For those keeping score at home:

Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void. Here’s the Cato Institute report: www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well known before this for hobnobbing with Russians on yachts along with Osborne. Now do Boris with Lebedev after ditching his security…

Love a sticker or 20.....

This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

"An FBI affidavit issued following the incident also suggests that in the previous shooting cited by DHS, Zambrano-Contreras was not a suspect, but rather a reported victim of a sexual assault and robbery." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🎙️ Joined The Villa Park Podcast to catch up on all of the latest in the Academy including: 💫 Salzburg Showcase 📑 Loans, Loans, Loans 🫣 THAT Ian Holloway Comment youtu.be/T2cVFhM7jH0

Stop saying underage women. They are children.

Inside Aston Villa's transfer window: Gallagher €26m bid, Garner & Mbaye interest, Kamara's PCL injury, Bogarde, Tielemans contract, Abraham sacrifice, Douglas Luiz, Elliott impasse & a month of battling against finances & injuries. @theathleticfc.bsky.social #AVFC www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Blues v Villa in the U21 Premier League 2 is live on VillaTV for those of you wise enough to get it pre-season. www.avfc.co.uk/video/

Luckily, we can still listen to that in the present! The list is endless... :) youtu.be/8v8-RSyuUeE?...

Oh dear, this may well upset a certain section of the football community. Uncle Unai and his dark anti xG-magick 🪄

Well, that was a bit too dramatic for me 😂 Fair play to Salzburg. They came with something to play for and worked their socks off to get it. Villa again struggle when pressed and when the middle of the park is packed. Clown defending aside, Villa came back in part because RBS legs fell off >

I love Tyrone Mings. He will always be a key part of the rebirth of the Villa. He can be a magnificent warrior and a superb defender, but has a tendency to require good opponents, whom he may feel he has something to prove against. When I have seen him play without this drive, he makes ricks.

Time is ticking down fast to the release of HOW WE THINK on 12 March! Six weeks to go so I thought I'd give you a quick intro to the book. What it says. Where it came from. What it can (hopefully!) do for you. You can pre-order HOW WE THINK now! bio.to/HowWeThink @hodderbooks.bsky.social

My Girlfriend has started actually showing off her tattoo work. I'm biased but I think she's incredibly talented. #tattoos #birmingham www.instagram.com/p/DUF7WxoiIh...

"Clearly, Schumer and the leadership of the Democratic Party still, even now, have no real conception of what is happening in our country. Because these are not normal times, and we are so, so far from a normal America." - from today's First Draft

Talked with Storybench about the reporting process behind our visual investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti. Storybench's behind-the-scenes series is a resource I've used for years, and I'm honored my team's work is now a part of it. Read it here: www.storybench.org/how-an-open-...

I know I am not alone in this, but folk seriously underestimate just how big Tammy Abraham is. 6 feet 4 and a half inches. That makes Peter Withe look like Ernie Wise. A monster.

Unai appears to be putting the band back together 👀

If you have interest in engineering, aerospace, or history, or how politics can warp decision making in senior management. This is a must read. www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g...

How one year of ‘America First’ left workers behind ft.trib.al/YeRLrmR | opinion

Remarkable how Emery has drilled this team to confound and confuse the xG acolytes. NUFC gave it all the steam they had in the tank in that second half, and they were made to look impotent by Villa's relentless discipline and organisation >

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Found myself encountering a fellow Villa fan in the other place who sincerely felt Alex Pretti deserved to be killed. I was shocked at this, but the polarisation of political culture has removed respect for those with opposing views, and everything is left v right. It is awful to lose respect.

Currently #Arsenal is ranked 4th in the #UFCC Alltime Ranking - same number of wins as #Everton. If the Gunners can win today, they'll move to 3rd position! #NFOARS Full list of champions: www.stevesfootballstats.uk/ufcc_champio...

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

I was shocked at the brutal killing of Renee Good by a masked thug empowered by the US State. The video of another gang of masked men executing a man on a Minnesota street does more than shock. This violence is not a one off, it is not bad apples, it is systematic and sanctioned. What the hell?

NEW: ICE just executed another person in Minneapolis.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

Wow. DOJ asked a judge for a warrant to investigate Renee Good after she'd been murdered. A judge denied it. www.ms.now/news/doj-sou...

Worth a listen pals. youtu.be/Wfotg_q5Bkc?...

Board of Peace - Season 1

I have just presented Celtic's 1967 European trophy to Stenhousemuir. Thank you for your attention to this utter bullshit. 💚

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Donald Trump pardoned the “Camp Auschwitz” rioter, hosted a Holocaust‑denying white nationalist for dinner, and declared that “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.” That’s not a coincidence. It’s a culture. My latest essay explores the dangerous mainstreaming of extremism

Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello…. “The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.” www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...

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Fall is here and many of you may be shopping for an overcoat. Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵

Emails seen by The Lead show the councillor, through Lancashire County Council staff, issuing legal threats after his role in private care was questioned.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Color me surprised.

Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’. But shareholders will be richer. Chemicals seep into water supply and companies don't invest in waste disposal. Companies don't bear social cost of their operations