A detainee died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said on Wednesday, marking at least the seventh death in 2026 in federal immigration custody. Lorth Sim, a 59-year-old Cambodian na... TAT: [Nationalism]

The FT has identified 48 seemingly independent companies working from different physical addresses that appear to be operating together to disguise the origin of Russian oil, particularly from Kremlin-controlled Rosneft. www.ft.com/content/4310...

⚡️ Russia publicly pitches $14 trillion economic deal to Trump tied to lifting US sanctions. "The portfolio of potential U.S.-Russia projects is over $14 trillion," Kremlin economic negotiator Kirill Dmitriev said.

Attention west Wales! March 28th at Mwldan, Aberteifi. Two disgraced ex-Tories under one roof. We'll see you there! mwldan.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Axios reports the US redeployed more than 50 F 35, F 22 and F 16 fighters to the Middle East, citing a US official. The carrier USS Gerald R Ford left the Caribbean for the region with multiple Arleigh Burke class destroyers. Around 33 US warships are now in the area. #MiddleEast

All of this is happening while the US sits at the negotiating table with this regime in Geneva.

Tuesday, 17 February; Abdanan, Iran The security forces open fire at close range against unarmed people.

Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May. The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that “we are overthrowing May right now” as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Health officials are racing to contain a growing measles outbreak in London, which has struck down dozens of young children and affected 7 schools and a nursery. UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

🔴Trump Pardon Buries FBI’s Secret Work for Putin’s Oligarchs The former FBI agent's pardon came after his co-defendant’s daughter donated $3.5 million to Donald Trump bylinetimes.com/2026/02/11/t...

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump Personal Lawyers Bondi, Blanche, and Patel Hid From American Voters a *Minimum* of *95%* of All References to Donald Trump in the Epstein Files (950,000 of 1M+), Establishing the Largest Political Coverup in American History

Anne Frank stuff, all of this. Link to the full ProPublica piece is here: www.propublica.org/article/life... America, 2026

Liz Truss?

Key workers keep London moving. They deserve to live in the city they serve. That’s why I’m proud to have launched the Key Worker Living Rent scheme, which could save key workers thousands per year in rent.

If you think the Times gave Peter Mandelson a soft soap, I interviewed him for the New Yorker while Reinaldo was giving him a soft tissue massage. Read all about it here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...

A real pleasure to meet George Clarke and hear about his experiences growing up on a council estate. We both know the positive impact social housing can have on families’ lives. That’s why I’m determined to continue delivering more council homes as we build a fairer London for everyone.

🇵🇱🇺🇸👀 Polish PM Tusk on Epstein: In the documents published so far, there are over 1,000 documents directly concerning Vladimir Putin and 9,000 concerning Moscow. I am talking about Russian political environment. The FBI says it had information that Mr. Epstein was managing part of Putin's fortune.

BREAKING on ft website: Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans www.ft.com/content/fdf7...

Masked ICE agents surround a car of a legal observer, Maria Santay, then smash open the driver side window in El Monte, California Shocking that this behaviour is now so normalised in the USA

Surreal - land of the free latest 😮 DHS agents in Minnesota drove in front of a moving car They pulled their guns as they stepped onto the road And threatened a woman who was legally filming them

As Oliver Hardy would say, "Another fine mess".... as Trump is trying to not just void the 17th Amendment, but seeks to bypass ratifying the change by the voters approving this by vote in each state. Otherwise he's not got time to pass it in Congress to be voted on by each state before November

🇬🇧 A Russian ship has been chased out of British waters by a Royal Navy attack helicopter after anchoring over transatlantic data cables, - The Telegraph The cargo vessel Sinegorsk sailed into the Bristol Channel on Tuesday night and appeared to have anchored about two miles off Minehead.

Neil Young. Still showing us the way all these years later.. If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”

🙏 Zelensky: Russia attacked a passenger train in the Kharkiv region. In any country, a drone strike on a civilian train would be viewed as terrorism. In particular, there were more than 200 people on that train. And there were 18 people in the car that was hit. 4 people died…

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

Carole Cadwalladr, "It goes back to this black hole of Brexit and nobody wants to talk about Russian interference in this country in relation to politics and the effect it has had" "There's a refusal to have an inquiry which parliament called for and Boris Johnson refused to have"

One of my students is undertaking her independent study project on voting behaviour. If you like surveys and answering questions about ballot casting, this is the questionnaire for you. It will take five minutes to fill out and it's totally anonymous.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

David Bowie's album Station To Station came out 50 years ago today. #MusicSky

Wondering whether European governments could coerce investors into selling trillions in US holdings? Europe would be the first to suffer, explains my colleague @westervangaal.bsky.social in this excellent analysis euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

EXC RAF and Navy in talks to join Nato force in Greenland inews.co.uk/news/raf-nav...

Trump, who is not mad, has made 30 Truth Social posts in the last 30 minutes, topics including Muslims in the UK, Biden stealing the election, how right he is on Greenland, and other topics.

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He's demanding control over a sovereign nation because they didn't give him THE NOBEL PRIZE. Why the actual fuck do we have a 25th Amendment?

Starmer spoke to European leaders, and then to Trump

The retaliation measures are being drawn up to give European leaders leverage in pivotal meetings with the US president at the World Economic Forum in Davos. ft.trib.al/aKexyt2

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

And there it is..... www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

I’m delighted that London’s biggest schools' basketball programme, Jr. NBA 3v3, will be expanding this year with a new primary school tournament. It’s building on the work of my basketball task force to create positive opportunities for young people.

If you have any doubt that Farage is the British pro-consul for Trump’s Dark Empire, read this story about the rehabilitated Putin stooge Manafort