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"UK investors are among the most aggressive users of ISDS and law firms in the City of London provide the engine of the system" Our trade campaign manager @cleodierickard.bsky.social spoke to @observeruk.bsky.social

The Jan 6 riot was successful. Maybe this will put to bed the constant admonition that "riots don't work."

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid. My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Marina Corina Machado was just on Hannity's show effusively kissing up to Trump, including offering to share the Nobel Prize with him

Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

People can take pictures of women (or anyone, but it's overwhelmingly women) in the street, and get Grok to undress them. An industrial-scale abuse machine, as @yeomans.bsky.social puts it. The government shouldn't just get off X, it should ban it, unless this is stopped pronto.

Congress: ‘If You Wanted An Expensive Foreign War, All You Had To Do Was Ask’

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Official on Venezuela War: “Following the Old, Failed Scripts” “America is a rogue state,” the defense official said, calling Trump a “tyrant.” The official added: “It feels like the end of the Republic in Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith” theintercept.com/2026/01/05/t...

Reporter: Did you speak with the oil companies before the operation? Did you tip them off? Trump: Before and after. They want to go in and they’re going to do a great job.

One of the people the USA killed in Venezuela was Rosa Gonzalez, 80 who they blew up in her apartment. Will you hear this on the European News? I doubt it.

The corruption is so much more massive and rampant than anything we’ve ever seen in the US before. H/t to the great @juddlegum.bsky.social for this essential read on Trump’s billionaire buddies making bank off Venezuela. popular.info/p/venezuela-...

🚨🧵on Venezuela While the final US military operation last weekend might have been under cover of darkness, the build-up to it was out in the open for all to see. I've constructed some timelines of the immediate build-up covering both the strikes and the supporting actions... 1/11

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

How Israeli settlers, backed by the military, erased a Palestinian village The last family in the Palestinian village of Yanoun left their home, joining a growing list of communities erased from existence through the establishment of Israeli "shepherding outposts" in their place is.gd/pYhTpx

Kentucky State Police charged a woman with "fetal homicide" after she allegedly used abortion pills bought online—despite the fact that the statute explicitly exempts pregnant people from charges. But her mugshot is all over the internet including People fucking magazine www.wkyt.com/2026/01/02/k...

That is still an ongoing act of war, albeit at a lower intensity

The BBC bans its journalists from stating that Maduro was "kidnapped" 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/exclusive-...

You'd be working with an awesome bunch of colleagues, including yours truly!

Why Venezuela? Oil. Why now? The affordability crisis, the end of the fracking revolution, and the threat of Chinese energy independence. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/why-venezu...

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UK foreign and defence ministers Hamish Falconer and ‘Lord’ Coaker announced in advance Britain would support lawless US attacks on Venezuela. (Parliamentary debates in November/December 👇)

The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

The “Venezuela distracts from Epstein” line is ridiculous because 1) many awful things happen at once 2) Same Iran-Contra crowd pushing Venezuela invasion are or were involved with Epstein/Maxwell 3) Epstein associates (for ex, Dershowitz) want Iran invasion and see Venezuela as a test run for Iran

What's old is new again... In 1954, the U.S. helped overthrow Guatemala’s democratically elected government, ushering in a military junta that jailed political opponents, igniting an almost two-decade long civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. 🧵

Drop Site News’ José Luis Granados Ceja said Trump’s comments were “very, very clear”: the US “intends to occupy the country of Venezuela.” He warned this would “require a huge mobilization of troops,” calling Trump “deliberately vague or even misleading” in suggesting it’s “just about protecting...

7️⃣ Beyond the numbers: ➤ A ceasefire that exists on paper only ➤ Civilian harm as the dominant outcome ➤ Protected zones treated as free-fire areas ➤ Aid throttled and misreported ➤ Violations that are daily, systematic, and cumulative The document shows a ceasefire that is being actively...

Andreas Krieg says the UAE has cultivated militias, separatists, & other non-state actors across the Middle East & Africa—an “axis of secessionists” in places like Yemen, Libya, Sudan, & Somalia—to project power & influence beyond formal state structures. x.com/andreas_krie... youtu.be/18ys2pwyRXw

I’ve been working full time to stop this war since last summer and the one scenario I feared the most is materializing — Trump is making a play for Venezuela’s oil. I’m not saying an insurgency will definitely form, but Trump’s ploy creates the perfect storm for an absolutely disastrous occupation.🧵

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.

The nobel peace prize committee has to wear this

And how's he gonna do that? This does imply a full-scale invasion. He seems to think it will just happen, but he parted company with reality a long time ago

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

Last month, 115 Democrats in the House and 28 in the Senate voted to give Trump $901 billion in military spending. Dems may stomp their feet about Trump illegally bombing Venezuela and abducting its leader, but if they truly opposed the attack, they wouldn't have voted to fund it.

Trump declares intent to take over Venezuela. Usual Trump bullshitting, or prelude to all-out invasion?

President Trump on what might be next for #Venezuela: We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run and just take over where he left or left off.So we're making that decision now. We'll be involved in it very much. And we want to do liberty for the people. We want to have a great relationship

The UK is a bizarre country where its seen as just fine & normal for people to sleep in tents in the freezing cold. Temperatures to hit -4 this week But the idea Billionaires could be less rich. Not poor, not struggling, just a bit less rich, this is seen as extreme and radical

On Fox, Trump announces triumphantly that now the US fossil fuels industry will control Venezuela's oil and gas... bsky.app/profile/phil...

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.

Israel has issued a demolition notice for the Aida camp football pitch near Bethlehem, a vital space for some 500 children to train and play, and one of the few open spaces in this crowded refugee camp. Kids found the notice at the gate in December, threatening the pitch’s removal. Voices...