Marco Rubio announced a “campaign to dismantle” the International Criminal Court, the Hague-based tribunal tasked with investigating war crimes and more. Rubio accused the court of “waging a war against our country — not with bullets or missiles, but with the force of so-called international law.”

The top government official’s “no one should be able to prosecute top government officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by his shirt.

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

The way this whole story is playing out is deeply concerning And impossible to ignore that this time last week Farage, and Reform’s, funding was the only story in town Now Reform and its leader is playing the tune everyone else is dancing to www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The *first item* on bbc radio 4 news right now is that ‘Nigel Farage has agreed to meet the head of the independent body that organises security for MPs’ How is this news worthy of this level of amplification?

Why don't most Europeans have air conditioning? Dumb? Woke? No - WE DID NOT NEED IT UNTIL FOSSIL FUEL BURNING CAUSED THE CLIMATE CRISIS More info 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...

"design" is interesting here. They have designers working on parts at a time, UX, hardware, software, aesthetics, but these groups are not united by an overarching (marketable) purpose, they are detached from the bigger picture and designing for their domain purposes 1/x

'“[employers] require new jnr employee[s] to repay a sum broadly equivalent to his total salary in first six-mth period on the grounds that he has benefited from being ‘trained’ by employer”. This looked very much like indentured labour to us – a disgraceful exploitation of graduate vulnerability'

The Trump admin's embarrassment that it reportedly charged taxpayers millions "to retrofit a flying bribe that still isn't secure enough for hostile times does not supersede the need for a free and independent press," FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social told @newsweek.com.

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

Nice work, everyone! Keep it up!

@noahlawmp.bsky.social, Labour MP for St Austell and Newquay: “The fact that Reform would even think of tabling this amendment, just goes to show how ignorant they are to left-behind parts of the UK with their own distinct cultures and languages. They are ignorant of Cornwall”

Sad that these people died in their beach chairs.

god i love listening to Sam Neill talk. (@abciview series The Assembly gives autistic journalism students the opportunity to interview well known people)

‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms - Teachers call for schools to be urgently adapted for hot weather amid reports of nausea, fainting and heatstroke #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/education/20...

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

Christ, this is so grim. Shameful that we are not hearing more about it. #Sudan via @nytimes.com 'Let’s Name the Country That’s Financing Mass Murder'

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

It's genuinely hilarious that whenever someone on the right dies, Trump can't even pretend to care about them for more than like 5 minutes. Lol

This is crazy. Peter Thiel’s spy tech Palantir is embedding itself in the British state, and makes hundreds of millions from Government contracts in health, policing and defence, but pays barely any taxes

"Knowing a group of peers supported authoritarian rule was enough to shift individuals further toward doing the same." This week on Next Comes What: A new study reveals how authoritarianism spreads via peer pressure—and how to reverse the contagion.

My Guardian comic from yesterday #odyssey

The World Is Cutting Ties With America. It’s Already Costing Us. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/o... @nytimes.com

Tough talk from a guy in the fifth month of a six-week war

Reporting on the security problems with Trump's Qatari vanity plane, despite hundreds of millions in taxpayer-funded renovations, show "exactly why we need to protect journalists and whistleblowers – without them, we’d never know about this kind of waste and incompetence,” we told @cnn.com

I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened.

Mick Jagger there, cunningly disguised under a hat which makes him look like one of the world’s most recognisable men wearing a hat

Aren't we supposed to have reached sunlit uplands by now?

Standing up against the establishment on behalf of *checks notes* "a very successful aristocratic family".

The result would be a massive kebab shortage. I can't believe that he wrote that. How stupid do you have to be to type those words.

Totally normal, yeah? 'How #MarcoRubio Is Running #Venezuela From Afar. The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in the Trump era' @nytimes.com

The #US treatment of #Cuba is undoubtedly a crime against humanity. And the rest of the world is largely silent. It's obscene. Utterly obscene. Just imagine what these people are going through. #ReverseTheBlockade

🧵This story is insane in so many ways that others are more qualified to analyze. Can only add that viz US foreign policy, Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, acting as viceroy of Venezuela is derelict, unconscionable, & impeachable. The SecState's time is scarce, valuable, and not outsourcable. 1/

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There has been a 'ceasefire' in Gaza for 274 days. In that time 1,098 Palestinians have been murdered and 3,500 injured. While 0 Israelis have been killed. There is no ceasefire, just a Genocide.

Between this and proposed Roadless Rule revocation, this administration’s goal appears to be destruction of every scrap of wildlife habitat in America.

"All Reform is able to do is say the other parties are cowards. They are sounding very, very rattled." Nigel Farage sent his Reform "minions" out to defend his finances this week, but did they make things worse? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/have...

Those who question the presence of Palantir in public services have been accused of risking lives and overloading of the NHS. Well, all of that is based on sketchy, unverified data. Whereas, their power over the system is very real. A scandal is gathering here. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The move comes after an ICE agent fatally shot 52-year-old Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an enforcement operation in Houston on July 7.

Daily Mail poll going hilariously south for Nigel Farage.. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Britain has no cap on political donations. None. @stellacreasy.bsky.social has proposed capping them at £100,000. MPs - and everyone else - should back it when the Elections Bill returns to Parliament next week. New by me on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-to-sto...

George and Fiona Cottrell understood to have been interviewed under caution by Met police

Holy cats. “Eurostar has ordered trains that can operate in 55C heat as it prepares for the prospect of Saudi-style summers in the UK and parts of Europe by the middle of the century.”

His claim to be fighting for the people of Clacton would have been somewhat more convincing if he hadn't been forced to go back more than two years before finding a clip of himself there

I’m sure this is all fine

It's not a mystery? His is an old person who used to pal around with Roy Cohn.

All the greatest hits.