an adult who got the number off a nearby poster and rang us /1

Awful man unless of course it later turns out he was murdered in which case he was a delight.

Kitten trap success!

When George Cottrell was arrested for wire fraud in 2017, who was with him? His mate. Nigel Farage. Hell of a detail on the story. Farage was, according to the Sunday Times, merrily accepting gifts in kind from him a few years later.

A very odd story from BBC News which starts out making a pitch for health insurance based on anecdote and then descends into feuding think tanks, health inequalities and evidence which challenges the very premise of the dubious story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i quit.

Cool story of a German who loved rugby and wanted to play for the All Blacks. So moved to New Zealand aged 15 and has now won his first cap. Great accent too! youtu.be/wGK0WGxI0cs?...

Again. This is the author. What are we doing here?

what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”

If this is accurate it is hugely disappointing and a bad sign for CUSMA/USMCA. It is also another reason why Canadians will not be able to fully trust any American administration in the future. Awful.

The United States under President Trump forced the abrupt cancellation of a ribbon cutting ceremony and the opening of the Gordie Howe bridge. Meanwhile, a few months back, the Maroun family - who owns the competing Ambassador Bridge - donated a million dollars to a Trump super PAC.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to obtain an unredacted copy of New York's statewide voter registration list. A big victory for Elias Law Group and our Client the NAACP. DOJ is now 0-12 in these cases. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

watching people confidently assert tucker carlson is "making sense now" kills me

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

Four New York Times journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding a Qatari-gifted jet serving as the new Air Force One have been subpoenaed by the Justice Department, the news outlet reported Friday. https://cnn.it/4f7Jjyb

Anne Bonny (1697? –1782?) was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of several noted women in piracy. #CelebratingWomen

Don't get TRAPPED paying for subscriptions you don't want anymore.

Yesterday the Telegraph reported on my comments about air conditioning. The comment section is quite something. I have apparently become a hero of the anti net zero crowd by saying something what I think is sensible about air con. Allow me to point out three ironies in this 🧵