This is Portland right now. We’re“under siege” by pollen and potholes, that’s about it. We have a ton of live webcams if you want to watch us go to the farmers markets or walking our dogs, we love dogs. Release the Epstein files. www.camscape.com/webcam/pione...

On the first day in office, this President pardoned actual violent insurrectionists who stormed our Capitol. Now he’s making up shit in Portland to justify using the military AGAINST the American people. Real POS behavior from this TEMU dictator.

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

The Chancellor right - the road to uk economic growth goes firmly through Europe and addressing damage Brexit has done to business. The deal we have so far shows the door is open to us to do so- join us in @labour4europe.bsky.social campaigning to do just that www.thetimes.com/article/ea32...

“Labour must grab the microphone from Reform UK and stand up for true British values” @lucympowell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"To be credible, Reeves’ fiscal rules must be judged economically and politically sustainable. As things stand they are not."

This should also be an EU story - former Brexit Party MEP has pleaded guilty to bribary charges, including for making statements "which were “supportive of a particular narrative” that would “benefit Russia regarding events in Ukraine” in 2018/19:

The United States Secretary of Defense (aka, Major Pete) is either (a) openly celebrating Nazis and planning to destroy the US government from within or (b) a punk-assed internet troll trying to look tough to offset his gross deficiencies. Neither is good.

Lord Glasman, who Curtis Yarvin told me was a "charming fellow", is now calling Yarvin a "wanker" in the Byline Times and disputing Yarvin's claim that they hung out the night before I met him in June bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

Last time I looked Robert Jenrick was not leading the Conservative Party

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump uses both top-down and bottom-up pressure to consolidate power. But as Kimmel’s uncancellation shows, it doesn’t always work

The most successful novelist of her generation can't actually enter this country to accept an award for fear of arrest, someone tell the BBC

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise": #Moscow has devised a plan to interfere in the #Moldovan parliamentary elections and disrupt the country's path toward EU membership, @bloomberg.com reported on Sept. 22, citing documents it had seen. 🧵 kyivindependent.com/media-reveal...

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The grim prioritisation for infected blood scandal compensation, brought about by inordinate delays. From @privateeyenews.bsky.social - chance to read online… private-eye.co.uk/in-the-back

Starmer and Miliband’s £22bn Net Zero carbon capture plan sending lots of zeroes into the bank accounts of UK’s luckiest businessmen, as they buy 12 acre plot that the Teesside part is being built on for £12.43 (plus VAT). Details in latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Critical infrastructure update: 20 substations on Teesside sold to local businessmen for £10.91, as they’re gifted 45% stake in previously publicly-owned electricity network. Another bonanza on the Tees for the lucky few. Full details in @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Bill for lawyers on Post Office scandal hits £350m, more than half to firm that helped fight against Alan Bates then cleaned up on redress scheme. More in @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Catch Eye hack Richard Brooks tonight on ITV1 in The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money. The documentary tells the story of how some companies with little or no track record in supplying PPE or medical tests were given massive contracts - and made a killing from Covid. 🕙 10:15pm on ITV1 / ITVX

Strongly recommend this rich and nuanced survey of Spain, 50 years after Franco's death, by William Chislett of @rielcano.bsky.social. At once a story of remarkable progress, unfinished business, and new challenges. ⬇️ www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/work-docu...

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

Are you HOT and do you look JUST like President Trump's daughter? (No, not that one!) Let President Trump meet you to decide if you can ̷c̷u̷m̷ come on a free golden visa! *) *) Terms and conditions apply. Happy ending essential.

🇺🇸 Our health care system is expensive and broken. #MedicareForAll

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

Obama weighs in on the firing of Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah

Higher investment, sustainable public finances, and a greater contribution from better off old people (like me and most other signatories) -very please to sign this open letter to the Chancellor.

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

Reform: a far right company Farage: an imposter The donor: a fake company What could go wrong?

Unpopular opinion: 1)What is happening in America is hugely concerning. 2) It is in both Britain‘s and Europe's interest to work closely together. 3) Neither Brits nor Europeans can afford to openly break with the US right now. 4) Making the most of that impossible situation is very hard.

🚨🚨" . Without openly saying so, the United States is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and censor information, both inside their own countries and around the world." Another excellent instalment by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Doesn't fit the narrative, but previous US administrations have arguably been more assertive in trying to change European regulations. Probably because Trump doesn't actually believe in any rules. Tariffs / money is the all or nothing for him. www.ft.com/content/f4f1...

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

It was never about “freedom.” It was always about who was in control.

I have been a Jean Monnet Prof. Never saw a centime of funds. I confess to being convinced, and writing about it, that the Single Market was a great idea. But have always argued that the Maastricht Treaty was a bad monetarist idea.

Viktor Orbán's propaganda machine released a pseudo-report dismissing all Jean Monnet professors as "propagandists." 1. We're funded to study EU integration, not promote it 2. Many Jean Monnet scholars are among the EU's sharpest critics - including myself 3. Funding goes to universities not us

Everyone, from big business CEOs to small business owners to highly paid professionals and lowly paid service staff, has urged the Chancellor to tax someone else. From the new Private Eye, out now.

“The president and I have an enduring difference about my duties under the Constitution on a day in January in 2021. I always thought he’d come around on that,” Mike Pence says. “The fact that he hasn’t remains an issue between us.” #TAF25: bit.ly/46a5DUE#TAF25

Live from this afternoon’s joint press conference between the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the President of the United States.

“.. parents told the regulator they were unable to reopen the doors of their Tesla to retrieve a child .. “.. ‘Entrapment in a vehicle is particularly concerning in emergency situations, such as when children are entrapped in a hot vehicle,’ NHTSA said.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Strange? It's about par for the course for smug Tory Robinson. (Not forgetting over-excitable Tory git Mason.)

How we made it: why the seas are getting hotter on.ft.com/46qvJBL

Watch this, and keep in mind that Sinclair's right-wing propaganda now reaches 72% of all households in America.

faintly ridiculous that @timharford.ft.com has to spend his time pointing out the obvious, but here we are on.ft.com/3VWYtgs

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

Woah. It's one thing for Trump to ban journalists from White House press conferences; it's another for Downing Street to do his bidding on UK soil.

Accurate

Telegraph headline feels inflammatory - there's no tearing, just careful removal of a flag from a grade 1 listed historic monument that belongs to the nation.

There are arguments for Starmer’s pose: Britain depends on the US for its security. It can’t find common cause with an EU it’s no longer part of. Trump will be gone in a few years (perhaps) but the USA will endure (also, now, perhaps).