The thing is, much as it is maligned, China does follow International Law and it doesn't bomb and invade other countries, but if Donald Trump is going to make this the new normal, why should they follow rules that only apply to them?

Don't wait till after WWIII. #ImpeachTrumpNow

Nigel Farage confirms Reform would vote against the two child benefit cap - and against lifting hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty

None of this should be particularly shocking. Brexit was an attack on the post WW2 order. Attacks on the ECHR and Refugee Convention the same. Farage and Co would rather we forget the lessons of the Second World War.

I should note - it is far from clear that Labour's proposals to ban apps "designed to create synthetic non-consensual intimate images" - will apply to Grok. I asked @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social but got no reply.

"Get the facts right! How the USA has disrupted democratic governance in Latin America for over 100 years! Setting up right wing entities that destabilized the region and brought untold violence and corruption but gave the USA run over our minerals and resources!" via John Leguizamo

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

Never forget that one of the reasons Israel loves white phosphorous - which it uses illegally in populated areas - is that it causes birth defects, miscarriage, stillbirth, and infertility. Exterminating the next generation of Palestinians is an explicit goal of the illegitimate Israeli regime.

"Palestinian Christians’ words are tough and true" '‘What is the Christian word in the face of genocide?’: new Kairos Palestine document calls for repudiation of Zionism' www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/pale...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fa...

Get these big greedy fascist tech companies out everywhere. Build up your own local tech companies that actually care about helping your local communities.

Corbyn stands up for international law.

Three UN experts have warned such powers “risk concealing extrajudicial killings, torture and other violations of international law” www.declassifieduk.org/how-british-...

OffCom communication on X.

I'm a literal drug expert and when I try to post educational videos they get taken down half the time by social media platforms, but the environment-destroying robot can just say whatever to children. Cool system we've got here. Maybe it should change

These criminals stash all their wealth offshore and play god over countries and their domestic citizens. Abolish them and seize this stolen wealth.

Let there be no ambiguity: if Heba or Kamran die, that blood is on the hands of this Labour government. Our demand is clear and immediate: bail for all remand prisoners. Now.

Today marks day 65 of Heba Muraisi’s hunger strike. Day 58 for Kamran Ahmed. They are now at imminent risk of death and this Labour government remains spineless and cowardly — refusing even to meet their lawyers while lives hang in the balance.

Reform-run Derbyshire County Council set to roll out multiple years of maximum council tax increases - after pledging cuts www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/... #ReformTaxLies

Sir David Attenborough has made sure 2026 started off right by bringing rewilding to our screens 📺 His new documentary Wild London explores the city’s wildlife, from pigeons to peregrines and now importantly beavers. 🧵1/4

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

FT doing excellent work here! 👏

Mike Tapp just tapped out on standing up for a NATO ally because he is a coward whose balls are in Trump’s hands.

For over 3 years before WW2 Adolf Hitler threatened and then invaded half a dozen different nations, constantly probing, constantly pushing until he found a weak spot, then he invaded. Adolf Trump is doing exactly the same.

A really good article on the concerns around centralized control of your digital ID as more services inevitably start to require it. 🫳🪪🫲 "One feature of the licenses most states are adopting that may prove to be particularly dangerous is revocation — how and when people’s IDs can be canceled."

Politicians tried to convince everyone that the NHS was about to collapse because of flu and strikes. Now the strikes have ended and the flu looks like it’s on the wane, and yet the service is under extraordinary pressure. Perhaps the real problem is the politicians 🚨- who have systematically…

I think this is the most mind-boggling form of NHS privatisation right now - and hardly anyone knows about it🚨 jujuliagrace.substack.com

Yup - we have a massive issue incoming, and this year’s tipping point will be decisive.

Also, I just realised that we are now 26% into the 21st century and I’m… perturbed.

You can't make this stuff up. Trump's AG has charged Maduro with "possession of machine-guns and destructive devices against the US". That's the same US that's just used thousands of "destructive devices" to illegally bomb Venezuela. It's clear who should really be on trial.

Time to recognise the Nobel Committee's role in awarding this year's Peace Prize to Trump's favourite Venezuelan, Maria Corina Machado? Without their efforts, it would have been far harder to whitewash the US illegal invasion, the kidnapping of a sitting president, and the murder of Venezuelans.

Remember, it's the same people who were shocked at Russia illegally invading Ukraine who are now gloating over the US illegally invading Venezuela. They have no principles, no scruples, no morals at all. And they head every western state.

Starmer: "We regarded Maduro as an illegitimate President and we shed no tears about the end of his regime." Pretty sure Putin regarded Zelenskiy as an "illegitimate president" too. So presumably invading Ukraine was okay, then?

As Trump seems so keen to enforce the law against wayward state leaders – Maduro is to be put on trial for drugs and firearms offences – I have a suggestion: Send a special ops team to grab Netanyahu in Jerusalem. I hear there's a warrant out for his arrest for war crimes.

The path to Venezuela – and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba, and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed – was paved in Gaza. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

This is not surprising news, is it?

To be fair, this is the least I would expect when you put someone with a brain worm in charge of healthcare - things become a bit dodgy.

Heavens to Betsy, you mean to say that the geriatric orange game show host sitting in the White House has lied? Again?! How terribly, terribly unlike him.

The idea that you can think Maduro is a bellend AND think the US invading Venezuela is illegal appears to have completely broken the Daily Mail’s brain. No surprises there then.

“Cocaine is bad too!” is doing an extraordinary amount of work here for what is, ultimately, the annexation of a country to get access to their delicious natural resources to feed to your multiple corporate donors.

It could be useful news for the government that X is much less important than they seem to believe, + tell parliament. However, this big misperception of importance of X may be one significant factor in many v.skewed perceptions of our political + media elite (across parties) about public attitudes

Attacks on Venezuela, Nigeria and Iran, genocide in Gaza, threats to Colombia, Canada, Mexico and Greenland. When will the world act? The US and Israel need to be sanctioned, boycotted and forced into compliance with international law.

Trump Just Declared US Dominance Over South America #DamoRants #TrumpTerrorist youtu.be/cfFC9ZaBag0

Relating to what Israel is doing in Gaza Peter Oborne suggests… “you have this parallel reality existing within the (U.K) media and the (U.K) political system” youtu.be/k5m-qp8alBU?...

People are mugs tolerating decades of this crap. The 99% is more powerful do something.

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To any authoritarian regime the US disapproves of? Or is this a new, highly flexible doctrine where sovereignty and international law only matter when the target is weak enough and inconvenient enough? Just clarifying because I can already sense the excuses bubbling up.