Something remarkable and magnificent about the continuety and determination of these #GeorgiaProtests

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Because I love Nigel Farage and want him to be prime minister. Or, because I didn’t have anything to add other than retweeting my colleagues’ reporting on the issue. One or the other. Who can say, really?

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Carl warned us

Brexit was always a bad idea. But then came the energy crisis, Covid, Russia's war on Ukraine, Trump's tariff tantrums, and Trump's war on Iran. In the new much harsher world the UK inhabits, persevering with Brexit is a VERY VERY bad idea.

“The British press usually works itself into a fury if people in public life threaten legal action against journalists... But when it comes to the wall of money and lawyers propping up Farage and his finances, barely a squeak” Democracy dying in the darkness. www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...

Why do we have to tolerate such unadulterated bollox from this hideous man? And why does the media give it all a veneer of potential respectability? Farage is pathologically corrupt and obscenely greedy. He’s a national security threat, a liar and a racist. Just say so. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remembering Ida B. Wells-Barnett who #onthisday May 4, 1884, 21-year-old journalist and educator was forcibly removed from a first-class train car by the Chesapeake &Ohio Railroad near Memphis, Tennessee.

La La Land. Just watch an actual golden age musical.

I am with Polanski on this matter. It just isn't acceptable for several police officers to repeatedly kick a prisoner in the head while arresting him, especially as they are armed with tasers, which they were in fact using on him, and truncheons and restraints and greatly outnumber him.

Today, we announced $270 million of new military support to Ukraine. Ukraine’s fight is our fight. Their cause — freedom, democracy, sovereignty — is our cause. Good to see President Zelenskyy today in Yerevan. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

A cat ran out in front of my car earlier, no warning, just shot out straight in front of me ... 😲 I was able to stop in good time though, because I was doing 20mph, because that was the speed limit, because of cats and children. So there you go.

My entire childhood, I was told that America was innovative. However, we have had multiple decades of lead time abt climate change and renewables, and our business and political communities have spent more time, energy, and money blocking innovation than fostering it. 🥺 We are being out-performed.

Today’s unwanted take: When walking or biking, if a driver properly yields right-of-way, I give the little thank-you wave. No, it’s not required, you do you. Yes, everyone should do the bare minimum. But I believe in positive reinforcement and moments of social connection.

Like my new sticker? Runs on Aussie sunshine ☀️ No fuel stops. No price shocks. Just charge at home and drive. This isn’t a drivetrain swap, it’s a system flip. From imported oil to rooftop energy. Once the fleet scales, the economics break fast. Cost always wins. #Bettrification

Good. It’s easy to forget that climate change denial & shilling for fossil fuel companies provided a template for Tufton Street, Brexit & pretty much every egregious example of persuading populations to vote against their own interests. The story of Don Pearlman should be taught in kindergartens…

Sorry. Maybe I’m just tired… But I don’t think there’s anything funny about any of it. Our politics has become a total minefield… so much damage done by some really nasty and incapable people… the very worst of whom - Farage’s lot - stand to gain from the mess. And Labour will fail to learn. Again.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

Starmer’s handling of the vetting story has somehow become a bigger problem for Starmer than the vetting story. Extraordinary.

The EU now requires all Mobile Phones to be sold with easily replaceable and standardised batteries, as they used to be. From 2027 they all will be again, in Europe.

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

Pure speculation on my part, but if I were Olly Robbins looking to override the vetting process, I’d be WhatsApping Morgan McSweeney. Not for a green light, but an imperceptible nod. ENDS

Important story - few will be surprised, but the detail is fascinating.

It began with coal and steel. But from the very start, our Union was always meant to be much more. 75 years ago, in Paris, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Europe chose a different path. One of unity over division, of peace over war.

That the president of the United States is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system!

I don’t think this is enough. In fact I think when politicians or other such people go on radio or TV and make grossly 8na curate statements like this they should have to appear again in the same programme and time slot to be publicly corrected…and cannot go on (BBC etc) until he or she complies.

Tipping point? "New electric cars now cost £42,620 on average, compared with £43,405 for petrol models." plc.autotrader.co.uk/news-views/p...

Thank Christ someone who understands the nuts & bolts spells this out (as @iandunt.bsky.social certainly does : see his book “Brexit: What the hell happens now?”) The rest is a distraction.

If, as is probably truth of matter, Mandelson was to be appointed Ambassador, come what may, because Trump was a sui generis problem which needed addressing in a sui generis way - a Trump-whisperer - then PM should just say that. The faultlines are developing from pretending that was not the case.

Critically developers need to deliver the community infrastructure before they are allowed to sell more than, say, 50% of their houses. At the moment grandiose future promises are made but never delivered, thanks often to extremely weak planning enforcement.

I just spoke again with Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar. Hungary has returned to the very heart of Europe, where it has always belonged. This is, above all, a moment for the Hungarian people. For their voice, their dignity, and their future in a safe, prosperous Hungary inside a strong Europe.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

PRIVATE HEALTHCARE delivering to the NHS reported £2.2 billion in profits . Could that possibly be linked to the £1.1 billion NHS budget deficit.

Glad to see the Australian government on board. Massive milestone today with Bowen acknowledging EV growth is already offsetting the oil crisis. Increasing reserves while demand falls makes no sense. Now for a solar carport mandate! Charge baby charge. ☀️⚡ #Bettrification #EVs

Farage and Kwarteng doing a Bitcoin deal has to sum up the sheer stinking rottenness of their brand of politics. This is not democracy. It’s certainly not public service. It’s pure corruption. And repulsive, piss-taking greed.

What a bloody disgrace: “World Aquatics allows Russia to compete under flag again”. Swimming Olympics caving in to Russia and Belarus. apple.news/AEOCwSNR2Sre... I shan’t be watching the Olympics if this decision holds up

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union: "I remember when I was a diplomat in Brussels... We were able to influence decisions. At the time, the Brits were also part of the EU. Let's hope they will rejoin."

. Funny how this works . . . .

The Channel 4 News report from Budapest is so joyful. It’s not going to be an easy road for Hungary, although the majority size helps. But great to see the euphoria at Orban’s defeat.

Here's the thing

Me, today, wrong choice

🔭 American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon died #OTD in 1941. Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today. #WomenInSTEM #astronomy #AstroSky

Magyar briefly draws on his time as a diplomat in Brussels as he talks about negotiations with other countries. Unexpectedly, he says that at the time “the Brits were also part of the EU; let’s hope that they rejoin.” www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Whew! Hillary Clinton this morning on the US-Iran talks that fell apart: “This is hard, disciplined effort that has to go into diplomacy to reach any results. And I don’t see this administration either wanting to do it or, frankly, being capable of doing it…”

Today, Europe is Hungarian. We are stronger. More united. To the people of Hungary - you've done it again. You have spoken. You have chosen Europe. It's a victory for fundamental freedoms.