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Dear world: Do not come to the Trump World Cup. Do not risk being mistreated by ICE or Border Patrol thugs and don’t give your support to this administration’s mistreatment of others.

holyrood park is on fire here in #edinburgh ☀️🔥 @secretedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburghminute.com @threadinburgh.scot

Why has social care reform proved so elusive? Our Deputy Director of Policy @natashacurry.bsky.social summarises the politics that's been holding back the action the sector badly needs 👇

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

Iran’s official military spokesperson Ibrahim Al-Fiqar shared this AI-generated image of Donald Trump bowing before Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with the caption “The end..”

Canada as a state. Greenland as a state. Iran as a state. The Western hemisphere as a state. Stuff like this should immediately end a presidency, seeing as it wildly violates the UN Charter & massively endangers US national security. But alas, he is One Special Boy & nothing seems to matter anymore.

BREAKING: POLITICO is shutting down AI "tools" at center of landmark arbitration. wbng.org/2026/05/22/p... #NewsNotSlop

The Women’s History Museum seemed to be a rare cause almost everyone could get behind—but new challenges to its construction demonstrate that nothing is safe from Trump’s culture war, @kelseyables.bsky.social argues:

This is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA). There is no complicated math: they ask you to subtract a single digit number from a 2-digit number less than 100, and do it 5 times in a row. You can see an example below. Either he's lying, he thinks it's hard, or he forgot the question.

This form of corruption is typical of dictators. There is no question about its dubious legality under democratic circumstances.

So it turns out you can’t get a fast train from the nation’s capital city to the biggest city at the really early time of… 7am. Because. Scotrail.

What? THAT Mark Cuban?

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

The Momnibus Act was previously known as the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, but the word 'Black' has been removed from the title and appears only once across the latest package

BREAK: All episodes of Married at First Sight UK have been pulled from the Channel 4 website.

🎬 🌴 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 Javier Bardem calls out 'toxic masculinity' of world leaders The outspoken Spanish actor has slammed the “toxic masculinity” of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu for causing wars, during an expletive-laden outburst at the Cannes Film Festival

Three senior officials at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have been given the choice to either accept reassignment outside the institute or resign. With the new departures, scientists in most of... TAT: [Attacking science | Suppressing dissent | Hollowing state]

If you're opposed to this explain why.

From six-figure posts to millions in ad revenue, family influencing can be highly lucrative. A new book explores the pressures — and trade-offs — behind it.

“Ovarian cancer is the deadliest of all gynecological cancers,” Nami Mun writes. When hers was diagnosed, she had a tumor “as wide as a peach and as long as my hand.” She writes about what she learned from her body after years of self-silencing:

The lede to this story on security at the World Cup—which starts in 27 days. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

ICE accused Wendy Hernandez Reyes of leaving her 2-year-old son with a violent uncle who allegedly abused and killed him. She says her son would still be alive if officers hadn’t detained and deported her.

He did what now? apnews.com/article/fbi-...

Trump said that repairs to the DC Reflecting pool would cost $1.8 Million. Now? The price tag is $13.1 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract for the project after previously working on pools at Trump's properties. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?

Keir Starmer phone Andy Burnham and offer him the Health Secretary job and a seat in the House of Lords

Oh what a tangled web they weave... Farage now admits he bought the Clacton house, having told everyone last year that his partner Laure Ferrari bought the house.

Kari Lake, Trump’s candidate for ambassador to Jamaica, has “no diplomatic or political preparation, other than the 14 months she has just spent running America’s foreign broadcasting agencies into the ground,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues.

I don't know how many different ways I can say this but I'm not stepping aside for Andy Burnham, and it's both very tedious for me and very demoralising for my staff to keep seeing it reported that I might be about to go when there's never even been so much as a conversation with Andy about doing so

Irish TV to air Father Ted instead of Eurovision final in protest against Israel’s inclusion

WATCH: Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix this town’s housing crisis. To this day, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. A $590,000 deposit for the printer was forfeited. And the more reporter Molly Parker asked questions, the weirder things got: propub.li/4nlU1VD

It must be very cold in London today 🧥 @channel4news.bsky.social

An artwork plundered by the Nazis from the world-famous Goudstikker collection that surfaced in the family of a notorious SS collaborator in the Netherlands has been handed over, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand tells AFP ➡️ u.afp.com/SRcm

Experts call for UK four-day week as study links long work hours to obesity

Ziobro is accused of stealing governmnent funds as well as illegally using spyware against other Polish politicians

Good grief, the dresses and outfits at the TV BAFTAs are dreadful. What is going on?

🇭🇺 Hungarian dancing minister at it again at Magyar inauguration as PM Crowds gather outside the Hungarian parliament building to celebrate the official inauguration of Peter Magyar as prime minister. Attendees include incoming Health Minister Zsolt Hegedus, who went viral for his dancing skills.

Female-dominated clerical work is among the most vulnerable to automation, and labour market losses are already being felt. Read more here: ft.trib.al/pHjZEuS

Minister Zubir Ahmed, a transplant surgeon, told me that in January he had to decline a kidney for someone because a lack of access to GP records at a weekend meant he couldn't be sure the organ was safe. GPs meanwhile still rely on letters from hospitals to know what happened to their patient.

Does not feel like May should.

Well, One Battle After Another is horrible. Are there any new films I might like?

Pals, here is the complete session 7 starter pack for Members of the Scottish Parliament:

Bloody hell.

The EU flag is flying at Hungary’s parliament again after Péter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister — the first time it’s been displayed there since Viktor Orbán had it removed in 2014.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

How can it be that difficult to produce immediate, correct graphics with the vote numbers these days BBC Scotland?

Musk, Yaccarino. xAI & X are subject of judicial probe ie criminal investigation in France… www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/f... paris prosecutor’s statement linked in story

Our (slightly famous) local polling station sign is starting to age a little but still makes me smile.