Ossoff: "If there is one person who committed election fraud in Georgia, it is Donald Trump"

Reform UK ~ funded by Russia Restore - bought and paid for by an American trillionaire GB News - owned by a hedge fund in Dubai The Daily Mail - registered in Bermuda. Is that Patriotism? #NotOnOurSide ⤵️ #ReformUKLtd 🇷🇺 #RupertLowe 🇺🇸 #GBNews 🔥🇬🇧 #DailyMail 🔥🇬🇧 www.facebook.com/share/p/1H1z...

Well, my new "fantasy reviews" website launches today with a mix of reviews, reports, reveals and rants! Catch the inaugural review here of Chiara Bullen's splendidly cosy fantasy "The Inn at the foot of Mount Vengeance" fantasy-reviews.co.uk/2026/07/13/t... @chiarab.bsky.social

It's been a great 9 years and nearly 3000 posts, many thanks to Beth and Nils for managing so much admin, content management, publisher liaison and still shepherding the cat-like herd of contributors! ❤️

Reform has threatened to “investigate” Phillip Rycroft, the man behind the government’s review of foreign financial interference in British politics. Now why would Farage want to do that… 🤔🤔🤔

“While me and the Dark Lord Sauron often disagreed on his will to dominate all life, I will fondly remember his quick wit and his passion for jewellery”

ICE lied about how Renee Good was shot. They lied about how Alex Pretti was shot. And now they’re lying about how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot. Don’t believe their story for a second.

MPs demand full publication of explosive report by the UK’s spy leaders that found collapse of ecosystems overseas would have catastrophic consequences for UK’s national security, warning the UK has “no future” if the findings are not urgently acted on. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A reminder that we in Europe have enough grain to feed the entire population. At the same time, so much woody straw is produced that we could do without other synthetic insulation materials and, for example, gypsum plasterboard and e.g. OSB panels made from forest wood.

TERFs are attempting to infiltrate Mermaids by applying for their Trustee vacancies, in an attempt to sabotage the organisation from within. Please apply if you are able to, to prevent this: mermaidsuk.org.uk/jobs/

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

I appreciate this transparency so very much. May all publishers who (inevitably) get duped by an AI story have the same humility and strength to be this transparent. It's going to happen, it's happened, it's happening -- and it fucking sucks.

Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely

"Perhaps the victory lap for getting rid of RCP8.5 was premature" 😭 www.theclimatebrink.com/p/deadly-hea...

All lobbying should be publicly declared in transparency laws shake-up, watchdog says

www.ft.com/content/7a0f... If I was a political aide with a conviction for fraud, under scrutiny about undeclared financial support… I simply would not write a book called “How to Launder Money”.

Open letter in support of the Centre for Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Exeter, in which all 20 staff (including myself) have been put at risk of redundancy. Additional voices welcome, and please share widely docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

The reason the world is upset with Israel is because of the 700,000+ innocent Palestinians they’ve murdered. It’s not because they’re Jewish. Hope that helps. Subscribe For FREE : publicsquaremedia.substack.com/subscribe

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

“How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal… division is the oldest trick in politics.” Zohran rings in America’s birthday by reminding us our story is one of welcoming immigrants, not excluding everyone who doesn’t look like us. 🇺🇸 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DaVzyL0...

Jonathan welcomes Jenni Daiches to the Hive today to discuss her upcoming novel THEY KNOW WHERE THEY'RE GOING: "[I]t's always interesting and challenging to allow your imagination to go somewhere and think, well, supposing this was the situation, what would people do?" More:

Today we're thrilled to share an excerpt from Emily Rath's upcoming dark fantasy romance DEVOUR ME, publishing 30th July from Tor Bramble! Read more:

TO Munro reviews the latest in Martha Wells' hugely popular Murderbot series, PLATFORM DECAY Read more:

Today TO Munro reviews G R Matthew's recent addition to his Six Kingdoms series, OF SONG AND SHADOW: "a gritty but engaging story with characters facing some intriguing internal and external challenges" Read more: tinyurl.com/5feynk4w

You cannot hope to bribe or twist / thank God! / the British journalist. / But, seeing what / the man will do / unbribed, there's no occasion to.

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

A+ #BookReview: Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky #booksky @aptshadow.bsky.social #TorBooks #sciencefiction #SFmystery #noir #urbanfantasy My Review: Like all the best stories, Green City Wars starts… https://www.readingreality.net/2026/06/a-bookreview-green-city-wars-by-adrian-tchaikovsky/

Today our judges reveal the scores for our semi-finalists AND our finalist pick for this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO)! Congrats to our winner and good luck in Round Two! fantasy-faction.com/2026/self-pu... #booksky 💙🪐📚 #spfbo (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

Edinburgh council just agreed to condemn the proposed EHRC Guidance as discriminatory against trans people, unworkable and potentially incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

I've just found out this heatwave killed a very very good friend of mine last night, so do forgive me if I have absolutely no patience at all for "lol it's not even that hot" takes on here.

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

It's officially the hottest June day ever. We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians. We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.

As you boil in the heat, never forget that all those people who for decades have deliberately and maliciously disrupted efforts to tackle climate change are probably sitting comfortable in their large air conditioned houses. Houses funded on the back of lies/misinformation they helped propagate.

All the Reform nutters opposed expanding the ULEZ because they don’t like change. It’s helped cut deaths from air pollution by 40%.

lollllll -- Ossoff proposes a motion that would ban senators from trading stocks and crypto, prompting Sen. Lummis (who loves crypto) to immediately object

The man in the Oval Office thinks touching peeling paint is a crime, but touching children isn’t. Drain the pool. Drain the swamp.

Mamdani: When I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region. And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept.

This is only the beginning. The climate crisis is here. So why are politicians and most of the media still acting as though this can wait? It can't. We can still avoid some of the worst impacts - but only if we find the courage to act. metro.co.uk/2026/06/22/g...

A very nice and thoughtful review on Physical Magic from team Fantasy Faction! in #spfbo! If you want to get your copy, plus the next two books, you can order them now in my current crowdfunding campaign! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Green City Wars is out this week, US and UK covers below. A cyber/solarpunk noir detective story starring a raccoon. Available at your bookshop of choice, ebook, audio and hardback.

It's obvious to point out attacks against Muslims get ignored - but still needs repeatedly calling out. An Antisemitic attack should be reported and action taken. But where is the same media outrage, cobra meetings and calling of national emergency when 5 Muslims are attacked?

There is no evidence puberty blockers are harmful to kids. There is plenty of evidence trans kids die if they don't get them. Labour banned them.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

If you have ever wondered how diverse the British media is, it isn’t.

It is inescapable now that many politicians & most of our media judge the severity & seriousness of a crime differently according to the ethnicity of the perpetrator and/or victim. An utterly hideous state of affairs ushered in eagerly by Nigel Farage & Elon Musk. It is very easy to do better.