Reminder that people who demand "Law and Order" need to understand that law is written down, but "order" is subjective and if you give the tools of state violence to bullies, the enforcement of order ends up in oppressive conduct like this.

“Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces.”

Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement— If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”

It’s worth reading the whole Palantir piece to see that they are leaning in to being the Legion of Doom.

Not great. PB is led Rumen Radev who is seen as pro-Russia. It's another left-wing nationalist group like Robert Fico's in Slovakia.

Just one week after the EU lost one pro-Russian prime minister in the Council, it is now set to get another one. Exit polls say Rumen Radev's party has won just under 40% of today's vote in #Bulgaria. The big question: will he form a coalition with pro-EU or pro-Russian parties?

Exactly how I felt reading today! #1984

palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

Thread. TLDR; Palantir is a menace that needs to be broken up

🧵 Why is Palantir advising on foreign policy? This bit is interesting: “National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost” Full post ⬇️

One for @bylinetimes.bsky.social ?

You know that Daily Mail EU poll that people have been voting on, just to flex our rejoin muscles and say “NO. We aren’t going to lie down an accept all our losses”… It isn’t that thee Mail reset it to zero ….it is that they engaged in bar chart trickery to make 84% look more like 50%‼️🤣🤣🤣🤣

🙏🏼Help required🙏🏼 Is there anyone out there who has access to the 17-page diversity training document was offered to staff at the Lancashire NHS trust?? GBNews and Telegraph have it but I can’t find it to debunk their BS headlines!

Can anyone help ?

Elon Musk summoned by French prosecutors after 15-month probe

New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social "Is Ukraine winning the drone war?" The Russians certainly think so. What are the implications of Ukraine's innovations for the war and, more broadly, for how other countries should be thinking about drones? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/i...

Q: Why is the US rewarding Russia by extended these sanctions waivers? Russia is working with Iran Waltz: That's oil that was going to market. Now, instead of just going to China, it can go to some of our other allies and partners. WHY IS RU OIL GOING TO “ALLIES & PARTNERS”?

Lewis Goodall has confirmed what we all know, Labour are held to a higher standard than any other political party but he doesn't see it as his job to change the narrative. It's victim blaming, we know it's wrong but Labour just has to be better to avoid the media bias, mind boggling logic.

Reform UK Local Election Promises…

And for anyone thinking war in the middle east, Israel and the massive Reform / Tory / Restore / Social Media push to restart drilling in the north sea aren't linked... From @privateeyenews.bsky.social No.1672 As any copper will tell you...follow the money. 🧐

Richard tax-cheat Tice. And remember when Farage’s partner bought his Clacton house somehow, so he could avoid paying taxes on it? That is all Reform UK Party Ltd exists for: money.

As usual @privateeyenews.bsky.social is bang on the mark. Wants to know why certain parties support the war in Iran? As always, follow the money!

Don’t Vote Reform U.K. ! Nigel Farage said it himself ‘they can’t be bothered.’ #Don’tVoteReformUK #NeverVoteReform

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸 Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in. This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale. Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar

Others have posted this but it needs to be shared far and wide. Goodall's response is telling, it's victim blaming, it's akin to women being told not to wear short skirts and if they do they're asking for it. Absolutely appalling but not really news to many of us who are sick of the media.

Tice said: "Naturally I am always happy to put things right and if numbers need rechecking, of course I will pay what is owed - be that more or less." It's another big story from Gabriel Pogrund who also revealed last week that Tice's property company failed to pay £91,000 in tax before dividends.

Well, well, well🤨 What was it again that #Tice said about #AngelaRayner last year??? She’s blaming advisors and accountants etc but she only has herself to blame! “If she had any integrity, any moral decency at all, she would offer her resignation!!!”💥 (proof below) youtu.be/THW3bLHzV6E

🇮🇷 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘀 IRGC and Basij men cannot risk public exposure so they enlist women and children to project state power in the streets during orchestrated pro-regime demonstrations. Placing civilians, expecially children, at risk of misidentification is a war crime. 1/2

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

It's amazing that RFK is not the most insane person in the US cabinet. Perhaps not even top three. nypost.com/2026/04/15/u...

@pimlicat.bsky.social speaks to Matthew Wright on @lbc.co.uk about Best for Britain's latest polling. "So if it's growth that we're after, well, quite clearly there's one option that gets you a lot more than the other."

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

@stratcomcentre.bsky.social Ukrainians hacked yesterday's secret meeting of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade on drone production in which Russians cited problems in obtaining even basic components, all now being reliant on China. x.com/stratcomcent...

Full video of the hack with live taunts at the end

A perfect episode of my favourite podcast, @quietriotpod.bsky.social. The time has come to Rejoin!! @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social explain why. They also discuss why the BBC’s promotion of an asylum fraud story was so irresponsible, plus thoughtful film recommendations. Enjoy!

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK. First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

Yesterday we had a journalist post on Threads to say the press doesn't like Labour and holds Labour to higher standards than other parties. It confirms what we all knew and see every day. But shocking that someone in the media bubble actually said it out loud!

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants. “And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

The U.S. just flew a war-zone surveillance drone along Cuba’s coast for 6+ hours. • Loitered near Santiago & Havana • Same system used in active conflict zones Officials: “no comment.” Routine… or escalation? www.usatoday.com/story/news/w... #BlueSky #Cuba #PoliSky #Lawsky

A large crowd as always at the weekly march in Tbilisi. Georgians have been protesting in 8+ cities every day for the last 507 days.

A US official tells N12 Trump has convened a security meeting and “the war may resume in the coming days".

There of course are these reports: Numerous ships making the break for the Strait of Hormuz this evening have made abrupt U-turns and are heading back towards the Persian Gulf. Over a dozen ships have already turned back.

Remember how Starmer deftly led Johnson into misleading Parliament about partying in Downing Street, there's no way he'd daft enough to mislead Parliament. I very much doubt he's a fan of Mandelson but like most of the media and even Farage he thought he was a good fit considering who is POTUS.

"I would rather w**k with a razor". Pretty clear response from bloke in Wales when asked if he would consider voting Reform... The man from Reform (who took it in good spirits tbf) is Zak Weaver, a former Tory staffer who defected in February.

Defense alliance NATO also has its own messenger, and the European Commission plans to make the switch by the end of the year. WhatsApp is owned by U.S. tech giant Meta, while Signal is run by a U.S.-based non-profit and managed by a large community of open-source software enthusiasts. /3

🚨🚨Welcome news: European governments are getting #WhatsApp and #Signal out of their system in a move which is part of Europe's search for alternatives to American technology, sparked by fears of being strategically dependent on Washington. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

@pippacrerar.bsky.social go on, deny it.