What bothers me most is not whether Starmer was right or wrong to sign the original Chagos Deal, on which views may vary, in good faith; but, that he’s such a puppet to Trump that he vacillates this way and that, in a desperate and ultimately vain attempt to appease the orange monster.

This, so much this!!!!⬇️

The superb @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social said this

Reform is soft on Russia. And it's stuff like this which explains why 👇🏻

Putin murdered Alexei Navalny in the most disgusting and performative way. He's a psychopath and a monster. Now look at politicians in Britain, Europe, and America who are either looking the other way - or engaging in abject whataboutery.

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

"There is no decency to be detected in this political project." Investigative journalist Paul Holden breaks down the downfall of the Labour Party in the UK — from Peter Mandelson’s link to Jeffrey Epstein to labeling Palestine Action as a terror group. Read now: zeteo.com/p/lies-and-d...

An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back

Love this from Russell Tovey. "I’m really following what the Green Party are doing, and I think we should all get behind them. As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.” www.attitude.co.uk/culture/russ...

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

A generation of European leaders cannot admit that they have failed. The world they assumed was permanent, was not. Instead of admitting their failure, they desperately pretend that things are not changing beneath their feet. They would rather risk catastrophe open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

I get why Matt posts this nonsense every day, outrage pays. None of this is on the current government. Open borders? Brexit. Soft-on-crime chaos? Tories. Highest taxes since the 1940s? Tories. Shafted pensioners? Tories. Farmers driven to despair? Brexit. Hotels for migrants? Brexit + Tory failure.

Simon McDonald may have had his faults, but I never remember him as sexist. This is same man who brought down Boris Johnson, by revealing Johnson knew about MP Pincher’s misconduct. It’s legit to ask if he’s right to speak out again now - but it suggests his concerns are genuine and substantive.

Honestly, the list of things that a Culture Secretary could get involved in, if we had one, is *HUGE*.

I suggest PM would be wise not to rush to appoint a new Cabinet Secretary, let alone one with a reputation for self-promotion and flamboyance. The job requires someone willing to work hard, quietly, professionally, behind the scenes, with experience and good relationships across Whitehall.

The so-called "pro-life," "pro-family" party is perfectly fine with an 18-month-old child almost dying because of the deplorable conditions at this detention center. Hello? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toddler-hospitalized-dilley-ice-detention-rcna257912

Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

China urges banks to curb US Treasuries exposure, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4bEO9Ty

Tim Allen was on the Board of the Sex Matters hate group before becoming Number 10 Comms Director. Hopefully Labour is realizing that it has no future in pitch-rolling for Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

First stage of denial: shoot the messenger. There's a firing squad on Bluesky, aiming at anyone stating the blinking obvious: that Starmer needs to go ASAP if Labour is to have any chance of recovery before 2029.

Facebook launched 22 years ago this week. In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record. Meanwhile, Meta is pumping at least $65 million into super PACs to stifle regulation of AI and tech. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy.

Ha! Scotland's wonderful NATIONAL has just run this story.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS. Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

That would be Will Lewis. Knighted, inevitably, by Boris Johnson.

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

I Really Don't Care- Do U?

To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully: The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.

Today's reminder: Nigel Farage is a traitor to our nation. He has accepted money from foreign governments and organisations that are enemies of our government and must face justice. #FarageOut

Maybe DOJ should focus on the law it’s violating, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, instead of speculating a crime might have been committed (despite multiple ballot recounts) in Fulton County or declining to investigate two homicides in Minneapolis?

A song from an actual voice of the people. So clear, strong, timely and needed.

"Allowing the crime scene to be contaminated then covering the victim’s weapon with fingerprints will make it much harder to investigate the case, much less prosecute it. But of course federal officials never intended to do either. Indeed, the coverup was underway immediately." — @lizdye.bsky.social

My operating assumption is that he tried to do a hasty coup in 2020 that failed, and so everything he does in his second term should be understood as laying the groundwork for a second coup to succeed.

BUT, but, but! Just as Labour has made huge error in failing to tackle the weaknesses in our system that allowed such a man as Johnson to rise so far in the first place, which now risks enabling Farage, so Democrats in US will make huge mistake if they think getting rid of Trump is enough to save 🇺🇸.

I wrote War Plan UK over 40 years ago about the British governments dishonesty to the public about the consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear warfare. Interest in the Cold War period has grown through this century, amplified by the brutal lawlessness of Putin and Trump.

Spain: Prosecutors have been told they cannot rely on intercept evidence from the Sky ECC encrypted phone network in the absence of other evidence, unless they disclose the raw intercept data to defendants By @billgoodwin.bsky.social

Don't worry, I've got you Rest in Peace, Alex. Beautiful street art tribute by Topsy (topsy_paints on Instagram) in Seattle, U.S.

There you have it, the Board of Peace is nothing more than a corrupt real estate deal dressed up as diplomacy with the sole purpose of enriching Trump and his favoured cronies.

🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉 💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!

“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Let's talk about the midterms. ICE is terrorizing and punishing blue states and cities to suppress your votes using fear from ICE- yes it's already started. Blue states need to wake up and have a plan to deploy the National Guard to protect polling stations & voters from the federal government!

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

Italian finance police searched the headquarters of the country's data protection agency on Thursday as part of an investigation into possible corruption and embezzlement, a judicial source said. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...