Just putting this out there. You know...because...

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

"How did NATO end, daddy?" "Well, you see, Belgium beat the USA in the World Cup..."

In one chapter of his book entitled 'The Art of the Bribe', Nigel Farage donor and convicted fraudster George Cottrell describes how politicians can be bought www.ft.com/content/7a0f...

Oh dear, ah, what a shame. Not.

"Hands up if you start screaming about a witch hunt and dark forces being out to get you every time you are caught red handed being a sleazy grifting sack of shit"

Important - but also funny - scoop by @rachel-rees.bsky.social and @annasophiegross.bsky.social:

Appealing my overdue library book notice to FIFA, I’m confident that justice will prevail

UEFA: "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision" FIFA and Infantino's brazen corruption has made a complete mockery of the best sporting competition in the world Absolutely shamelessly pathetic

The sequence of events following Trump's reflecting pool debacle follows a pattern characteristic of many of the president’s projects and policies. While the steps may occur in different orders, they end in roughly the same place: failure, with regular people paying the price.

Online influencer Bernie Spofforth has published a book, continuing to turn her role into being a key vector of misinformation about Southport into a story of dissident martyrdom & victimhood Nobody can be sure what happened. It is demonstrably the case that her [inconsistent] acccounts are untrue

They say God works in mysterious ways, but sometimes? Sometimes I work in very obvious ways.

Turkish activists have hung a huge banner on Istanbul's Haliç Bridge saying “Hide your children—Trump is coming” ahead of his attendance at the NATO summit in Ankara Tuesday.

Can’t blame them.

See, the plan is, you put 1,000 foreign women who all got pregnant at the same time on a hospital ship, and you do that 1,000 times, and then you wait 18 years, and then you move all the babies to Wyoming, and you win a House seat.

"The Bible consistently commands believers to protect, provide for, and welcome immigrants. These verses highlight compassion, justice, and the moral duty to treat foreigners with the same love as native-born citizens, often citing the historical experience of the Israelites as foreigners in Egypt."

Gary Lineker on Gaza, "It's the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime. Constant images day in, day out of children losing their lives." "But the minute you raise your voice against it you get accused of being a supporter of Hamas."

Trump's birthday parade, Trump's Reflection Pool renovations, Trump's concert series, Trump's July Fourth state fair, Trump's July Fourth parade... all failures. It's as though the National Mall is a Bermuda Triangle for the narcissistic projects of a dictator. Uncanny pattern.

Brilliant. How real trolling is done.

Tomorrow, millions will watch fireworks with no idea their government's 250th birthday got sold off inside a beloved charity. We read the 927 pages. We traced the shell company. We've got the whole story—days before the fireworks. Share it before the pageantry buries it:

WOW. Todd Blanche IGNORES the court order to produce certain Epstein files or explain redactions, and INSTEAD claims it needs more time, and should be able to do it UNDER SEAL. We saw this deflection coming a mile away. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Seriously. What is it with Americans and not wanting to walk. I just told some visitors to London that something was a 15 minute walk and they are abjectly horrified

Lisa Nandy, the current culture Secretary is leaving X and so is her dept? This is really good news but she could legislate against this site, she has the power. And she states she’s going on FB & Instagram FB/Instagram owned by meta has as much misinformation as any site. Performative

🧵1/ I've spent more than a decade working on anti-bribery and corruption. I know a red flag when I see one. That's why I’ve reported Nigel Farage to Parliament’s Standards Commissioner. (H/T @rowenamason.bsky.social and @tomburgis.bsky.social).

Nigel Farage: half a million promoting gold, £5 million 'reward' for Brexit, £100k for Cameo videos. While people are struggling, Farage is grifting.

A Times investigation reveals Farage and his partner own *at least* five homes across Surrey, Kent and Essex, all but one bought with cash since 2000. In 2017 he said he was “skint”.

Musk shared a free download to a film on X that promotes attacking migrants and portrays them as rapists. One Muslim family of a perpetrator are murdered. A few weeks ago we saw pogroms on our streets. Imagine if I promoted a film that attacked Jews or Christians? Why is he allowed to do this?

In the last month Nigel Farage has spent around eight times longer promoting gold bars for money (4 hours) than he has spent doing his supposed main job of being an MP voting in the House of Commons (just two votes, taking approximately 30 minutes)

The lack of journalism on the bombing of Lebanon is proof how dystopian news publications are.

How about you start blaming *some* of them? Any of them, in fact. Morning.

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

“Let’s be honest about what this is. Donald Trump hired a company that was not qualified, they did a shoddy job, and because he has such a fragile ego, now Donald Trump has to play make believe that, in fact, this was the work of elusive vandals... this is all just bad community theater."

Richard Burgon MP : "This week, I'm leading a Parliamentary debate on banning MPs' second jobs. Nigel Farage has already taken over £1 Million from second jobs since becoming an MP. I've invited him to attend the debate to explain why MPs should be allowed to rake in vast sums from second jobs"

Labour’s new leader should move to ban all donations - we set out the rationale in Babelfish 3, we could do it for peanuts, in fact for the cit of one packet of crisps each per year. End all donations, all influence, perceived and actual - and restore trust to our democracy.

As a proud northerner I’ve been depressed but not surprised by ridiculous and patronising responses to the idea of moving parts of our painfully centralised government out of Westminster People are talking about powerhouse global cities as if they are parochial villages in middle earth A rant 👇

There are more people protesting Trump outside the “Great American State Fair” event than there are at the actual event. Photos credit: REUTERS

Chris Mason on BBC news watch this morning defending himself & BBC coverage òf Keir Starmer & viewer complaints. "we only report evidence bsse fact" No Chris you 'report' gossip, opinion, tabloid headlines. He says he finds accusations of biased coverage & bringing govt down as "very offensive".

Iran was treated abysmally in this World Cup. I wonder how the U.S. will feel when a future host does this to one of our teams. Because that will happen. That’s the precedent that was set.

This is the new talking point from Reform supporters over on X. In other news, Nigel Farage has yet to hold a single in-person MP surgery in his constituency in the almost two years since he was elected

“67% of Reform’s funding to date has come from donors with financial interests in fossil fuels, totalling more than £24 million…less a political party and more a very highly paid public-facing lobby group for oil and gas interests,” www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

It looks like we found the Reflecting Pool vandal.

I have never experienced a publication fighting THIS hard against reality. The sneering, patronising bullshit that they choose to publish should embarrass them - the problem being, after so many years of sliding down into tabloid status, they have zero shame left. None.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Seems to be a lot of selective memory in UK's right-wing newspapers about schools not closing during the 1976 heatwave. I just checked and, yes, many schools did close early as well as allow parents to "keep their children at home if they wish". This clipping from London Evening News, 29 June 1976

I don’t understand how Farage can think “everyone cares” about EU bureacrats (he made a mint of that), and “everyone cares” about migrants earning a meagre living to survive, and yet “no one cares” about a £5m bung and £1m a year from GBNews to him. Does he think we’re that stupid?

I'm confident nobody will share this.