As usual @aliceolilly.bsky.social is spot on about constitutional matters. There are always potential Trumps: the difference is whether gatekeepers do their jobs. And here Congress has long abdicated its proper constitutional role.

It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.

The Mirror shared a post on FB about refugees drowning as they tried to seek asylum, inc an 8yr old. The comments are *vile*. This is now the norm. Yes some are bots...but many aren't. When did we become a world where people celebrate the death of a child because they're from a different culture?

This awful man is everywhere, bish bosh isn't he amusing? And now this fan of Trump and friend of Vance wants to get into politics. We don't learn, do we?

The last paragraph of this article.... www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

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When the world's gone to shit there's always Random Restaurant Bot.

Congratulations to all the winners of this year's British Journalism awards. This impressive lists shows there is still great journalism out there. British Journalism Awards winners 2025: C4 News and Cathy Newman on top - Press Gazette share.google/OGplAftDmOup...

And here in the UK we follow suit. It's become acceptable to say things out loud you would have been ostracized for in an earlier age. Social media, especially X, but also FB, is an absolute cesspit.

🤯 Reform defends selection of Bangladeshi candidate in Portsmouth - BBC News share.google/iViRLQ77K2NE...

My weird hobby is following obscure US elections via this website and I'm happy to report this morning that the Democrats seem to be winning all of the ones from last night (not yet on the website but you can find the results here on Blue Sky if you look). boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

It's going to be a blast ...

Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.

#TOTP is this the worst year ever for music? What happened in 1994?

Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news. Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters Down by 140k isn't thought to be. Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.

We're all feeling rightly disgusted by Trump and his attacks on immigrants, but we've not got much to be proud of here: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Seriously if any political party wants my vote, sort this mess out and you've got it.

I can't even begin to tell you how bad the driving test booking system is. Another of those things that is completely broken but under the radar unless you're one of the people trying to book a test.

Today's weather report from the West country:

Hell of a night to be Scottish #ScoDen

Quite. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/402...

It's not going well for Labour. There was a pretty fierce reaction to the Islands of Strangers speech, I imagine this will be worse.

That’s why “blue Labour” is doomed and was doomed from the start: you cannot make water run uphill. A party whose core electorate for over a decade has been socially liberal university graduates and ethnic minorities cannot sell itself as a party hostile to socially liberal values.

This is the Home Secretary's video about "why" A government which had the principle of *defusing* the salience by getting a grip with control, while maintaining compassion, would not use the rhetorical devices here to stoke up the salience of the issue they hope to defuse x.com/ShabanaMahmo...

I've been wondering what's going on with Gaza. It turns out, predictably, nothing very good ☹️ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job. To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.

I may be wrong but this doesn't feel like a very workable plan from the Tories. Also, the last point: has anyone mentioned this was working a lot better before their Brexit??

We'll be seeing a lot of this picture in years to come.

Racists saying the train worker injured protecting passengers during the knife attack is a hero, then finding out his name:

The online baying mob shouting "Vote Reform" after Saturday's train stabbing attack may wish to note that not a single Reform MP has turned up for the Home Secretary's statement on the incident.

Can you mute words on Blue Sky like you could on Twitter? Only my entire timeline appears to be discussing a baseball game 🙄

The Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan may sound dry, but it proposes the near complete decarbonisation of the economy inside a decade and is the closest thing the government has to a growth strategy. Surely that’s worth a press conference?

was trying to work out why people were posting their passwords and then I realized it was potential Dutch electoral coalitions

Everything is a distraction from this.

So many hot takes on the Caerphilly by-election this morning, but this one is probably the best - and most informed - I've seen.

This is chilling. Her last sentence has echoes of fascism.

Isn't this the problem? I'm seeing endless posts on my feed about huge rallies across the US but so what? Under the current system they can't get rid of this government or stop the destruction.

No Woman No Cry.... completely spoiled for me by living in Jamaica and hearing it on repeat by every hotel pool, bar and beach on repeat....

One woman (Meloni). Ffs. No wonder the world is in such a mess www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Think I'm going to move to Spain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Why does every single man in the Guardian's Blind Date segment look like this:

I'm not a Green party member but considering both my 80-something year old mother and 17-yr old daughter have joined in the past few months tells me they must be doing something right.

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

First time in my life I've paid the slightest attention to golf 😆.

I was briefly interested in the Ryder Cup but now I'm hearing USA might be staging a comeback so now I'm back to total disinterest in all things golf.

The Ryder Cup seems to have done something I no longer thought possible: it's united the country, right to left, in favour of Europe. Suddenly, we're all proud Europeans again 😆