Pentagon disbands panel on military women, alleging divisive feminist agenda reut.rs/4mv5DmY

"At first there was no comment at all from LBC. Then a note appeared [saying] that Myska was ‘presently on Garden Leave due to unannounced circumstances’. Unlike other departures, it had not been preceded by a handover, nor a farewell from the host."

🔴 NEW 🔴 GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down At a Pharos Foundation event, which Marshall funds, he called for the BBC to be privatised and for BBC Verify to be closed @desmog.com story with @adambarnett.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...

Back to the future?

Brooklyn magnolias!

I can think of a long list of things that would do more for women. Like, oh I don’t know, maybe actually supporting women who don’t have millions of dollars to spend on going to space for a 10min joy ride. 🔭🧪

Another beautiful misty morning with bird song

The deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament and a leading member of Netanyahu’s party calling for the bombing of food stocks in Gaza just a few hours ago. You won’t see this mentioned by any European or American leaders, or by most western media.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

Meta said it would end its fact-checking program and rely instead on Facebook and Instagram users to add notes or corrections to posts. The new protocol, which will begin in the U.S., is similar to the one used by X, called Community Notes, Mark Zuckerberg said. nyti.ms/40nRNLu

👀🇷🇺 Fascist invaders now attack Georgian civilians

This. Don’t betray the people of Georgia. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

Whoever doesn’t know Georgians cannot comprehend what it means that we would begin protesting at 07:00 AM, before daylight. It’s much more likely that Georgians would go to sleep at that time. We are NOT morning people. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests 📷 Khalibeg Magamedovi

Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.

A massive thank you to everrybody who turned up at the picketline to support our strike to Save the Observer. It was truly inspiring to witness such solidarity, passion and good humour ✊🏽✊✊🏿💙💙

Here's a good thread. Kids, eh?

#BBCNews - Georgians risk serious injury and jail in fresh pro-EU protests www.bbc.com/news/article... #Sakartvelo

From the Parliament outlook towards the Opera, if the horizon is full of people, that’s an insane number. And we are having insane numbers for the 6th day in a row now. These people are sleepless, gassed, beaten, exhausted. But determined for freedom. #GeorgiaProtests

did a little survey of my socials this morning. the news from South Korea was all over Bluesky, nothing on Threads, only one post on X, a little commentary on TikTok and (surprisingly) at the top of my Instagram feed. feels like news orgs are trying to figure out where to invest for breaking news.

Four lifelong friends from the UK recreated their favorite vacation photo over half a century later.

"He also owns.. holy relics ... bit from the Crown of Thorns, a hair from the shirt of Thomas More, a fragment of the True Cross. Was Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale considered too common to be taught at Eton?" Excellent piece on the horror of Rees-Mogg tv www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...

Tom Gauld on the John le Carré advent calendar – cartoon

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Christmas feast: trout rillettes, leek nut-roast tatin, guanciale potatoes and pistachio bombe

In Britain they’d be about a quarter of the way through planning permission by now, confronting a gaggle of local retirees with too much time on their hands who never wanted a cathedral there anyway.

At least four Democratic representatives from Connecticut said Thursday they were targeted with bomb threats while home celebrating Thanksgiving with their families.

This is VERY telling.

#BBCNews - #Romania orders election recount after TikTok bias claims www.bbc.com/news/article...

And on the subject of housing... bsky.app/profile/jule...

"Like many other parts of the world, the UK is in the firm grip of an epidemic of disinformation and misinformation" A good list of origins of the problem - and tools we need to combat it.

Gidon Kremer after performing Weinberg's Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra last night. The programme also included Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw and Shostakovich's 13th Symphony conducted by Andrey Boreyko.

Pretty dark, but yup.

What a night! Went with trepidation but left somewhat overwhelmed. Extraordinary performances from Alexander Roslavets & Gidon Kremer, @lporchestra.bsky.social was on fire. @rdawson45.bsky.social

in other "look at where this guy comes from" news, Elon Musk's father just did a lengthy podcast episode that opens with the host saying "I bet the last time you had this many black people in your house someone was trying to rob you" youtu.be/KH1U5x8LXgs?...

While Israel and Hezbollah were finalizing a cease-fire to halt the fighting in Lebanon, Israeli strikes killed 33 people in Gaza, according to local health authorities.

The CEO of Legatum, co-owners of GB News, saying the quiet part out loud...

A corrective to #budget hysteria? “Make no mistake, [Rachel Reeves] is a bona fide former Bank of England economist…+was clearly rated highly by the Bank when it chose her to work for a period at the British embassy in Washington as part of the Bank+Treasury team there. It was+is a plum posting.”

I’m going to say this one more time: this man is very dangerous and every single person staying on Twitter tacitly helps give him credibility, whether they want to or not. They help keep Twitter relevant by acting as if it’s still a normal social media platform. It is not.

My brined turkey gets its ROTD moment at #Christmas (though you can get it any time on nigella.com) so for #Thanksgiving week #RecipeOfTheDay is the mighty turkey breast stuffed with Italian sausage and Marsala-steeped cranberries! www.nigella.com/recipes/turk...

Every truly meaningful act of integrity involves some sort of sacrifice. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Blows my mind that Tacitus’ Annals only survived thanks to a single manuscript. Or rather two. The only copy of the first half was saved in a monastery in Germany and the only copy of the second half was in Monte Cassino. That’s how fine the thread that links us to our history.

Netflix - please stop minimising the end credits of movies to suggest something else. Let viewers enjoy the soundtrack and see the cast and crew that worked on the film. We'll exit it ourselves when ready to. #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky

So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.

BREAKING: “That isn't how our system works” Prime Minister Keir Starmer reacts to a petition calling for a general election which has over 2 million signatures It is clear from the petition data that huge numbers of the signatures are not genuine

#TwelfthNight @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social was delightful. It is bold a move to put a grand piano centre stage of a v small stage but it absolutely worked. Fantastic performances from entire ensemble conveying brilliant comedy and poignant sadness. Go see this. @rdawson45.bsky.social

And there it is. Netanyahu's govt has put sanctions on the Israeli newspaper Haaretz for its criticisms of Israel's behaviour. Sanctions include prohibiting all public institutions from communicating with the paper. This profoundly undermines democracy. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Diversity is strength, and it is joy. #IDIC IYKYK