Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a Texas State Senate special election with 57.2 percent of the vote, defeating Republican Lee Wambsganss. The district was traditionally Republican, and the GOP candidate was publicly backed by Donald Trump. #Texas

Andrew Tickell on a political culture that runs away from the challenging issues: #ScottishPolitics www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

Is this really true? Can this possibly be Best for Britain's position? It just seems to amount to cherrypicking. I do wonder how BfB has cornered itself to such an anti-European position? A 🧵

@zackpolanski.bsky.social with a simple message on #bbclaurak: "The Lab govt have taken peoples votes for granted & they're yesterdays news. This is the Green Party versus Reform, and Greens are going to win [Gorton & Denton]"

Live your life so the Matt Goodwin's of the world don't want dinner with you!! I think of this as a good thing.

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social on #MelaniaFilm #MelaniaMovie #AMustWatch #ICE @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

so the government’s been sitting on these files without arresting anyone because all their biggest donors are in it huh

Oregon Coastal Trail, Neakahnie Mountain #ForestFriday #Photography #Trees #Oregon #OswaldWest 📷

Torc waterfall in Killarney National Park, in full, magnificent, roaring spate after the recent heavy rains. The cascade's name derives from the Irish for wild boar, a native species that's crucial to forest ecosystems but driven to extinction. They should be prioritised for reintroduction.

JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”

A Russian regional lawmaker urged an immediate end to the war against Ukraine, saying the goals of the so-called special operation are unattainable. Colleagues cut off his microphone and later voted to report him to authorities. #Russia

As Scottish Labour limp on to they have had 19 years in opposition in the Scot Parl. And they have still yet to adapt to how to be an opposition party, challenge the SNP & critique the status quo in Scotland. Part of it is they became so used to being a system party & have not been able to adapt.

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...

apart from this it was a fantastic cinematic experience  www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

The Fight to stop Edinburgh's Radical Road being closed forever | Jolene Campbell for the 'Edinburgh Enquirer': #EdinburghHeritage, #PublicAccess🥾, #HolyroodPark, #ScottishEnvironment🌱 www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/the-fight-...

I can't take politicians seriously who argue for student fees while simultaneously putting up barriers against immigration and calling for us to "train our own".

Labour vote is collapsing in Gorton and Denton. Only Greens can take on Reform at this election. We will be announcing our candidate tomorrow morning!

Looking through the list of 70 trade and culture delegates accompanying Starmer to China, none appeared to be representing Wales...

If only there were a constitutional amendment designed for the situation where your president has gone completely bat shit insane 😡 abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump...

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Community Ownership and Landed Power in Glangarry | Andy Wightman in his blog 'Land Matters': #LandReform, #CommunityEmpowerment

If anyone wants a copy of "A Civic Survey and Plan for Edinburgh", better known as "The Abercrombie Report", there's one up for auction at Franklin Browns. Just promise not to cut it up to frame and sell the maps please, there's only so many of these in existence www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

The party which brought you ”Island of Strangers“ and “earned settlement”, and which keeps foaming against a fictitious “open borders experiment“, would like you to vote against toxic and divisive politics

Nick Anderson on #ICE - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

Chris Mason is pretty much a full on propagandist for Farage now.

Morten Morland @mortenmorland on #KeirStarmer in China #Xijinping @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.c

The general sense of the news reports from the United States is that the federal government has realised it has gone too far too soon in being filmed freely killing civilians in the streets. Public opinion is just not ready for that yet.

www.ft.com/content/d0b7... No thank you.

Trump's view on the Second Amendment is clearly that people who agree with him have a Constitutional right to carry a gun.

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

The City of Philadelphia has introduced legislation to limited ICE in the city. The Federal Agents can not be masked, must have ID visible, must have arrested warrants signed by federal judges. They can't attack people. If they can't do this, they will be arrested. youtu.be/i5Yvg_HHfbE?...

Sure would be great if they released the Epstein files today!

Not surprisingly Labour & Tory MPs say "Britain is not broken": standing for complacency & the status quo. Only Fatima Ibrahim (Green New Deal) puts the case that "Britain is broken." Don't Lab & Tory get it? If you stand for the status quo you give the politics of change to Farage? #PoliticsLive

It's East Dunbartonshire's Bearsden South by-election today, the one that arose from the absolutely outrageous circumstances of romance fraud and embezzlement. Expect the outcome to be far less dramatic: if the Lib Dems don't win this, I'll eat a hat. ballotbox.scot/preview-bear...

Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) #birds #photography

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

Anyway, this stuff blew up into a big scandal back when the lads were still raging about Morgan and Mandelson embarrassing the hell out of them in front of the Americans - including emails saying Uh, are we doing crimes here? - but they appear to have decided it was better to forget it and move on.

Suffice to say that very rich wingnuts putting up big sums in off-the-books cash to fund a secret insurgency within a major political party, which successfully tanks its own public popularity with screaming newspaper accusations, seems highly dubious on political, democratic, moral and legal grounds

No need to repeat the funding scandal: Morgan was the party’s billionaire-bungs man, and he took shitloads of undeclared cash to wage war on his own party, a thing that looks to my inexpert eye like people should be going to prison for it. Details are here www.channel4.com/news/factche...

Right: I already read the other two books with McSweeney and Reed bragging to journos about how excellent their campaigns of lying and wrecking were, so I’m not expecting revelations here: details, basically. So I’ll try to avoid doing 😲😲😲 every time there’s some new piece of despicable bastardry.

We won’t go page for page but it’s worth introducing key characters. Morgan McSweeney is basically Labour’s Dominic Cummings now, and worse in many ways: a barking crackpot with a ludicrous amount of power and control. But he wasn’t always that: in 2017, he was Labour’s billionaire bungs-wrangler.

My God, this explains a lot....👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Wild how both former main parties now hate their natural supporters and want them to vote for someone else

The "Board of Peace" proudly boasts that The Republic of Belarus, who was complicit to the Russian invasion in 2022 by allowing Russian troops to invade Ukraine from their territory, has joined as a founding member. This tells you everything about this 'international organization'.

More piracy from the USA. The captain of the Marinera - the ship the US and UK siezed in the N Atlantic, which has been sitting in the Moray Firth just off Burghead since then - has been abducted by the US, despite a court order prohibiting his removal from the ship. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...