Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

Also, a lesson to every DOJ lawyer & law enforcement official. A lesson to everyone.

At last! Continued British participation in Esrasmus was part of the Withdrawal Agreement, signed by Johnson, but which he later, in a fit of cultural vandalism, refused to implement once Brexit was enacted www.theguardian.com/education/20...

People living along polluted Thames file legal complaint to force water firm to act. Sewage dumping creating health hazards, bills soar, profits multiply. Possible buyers want no penalties for dumping until after 2040. Crisis deepened by govt refusal to nationalise, end profit motive.

If there was ever a man suited for Reform, it’s Jonathan Gullis - between him, Dorries and Kruger, the party is truly getting filled with the exact sort of politicians you’d expect.

Fight like hell.

Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve". He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

The economic damage Brexit has caused is undeniable - even Brexiteers are now admitting it. https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f

Netanyahu has formally requested a pardon from President Isaac Herzog. In a statement he said: “The security and political reality and the national interest require the immediate termination of the trial.” The aim of the carnage all along,

It’s day 368, and the protests are still ongoing in Georgia. #GeorgiaProtests

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Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.

The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

In case you’re in the mood for some good news . . .

It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites. About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4

The BBC's has responded in The Guardian that this was a routine editorial decision, but also that it was made on legal advice. Those two explanations don’t fit together. /1

Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...

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First Marjorie Taylor Greene, now Troy Nehls. Another Republican is leaving Congress, and the GOP exits will just keep coming. #GOPExodus #USDemocracy #Pinks www.alternet.org/trump-republ...

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For Witkoff, Kushner, and the Russians, the goal is reportedly to revitalize Russia’s $2 trillion economy through joint Russia-U.S. ventures. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-tri...

Diane Cook, the MAGA Republican Legislative Aide to NC MAGA Republican Sen. Norman Sanderson (who was just arrested last month for DUI) was arrested yesterday for trying to burn two people alive in their homes. More Christian Conservative "love" from MAGA. #ncpol #ncleg www.cbs17.com/news/local-n...

#SPotTheScammer #SpotTheBot @karinalileya.bsky.social this is a "Ukrainian" bot profile raised three days ago - there's been a huge influx. This one is claiming to be a military officer; the first post is copy/pasted from👇 and other posts are AI generated. bsky.app/profile/mean...

Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist

#NaziNigel #FascistFarage #Gamlingay ¡No pasarán! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

Very much enjoying this BBC article explaining how David Coburn, Nathan Gill’s fellow MEP who acted as an echo chamber for Gill’s Ukraine position, is now another bloody immigrant living in his “chateau in France” (but took no 🇷🇺 money) His Wiki page is worth a read www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump used Truth Social on Friday to announce that he will grant a “Full and Complete Pardon” to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, a convicted drug trafficker sentenced last year to 45 years in U.S. federal prison for helping move massive quantities of cocaine into the United States.

Saturday! Time for the small ones to shine ✨ 😁 #SmallBirdSaturday Zebra Finch and a Dunnock from me #birds #ukbirding #birdphotography #naturephotography #EastCoastKin

Of course it's a frigging Range Rover that gave me this very close pass, accelerating hard. Later, I filtered past him in traffic, and simply pointed out my camera. A short while later, I was waiting at a traffic light, and the left lane started moving, so he came past and called me a tosser. But

Morning.

So this is a building that I see from my windows. Maybe 50–70 metres from me. Luckily, I still have windows. Whenever someone says that russia attacks only military targets, show them this picture. It was direct hot of UAV. Fuck russians. #Ukrainianview

Many of the presenters of #r4today top up their huge salaries from the BBC by writing columns for billionaire right-wing owners of the British press. They then are allowed by the hierarchy at the corporation to review the very same papers they write for. You don't bite the hand that feeds you.

@disavowtrump20.bsky.social This is journalist #NancyCordes, who #Trump just called "a stupid person"during a Thanksgiving press conference for her question on why DHS let the National Guard shooter who killed Sarah Beckstrom into the country. RETWEET if you stand with @NancyCordes

🚨🚨Come on! Please sign!🚨🚨 Let’s make it Black Friday for Farage in his new Black Shirt.

FDA poised to kill proposal that would require asbestos testing for cosmetics RFK Jr signed order withdrawing rule that would mandate testing for the cancer-linked toxin in talc-based makeup www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

I've got several bridges to sell you, as it happens www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

youtube.com/watch?v=5cIa... Monotropism, Monotropic Split, Meerkat Mode, Monotropic Spiral and how it relates to Autistic Burnout, all explained casually by the lovely Meg.

Obama posted This. ❤️

”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...

Trump calls Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “seriously retarded”