1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Good news bad news. Good if they finally get some people in who care about balance. Bad if they take the opportunity to go even more right-wing in their leadership in an attempt to stay ahead of prevailing winds.

All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.

His "concept" of a Healthcare Plan is finally revealed. It involves eliminating the Insurance Industry & people purchasing their OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE. Unrelated, note his obsessive envy of Obama, historically rated 1 of our finest presidents, who he still believes was born in Kenya. #sad 🤣

“F***ing hell…” Is this the scariest near miss you’ve ever seen?

Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier. No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.

On the blog: The clocks have gone back, nights are drawing in – it can only mean one thing: it’s time for official ‘road safety’ organisations to preach their annual messages of “be safe, be seen” to people travelling outside of motor vehicles... fiets.uk/2025-11-06/t...

Nailed it.

For months, I’ve been following a Canadian ostrich farm ordered to cull its flock after a bird flu outbreak. It was a cause célèbre for MAHA activists, a MAGA billionaire, and, of course, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The trucker convoy with birds ended last night. They lost. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

That's incredibly disappointing and rather spineless. Trans rights are human rights.

All that embarrassing sucking up for naught

Pesky e-bike riders delivering food to people should be ticketed... @tps.ca there appears to be a double standard here because stopping in for some Jerk King, although delicious is not actively responding to an emergency. The use of the lights here, while clever, is certainly inappropriate.

Good grief. This administration is so soft on crime.

Last year. This year. @cnbc.com

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel. Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire. Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year. Glad everything worked out for them. How about you?

This is amazing and a total game changer for our tanking economy but release the Epstein files.

Of course they did, and as someone who's been in front of many juries as an attorney I'll tell you why: jurors hate government overreach more than anything, and this case was such a blindingly obvious instance of serious government overreach that everyone associated with it should probably be fired.

Explain a film plot badly. Boat keeps following woman on long swim.

This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now. 100% serious here.

Tories overtake Labour. Labour's tactic of appealing squarely to the voter demographic that will never vote Labour is going swimmingly.

BREAKING: DC sandwich thrower Sean Dunn found not guilty of assaulting federal agent! Trump’s DOJ Fails again.

The sandwich guy has been acquitted. When the jury did not return a quick verdict, it looked like he might be toast. Turns out they needed to chew on it some more. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

'Blunt Corruption': Trump DOJ Hands Google an Antitrust Win After Tech Giant's Ballroom Donation www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...

Oh reeeeeally?

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106. 12 days of work in 106 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

The Reform council dubbed ‘the biggest advert’ for what a Nigel Farage government would look like is in meltdown.   Reform are not serious and local residents are paying the price.

Labour: "We couldn't possibly begin negotiating with the EU to eventually rejoin. That would make the next GE all about Brexit." Reality: "Yes, and so what? At the moment everything is about immigration, and you are LOSING very VERY badly indeed."

She pointed me to the council's draft obesity strategy which would also help tackle the issue. I then pointed out that I helped write the response to it for @cyclehavering.bsky.social and @haveringstreets.bsky.social which concluded that it wasn't very good on transport. LOL. 2/2

Reform/Tories hate the Employment Rights Bill as it gives workers a bit more control over their lives. They also moan about how many people are off work, sick and Farage says NMW is too high “being pro-worker is not a barrier to success, but a launchpad to it.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gorsuch finally starting to understand what they have unleashed

This is the kind of investigation James Comer was made for…

Before becoming one of the godfathers of mountain biking, Gary Fisher did a bit of road, track, & cyclocross racing. He was kicked off the circuit in 1968 for long hair (really!) and reinstated in '72, when they changed the rule. Happy #BicycleBirthday Gary Fisher! Born November 5, 1950

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Men from Britain & across the supporting Empire did not die like cattle, in hundreds of thousands - in trenches, on barbed wire, under machine gunning - in order that over a century later, sham patriots could bully & blackmail others into wearing a symbol of that mass slaughter. Some material: 1/2

Day 3 of the “no more than 2” day trial of Sandwich Guy. The prosecution intends to rest; the defense hasn’t decided yet. Dispute over jury instructions continues, a few morsels (sorry) to follow.

No boat crossings at all in the last 7 days. The BBC hasn’t sent this to our phones as breaking news.

Bit by bit, he's turning the White House into a knock off Sandals holiday resort.

More good news for the average American on the way? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Labour appear to be taking a "blindfolded juggling of chainsaws" approach to their 2029 GE prospects. There is a world in which they don't lose a few limbs. But they probably have better odds of winning the Lottery.

Waddling down memory lane after the drubbing last night…

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs. That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK. As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.

"You should have your tyres fixed by Bown's Perfect Process & then ruts would not affect them" 1878

According to government statistics published in July, 262 prisoners were released in error in the 12 months to March 2025 - a 128% increase from 115 the previous year. Why are we only being told about the foreign nationals? #KowtowingToFlagshaggers www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Feels like we've reached the "burning the lifeboats on the Titanic to keep warm" phase of Labour's time in office. It's come VERY quickly, thanks to the world-shaking ineptitude of Starmer and his front bench. Get your affairs in order. 2029 will be devastating. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

October 2025 #Arctic sea ice extent was the 8th lowest on record for the month... This was 2,030,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. October ice extent is decreasing at about 9.39% per decade. Data @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

Guys it’s easy to say Dick Cheney should’ve been prosecuted for war crimes. But you’re forgetting one thing. If we start prosecuting people for war crimes, people in the future might get scared about doing war crimes and hesitate before committing war crimes!

Rachel Reeves says we have a £25 billion black hole Rachel Reeves knows Brexit makes us £40 billion poorer Rejoining the EU would give us a £15 billion surplus Why doesn't Labour want what's best for the UK? Tax rises? That'll be Brexit

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC. My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.