How did I miss this? Trump thinks Portland is on fire and is justified in sending in the troops because he watched a five-year-old clip on Fox? Are you kidding me? We are so in 25th Amendment territory. Biden never did anything close to this:

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp." Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Netanyahu openly says he "supports the idea of a 'Greater Israel,' which is a batshit crazy idea, which some people used to say was a conspiracy theory on the far right." Me to Piers Morgan on his show today. Full show: youtube.com/watch?v=Kmdm...

Surely Floridians will soon ban the Narnia books. Everything except those mediocre Christian moral fables I won as Sunday School prizes. It’ll be back to Victorian hypocrisy. Despite the “sacred” constitution US will soon be a blend of theocracy & kleptocracy. Totally retrogressive in so many areas

October 5–11 is Banned Books Week. The 2025 theme: "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights." 💙 Many of the listed books were REQUIRED READING in my high school English classes. 🌊 #PowerToThePeopleRightOn

Light and life in Highland woodland:)

Are we resigning ourselves to the world reverting to a bunch of parochial, tribal nation states, susceptible to strong-man bosses with their own agenda? Is this the human condition? Was post war progress toward equality, tolerance, social health, cooperation, freedom, democracy etc just a blip?

When it comes to Vance, always remember: “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention, then that’s what I’m going to do.” - JD Vance

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If the GOP plan is allowed to stand, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 per year would see a $22,635 INCREASE in their health insurance premiums. THAT is why the Dems decided to shut down the government. They are fighting to make American lives better.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

If Congress shuts down and stops working, how will we be able to tell?

Not a breath of wind. Not one break in the stillness. Except the midgies, obviously.

This is an Economic Contraction indicator. This is a direct consequence of reduced buying power due to job losses, tariffs and #Trumpflation.

Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT), speaking to ABC, references Jan 6 when discussing turmoil in Justice Dept “If you are a friend of the President, a loyalist to the President, you can get away with nearly anything… including beating the hell out of police officers”

I haven’t been able to reply to any Twitter posts for over a week…….

Just heard Trump threatening an ABC journalist with “you wanna get on with me”. It keeps reminding me of various mafia movies

New video on Eric Schmitt's White nationalist speech at NatCon. With what happened last week, it was largely overlooked, but it can't go unnoticed. youtu.be/HY4quehYBmc?...

Seems paradoxical that the American Right has fought for firearms to ensure there is a citizen militia that can resist an authoritarian government yet now fights to protect an authoritarian President's right to send his military into cities against American citizens.

We watch the steps to authoritarian RW govt in the US but we are not immune. In Ontario, Doug Ford is removing locally elected school boards and replacing them with his appointees. He has already been replacing members of the board responsible for judicial appointments with his partisan loyalists.

In both the UK and Australia many felt such relief and hope to at last be in a country with a Labor/Labour government with a good majority and things are going in a similar direction in both countries. Why? I know they are very preferable to any alternative but surely they could be a bit less timid

Just turned off copilot. Is anyone else finding their productivity plummeting with so many irrelevant interruptions? And don’t get me started on two factor identification

Rayner was careless about her stamp duty liability in Brighton and paid the political price for lack of due diligence. Farage - as is now on the public record - lied about his stamp duty situation in Clacton yet carries on regardless.

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And I am the world's foremost astrophysicist ballerina who invented the piano, aspirin, and appetizers.

Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities

So is BBC actually saying that most of Farage's 'bold' announcement on camps, removing human rights & forced deportations is utter pie in the sky... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Can people in this country stop looking to charlatans who want power for the sake of it for a solution to our ills...

I remember being on a train in Eastern Europe and being terrorized in the middle of the night by officious men in epaulets demanding to see everyone's papers. I said to my friend, "Glad we don't live in a 'show me your papers' country." That seems rather quaint now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Do organisations etc know how many people are stopping subscribing, being a member, reading, donating, etc because we are totally overwhelmed by demands for downloading yet more authenticators, more passwords etc etc it’s no longer worth it

Why Rory thinks the proscription of Palestine Action is 'mad'.

I am so heartily sick of having to “authenticate” everything, everywhere, ever time!

Brett Meiselas: The tone is set from the top. And now, we have a president of the United States infecting the population. There has never been a more divisive, more corrupt individual in the presidency...trickle-down economics may not work, but trickle-down assholery? That’s absolutely a thing.

The Treasurer has acknowledged that four of the six major budget pressures are health- or care-related. Yet in outlining the Roundtable, health was mentioned only once, and only as a cost. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

I feel justified with #AvianAugust2025 in repurposing an old drawing of two myna birds for my husband’s birthday card! #colouredpencil

Do your self a favor and open your eyes to the gospel of Heidi Regan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV92...

Heidi Regan, Jekyll & Heidi Banshee Labyrinth chamber room - 18:05 Another very good story-telling show from a Fringe favourite. I particularly liked the stages of (spoiler). You'll laugh, you'll sympathise, you'll laugh again. ****

Kathleen Folbigg: Payout for mother wrongfully jailed over babies' deaths 'inadequate'

NSW attorney-general approves $2 million compensation payment to Kathleen Folbigg after release from prison https://www.newsbeep.com/au/49851/ Kathleen Folbigg’s solicitor says a $2 million payout from the NSW government is “profoundly unfair and unjust” after…

A payment offered to Kathleen Folbigg after she was wrongfully convicted of killing her children and jailed for decades has been savaged by her supporters.

All I want to say is that I think Kathleen Folbigg deserves more than $2M after 20 years of jail. #auspol

Go listen to Chief Economist Greg Jericho on The Daily Aus podcast! ‘In five of the capital cities, inflation grew slower than 2%. It was only in Brisbane and Perth where inflation was above 2%." Listen to The Daily Aus podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmw... @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

It's almost like the regime values senseless cruelty more than educating our young, or maybe it is exactly like that...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Medical debt or bankruptcy isn’t a sign of personal irresponsibility, it’s a sign of a country’s irresponsibility.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Thank you Louise for your courageous clarity

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...