No one writes like @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

This is the memes-to-murder pipeline in action. A far-right influencer reignited a years-long scandal over welfare fraud, which led to Tim Walz to abandon a third term and to Trump to send in ICE. It all stems from that. The stuff happening online has consequences. And it’s getting worse, fast.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

I've been thinking about this story for days. Now @thenation.com has tracked down the student who ate another student's AI-generated art. "That’s part of why I spat it out, because AI chews up and spits out art made by other people." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Royal Navy confirms it sent out HMS Severn, HMS Mersey and Wildcat helicopter to monitor Russian warship Boikiy and tanker as they transited the English Channel on Tues Pic of the Boikiy from last year by Eddie Mitchell, when he and I approached it by fishing vessel thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Bravo @ben-cooke.bsky.social. Brilliant scoop, and hard to imagine a more important one. “This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people”. Spooks don’t mess about when they leak. www.thetimes.com/article/4a1c...

Britain sent HMS Dagger to monitor the Grinch as it passed through Straits of Gibraltar, and aided with intelligence gathering and tracking, Defence Sec John Healey says.

France has seized the falsely-flagged tanker Grinch with help from Britain and other allies. French Forces said allies including Britain's Permanent Joint Headquarters helped plan the raid. Grinch has history of dark activity, including STS transfers near Kerch. www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Newsom selling knee pads for world leaders who roll over for Trump. Which I'm sure will be remembered really nicely by his world allies if he secures the nomination. www.thetimes.com/article/efb9...

Russian military-linked cargo ship Kapitan Danilkin taking a detour off the normal traffic routing in the English Channel... Anyone got any ideas? Weather diversion?

In light of Trump's remarks that Nato has never done anything for the US, this piece - featuring the families of Danish soldiers who died fighting the US's war - makes for hard, sad reading. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The UK did this deal, btw, at significant political and financial cost, so that the US could keep operating a crucial regional military base at Diego Garcia. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio both welcomed the deal. There is nothing in it for the UK other than helping the US relationship. So: hmmmm.

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

I would really like to hear what native American leaders think of Trump's pronouncement that Denmark might not really own Greenland. "Why do they have "right of ownership anyway"? There are no written documents, only a boat landed there hundreds of years ago". 😶

A week spent resting my leg gave me time to finish this embroidery piece, my largest yet. At The Edge of the Forest, 2026.

Two men who worked with the Trump Organization hold shares in GreenMet, which signed a deal with a company ready to mine critical minerals in Greenland. www.occrp.org/en/scoop/as-...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

I remember sitting next to a lovely former economics correspondent when I started at The Times. He was writing about how student loans should be viewed as a grad tax. I showed him the ever-climbing balance on my loans...

Last few hours with this giant metal cage screwed into my leg, and then I get to find out what life feels with two normal legs 🥳

Scoop with @charliehparker.bsky.social: British special forces are being readied for raids on stateless tankers, as our analysis finds 107 ships sanctioned by Britain fly false flags. SBS commandos may rappel onto tankers for the raids, we're told. www.thetimes.com/article/39e5...

Scoop with @charliehparker.bsky.social: British special forces are being readied for raids on stateless tankers, as our analysis finds 107 ships sanctioned by Britain fly false flags. SBS commandos may rappel onto tankers for the raids, we're told. www.thetimes.com/article/39e5...

Really proud to have participated in this project. The teams at @icij.org and @recherche.ndr.de did hugely important work, with some of the most difficult and traumatic images and material I've ever personally worked on. May it count towards justice.

Did someone do something? Infamous zombie-tanker ARCUSAT/TAVIAN/TIA just made a 180° turn halfway through Danish Straits and is doing max speed towards North Sea. Being a stateless ship any navy is in their full right to stop her anywhere. She has been in news during week with demands for action.

For this weekend, I wrote a big priner on the shadow fleet, how it operates, and what might come next. (I didn't write the headline though) www.thetimes.com/article/b1ff...

Hard video to watch, but about as close as you can get to conclusively disproving the Trump admin's claims that she deliberately attempted to run down the officer. She even talks nicely with him moments before! Note also that the officer is focused more on filming her than on anything else.

Again, "I only make CSAM for money" would not help an ordinary person's defence, but would aggravate their sentencing.

The day after Britain helped the US to seize the sanctioned oil tanker the Marinera, six more sanctioned tankers - including the 'zombie' ship below - passed through the English Channel. They also include a tanker so closely-linked to Russia that it previously received a warship escort.

There's a Russian "zombie" ship in the Channel right now. According to shipping database Equasis, the Arcusat "never existed"... but it's currently off the Isle of Wight. How? It's a fraudulent identity used to hide a sanctioned ship. www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

MARINERA (9230880) just made a sudden southbound turn at 11:26 UTC at 60.9386, -16.37014. Decelerated from 9kn to 8kn speed.

Grok created an image of a descendent of Holocaust survivors, in a striped bikini outside Auschwitz and is making masses of Nazi imagery. Bella Wallersteiner described the images generated of her as a "profound violation" that left her feeling powerless and unsafe. www.thetimes.com/article/3605...

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

Full White House statement to the BBC:

If you are a lawyer/legal researcher familiar with UK law in this area pls do drop me a line on this

Here's another flaw in X's system. If you report an account like I did last night for generating nude or sexualised images of children, it will remove the account. It won't remove all of Grok's replies to that person, so some of the images generated remain online.

I have a hunch that if you or I were running a website doing this the "urgent contact" would involve door rams and handcuffs so I struggle to see why it can't be slightly more pugnacious than this.

In addition to the Ofcom inquiry as to what the platform is doing to prevent its own production of the unlawful material, there should be a dedicated team making arrrests + charges + a comms campaign about that being unlawful, arrestable and chargeable

Writing this I had to look through Grok's mentions. Earlier I counted around 8 requests PER MINUTE featuring "bikini" and "her". Thousands of women and girls stripped each day. I found users stripping dozens of women per hour, from female celebrities to gym selfies. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

WaPo today:

APNewsAlert: CARACAS, #Venezuela (AP) — No visible signs yet that US is running Venezuela after Trump claims, as country's security forces control key sites.

Vinted, never change

NEW When should social media posts have legal consequences? Comparing and contrasting the cases of Lucy Connolly and Alaa Abd El-Fattah By me, at @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

At some point we have to deal with how online political subcultures have long been toxic, antagonistic spaces where trivialising violence got clicks and acclaim; and that a worrying number of people in those spaces used language that was unacceptable in anywhere else they frequented, on or offline.

Incredible footage out of Australia, confirmed by NEWS AU, of a brave bystander neutralizing one of the terrorists in the Bondi Beach attack which took place during a Hanukkah gathering. Australian authorities say multiple people have been killed. At least two suspects are in custody.

Neighbours of the Hong Kong activist Carmen Lau were sent pornographic deepfakes of her to discredit her. Other Hong Kong democracy activists say China uses misogyny, sexual harassment and worse as a tool to silence them. My story today. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

thought this was an Onion headline

Why we can't have nice things in Britain: Hairdresser teams up with wine importer to offer tastings while you have a trim, applies for alcohol license. Council objects because its a "high impact area" (bustling affluent shopping district and tourist attraction). www.theargus.co.uk/news/2565512...

Spot on. The terms of the plan 2 loan are utterly usurious. Notably the budget has not frozen just the threshold for repayments at a marginal rate of 9%, dragging more and more graduates into it, but it also freezes the interest of those loans which is as much as 6.2%! Which is ridiculous!!