Americans and Ukrainians with flags gathered on the bridge leading to Mar-a-Lago to show support for Ukraine.

I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.

The EU never gets praise even when it acts. There is so much constant EU negging that commentators struggle to praise when it delivers. The EU did what it needed to do. Take the win. Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project. First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

Good Christmas card from Ed Davey this year

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

🚨BREAKING🚨 MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union. The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.

This is wake-up call for Labour MPs. 👋 Vote for our EU customs union bill on Tuesday so we can start to undo the damage done by Brexit.

This is an American patriot.

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Melissa Tran came here on a Green Card at age 11. She's since raised 4 kids, started a business, & is a beloved member of the Hagerstown community. Trump is deporting her, despite a judge saying she poses no threat. Is she the "worst of the worst"? Do you feel safer yet?

John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss" "The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year" "That's a tax yield of £40 billion" "How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"

This looks rather meaningful.

I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, spoke at De Balie in Amsterdam about the role of citizens in war, Russian aggression, and the fact that occupation is not peace. 📹 Center for Civil Liberties/Facebook

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

How it started vs How it's going. More details: buff.ly/GbIKw4P

"Sometimes you have to ask yourself: How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine?" I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

During the 13-year Syrian civil war, Assad's regime imprisoned women for their real or presumed links to the “terrorist” opposition. Many endured rape, sexual violence, and torture during their incarceration. Here are the testimonies of some former Syrian women prisoners. f24.my/BUS2 #longreads

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

If you have never seen this, it's truly a must-watch. From 1947:

“As Yuri Andropov once put it, “We just need to plant the seeds. Others will harvest and re-plant for us.” Useful idiots abroad—politicians, activists, or commentators—spread and legitimize Russian narratives…” tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...

Cowards. Shameless, morally bankrupt cowards.

Ed Milliband on Elon Musk on LBC, "Just because you're a billionaire doesn't give you the right to tell us how to run our country" "This guy is a publicity seeking narcissist, who is inciting violence on our streets" "As the Americans would say: butt out of our politics"

US Special Envoy Gen. Keith Kellogg: “Russia is losing this war. If Putin were winning, he'd be in Kyiv, west of the Dnipro, in Odesa, and the government would be gone.” He added, “This isn’t the Russia or Soviet Union I knew during the Cold War. Putin talks big, nukes, but the West has nukes too.”

Learn everything you need to know about Groypers and Charlie Kirk.

It is as bad as we have ever seen it. The scenes of famine in Gaza are simply barbaric. As MPs of Israeli and Palestinian descent, we hope though that recognition of the State of Palestine will serve to flame the embers of hope for peace. My open letter with @alexsobel.co.uk

The UK is not "sitting on a tinderbox". Some far right thugs are threatening violence and unfortunately some are gullible and go along with it. Right wing politicians and media stoke it up and I'm afraid some elsewhere on the political spectrum sleep walk into lending it all credence. Wake up.

My immediate thoughts on the most monstrous, immoral piece of legislation I’ve ever voted on in the Senate. But I’m not done fighting. I know you aren’t either.

The people of Iran have suffered under a brutal regime for far too long. But a US President planning regime change in the Middle East feels like 2003 all over again. We’ve seen where that path leads and it does not end well.

derek guy made a point of taking a very public stand on twitter that is directly causing the vice president to try to send the secret police to put him in a gulag and when i name search him currently here people are trying to milkshake duck him for saying that greencards are helpful

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social is 100% correct here: With votes split three - or even five - ways, First Past the Post elections become little more than a lottery. We think that who runs the country should be up to the people, not up to luck. That's why we need PR.

"This isn't aid. It's a mouse trap." - important, harrowing piece this:

This has confirmed what we always knew: The government can bring back people they illegally deported. Every single person has a right to their day in court. It's past time for President Trump to bring back everyone who was unlawfully deported and guarantee their rights to due process.

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

I think we can put to rest the notion that offshore wind turbines spoil views and economies. The fact is that they can make coastal sites far more interesting and boost tourism as people travel to experience them, sometimes even up close. Boat tours to see the turbines are "surprisingly popular."

Today's deal is a positive first step in rebuilding our relationship with Europe. The government must now face down the naysayers and dinosaurs in Reform and the Conservative Party and be more ambitious to go further and secure the best deal for our country.

Brexit was a referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union. The UK has left the European Union. Referendum fulfilled. If the people bleating about "Brexit Betrayal" wanted the Referendum to enshrine their pet policy preferences, they should have included them in the question.

🌹 Labour's official policy recognises that First Past the Post is "flawed" and driving "distrust & alienation" in politics ⚠️ Now, multi-party politics is colliding with a 2-party system - and inaction is becoming untenable 🎯 We need a National Commission for Electoral Reform

An illustration of how FPP goes from sandbag to springboard - Reform votes and seats in different councils: Oxfordshire: 18% vote, 2% seats Cambridgeshire: 23% vote, 16% seats Devon: 27% vote, 30% seats Leicestershire: 33% vote, 46% seats Derbyshire: 37% vote, 66% seats

What if I told you that the problems of international trade were solved in 1944 but never implemented? I've written post on trade deficits/surpluses and role in current situation + how Keynes's Bancor could be solution Some 90-day pause reading for you. Link: tinyurl.com/ycy2fwfv 🧵👇

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

"If people who are covered by the Bill of Rights can now be whisked away from the United States of America, dumped into an inhumane prison, and then an American government just washes their hands of it you’ve just hacked the Bill of Rights. There’s just no other way around it."

Appeals court rejects Justice Dept argument in Abrego Garcia case "It's difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case it's not hard at all. The govt is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons w/out the semblance of due process"