Don Winslow Aka: How we got here 17-year-old Stephen Miller: “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity.”

"Stalinism and Stephen Miller: Cause for concern" (video) snyder.substack.com/p/stalinism-...

“People in Britain must know: this has been a disaster from which it will take us years to recover.”

Newcastle: 300 (maybe) far-right protesters - 3000 gathered to oppose them

it would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. HCR is a wonderful daily source of information and what’s important in US

Government so childish. Their illegal detentions shocking.

A senior foreign diplomat posted at the UN texts me: "This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?"

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

If you have 30 minutes, I recommend watching this video. I explain what Trump has in store for 2026 and how we can fight back. If you find it helpful, please share it with others. youtu.be/7PXQfDHr9Aw

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

“An act of political violence used to be met by a standard, reassuringly predictable response: the president would condemn it, grieve for the dead and their families, plead that there be no rush to judgment, and call for calm and for unity ……”

“After an act of violence, Democrats must be gracious, empathetic and call for calm on all sides, while Republicans can mock the victims, blame only one side and demand more violence.”

My @cato.org colleague Alex Nowrasteh has great post on politically motivated violence in US, its (generally low) incidence, and who does it (9/11 dominates stats; otherwise right-wing violence much more common than left-wing & other since 1975): www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/politicall...

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

“Everything is ICE and all agencies are now just ICE hangers-on.”

You’d think the newspapers were there to give you facts and provide accurate information, but no, the opposite. It takes Emma Monk to do it.

Garage - “This Putin-loving, free speech imposter, and Trump sycophant”

Wow

Uncomfortable with a hotel in your street? Starmer: I get it Me: I wouldn’t mind. They are nice people and I feel sorry for them. What’s wrong with people!

When will BBC report this? Scientists have warned " Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. No longer low likelihood. Seems like a major story to me @bbcpaulmurphy.bsky.social

Distressing but important youtu.be/9pVbqwnmSuM?...

“It’s about interrupting our ability to have a fair and free election in 2026”

‘Programs for HIV prevention, overdose response, and smoking cessation are vanishing.’ ‘discontinuing routine tracking for pathogens such as Campylobacter, Listeria, and Shigella, which have long been associated with severe outbreaks.’

Stand Up to Racism groups do their best to represent the decent majority in Britain, but without local help it can be hard to muster the numbers to be everywhere You can help in many ways: in person, turn up locally + be counted (link) donate to help print leaflets share information directly

‘America’s trajectory feels more like Berlin circa 1933 than it does Budapest circa 2015.’ ‘exercising emergency powers in a moment where the only emergency is his own abuse of power.’ ‘masked men wrestle to the ground and abduct peoplewithout due process into unmarked vehicles, disappearing them‘

New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.

“The United States has the power to help, but that power must be consciously directed to the benefit of the side that is defending itself”

“armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages”

“Russians, including major figures in state media, routinely claim Alaska for Russia. As one of Putin's special envoys put it, Putin's journey to Alaska is a "domestic flight."”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a video of a Christian nationalist pastor who believes women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Trump and his inner circle want to replace democracy with a MAGA theocracy that would strip away our freedoms. Be warned. https://youtu.be/-XsORP-VuRI?feature=shared

📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.” Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:

Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...

US Border Patrol Agents are vicious thugs. ‘grabbed the man by the neck in a chokehold’ “put your f*cking head down.” ‘the officers drop the man to the ground with a stun gun.’ Comparison with Emmet Till - not again, America, _please_

This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'

"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities."

A message from a New Yorker who was arrested while blockading ICE's headquarters.

Daily life in Ukraine

MSM only reports the bad stuff. ‘Much of this would be broadly popular if widely reported’ ‘Much is boringly technical, and will only produce change in the medium to long term. And change is slow and difficult to see.‘

Omg, this is where it’s going…. “It is a politics, among other things, designed to draw businesses into a fascist order by normalizing dehumanization.”

Labour MP Olivia Blake, "Cutting people's benefits isn't going to stop the rise we're seeing" "What will help is rebuilding our mental health services, focusing on prevention, working with employers with being better at working with disabled people"

11 More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Wanted to Tell You About "While there are valid criticisms to make of this Government, it’s worth looking at many of the positive things they are doing too" bylinetimes.com/2025/07/01/1...

So much important information here. ‘of the approx 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult.’ ‘10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening.’

"What has the ECHR ever done for us?" 🤔 [SOUND ON 🔊]

‘Farage remains fundamentally incapable of building a team. That is why none of his past political ventures have endured.’ So many quotable facts in this piece…..

Ben Habib - gone Rupert Lowe - gone Zia Yusuf - gone If Nigel Farage can't even hold this tiny group together, imagine what a disaster he would be in government.

🚨🚨 #Russian armed forces have been “systematically” committing crimes against humanity by hunting civilians using remote-controlled drones, report by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on #Ukraine said today. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/russ...

“Every authoritarian who successfully destroyed judicial independence did so because civil society failed to unite in time”. MAGA friends found guilty of fraud, bribery, tax crimes - pardoned! - but judges non-partisan and ruling against the administration 96%. It’s on a knife-edge.

An ex Israeli PM speaks. “What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination : indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal and criminal killing of civilians bsky.app/profile/oluf...