It's clear an atrocity has been unfolding in Iran, under cover of an Internet blackout. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

Not fit for purpose as a serious news organisation with this standard of journalism. I fear we will lose something wonderful in this shameful period of history because they're too piss scared to report the truth.

🧵thread of right-wing reactions to the ICE murder this AM:

I'm British, but my families are from Germany and Yugoslavia. Suffice to say I'm watching what's unfolding in the US and know, yes, it can happen anywhere. Unfortunately rather easily.

I have never been so relieved the biggest news story here is about internal Labour party psychodrama that absolutely nobody outside politics gives one singular fuck about.

We will now see every single person who attempts to justify or excuse this.

The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?

Quite glad that the big story in British politics is whether Andy Burnham will apply to stand in a by-election and not people being gunned down by state militias. Solidarity with Minnesotans resisting this barbarity.

I've seen the video - I figure as I'm living through this disgusting period in history, I have an obligation not to look away - and I'm more than uncomfortable with the language being used to describe it. Shot and killed implies this was somehow legitimate.

If this was happening in certain parts of the world, it would be labelled as "Death Squads".

For anyone who's interested, James O'Brien is discussing Trump's comments about NATO on his programme this morning with traumtaised ex-military and bereaved families phoning in. Callers in tears at the sense of betrayal and anger. It makes for difficult listening. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

It's now called Royal Wootton Bassett for a reason. That man is a total POS.

I'm tired of posting "please can someone define severe and complex" but I fear I'll keep doing it for a while because they just don't get it, do they. Downing Street are right to be very, very nervous about this plan because not one single parent or carer will support it.

Umpteen posts every day on my timeline. Not holding my breath that anyone will actually do anything to stop this. How this progresses really frightens me.

159 members of the Canadian forces and 7 civilians.

Zero sympathy anymore. If you're not removing him from office, you're part of the problem. It's abundantly clear that nothing is ok with him now.

Should things escalate further and today goes down in history as the end of American hegemony future UK historians may be surprised to find the papers focusing on the Beckhams falling out.

Christ almighty, this is the calibre of leadership we're stuck with coming out of that country.

I'd be interested to follow the finances of many of these enablers. But, yes, it's long overdue removing him and it's an unforgivable act of cowardice and complicity by those who could and won't.

The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*… Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.

If I was President of the United States, the last thing I’d do is start questioning territorial claims based on ‘people arriving in boats hundreds of years ago’.

This is not normal. State sponsored thuggery. I'm also genuinely worried they're going to shoot a journalist reporting this.

It's gone a bit Man in The High Castle other there, hasn't it.

About this: This practice of churches providing groceries/supplies to immigrant families who are afraid to leave their homes out of fear of ICE is widespread, and widely reported. What's different here is the *scale* of operations this one church is overseeing, and how public they are about it.

Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch. DMs open.

When the interior ministry declares its militia to be above the law in terms that equate dissent with treason there really isn’t any question of whether or not we are looking at an authoritarian regime.

If our government remains on this platform, I can only conclude they are not overly bothered by content such as this.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

It's like banned people being arrested for domestic terrorism, then tripping up, falling down stairs, and out the window. We've seen this playbook many times before.

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

They really don't get this guy. He's going to keep going, no matter what BS they stick on his file. Precisely because service to his country runs through his veins.

@keithgow.bsky.social NO

Someone put him in charge of everything, please. I'll sleep easier.

Right on cue.

From a domestic politics perspective, I now expect all our parties to demolish anyone supporting this absolutely disgusting state of affairs. This should end Reform overnight. Stop pandering to them, end of. This horrible right wing bile needs finishing. It's far too dangerous.

This is going to test my memory, but the last time we had anything similar would indicate we're going to get some pretty explosive details this time. And I'm sure those concerned will be acutely aware of their responsibility in this mess and not happy to entirely carry the can.

A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.

A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

And they assumed nobody would notice if this just drifted out on New Year's day?

Torvill and Dean have been on the frontlines - shelling advanced squads of racists.

Paddington the musical is absolutely magical. And I was one of the ten (probably older) people who laughed very loudly at Bonnie Langford making a Cats joke.

lol. lmao even

Good grief. What a pathetic baby.

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

The quote tweets and replies about how Trump is untouchable are the kind of things people said about Honecker and Ceaușescu in 1988....