This seems highly illegal. And if it somehow is allowed to continue, why would anyone else enter into any sort agreement with this administration?

Trump has never been exactly stable or reliable but these are new heights of insanity; a drunken idiot trying to pick a fight in with anyone who crosses his addled path.

The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash. If it goes it down, we’re looking, as complex societies, at a potential termination event. This week's column. Please read it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

These people are just insane. Incompetent and insane.

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Incredible

Trump threatening NATO. Again. So that's how he's going to end it: blame his allies for failing to end a conflict he started. The only constant in the chaos is how it always seems to serve Russian interests. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Literally this

🧵 The Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, was formed by Biden's defense secretary Lloyd Austin, intended to minimize risk to civilians during war. Hegseth scrapped the office to favor lethality. It could have prevented the tragic death of nearly 200 Iranian children.

No, we’re not going to stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles. Last week I described a connection I discovered between the dark worlds of Epstein and Playboy. After receiving some disturbing tips, I followed up with this video. DO YOUR JOB, DOJ! youtu.be/F_lQGmjnRGA?...

The twenty billion dollar man

If you're like me and prefer reading about, rather than watching, Sheldon Whitehouse's nearly hour-long floor speech on the possible links between Trump, Epstein and Russia, @hcrichardson.bsky.social provides a summary. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-7-20...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

Been testing out a hammock tent & wood stove. What a difference a stove makes for winter camping. You can dress for freezing weather up to a point but usually you end up retreating into sleeping bag to keep warm. With the stove going full blast I had to strip to the waist and was still too hot..!

A thing that’s shocking me about the lack of coverage is air safety info. Hi, Glasgow folk, from a Southern Californian transplant: ash from old buildings is super gnarly. Please wear a respirator if you need to be near the scene. Queen Street is still available, but it goes different places!

Love to Glasgow tonight ❤️ please dig out some decent ffp2 masks if you're going to be in the centre for the next week (if you're not already masking). That amount of smoke will be causing breathing problems in healthy people, as well as babies, older people and those with respiratory conditions.

Right-wing Christian media are celebrating Trump’s war with Iran as a fulfillment of End Times prophecy. ➡️ www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

That's how you hold people to account :) Senator Thom Tillis - republican

I find it astonishing that part of the discussion around this war is whether a a leader who started it will get bored with it or not

complete insanity

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a blind refugee, unable to speak English. DHS improperly detained-but finally released him Instead of bringing him home, they dropped him miles away-without regard to his disability or notifying his family Unable to find his way, he died on the streets of Buffalo Alone

Today I publish Who Owns Scotland 2025, an annual analysis of landownership across rural Scotland. The most significant finding is the continuing trend over past 15 years of fewer and fewer owners owning more and more of rural Scotland. andywightman.scot/2026/02/who-...

A historic showdown: 300 million Indian workers paralyzed the nation in the largest strike ever, defying Modi's assault on labor rights. Yet Western media's quiet coverage reeks of complicity with billionaire fears. Claudia Webbe nails it: this is the future the elite dreads most. #BharatBandh

NEW The High Court rules the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. What did the judgment say and not say, and what has changed and not changed. And what happens next. Quick explainer by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

In a moment that calls for courage, we get this:

In yesterday’s congressional hearing, ICE bristled at being called fascist This story from Idaho alleges they went well beyond fascism-all the way to an American Gestapo “Parents and children were zip tied at gunpoint” “officers used racial slurs and sorted..the crowd into groups” based on race

Goldman: "Will the survivors and victims who are here please stand up one more time. By show of hands, how many of you or your loved ones actually have met with the DOJ? None ... How many of you were ignored by the DOJ? All of them." (Bondi responds by smearing Goldman.)

The Fulton County search warrant affidavit has been unsealed by a federal judge. Read about what’s in it, and more importantly, what’s not. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Programme for @edinburghtradfest.com out now. @islaratcliff.bsky.social with a re-imagination of Vivaldi's Four Seasons on 3pm Sat 9 May at Traverse Theatre. edinburghtradfest.com/schedule/202...

Jury duty today. Ready to do my bit then, in the court room: "could you take your hat off please?" I'm wearing a black snood. Does that even qualify as a hat? "I don't take it off." I have my reasons. This just isn't going to happen. And the court seems to have a very strict dress code. Excused.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

He describes #ICE detention conditions as a modern day concentration camp. Filthy Crowded Food deprivation Dangerous Violent guards He fears for his life. If it can happen to them, it can happen to you! Call Congress & demand accountability for #ICELawlessness! 202-224-3121 & read thread🧵⬇️

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Ukrainian Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk has a couple of questions for MAGA Land: "Why has Trump's year of negotiations been the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion? ... Why did Putin not allow himself such brutal strikes on civilian infrastructure under Biden?"

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich | Creators

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

BLOG - Today I publish my annual Rural Land Market report examining land sales in 2024. For the first time, I reveal the prices paid for 21 properties which were concealed from public view. Do have a read - only 9 pages (the blog is worth your time too) andywightman.scot/2026/02/rura...

Widespread outrage as Trump posts crudely racist vid of Obamas as apes (!) To avoid offence, I've masked their faces.

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

ICE rammed her car, shot her five times giving her 7 bullet wounds & absconded her out of the hospital after three hours wrapped in bandages. These agents are savages! #FundHealthcareOverICE If this could happen to Marimar Martinez, it could happen to you or your loved one! Congress: 202-224-3121

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..." apnews.com/article/immi...

Folds on the Kennedy Center 3 weeks ago: I was sick to my stomach when I quit because I knew they were going to run it into the ground. No one that they were appointing had any experience in arts administration, but that was never the point. The point was to take that, run over it, and move on.

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