One thousand times this. There’s a tidal wave of online extremism on the horizon in most countries and, much as kids need protection online, it’s not them.

This is Minneapolis. Collective trauma, and neighbors helping neighbors. This is our 24/7 every day lives right now, not just a 10 second news clip.

A 77% increase in immigration raids, 83% increase in arrests, coupled with undermining modern slavery protections and a call to remove basic ECHR rights from migrants. If you think what is happening with ICE in the US can't happen here I have a bridge to sell you. 1/ www.gov.uk/government/n...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I hope there is at least one MP with the courage to ask the government to justify the frankly bizarre contracts being awarded to Palantir by HMG in health, justice and defence. The NAO and Parliament need to get involved.

Somewhere, someone has already crafted a zero-day called Durin's Bane.

When they tell you are, believe them.

Civilised people agree to disagree about state sanctioned warrantless execution.

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people

Starmer needs to ditch McSweeney and craft a narrative for his government that appeals to Labour’s actual potential coalition - liberal, educated, urban, Remain-coded - as opposed to chasing working class voters with Diet Reform stylings.

In these trying times, please remember OBW remains an option

1030am Sunday: the BBC is still mainly just notifcing "starkly varying accounts" and offering a "recap" which is all "key lines" and always prioritising what people say happened, over what they could now report actually happened to scrutinise the starkly varying accounts

Genuinely think this coverage is worthy of formal complaint – and if the BBC doesn’t take it seriously, it should be escalated to Ofcom. The appearance of caving to the Trump White House, when the BBC is being sued, could be disastrous for public trust.

Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country. As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.

If this were happening in a Latin American country, ICE would simply be described as a death squad

that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them

We can all get things wrong, but if I had been this consistently and catastrophically wrong about such important issues I don't think I could carry on publishing my opinions every week. I'd want to go away and think about how I'd so badly misunderstood the things I write about.

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

I'm on the Green Line towards downtown Minneapolis ICE OUT protest. The train filled immediately. Even 20 stops away from our destination we reached capacity. People are cheering at every stop when they see people waiting to board because we are all starting to realize how big this is.

You can’t turn the Titanic around in a day. After all, all roads lead to the Alamo. That’s how the Greeks rolled in their Trojan hearse. It worked; that Blhe Swan event was really their Achilles horn.

All fine - every Chancellor says this. But won't move the dial when PM/HomeSec tell migrant workers and foreign students their presence is a "squalid chapter" & are changing rules so as to kick them out. HMT understands damage of current trajectory but needs to act, and soon.

"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse" - wow, the wording in this isn't pulling its punches

it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.

The best way to read this is: "Myself and others on the fruitier side of the British right are terrified that our previous vocal support for Donald Trump is going to bite us viciously on the arse. There are skin diseases that poll better than he does in the UK."

Today's Greenland letter provides Starmer with another opportunity like the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office spat.

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

Short-termism kills knowledge. It's government that provides the incentives for this drive to cut into a university's key resource, whatever the long-term harm. We need an overhaul of the financial & governance system of #UKHE.

And to emphasise what a blandly generic name for a US politician it is, we should switch the invitation to a different Mike Johnson. Some Mayor of an obscure town in Illinois.

Perhaps she needs to have a word with Nigel's best mate about ICE?

I'm so white, Grokipedia doesn't even have an article on me!

Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

Calling swimming outdoors "wild swimming" is a bit like calling lawn mowing “wild vacuuming”.

There are SO MANY things more important, both in software engineering and in life more generally, than producing as much code as possible. Please please keep this in mind

But... but free speech

To unpack that, banning u16s from social media rather than taking action on Grok is, effectively, saying an engine that creates Nazi propaganda and CSAM content is a legitimate part of adult society that children should be protected from. But everyone should surely be protected from Grok?

It's absolute nonsense. Britain isn't run by anyone.

I can't help but think that the problem with government comms goes deeper than just using X. Nobody outside the Westminster bubble will have any idea what this ritualised massacre of the English language actually means for one thing.

Modest proposal: any minister claiming the government “needs” to be on X should have to read out the top ten comments on their department’s most recent post.

Make this go viral. Labour MP Louise Haigh.

The BBC has been trying to Both Sides the killing of Renee Good all day, and I've had about enough of what the Corporation has become.

Disgraceful article by BBC News. It's abundantly clear from the videos what happened. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We need to create a Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Digital - surely they would be able to act.

This is such an easy win with the public (aside from just actually being the right thing to do) and yet they can't bring themselves to do it, and Kemi can't bring herself to tell the government to do it. Omnishambles.

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