Now let’s hear Farage, Badenoch et al screech about foreign interference in our elections

Under pressure from Putin-loving Trump, who tried to steal an election, (likely hoping Zelensky will be kicked out), Ukraine has to work out how to hold a fair election when millions of Ukrainians are displaced and about 20% of the country is under Russian occupation www.ft.com/content/50d3...

He does the security checks and clearances for ICE, Homeland Security & federal agencies….done for sex trafficking. It is “kinda scary”

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

For context:

Isabel Oakeshott, the Mitford to Tice's Mosley, throws scoffing potshots at a principled Welsh university from her Dubai den, where she is an immigrant, but probably prefers to think of herself as an 'expat'. The worst of people.

The publication of the Epstein files unearths corruption and human trafficking in countries across the globe. In Belarus, the story had another twist. The files flesh out Epstein's personal connection to Belarus through 36-year-old Belarusian national Karyna Shuliak.

Any political party not promising to seriously change the rules on media ownership isn't worth your vote.

Lauren Bobert viewed the UNredacted files and said they were disgusting! Ghislaine should be locked up for life and trump too! #SheShed #trumpIsaPedophile #LockAllOfThemUp

I’ve posted this Village Voice 1980 article before. I read it again this morning and I’d like to see if anyone can answer the last question of the article “How does Trump manage to have the taxpayers subsidize so many of his enterprises?” So for approximately 45 years he’s been scamming Americans!

Russian hybrid warfare has targeted every aspect of UK statehood: from the MOD, to the NHS, to the BBC. No single party has either the credibility, nor the capacity to fully investigate the breadth and depth of Russian interference. Only a judge-led, statutory public inquiry will suffice.

The Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych cannot wear a helmet featuring images of his countrymen who were killed in the war with Russia, Olympic officials said. They said he defied a ban on political speech and allowed a black armband instead. nyti.ms/3OaGanu

Trump's attacks on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which have included gutting its workforce and dropping enforcement actions, have cost consumers nearly $20B in the last year alone. It's a new golden age for corporate crooks. And Trump is happily letting them rip us off.

There is more clarity of political vision and positivity for the future of this country in this one page foreword to the Local Power Plan than in everything else Starmer’s government has done since taking power

I have no problem w security guarantees for Russia: once it has retreated inside its internationally recognised borders, Ukraine & the West should promise not to attack RU territory. But Grushko is asking for guarantees of continued Ukrainian insecurity, not Russia’s security. That’s unacceptable.

After reviewing critiques of the Quiet Revival narrative, @georginasturge.bsky.social, author of 'Bad Data,' concludes "Yes, the @biblesociety.bsky.social data is clearly wrong and has been thoroughly debunked." cc: @robb-s.bsky.social

Net migration was 205k for the yesr to June 2025 (and lower now in 2026) - is Cummings saying people think net migration is under 7000? Or 6800-41,000? Gross Immigration was 898,000 in 2025 - is DC saying people guess gross Immigration is 30,000? Or 30k-180k?

Cummings claim that the public underestimate immigration by a factor of 30 (or 5-30) seems a very unlikely extrapolation - perhaps from one or two nnumerate member of a focus group - if you think about what he is claiming they think the numbers are

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists. That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.

Did you know? In 64-68 CE, the tyrannical, self-indulgent, debauched Emperor Nero built his 80 hectare Domus Aurea ("Golden House") complex in Rome to include banquet halls and a rotating dining room. Polished marble and extensive gold leaf. Nero committed suicide in 68 CE before its completion.

DoJ Identifies Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, chair and CEO of DP World, which owns London Gateway and Southampton container ports as well as P&O Ferries, as the recipient of the “I loved the torture video” email from Jeffrey Epstein.

Farage claims his failed-Tory recruitment drive is because he needs people with experience of govt. What he really means is - experience of lying. Repeatedly and shamelessly. He has a stellar line-up with Braverman, Zahawi and the v practised, ‘Honest Bob’. What a grim bunch of grubby little cheats.

Time Magazine: Trump Officials Redacted Epstein Files to Protect ‘Prominent’ Individuals, Lawmakers Allege time.com/7373333/epst...

No way will I attend the White House dinner with this President. I’m standing with @govwesmoore.bsky.social and @colorado.gov — and standing against Trump’s corruption and hatred. And I’m calling on my Republican colleagues to do the same.

The folks at @theipaper.com asked a series of writers to look at Elon Musk - and I examined how his personal behaviour has damaged his busienss legacy inews.co.uk/opinion/elon...

Being a responsible youngish member of the DS, I went and pointed out to my then boss that I didn’t have the appropriate clearance. (I was actually hoping to be saved from the tedium of that job). He looked at me for a few moments over his glasses, then shook his head. “I think you can probably…

And ready to impress with my newly acquired degree, I was told my security clearance had been overlooked and I was therefore being put into a much less sensitive job. About two weeks into it I realised that though boringly administrative it actually gave me access to very sensitive information…

I lost faith in these processes before I was DV’d and had the other clearance. After spending three years on unpaid leave to study for a degree I was told I would be put into a job in what was then our “Defence” department. I was looking forward to it. The day I turned up for work, bright eyed…

straight from @propublica.org's story www.propublica.org/article/life...

It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.

Jamie Raskin said he reviewed an email sent from Epstein to co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that was a forwarded conversation between Epstein’s lawyers and lawyers for Donald Trump. The DOJ (illegally) redacted Trump's name in the public files. What else are they hiding?

Mr. Secretary, did you traffic your children’s nanny to Jeffrey Epstein?

Here is the email

JHC I was just making a mordant joke. Turns out, not so much. The screen cap below is from the NYT bsky.app/profile/kagr...

He testified he left with all his children. Did he leave with all of his plural nannies?

Not the point, but “nannies?”

Labour figures are increasingly confident that they can hold Gorton & Denton – with Burnham playing a big part in the campaign, despite being blocked as the candidate The mayor features prominently in Labour literature seen by PolHome, while the party plans to send letters signed by him to voters

Goldman: You said references to ICE as secret police encourages threats. The problem is you have it backwards sir. People are making valid observations about your tactics which are outright fascist. If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime, stop acting like one.

Q: Did Alex Pretti deserve to die? Scott: "I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation." Q: Did Renee Good desrve to die? Lyons: "I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation."

Lyons repeatedly refuses to say if even a single ICE agent has been fired since Good and Pretti were fatally shot. He also said he will not apologize to the family of Renee Good for Noem falsely accusing Good of being "a domestic terrorist," saying he won't comment while investigation underway.

Thompson brings up Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old DHS agents nabbed in MN and shipped off to a Texas detention center. A judge later ordered Ramos and his dad released, slamming DHS' "incompetently implemented” deportation campaign. The Bible quote at the end of the judge's opinion: “Jesus wept.”

Thompson says he asked for a moment of silence for Renee Good at the committee's last hearing. Today, he asked for a moment of silence for Alex Pretti, "a law-abiding U.S. citizen and a VA nurse who dedicated his career to caring for our veterans."

"This hearing is just the start of a reckoning of the Trump administration and its weaponization of DHS against American citizens," Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the top Dem on the panel, says at the start of this hearing.

An insane justification for masked ICE agents carrying on with violence against whoever, whenever, with no accountability.

Todd Lyons, Trump's ICE chief, is testifying this morning in a House hearing. Lyons will say in his opening remarks that ICE is somehow the victim of ICE's reign of terror and violence in Minnesota, not the immigrants too traumatized to go outside or the American citizens ICE/CBP have killed.

HOOOOOO boy. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?" Lyons: "Yes ma'am." McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?" "Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

The depths of the cuts to metro, sports and foreign and the elimination of the entire photo staff suggested the cuts were deeper than ~~just~~ 30%. Good on the Washingtonian and the DC Guild for getting the real numbers out.

“Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) said Monday she now understands “what the big deal is” after reviewing unredacted files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I’ve not been one of the members who has glommed on to this as an issue,” Lummis said apple.news/An8o036HsQMy...