Missed this yesterday. Massive boost for Ukraine’s arms industry, who have been pushing for export controls to be lifted. Creates even more opportunity to develop new equipment, innovate and fund the defensive effort. Great news.

Creating a substantial class of people who may never be able to settle, or who only do so after half a lifetime, is in no-one’s interests, leaving people open to exploitation, disadvantage and insecurity and reducing social cohesion. If anything, settlement should be easier, not harder to obtain.

Radium, DDT, asbestos, laserdisk...

Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations. That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.

Some genuinely good news - Home Office does the right thing. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Exactly. Every day 🇺🇸 looks weaker, the stink of corruption gets worse. Shame SHAME on 🇺🇸 SHAME on Trump and his coterie that shield & facilitate him and act out his madness. Destroying 🇺🇸

From today’s Russian papers: cucumber prices in Russia jump 42.85% in a month, number of loss-making companies rising, wage arrears growing, “…gap between pensions & wages increasing.” #ReadingRussia

The strikingly soft tone in stark contrast to ICE aggression is very effective. Reminds me of the Estonian Singing Revolution. Keep it up #Minneapolis. Sing your way to peace and a better world. #IceOut

Yup, yesterday…

"It took decades of painstaking work at the US Naval Weapons Laboratory for her to come up with the geodesic systems that would allow the precise measurements and mapping needed for the technology – her work nevertheless transformed modern life."

Of course, it's expensive to keep people locked up and feeding them. So much easier to have people being free, working and feeding themselves but Trump can't figure that out, like the human and business disaster he is.

When are they going to learn that if you exclude people with these skills, house building for example won't happen? As importantly it will scare others from going to work there It's going to be an economic disaster for the USA Now remind me what happened post-Brexit vote in the UK?

Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/

Keep Palantir our of the UK, take action now ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/658abc

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.

England’s poorest areas have 70% more vape shops and bookmakers than wealthier ones

"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

@jmkorhonen.fi Nuclear weapons are one thing, but I don't know if most countries in the European Union are ready to even discuss conscription.

Finland is good at security in all situations, and we support Ukraine with military and civilian aid. But think about this, if you are reading my post from Canada, Belgium or France.

This post cannot be real, surely. SURELY? Liz Truss opines about the "Labour Illuminati”.

The measurable cost of Brexit is "brutal" & "devastating". Isn't it time our government did something about that, or at least started planning to do so? A 'reset' is not going to cut it! www.thelondoneconomic.com/business-eco...

ICE HELL Irishman 🇮🇪 lived in 🇺🇸 for 20 yrs. Built own plastering business in Boston. Valid work permit. Married to 🇺🇸 citizen. No convictions “not even a parking ticket”. Green card application underway since April 2025. Would normally be granted. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Many students said they were careful to avoid "banned words" in their GRFP applications, but in some cases it was unavoidable. Now they're wondering if these words led to their RWR notifications. “My project is about bears and ‘black’ is a trigger word,” one Redditor wrote. “Insane.”

⚡️Update: Explosions, damage reported in Odesa amid overnight Russian drone attack. Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper reported that a Russian drone attack on the city of Odesa caused damage to "residential infrastructure," adding that fires were seen in the city.

Spotted in the Epstein files

Congratulations, António José Seguro, on your election as President of Portugal. The Portuguese citizens have spoken and, in the face of devastation caused by the storms, demonstrated remarkable democratic resilience. Portugal’s voice for our shared European values remains strong.

Epstein toured SpaceX Hawthorne HQ 2/25/2013 w/ Nadia Marcinko, Sarah Kellen (Kensington), Adriana Ross (Mucinska) DOJ records (EFTA00875135) confirm Epstein toured the facility w/ three females, directly contradicting Musk’s public denials. Emails show Musk personally coordinated the 1:00 PM tour

👉 Nadia Marcinko (Epstein 'sex-slave' & recruiter) wearing Space X shirt at Space X Hawthorne headquarters (2/25/2013). Epstein toured the facility accompanied by multiple women, despite Elon's denials (EFTA00875135 / EFTA01904984) www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/e...

I'm 85 next month & I've seen them all from Churchill to Attlee to the present day. Trust me when I say that I know the real deal when I see it. They all had their flaws, but Starmer far less than the others. He has to be given time & space to do what needs doing, what needs fixing. He will do it.

Never believe anything until the Kremlin officially denies it. #Epstein #Putin

You can donate to Bri’s efforts here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-singl...

Hahaha OK that's pretty good.

We all know one of these. 🏈🎶🇺🇸🇵🇷

The French once again taking no bullshit.

Here’s my report at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circ...

I'm reading this decision more closely today, and Jones's opinion is extremely bad on the merits, but it's also just so cruel at points.

The Times calls Keir Starmer's decision to hire Peter Mandelson an "egregious error" which deserves an "inquiry into the appointment process." Not included is any demand for an inquiry into their own appointment of him, long after his post-conviction relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was exposed

And remember that is in just half the documents and even those have been heavily redacted.

THIRTY. EIGHT. THOUSAND. TIMES. Nothing to see. Move on.

ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, exploiting children, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.

Andre Ventura of Chega (change) running on anti-immigratiom slogans like "this isn't Bangladesh" and "Portugal is ours" has lost the Portugal presidential election in a landslide. He was second on 23% to 31% in the first round but losing about 30-70 in the run-off to socialist António José Seguro

I took my time with this one — almost as much time as Jones took after arguments to write her opinion backing Trump — because I think it’s a very important, alarming ruling. So, yes, I hope folks do read this. www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circ...

There's a point in the Files where Epstein appears to joke about he and Woody Allen both being "pedos," using that term Does not seem to be a topic they shied away from

Shoutout to the one person watching Melania during the Super Bowl

So Musk DID have dinner with Epstein (and Zuckerberg and Theil) here on 2-8-2015, long after Epstein’s first conviction but before the second investigation & arrest. And sought out “wild” parties apple.news/A_yXZIJs4QGu...

If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

Ex-Prince Andrew shared confidential information with Jeffrey Epstein from his official work as trade envoy in 2010 and 2011, according to material in the latest release of files in the US seen by the BBC

Ex-KGB official says 2 countries have copies of compromising Trump video