Dear Bluesky friends, I hereby announce that I am going to abandon my attempts to become the Olympic men’s 100m champion if I don’t run it sub 10s within the next week.

Hey, Americans! This is what you look like to the rest of the world. A bunch of bully boy weak little men who y’all elected. Scrawling with their crayons. Sending your country to the dogs. Time to stand up and be counted.

So is Trump mentally ill? Or is Trump a Hitler-style fascist? Or is he both? My vote is both. American academics welcome to the rest of the world, we’ll happily benefit from the Great Trump Brain Drain.

Because it is.

If #Trump wants a third term, surely this would mean #Obama could run against him. It would be the ultimate humiliation for the little orange man, bring it on I say!

I often give MSM headline-writers/editors a hard time on framing of political news. So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social ) If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone

I love a good protest sign.

How many of us have thought this???

Thanks to #Trump, the 21st century now belongs to China.

Chinese stock market already seems to be demonstrating how ineffective #Trump tariff catastrophe will be for America. I thought USA wanted to dominate? Looks like capitulate to me…

Come on America. Is it 25th amendment time now? Is it?

#Trump message to his blue collar voters. As prices rise and families starve, auto plants close, the sick no longer have Medicaid, pensioners and vets struggle with late beneficiary checks, black peoples lose the few rights they have in racist USA. It’s you - your POTUS thinks you’re weak.

David Lammy says Trump has taken US economic policy back 100 years with ‘return to protectionism’ – UK politics live

Boycott American products. Who wants their junk anyway?

A $20 million intervention by Elon Musk failed to stop Wisconsin voters putting a liberal judge on the state supreme court in an election the tech billionaire had described as vital to “western civilisation”

Oh.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, we get it #JokeFührer! #Trump rolls out a pre-agreed line with Papa #Putin. Now, get back in your box little #kompromat, or it’s time for the tapes!

Well, quite

In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser in the wake of the Signal leak. But behind the scenes, he has been casting around for advice. Read an inside account of Trump’s deliberations over what to do about Michael Waltz.

Last night I made a mistake. I conflated a post objecting to facial recognition with my feeling that people in the centre of politics cannot express socially conservative views without being cancelled. And that the far right weaponises that to polarise. Both issues are real, but unconnected.

So again, I’ll apologise for my use of the term far left. Facial recognition software is widely used in supermarkets in Australasia. It has tight measures around its deployment, especially given the software is still evolving. It reduces crime, and allows people to shop with greater confidence.

And I agree on polarisation of the discourse, and apologise if you felt I was characterising you. But I hold firm on my view of the issue. Commonly held views are cancelled for anybody who wishes to disassociate themselves from the worst excesses of the far right. What about issue by issue politics?

It’s about four blocks of mainly shopping malls.

This is where the far left taint the progressive centre. In a high footfall area like Cardiff City Centre, it is a case of nothing to hide, nothing to fear. Do this in a residential suburb and it would be egregious state overreach. But this is a few blocks of mainly shops and restaurants…

Surely he can fuck off then? Bet he pays bugger all tax anyway!

With the uncontrolled #Trump #Texas #Measles outbreak in full swing, and the orange #JokeFührer sacking faithful scientists because they don’t subscribe to his cult, is now the time to block US citizens from entering countries in what remains of the free world?

Nazism in plain sight. Suppress free speech, limit access of your opponents to the evidence of your crimes. It’s the common duty to maintain the diary of the JokeFührer’s crimes to support his eventual trial at The Hague. And to clearly document those who have aided and abetted.

So do Americans just look the other way? Do you want to be talked about, the way we now talk about the Germans of the 1930s?

The JokeFührer executes another page of the Nazi playbook. Did Putin share stories of how he persecutes his political enemies? Did Little Donald not want to feel left out?

It’s ok thanks. No plans to enter the US, ever again.

Worth checking first whether the majority of citizens in those countries have already made a decision to veto travel to the US. I’d no more visit the USA than Moscow or Pyongyang. It’s a failed state.

Something Christopher Tsai needs to understand about his investment in Tesla. For many of us in its target markets, the brand will never recover. It is forever tainted in its association with fascism.

JD Vance. Rude. Little. Boy. Is this how America wants to look on the world stage? Nation in decline, led by entitled little children?

Listening to Karoline Leavitt getting grumpy with @apnews.com because they expose her utter economic illiteracy, before going on to again insult the national sovereignty of Canada. For Americans please know this. No self respecting country would want to become part of you. We pity you. You’re done!

Bye then!

I wonder if Musk realises people read feature articles like this, with the intent of forming an insight into how great evil is born?

Time for an emergency referendum to rejoin single market and customs union. Abdication by US of its global leadership role makes it a necessity, and validates a plebiscite under urgency.

No schadenfreude or satisfaction in seeing ‘prominent’ Trump cheerleaders in the UK finally see the light & change their tune (Andrew Neil is just the latest). Just a low simmer at their toxic blend of arrogance, cupidity & ignorance & the knowledge that the media will still promote their ilk.

Attacks on institutions of learning and research. And they say they represent freedom. Classic fascism. #NaziPlaybook

#BuyCanadian 1. Maple syrup 2. Whisky 3. Lentils & pulses 4. Cranberries & blueberries 5. Ice wine 6. Lululemon 7. Arc’teryx 8. Roots 9. BlackBerry 10. Shopify 11. BRP 12. Magna

What Canadian brands can the rest of the world buy to help the resistance?

Well what a surprise! How could Donald have ever seen this coming?

The Chinese foreign minister snubs the US president and invites countries that have been cut off by the White House to join forces with Beijing

Pee pee tapes

This is the problem for progressives. Newsom is being pilloried for saying something most people think. That most progressives think. I don’t believe ‘wokeness’ is a thing, but it’s hard to assert that when these sort of headlines rear their heads… Have we forgotten the nature of the threat we face?

In an ideal world they’d tell trump(MUSK) where to stick it. But like most who work in the field of health and human services they understand the vital importance of their work, they won’t want to let families and communities down. Not least in the face of the Trump Measles Crisis!