But - but - special relationship...

How totally predictable. Anyone curious about voting for Reform should pay close attention to what is happening at the various councils they run and just how many promises they are breaking

Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban. And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:

Almost as embarrassing as Ivanka trying to blend in with world leaders when she joined daddy's G20 work trip in 2019. Never mistake nepotism for credentials or relevance.

This is SO unfair. Just because Jared Kushner earned a living as a real-estate investor working at his father's Kushner Companies... and then took over the firm when his dad was jailed.. and then landed a load of profitable gigs after his father in law became president it does not make him a nepo

Man, if this administration truly believes Putins believes that, then they have the worst Russian / FSU advisors and analysts.

Socialism...but for oil company shareholders

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

Incels can’t get even AI to want them lmao

Stephen Miller looks like the villain in a movie about tax audits.

It's interesting that Russia withdrew all of its personnel from Venezuela exactly 14 days before Trump's invasion. China didn't withdraw their personnel. Cuba didn't withdraw theirs. Just Russia. It is almost as if someone called Putin to warn him what's up as part of a quid pro quo. Not almost.

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

#20FaveVideos #MusicChallenge 5 - unranked Where's Your Head At - Basement Jaxx.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

#20FaveVideos #MusicChallenge 4 - a bit late joining, sorry. Unranked. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley.

Let's not mince words. These people pretend to be patriots, but are obviously traitors.

absolutely bizarre to see a violent, rogue american regime, which is threatening military attacks on a bunch of major trading partners and close allies, and openly fantasizing about hitler-style wars of territorial conquest, covered in the tone of horse-race political commentary

Laura Kuenssberg, "You've been clear that Putin's attack on a sovereign country Ukraine was wrong" "What about President Trump's attack on a sovereign country, Venezuela" Keir Starmer refuses to condemn Trump

"Venezuelans at celebration parties in Miami could not believe it, insisting that Trump had misspoken. His plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations."

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com

Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

A new year cartoon for @theguardian.com books

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Hegseth: "Ok now ask Grok where it's at on a map."

Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.

Maybe he has to close his eyes to visualise the 4D chess thing?

"The dangerous thing here is the idea that a President can just decide that a leader is not legitimate and then invade the country and presumably put someone in power who is favored by the Administration. If that were the case, that’s the end of international law"

Other work of the Ladybird artists. Winter Landscape Artist: Rowland Hilder

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

Yeah, all those Ukrainian invasions of Russia were appalling /s

Maduro's not a good guy, agreed. But neither is Putin, and Trump rolled out the red fucking carpet for him. It's not about dope, it's about oil (which kinda IS dope). Just when you think Trump has hit the gutter, he bounces lower.

NYT: Hegseth demanded the resignation of the commander of U.S. forces in Europe and NATO, General Christopher Cavoli, who stated in a declaration submitted to the Senate committee in April that Russia poses a "chronic" and "growing" threat

All #Top31DavidBowie playlists 👇 Ultimate open.spotify.com/playlist/2Cc... Album Tracks open.spotify.com/playlist/4EA... 1967-1975 open.spotify.com/playlist/1eg... 1976-1980 open.spotify.com/playlist/3Wc... 1981-1993 open.spotify.com/playlist/4YE... 1995-2016 open.spotify.com/playlist/1U4...

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

‘There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’ -Leonard Cohen. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge Good Times - Chic.

Hysterical watching Iran’s Revolutionary Guard trying to bend reality to its will. The Fars News Agency which it runs: “the demonstration consisted of 200 people with about 5-10 chanting slogans that went beyond economic concerns”. Videos shared by Iranians show thousands on the streets. 1/2

Happy new year. Wishing us all, and the world, a better one than last year, I really think we deserve it.

#70sTop30 Starts tomorrow. Post thirty of your favourite songs released in the 1970s. One per day (at any time). Ranked or unranked, it’s up to you.

Happy New Year!

Farmers in Poland protesting against the EU in their tractors funded by EU loans... None of these farmers in this protest could exist without EU funding the motorway they are protesting next to ...yep, built with EU funding dicks! czestochowa.naszemiasto.pl/protest-roln...

Forthcoming music challenges (revised list): #70sTop30 1st January #RadioheadTop30 1st January #StandaloneSingles 1st February #OrchestralManoeuvres 1st February #Reverberations 1st February #ExitMusic 1st March And that’s it for now…

Being a day late and a dollar short has always been the norm for me, hence me missing yesterday's #BirdOfTheDay. I've posted this Mute Swan before, but it's such a nice fit for the theme of #serenity that I couldn't resist posting it again - even if I am late. #birds #ukbirds

Hoar frost on fence post, Glen Orchy

Like a cello! 😂

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Gusty Twilight’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Financially, emotionally, historically, psychologically, intellectually, culturally, spiritually, aesthetically, thematically and existentially speaking, what happened in 2025 can never happen again