Last week Trump said: "We'll sue [BBC] for anywhere between $1bn and $5bn, probably sometime next week." That renewed threat was led a good deal of news media. No news report yet that any suit has been filed.

Slava Ukraini.

Trump's negotiators "do not know and they have not experienced the Russian way of war the way Ukrainians, Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, and so many others have. And they do not know the soul of Vladimir Putin." NEW from @markhertling.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4ihTiSP

"All your base are belong to US"

RIP carbon dating.

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself it is also free to read youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

No shock here: The Guardian notes several phrases in the U.S. peace proposal to Ukraine appear to be directly translated from Russian. One standout is the line “It is expected that Russia will not invade neighboring countries,” a clunky English phrasing mirroring the Russian “ожидается.”

Zelensky admitting that the pressure Trump is putting on Ukraine to take this grotesque deal is immense.

The US is extorting Zelenskyy to sign away territory Russia doesn't even hold, as well as Ukraine's ability to defend itself, on the basis of Putin's word he'll honor a peace and Trump's word the US will make him. Just so we're clear what's happening here.

The Taoiseach has rubbished claims about Ireland's neutrality made in a recent briefing by a Kremlin spokesperson. jrnl.ie/6881769t

This would be a good time for the EU to give immediate and substantial support to Ukraine. For our own safety as much as theirs.

This sentence goes downhill quite quickly.

Where are all the "revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship she's a traitor people" today, I wonder.

It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand

The US is threatening to cut intelligence and weapons support if Ukraine doesn’t sign the Russia-friendly deal, Reuters reports.

NEW: Reform UK’s former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed at the Old Bailey for 10 and a half years for taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia when he was an MEP. Full story 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Incredible headline.

Talks at the Workplace Relations Commission aimed at resolving a pensions dispute involving school secretaries and caretakers have broken down

That the failure is systemic beyond reasonable doubt * defending unlawful abuse with racial slurs - over 90% of time in the case of abuse using the racist slur "paki" * failure to remove content when users jailed! * the habitual refusal of police requests, followed by inaction on that content

Antisemitism Trust report dramatic spike in antisemitic on X. Some racist speech is extreme but lawful, CCDH says X defending unlawful antisemitic abuse it is obliged to remove. MPs want Ofcom to assess if X is breaching its legal duties. (Spoiler alert: it is) www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko releases an alleged copy of Trump's 28-point peace plan. In part, it would direct $100B in Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine's reconstruction, giving the U.S. "50% of the revenue generated by the entity responsible." Hmm... t.me/oleksiihonch...

can't believe the BBC edited Donald Trump's posts to make it seem like he threatened violence against members of Congress

Sometimes wonder whether there are useful comparisons to be drawn between Militant in the 1980s and Blue Labour now

BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal. However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

somebody should ask Grok who the top court eunuch of all time is, Elon Musk or Wei Zhongxian.

Come with me if you want to live, To frustrate the bot of a spiv,, We out-versed Grok, And much to his shock, We deleted him and played some more Civ. (OK, in my head that was going to work out a lot better..)

Gifted Khashoggi Head Mounted In Oval Office

If there are an infinite number of universes, it is therefore inescapable that every possible outcome exists somewhere in the multiverse. We could be living in the universe where Burke – in the finest Irish tradition – has gone on the run dressed as a woman.

Trump has obviously been taking lessons from Mick Wallace. www.irishtimes.com/news/wallace...

"don't pay attention to any of that frivolous humanities education, STEM all the way - what, do you think you can hack a computer with poetry or something?" apparently, yes

The bloc's top diplomat Kaja Kallas issued a stark statement on behalf of the European Union condemning the ongoing atrocities committed by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group following their seizure of the Sudanese city of El Fasher.

Struggling to think what could qualify as hate symbol then

...yet. 2/2.

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Is JD Vance really this stupid, or saying Trump is this stupid? "Why don't Russians + Ukrainians, instead of killing each other, start trading, traveling, carrying out some kind of cultural exchange?" So, if Mexico rolls tanks into Texas, JD/Trump would trade, not fire back?🤡

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

I presume Ireland not included in this bizarre policy as it would breach the UK -Ireland Convention on Social Security. But, FFS, every normal country where legal residents pay social insurance, they qualify for its benefits including maternity, pensions etc. This is basically theft from foreigners.

I'm sure the Londinistan guys will be delighted to read this... really good news... they'll be talking about something else altogether now... sure of it... because they were genuinely concerned weren't they

So… the Epstein File Transparency Act has this exception. What can go wrong….

Just like the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. There’s a planet where all the teaspoons are teleported to.

Featuring some jokes that are frankly pretty pretty whiskery, too. thecritic.co.uk/preh...

Trump is conspiring with Putin to sell out Ukraine – and the security of the whole of Europe along with it. The Prime Minister must convene the Coalition of the Willing to stop this betrayal in its tracks.

"Goods like medical devices and alcohol" seems an unlikely classification.

I am judging the other reporters, btw

I've been going on about this for years but anonymous quotes like this should be used only to allow insiders to dish the dirt on their own team, never to help them do deniable PR work against the other side.

Trump brags that the process to approve selling F-35s to Saudi Arabia will take just 24 hours. This is the most advanced military capability in Western inventories being fast-tracked to a dictatorship that has deepening ties with the West's primary adversaries Russia and China.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.