NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.

To all those in America, who may not quit understand how Trumps words about the allied soldiers who fought in Afghanistan impact the world. I suggest you listen to the @mrjamesob.bsky.social radio show from yesterday. This is so powerful and should hit home for everyone. youtu.be/Rdm3sMIH8fk?...

It would either be this or a stack of hand clasping and rolling over. The capacity of leaders to appease instead of act never ceases to amaze me. But then, in fairness to them, faced with disastrous consequences, it isn’t surprising.

Does anyone have any statistics as to current tourism to the USA? I wanted to finally visit New York this year, but there’s just too much going on in the country that makes it feel like an unnecessary risk. I can’t be alone in this? You worry even about normal social media posts becoming a problem.

All that’s missing is a pitchfork.

every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie

Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything." For once, I believe him.

The most corrupt America Last President in history. Every day a new pardon worse than one the day before.

This guy is articulating very clearly why Mamdani won the election. The majority of New Yorkers don’t want their elected officials to kow tow to the rich and wealthy.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040 E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours Pricing to compete with low cost flights Reduce emissions by 80% Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷‍♂️

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

WHICH WAY IS THE OVAL OFFICE?

Me, as a juror on the DC sandwich case!

This sandwich case strikes me as the exact reason we have jury trials. Throwing a BLT at someone is almost certainly an assault, albeit a comedy crime. However, a jury can throw this out should they think it’s a nonsense.

Yikes…

Bit late to the party, but finally watching The West Wing. If your only reference to American politics was the present administration, then the show is ludicrously unrealistic!

I think Starmer has been a huge disappointment. He’s been passive & cowardly. He’s not politically savvy either. I also think he is a decent person and really wants to fix the country. However, the hatred for him, almost universal in the country, is nothing short of radicalisation. It’s batshit!

And of course the Reform Party executive all deny knowing anything about or actually Nathan Gill

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Just watching Trump say that he is filled with “grief and anger” about the killing. He looks neither angry, nor grieving. Just looks like a guy reading a statement he’s never seen before. With zero feeling.

HitlerSuckfest1488: "This has radicalized me."

I don't really care that they refused to mourn left-wing and liberal figures when they died, I'm not taking my moral cues from them, that's the whole point

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America is broken.

BREAKING: The Vatican has released the last words of Pope Francis “And then he looked at me and said ‘How come you’re not wearing a suit?’”

That so many of you carry on posting on X encapsulates the problem with authoritarianism. Many people hate it but aren't prepared to make even the tiniest personal sacrifice to oppose it [like foregoing the fun of shitposting on the authoritarian propaganda website].

Calm down Dorothy, I've spent longer putting the bins out

Meanwhile…on another signal chat

Listen, I've been talking to your haters, and they raised a lot of valid points about you.

Sanders: If Musk can do this to federal employees, some of whom are in unions, some of whom have worked for years, what do you think he's going to be doing when artificial intelligence and robotics comes for your job?

Why would you move your manufacturing to America when next week the tariffs might half, or disappear, or double, or grow wings and fly, or be turned into a goblin, or become an emotion, or

I often say that living well is the greatest revenge. It is also an excellent way to throw off suspicion from my actual favorite revenge, arson.

I remember watching Star Wars as a kid and asking myself, who would voluntarily join the dark side? I understood Darth Vader's motivation, but not the stormtrooper's.

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social

1. Another Brexit benefit 2. Why aren’t the pro-Brexit folk calling for a similar approach here? We have the same sorts of problems with our housing markets and significant foreign ownership here.

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

Truth is Musk has the measure of Farage. He's not the real deal. Not the white supremacist and fascist, ideologically, that Musk is looking for. He's just a hurt Tory who wants to punish the party for not letting him play, and is unscrupulous enough to use racist poison to get there.

There is no better time than right now to abandon Twitter. Make it useless. Worthless.

Pity Farage wasn’t asked about this - he should be forced to own it @bbclaurak.bsky.social @theneweuropean.bsky.social

‘We’re getting poorer’ says Nigel Farage In other news the Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...

I wonder how often their share the letters of complaint with their staff?

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own. Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest? Thread: 1/

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