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Extraordinary level of blatant lying on the Mail’s front page this morning.

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

The Charlie Kirk assassination is that little dot on the map of gun deaths in 2025.

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

Yup.

It's always really good to be able to publish the stories of people paying it forward in this world. This is a profile of the One And All Aid charity, based in Penzance, Cornwall. westcountryvoices.co.uk/one-and-all-...

Facts dont care about your feelings.

Looks like the additional sanctions on Russia he’s been threatening since January just got TACOed again.

Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.

The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax from @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I asked a group of students how many asylum seekers were admitted to the UK in 2024. Most estimates were over a million. Real number is about 40,000. People like Farage talk about "invasion;" as in my house was invaded when my niece came for tea and brought her husband too.

How can one look at this and not conclude it’s genocide? www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Reminder that, even as we were rolling out the vaccines after a heroic international effort, A THOUSAND PEOPLE A DAY were dying of Covid in the UK, and only renewed lockdown stopped it being more. Without vaccines, that was our long-term reality.

UK’s ally and £16 billion trading partner Saudi Arabia has executed a journalist for doing his job, reports @RSF_inter

Tulsi's Q Drop open.substack.com/pub/clairebe...

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social: “The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.” (ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social)

There’s nothing really “ideological” about either Donald Trump or Jair Bolsonaro. Their commonality is their corruption and criminality.

Just another day where the Director of National Intelligence opines that I must be guilty of something for not posting on X. This is not normal. This is what it looks like when the Trump administration is targeting their political opponents.

The government still hasn't reviewed its use of X, and refuses to explore communicating through less problematic platforms, like Bluesky ✍️ - @josiah.writes.news for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

US media and its leaders have ignored the famine in Gaza until now, when it is too late to prevent an even worse outcome. How can starving people trek to collect food? fair.org/home/media-l...

Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago staff role www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“We find destroying America doesn’t quite satisfy our special combination of moronism and selfishness, so we’d like to destroy planet earth as well.”

Good work. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

KYLE CLARK: “The Trump administration is trying to get insider access to voting systems in Colorado…” REPUBLICAN officials stopped them, and are sounding the alarm🚨

New in PN: The emerging coup "Congress has just handed the coup leader in the White House new, dangerous tools that he and his cohorts could use in their next attempt to overturn the nation’s democracy once and for all."

Entire towns being reduced to rubble in Gaza www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

‘A family of traitors’: Trump’s Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Government has got this badly wrong. I can see why it's reluctant to leave X. But it should, at least, post on other sites, too. It should not be requiring people to go on a site that actively disseminates racism to see govt comms. It would (rightly) not accept this from a university or the BBC.

Suicide d’un salarié : les « Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace » condamnées ; une « faute inexcusable » reconnue

Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."

Prof Skocpol making a crucial point here. The centralized police. And then the lawless quasipolice who guard the camps. Trump’s death bill moves the US towards those two thresholds, well known from Germany in the 1930s. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

Thanks to quieter decisions by members of Donald Trump’s administration, “the American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes:

Millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge spread on UK farmland every year

She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election. thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-th...

If you have access to a genie, wish for everyone to have empathy without needing first-hand experience.

Are you old enough to remember when the Ukraine-USA minerals deal was going to give Trump a stake in Ukraine and unlock lots of aid? Seems like several lifetimes ago.

Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X. Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.

Harvey Price time then. In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.

I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The clues were all there bylinetimes.com/2024/07/17/r...

Top tip: before voting for someone do a quick check that the candidate isn't some clueless teenager having wet dreams about nigel farage. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.