Your regular reminder that a NATO country shot down a Russian jet after it violated NATO airspace for *17 seconds*. What results? Russia didn’t start WW3 Russia didn’t carry on violating Turkish airspace. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Ru...

It’s pretty obvious that they did esp since the tide of denial on ongoing genocide is turning & authoritative UN report is now out. Beeg question is why they over-reached like that, they will have a hard time living it down

Great article by Pam Jarvis, reminding us that we are all descended from immigrants. I’ve always sniggered at those who claim to be “pure” Anglo-Saxon Brits but, as she points out, what is sorely needed is better education on who we really are yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/immi...

Makes sense to me across the pond open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

He just doesn't get it, does he? You can't beat populists by copying their narrative and thinking you can do it better. You beat them by creating an alternative narrative that appeals to people's hopes, intellects, and feelings of shared humanity.

Why indeed? We need to change the power balance

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Keep it going 🗽🇺🇸⚖️🇺🇦🇨🇦💙🩷🍀

It has become the Don't Annoy Israel Act.

More likely in Trump’s case that there is no blood going to his brain.

Time for the Tax on Wealth Acquired Trinkets, also known as the TWAT tax.

111 BBC staff have signed a letter to their bosses saying "The BBC is often performing PR for Israel." and it is unacceptable. Why is this allowed? The BBC Board should be fired today. Like/RT if you agree.

Strikes me that the statue being pulled down was the most historic thing which ever happened to it, and did far more to raise awareness of actual history, than erecting it did.

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?

I finally had a read of the MAHA report today, and aside from the obvious use of generative AI and false citations, what strikes me is how remarkably unprofessional and amateurish the document is. It's just wild garbage 1/n

Genius, it’s what we expect from Harvard 👏🏼👏🏼

“Hard Brexit was xenophobic, economically illiterate and narrow-minded. An apology from the Brexit lobby is too much to hope for. Silence might be a relief. An appalling mistake was made. It awaits correction.” Yes. Such damage and waste. For nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How bizarre, I would say that these Western leaders have been emboldening Netanyahu, for years by always giving him the benefit of the doubt. + heavy military aid. With terrible consequences www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

What a lot of people are wondering!!

Social media this morning is a zombie apocalypse of dinosaur Tory politicians and right wing hangers-on hankering after the nasty Brexit wars of the last decade. Our country has moved on!

Remote control.

I will stack up Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson against any - and I mean ANY - religious figure for wisdom, perspective and compassion.

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

“The ICJ found specifically that the right of armed resistance is a right that Palestinians have, & they have a right to exercise the right of armed resistance against Israeli occupation. And we have no business calling that terrorism in Australia.” www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/confirm...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... The similarities are terrifying. Looks like Trump/Stephen Miller et al based their plans on Hitler’s, right down to the details and even the excuses

The benefits of a much closer relationship with the rest of Europe dwarf any deal with India or Trump. It’s time to get serious with the EU and consign Brexit era dogmas to the dustbin of history. 🇪🇺👍

The same kind of folks who spent years complaining about masks that slowed the spread of disease are now wearing masks to facilitate the spread of fascism

My God this is catastrophic for science. WTF do Trump & his minions know about science, they’re literally killing it. Even if stopped now it will take years to get back up Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Reform huge gains are not to be underestimated but that's a very telling little strip.

Job opportunity in a wonderful museum

He’s very successful at bankruptcy. Now he’s doing it to our country.

If you're “pro-Ozempic” but “anti-vax because fetal cells,” I have news for you: Semaglutide was tested using HEK293 cells, yep, a human embryonic kidney cell line. Funny how the outrage vanishes when the drug melts pounds instead of viruses!

"Labour have since the general election lost a substantial number of voters to right wing populism despite maintaining a socially conservative stance" Meanwhile there is a large body of the electorate, socially progressive, feeling unrepresented.

Catastrophically dangerous

Gary Lineker has said he is leaving Match of the Day because he felt the BBC wanted him to leave over his support for Palestine. If you support Gary, like. If you support Palestine, RT! He should not be forced out for speaking the truth, even if the BBC don't want to hear it.

So that’s not just tourism, visiting family, but also meetings and conference attendance down the tube. Those are big events in USA.

“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility. Those who will have to suffer the consequences will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility.” — Pope Francis

It'd be nice if media outlets stop using "liberal controlled" as verbiage and start using "common sense" or "duh this is the smart way to do things" instead..

Haaretz has been excellent throughout, solid. My go-to source

"Das Grundwasserdefizit in Deutschland entspricht ungefähr der Wassermenge des Bodensees", so Hydrologe Fred Hattermann. Im @ndr.de erklärt er, warum sich Europa doppelt so schnell erwärmt wie der globale Durchschnitt und welche Regionen die #Trockenheit besonders trifft: www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...