...*WOMP WOMP*... Once again, The Shitgibbon is denied.

Here is, once again, my complete lack of shocked face.

This is what solidarity looks like.

Why he won’t release the files…

Yes. More of this please.

White House to end funding to sanctuary cities and states on Feb. 1

"Greenland and Denmark unite against US advances before White House talks. Island’s PM tells media event with Danish counterpart ‘we choose Denmark’ and will not be owned or governed by US." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

“After she had been groomed and raped during her teenage years by Jeffrey Epstein, 20-year-old Anouska De Georgiou was ‘introduced’ [in 1997] to the then-51-year-old Donald Trump by Epstein's sex-trafficking partner Ghislaine Maxwell. Soon after, the three flew to Mar-a-Lago for a ‘happy weekend’ …”

Murkowski, Shaheen push bill to block Trump from seizing Greenland https://twp.ai/4itjLI

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, saying the terminations appear to be retaliation for the group's view points re: vaccine safety/efficacy. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Timely ICE reminder.

Michigan! I love you.

Actor Timothy Busfield surrenders himself amid child sex abuse claims

You think Trump’s a little thin-skinned about questions about Epstein? www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...

Padilla: What they're doing is not law enforcement. It's intimidation. What they're doing isn't about safety. It's about scaring communities

If you've lived in authoritarian countries (I have) this sort of thing is familiar (but still not okay - it makes people rightly angry). It's staggering to think that this has become a lived reality for many Americans in just one year.

TRUMP FLIPS OUT

Darren Paffey (Labour, Southampton Itchen) says that the deterioration of X means it is no longer one of the platforms he wants to use to interact with constituents. "This is about whether I wish to support a profit-making platform which treats sexual abuse and illegal imagery so flippantly"

Charlotte Nichols MP (Labour, Warrington North) says AI-generated sexual harassment must be the final straw for the UK government using X A growing number of Labour MPs thought this needed a proper review last year: next week may see this cut through Misogyny is an official priority of this gvt

Alex Davies-Jones MP, the Minister for Violence against Women and Girls has posted this today to Elon Musk. This is about a future law the government proposes. There is also a compelling case that X is breaching *existing* legal duties under both the Online Safety Act 2023 and the 2010 Equality Act

😊 (though how many self-inflicted U-turns can a govt withstand?). ~ Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK - BBC News ~ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o

Kevin McKenna MP, elected in Sittingbourne and Sheppey In 2024, made this statement a year ago about leaving X bsky.app/profile/kevi...

I am therefore asking you all to please write to your MP today to support the Hillsborough Law campaign amendments to the bill to remove this carve out. This is our last chance to influence what will be a truly groundbreaking piece of legislation if it says what we need it to do.

I need your Help! We have been campaigning for Hillsborough Law for a number of years now. We are very nearly there but need your help to get us across the line. The final reading is tomorrow so this our last chance to get some crucial changes made before it goes to the Lords.

UPDATE! THE DEBATE HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED TO ALLOW FOR FURTHER WORK ON THE BILL. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED

Farage says he will now vote against scrapping the two-child limit. In case it benefits “foreign-born people”. It’s not just the racism, it’s the out-of-control personal greed, combined with the staggering meanness. He’s a repulsively inadequate man. www.thetimes.com/article/0ab2...

The Republican health care crisis is driving up costs and ripping coverage away from working families. No American should have to pay double or triple for insurance. Congress must act now to extend the tax credits that make health care affordable.

Formaldehyde is the No. 1 cancer-causing air pollutant and can trigger headaches, respiratory illness and asthma. You might be breathing in unhealthy levels of the chemical in your own home or car. Here’s what our testing found. (Published Dec. 2024)

In 2019 White House advisers reported Russia offered to ‘trade’ backing Venezuela in return for America dropping its support for Ukraine. As Trump rejects all norms of a rules based world order and concern for international law I asked Foreign Secretary to rule out such a horrific state of affairs.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s decision to abandon his bid for a third term has suddenly sparked one of the biggest political questions of the new year: Will Sen. Amy Klobuchar run for governor?

And just to underscore the lawlessness and lying premise of the Trump regime’s #VenezuelaInvasion, just 2 examples of the convicted major criminals Trump pardoned. In these 2 cases, major drug trafficking, amongst other crimes including money laundering. Highlighting the invasion is a criminal act

US fines for dirty money drop 61% as Trump retreats from enforcement. Pay-off for political donations by corporations/rich. Convicted criminals pardoned, deregulation accelerated. Is the UK different? Regulators required to promote growth, frauds buried. www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

Think @sundersays.bsky.social is accurate here. The UK has not suddenly become much more racist. However the (re)normalisation of open racism by "respectable" right-wing media and politicians has led to both increased visibility for open racists, & radicalisation of some "soft" racists/xenophobes

Whew, what a year. As AI dominated headlines, we dug deep into the climate connections, launching our Tech vs. Climate series. buff.ly/OyTgKR7

The royal family is edging toward modernity – but in 2026, the public will expect yet more transparency | Anna Whitelock

Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.

Did you guess where we were today? Southend pier. The pier stretches 1.33miles into the Thames Estuary. Incredibly the iron pier was opened in 1889. It has a train running along it for those not wishing to walk. Tomorrow we visit another watery location, but not by the sea....

Ghislaine Maxwell sought ‘fun girls’ for ‘Andrew’ in Peru - The Times and The Sunday Times