Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working. Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.

Just a comment. Trump blames Ukraine for its actions against Russia. I’d like to put it to him… if somebody attacks your wife, kids, threatens to take your property & your country - what would you do? Of course the priorities also work in reverse.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

Hugh Grant, "it's been very very depressing watching big tech kidnap children's lives" "And to see children to find it difficult to get interested in anything that isn't a screen" "Swarming around any screen that appears in a room instantly"

Today at 5:07 AM "FAKE NEWS" is Nazi rhetoric, which he knows.

"Conservatism cannot ever fail. It can only be failed."

The radio silence about Farage from people who are usually supremely vocal about antisemitism is so so telling.

The best way to demolish reform is to remind everyone what the Farage has bought us: Brexit busting Britain, lies, corruption, greed, and meanness. Is this a country you want to have like this?

Trump does whatever Putin wants because he idolizes what Putin has been able to achieve, turning Russia into an oligarchy; Trump is trying to do the same thing here. And, the former KGB operative has something on him.

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Release the #Epstein files NOW! Wealthy rapists are still free, committing violent crimes.

Cloudflare said the outage was caused by a change made to how the platform’s firewall worked.

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

This is the cost russia has paid to lose more territory than they claimed in the first days of this war, and it’s approaching 4 years. They are losers. No one deserves being handed land of a sovereign people for such losses.

This is getting stupid now. We're at the point where Labour acknowledge both the damage caused by Brexit AND that rejoining the Customs Union (more accurately, joining A Customs Union) would boost growth. And yet they still reinforce their red lines. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

It's been over two weeks now and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

SCOTUS is nothing more than an arm of the GOP. Expand the Court. Impose term limits.

This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice. 📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.

Why, it’s almost like nobody likes these people or ever wanted anything that they were selling, and the only reason they’re in these jobs at all is because they were crowbarred into them by Britain’s horrendous media outlets.

Lots of news coverage this morning about £28 billion investment approved to upgrade the UK's energy network. BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.

Today, on the 31st anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum with its useless security assurances, we are facing a repeat of history as EU leaders warn of the risk of a peace deal without strong US security guarantees. Strength is the only true guarantor of peace for the EU.

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

🇬🇧 "Putin personally gave the order." Britain imposes new sanctions over Novichok attack. The sanctions apply to 8 Russian GRU officers for attempted murder of Yulia and Sergei Skripals. Sanctions will also affect three more GRU officers for planning terrorist attacks in Ukrainian supermarkets.

Himes: It was exceedingly hard to watch. Even if you stipulate that it is a war, there is a very specific prohibition against killing individuals who have been removed from the fight. And there is no question that these individuals were removed from the fight.

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

The Republicans in Indiana generally squander their supermajority in the legislature on just being complete fucking idiots.

They just don't seem to do numbers or facts very well...

We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.

The survivors of a subsequent strike being returned to their countries without prosecution indicates they already knew executing the survivors of a previous strike was a crime. It's all a crime, but the double strike on survivors eliminates all doubt. They know it.

His feigned ignorance is disturbing. He definitely needs to be removed.

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire. Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines. Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.

The doc is all about closing the US, yet it says that “openness” is what differentiates it internationally. It wants to rebalance markets, criticises globalisation, yet says that “free market capitalism” will “continue to make us the global partner of first choice.”

There is one striking incoherence in the text: the document is all about America first. But the very same document lists America’s “network of alliances” & “unmatched softpower” as assets, and speaks about “collective defence”. If the US does what it describes in the doc, it will lose all that.

Activist in Europe. Elsewhere not so much.

What struck me most on Europe wasn’t the focus on value, freedom of speech etc - again, very similar to Vance’s Munich speech - but how activist it is. This is about directly trying to influence what is going on in Europe:

Pages 25 to 27 are most relevant here and should be read in their entirety

What about Europe? It is mentioned quite a bit, with one primary focus: European identity and the alleged elites and minority governments that restrict core liberties and democratic processes. This is extremely close to JD Vance’s Munich speech.

Let’s look at those priorities: . “the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests” . Focus on Western Hemisphere . nations should prioritize their interests . “days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over”

I’m also gonna say something that will be controversial here: This is actually a very accessible and easy to read document. Is it good prose? No, but it also doesn’t do jargon. It might be written by AI, as some have suggested, but for a normal person, this is much clearer than past strategies.

But first: This is really a strategy which prioritises. They also say so openly, and definitely have a point on this 👇

I’ll go through it in order, but what all Europeans need to read are pages 25-27 on “Promoting European Greatness”.

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales. Tesla makes up less than 2%. The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.

While it's still fairly difficult to prove a negative... Releasing the Epstein files would show who isn't in them, by showing who *is* in them. Might not be entirely conclusive, but it *would* be extremely strong circumstantial evidence.

The US National Security Strategy now explicitly supports "unapologetic celebration of European nations' individual character and history" and sees the "growing influence of European patriotic parties" (i.e., the far right) as "cause for great optimism". No big surprise, but remarkably explicit.