Presumably these Brownshirts hide their faces in the hope they won't be identified, so they can't be brought to justice when (if) this Turd Reich collapses.

Shooting a woman at point blank range, simply for driving away is bad enough. The most powerful people on Earth justifying it is simply next level.

Authoritarian lying about violent, murderous suppression of citizens is much more difficult in the age of the smartphone - especially in a country like America where government cannot, yet, turn off the internet.

DHS and MAGA are spreading propaganda claiming the Minneapolis driver tried to run over ICE. That claim is completely false. Multiple videos from different angles (recorded by people on the scene) clearly show that this did not happen. ICE killed a US citizen. Justice is required for this killing.

trump’s Brownshirts out in force today, murdering civilians.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” bsky.app/profile/chri...

The tanker seized in the North Sea this afternoon was cruising “in ballast” - the only oil aboard was its own bunker fuel.

Rats in a sack.

The best time to leave X was a year ago, the next best time is today.

Hundreds of British politicians and journalists are active on a website that is producing and distributing CSAM on an industrial scale. What will it take for them to leave X?

By “narrow set of electoral priorities”, he means just gerrymandering congressional districts, and voter suppression?

There needs to be proper accountability for this in the media. Farage basically accepted these allegations when they were first made in 2013. He's accusing his accusers of lying now that the allegations are inconvenient for him. His party is leading the polls; he needs to be held accountable.

A propos my last post…

This famous shot — from 1980s? — is potentially inspirational.

I doubt the government would be this sanguine if we were talking about TikTok.

Actively Involved in The production of Child Sexual Abuse Material. Let that sink in.

Sickening. 5000 illegal abuse images a day and still no action.

The only solution is to block both X and Grok. I doubt any of the relevant authorities in the EU, UK or Australia will dare.

If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...

Ouch

6 January 1945 | A German Jewish woman, Edith Frank, the mother of Anne and Margot Frank, died at the German camp #Auschwitz from exhaustion. It happened 3 weeks before the Red Army liberated the last prisoners of the camp and 10 days before Edith's 45th birthday.

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

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No one in government believes this. They don't want to withdraw from the paedo machine because it upsets their strategy of sucking up to the US. And, for some of them, it jeopardises their chances of getting Nick Clegg-style tech jobs after politics.

‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals

100% this, on the grounds that the best time to do this was any time in the last 18 years but the second best time is now

The U.K. government should have been preparing for a rogue U.S. from day one. They should have known how to respond to this kind of thing with speed and decisiveness.

Elmo ordered the Virgins’-Blood pudding, trump the chicken nuggets with Alphabeti Spaghetti.

Very true

There are no excuses now for not knowing that X is a toxic cesspit. If you are still on X, these are your values.

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

I have lost count of the number of times I have been given this government line in response to SO MANY @politicshome.bsky.social stories about X If the platform was going to "act appropriately", it would have done so by now

The pardon for Hernandez makes an obvious & absolute mockery of each & every attempt to rationalise, or even justify, Trump's treatment of Maduro. I'm not sure this single, simple point can be stressed enough. Once again, he proves his critics right & reduces his supporters to epic moral corruption.

So - why is any UK politician, let alone a member of government, still on Xitter?

Stage direction: To be repeated for at least 10 years.

The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.

This.

Given the likely opposition from the existing Caracas establishment, army and militias, “running” Venezuela would mean GI Boots on the Ground Which would mean GI bodybags ceremonially carried out of military transport planes This isn’t popular with trump’s base now. It’ll get a lot less popular then

As a profession which can famously make two and two make five, I guess this isn’t surprising.

*** New blog post *** An LTN in Islington will generate 1.4 million extra driven miles each year. Except that it's a non-story. Plus, I get to dig out an old thread because it's not the first time people have tried this "analysis". therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2026/01/its-...

This is funny, and possibly important. But if Putin can’t even take half of Ukraine, how is he going to get through Poland and the Baltics? Let alone Germany, France and UK. Some crayon filled naïveté at play

Trump IS a mob boss. This is the worst of all worlds. Whether Venezuelans themselves will go along with his scheme remains to be seen. I somehow doubt it, meaning this is going to turn ugly very fast, while Russia and China laugh at American hubris.

He is starting wars between naps, ffs, and still nobody will say "the Emperor is naked".

If Blair was Bush's poodle, Starmer is proving to be Trump's chew toy. Mind numbing levels of weakness.

I think what China understood and the rest of the world has been slow to do is that Trump is running a protection racket more than a trade or foreign policy. He wants the payoffs more than the invasion or regime change.