this is beautiful in so so many ways.

Andrew “National Anthem” Rosindell has turned his coat and joined Reform. Most famous for campaigning to get BBC Radio to play the National Anthem at the end of the days broadcast, even tho BBC Radio 4 has always played the National Anthem and still does to this day…

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

The absolute accuracy of this.

"Pleads for" gives me a schadenfreude dopaminergic reaction.

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

Lots of people are talking about this obit, and for very good reason! What a life! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w... (gift link)

They're investigating the victim's wife, the victim's friends, the mayor and the governor too, but no, they're not even going to glance in the direction of the murderer.

Baltimore Mayor @mayorbmscott.bsky.social: “The more united we are, the more powerful we are.” #MLK2026

This but for centrists as well.

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

I suspect Jenrick's read this. The idea that Farage, *any* Tory who backed Brexit/Johnson/Truss or the media that cheered it all on can somehow disassociate themselves from the messes they made is palpably nuts... So in Brexit Britain it will almost certainly happen. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

"'I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,' he said at a 2023 conference..."

ICE Agents enter Target with no warrant and violently tackle two American citizen employees, evidently because they didn't "look American" enough. (DHS refused to explain their rationale, so we have to guess.) The injured Americans were later dumped in parking lots miles away in sub-zero weather.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

The US has announced 'phase two' in Gaza, but most phase one points never materialised on the ground https://aje.news/ib9a1r

crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"

I am Sama’a from Gaza. My home and dreams were destroyed, and I am struggling to survive with my two young daughters in the freezing cold. Julia and Talia urgently need clothes and blankets. Your support means warmth and life for them. 🤍 chuffed.org/project/157569

One of the many things I love about Tricky is how huge and contemporary a lot of the samples were on Maxinquaye. While beat diggers love a dusty old break, Tricky lifted bits from recent records like Moonchild, Suffer by Smashing Pumpkins, and Sound of The Police here www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlB3...

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

Darlington Borough Council have reiterated their plan to reach net zero carbon emission by 2040 as the climate crisis worsens and there is evidence that getting to net zero will save money | Peter Sagar

This. This is all I want to know how to do with AI

Israeli troops steal 250 goats from Syria and smuggle them to occupied West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-troops-steal-250-goats-syria-and-smuggle-them-occupied-west-bank

I’ve got a very rare Charizard Pokemon card if anyone wants to trade for a Nobel Peace Prize.

They are raising prices again. They don't pay artists. They stole Wrapped from a Black intern and didn't even credit her. Their CEO invests millions in defense contractors. Tons of AI slop. Payola schemes. Why are you still using Spotify?

The minister began by saying that she “get(s) why people there are sick to the back teeth of Westminster politicians promising the earth and delivering absolutely nothing.” | Ray Casey

Wouldn't it be brilliant if every World Cup game in Canada and Mexico is sold out, while matches played in the USA are to empty stadiums? Would send a powerful message.

I don't want to share any private space with a terf. They would violate my dignity because they don't mind their own business. I've said this before but I think now, more than ever, we should have separate rooms for them. Utter weirdos

back when a bunch of rich losers were talking about trying to pour millions into finding “the Joe Rogan of the left,” I and many other people noted that pouring a ton of money into the nation’s alt-weeklies would get us a lot farther. this is a hell of a scoop!!!

yeah government murdering people is different than private individuals murdering people, trish

This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

"We get to see the larger community response, which is: what can I do? How can I share? What do you need at the moment?” Such a good, nuanced piece by @libbybrooks.bsky.social looking at the confluence of factors causing tensions in Glasgow but also how the city is fighting Reform's toxic rhetoric.

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

Wanda Sykes thanks Ricky Gervais for not being there because it means she can accept the award on his behalf... and he's gonna thank God and the trans community (he won, she did) #GoldenGlobes

“They are all the same!” cry the Reformies as another Tory joins.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

And then Nepalese people— mostly young by the reporting—took to the streets and cleaned up after

Nepal, like, three months ago

Just clarifying this was how the creator, a man in Michigan, described it on his own social media. The official GFM description isn’t that much better. It has been changed maybe bc someone alerted him that legal fundraising for criminal defense is not allowed on GFM. The left is what Ackman saw

The news outlets that have so far covered this have omitted the description of the GoFundMe from the creator himself: "The stupid cunts wanna make a go fund me for the stupod bitch that got what she deserved i made one for the ice officer that did his job lets get this man some money." /

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More 'free speech' over at the Reform event. Farage jumps in - again - to answer a question on vaccines directed at Zahawi. Then Zahawi adds that "the question is stupid and does not deserve an answer". They all long to be mini-Trumps. ~AA

Don’t tell him about the Mayflower.

Don’t tell us that calling it “murder” enables violence. We aren’t doing the violence. You shits know exactly what you’re doing.

Like I said. They are hyping up ICE to kill us.