Breaking: Heba, Kamran, Lewie end hunger strikes after up to 73 days www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

#BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant Sassafras p m gibbs mixed media paper, copper foil , leaves colored with inks Detail of larger canvas

"The Wind (The Lady in Blue)" ca.1900 Zsigmond Vajda (Hungarian, 1860-1931) Oil on canvas 90 x 60 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

#photography #naturephotography #landscape

Good morning. A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive. That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power. Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

“The President of the United States is a criminal. He’s not just a convicted criminal. He should have been convicted for the crimes he led on January 6th. He is running the government like a mob operation.“

A protester is currently lying in a hospital bed with a piece of shrapnel in his neck 7mm from his carotid artery. While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."

Not such a radical proposal, is it?

Ditto what @zackpolanski.bsky.social said below 👇 Also, join the @greenparty.org.uk at join.greenparty.org.uk today if you haven't already. Get involved in volunteering if you can too greenparty.org.uk/get-involved/.

Just to be clear, this is not the brutal regime in Iran doing this - no, this video is shot in America!

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Keith Ellison: "These poorly trained, aggressive, and armed agents of the federal state have terrorized Minnesota with widespread unlawful conduct. They're making unconstitutional arrests and using excessive force ... this has to stop."

The long night by Nightcrowing

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

The research found that electricity generated by coal plants fell by 1.6% in China and by 3% in India last year, after the boom in clean energy across both countries was more than enough to meet their rising demand for energy www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Another day, another disappointment by this weak government.

🚨🇵🇸 Breaking | UK Hunger strikes have entered a critical stage under continued UK government inaction. Heba Muraisi has reached day 71 of her hunger strike, while Kamran Ahmed is on day 64, with supporters warning both now face an imminent risk of death as their health rapidly deteriorates.

Jeez. This is completely insane. How has this been allowed to happen?

Might or care? The political choice that will define our future youtu.be/tZ1_o8uJIVU?...

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BREAKING: Strong words from Keir Starmer to Parliamentary Labour Party on X and Grok: “If X cannot control Grok, we will - and we'll do it fast because if you profit from harm and abuse, you lose the right to self regulate”

@trussellscot.bsky.social has now issued its manifesto for the Scottish Parliament election. www.trussell.org.uk/our-work/sco... "Our manifesto sets out our building blocks to end the need for foodbanks in Scotland." @carahilton.bsky.social

We’re leaving X. Not for clicks. Not for politics. For safety, democracy and basic responsibility. We won’t stay on a platform that fails children, enables deepfake abuse and fuels disinformation. But this is not an exit from the conversation. It’s a move to better spaces. Come with us. 1/2

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

The target for new house building is to deliver 1.5 million new homes over the next parliamentary term. No targets seem to exist for building schools, surgeries, hospitals, reservoirs etc etc to support the residents of those homes.

My advice to new Blue Sky folk? Post about your passion, as well as news etc. Do posts on sport, books, travel, food. Anything that you love.

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Call on MP and Secretary of Justice David Lammy to intervene and protect the hunger strikers. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

The struggle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

“Donald Trump is a man who represents all the things we teach our children not to be. He’s a liar. He’s a thief. He’s a molester. He has no remorse, no shame, no empathy. He has no loyalty to the law, to the Constitution. This man is the lowest character of all.”

There's no reason for ICE agents to have guns. Nobody is shooting at them.

All Reform councils to raise taxes despite campaign pledges Who would have guessed www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Some good news for book lovers👇https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/we-want-people-to-sit-pause-relax-national-trust-to-open-its-libraries-for-public-use?

It says so much about Brexit Britain that leader of the Greens, @zackpolanski.bsky.social, has to say: "I think we need to make racism unacceptable again"

Reform told you reducing council tax was easy. They just had to slash Woke policies, and a billion or two would be saved. They wouldn't even need to close care services. They promise you that. And then every single Reform-led council cut care services and increased council tax.

Reading through the FT at the moment is a strange experience: revolution, war, disaster, brutal autocratic oppression, mad dictator shit....and then "markets continue to thrive"; "record profits".

Here's a paywall free link to the article: archive.is/JlEFJ

Macclesfield Silk Museum is FULL of surprises! Here are all the bits that were not silk - Content Warning for taxidermy and human remains, we were not kidding about the surprises…

Good morning www.instagram.com/reel/DTZpuMZ...

"Peace is the Only Battle Worth Waging." - Albert Camus

We cannot stand by and wait for Elon Musk to do the right thing while people are being abused and exploited. Liberal Democrats are calling for a full criminal investigation into X’s UK operations.

Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds. Net migration to the UK fell by more than two-thirds to a post-pandemic low in the year ending June 2025, but 67% of the people polled thought it had increased www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

In which @arusbridger.bsky.social comments on the Liz Truss show. Most of us are way beyond caring about anything she says or does now. But it’s how someone as inadequate as her *ever* got their hands on power that matters. Because it could easily happen again. app.independent.co.uk/2026/01/09/2...

When trust in political leaders and trust in government dies, democracy dies with it.

X / Twitter should be banned over the whole #deepfakes issue anyway - but for a US congresswoman to threaten to sanction us if we do is all the more reason to do it. The US bullying and threats need to be stood up to. www.lbc.co.uk/article/us-c...

The average mental health wait list in England is now about 12-18 mths. Even in situations of self harm. If children get a morning at equine therapy or a boxing session that allows them to chat to the coach about feelings- I’d say that was a good thing and actually what school should look like

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.