Can’t wait to watch this!!

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

I am beyond thrilled that this brilliant writer is getting the recognition he deserves. Congratulations Stu! 👏👏👏

« Ensemble, nous sommes l’Amérique » : le show très politique de Bad Bunny lors du Super Bowl, Trump en colère ➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/j2Kg

Breaking News: Nithya Raman, a rising star among West Coast progressives and a Los Angeles City Council member, said she will run for mayor. Her announcement presents a significant challenge to the incumbent, Mayor Karen Bass.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

This is mainly a fairly routine request for media to contact a PR representative rather than the person directly. They’re more routinely sent by grieving families etc, because it’s fairly widely known that otherwise it will just look bad if it leaks. This is Mandelson once again sucking at PR.

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

Sweet relief

This is what Harvey Weinstein did, when he hired Black Cube to investigate Ronan Farrow. It is catastrophically bad for anyone involved in politics to be doing the same thing. It is also: very fucking stupid indeed.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

Breaking: The European Commission said on Tuesday it would investigate Mandelson, who was European trade commissioner from 2004-8 before leaving early to return to UK politics. Mandelson draws a pension from his time there and has to adhere to a code of conduct for former staff.

An honour to endorse this very important book by the amazing scholar, Kayleigh Garthwaite. Buy it. Get it from your library. Share widely. Such a vital read in these difficult times.

New stories out now! One aim this issue is to show what works in healthcare, employment and in people's artistic and social lives. Our first issue of the year features brilliant contributors like @samcarlisle.bsky.social @maryohara1.bsky.social @georgejulian.bsky.social communitylivingmagazine.com

An honour to endorse this very important book by the amazing scholar, Kayleigh Garthwaite. Buy it. Get it from your library. Share widely. Such a vital read in these difficult times.

Chuffed to be part of this latest edition of View Digital magazine advocating for universal healthcare. viewdigital.org/latest-issue...

The left-wing government in the UK and its right-wing US counterpart both have people with disabilities in their sights. @maryohara1.bsky.social talks to advocates, family members and professionals. communitylivingmagazine.com/red-austerit...

🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...

Wye pollution legal claim filed at High Court A legal claim joined by almost 4,000 people challenging river pollution in the Wye and Usk catchment areas, has been filed at the High Court westenglandbylines.co.uk/business/wat...

"Without nonprofit publishers American letters would have stalled long ago,” said Percival Everett. Well said, Mr. Everett! 👏👏 literaryartsfund.org/about/

Never the fun part of writing, but authors need to promote their books, so here is another push from me. I wish the books were no longer relevant, but unfortunately they are. #austerity #poverty

Not been on here in a while but please check out this wonderful magazine I’m chuffed to be a part of. What a brilliant group of contributors and thank you @sabasalman.com for leading from the front! 🥰

It is one year since my most recent book, Austerity Bites: 10 years on, was published. (Order from your local bookshop or library). Labour could, and should, have done so much good with their massive majority. #poverty #austerity www.maryoharaproductions.com/my-projects/...

“You simply can’t get away with being the housing secretary and avoiding £40,000 in council tax,” Farage told the conference. But the deputy PM had underpaid stamp duty, not council tax. Farage may have struggled to get indignant on stamp duty, having taken legal steps not to pay it himself.

She’s writing about the 80s in France, but so much of this feels prescient in the current context. We live in bewildering times. And to a degree, we always have.

Amazing tree bark

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

A regular reminder that we writers love it when people read, rent, buy books. All kinds of books. But especially our own. It’s a mean old world. All sales and library rentals appreciated. Ask your library to stock if you can’t find/afford a book. Find the audiobook version if that’s your thing. 📚📚📚

A California afternoon.

"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.

Elon Musk and his company have tweaked Grok, the A.I. powered chatbot, to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to a New York Times analysis of thousands of its responses. nyti.ms/462hBye

Rising inequality turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns. All over the world the rich/corporations buy the political system with donations, get favours in return. Nothing will change until political donations are criminalized, people take rights e.g. workers vote on exec pay.

Graham Greene (1952-2025) #filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the GOP's emergency petition to block the state’s new redistricting plan, ruling that GOP lawmakers had “failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief” under the state Constitution. Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.

More than 8,000 council-owned buildings are lying empty across Britain and it could deliver 25,000 homes if cash-strapped councils can act.

Term I hate: optimized resume. Translate: age wash. Fit with stupid AI hoops.

Every now and then I remember that for O Level history I studied the history of medicine as well as the American West and, in particular, what was inflicted upon native tribes. Blows my mind. And we dug deep. What a privilege my education in a working class secondary school was. 🤯

More than 40 percent of U.S. citizens are in some form of medical debt. These Americans explain why they left for Italy, South Korea and France, after crippling debt or a lack of coverage left them afraid to seek medical help at home.

There are so many books I love that I wish I could read for the first time. Anyone else feel that way? If so, which books?

One of the oddest things in US politics is that there is no single leader of the Opposition party truly designated from the start of a new presidency to be the assumed next president, who speaks on behalf of that Opposition party. It is proving to be a massive problem right now.

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

Health staff are being supported to improve care provided to autistic people in mental health services as part of a three-year, charity-run programme @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social reports @annafreudcharity.bsky.social communitylivingmagazine.com/mental-healt...

Breaking news: A federal judge has ordered construction to be paused at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, the first state-run immigrant detention center in the country, over concerns about environmental harm.

Dozens of studies in recent years have linked ultra-processed fare to health problems such as high blood pressure and heart attacks, and also to some problems that one might not expect: cancer, anxiety, dementia, and early death.

At least nine states are considering mid-cycle redistricting efforts in an attempt to gerrymander new congressional seats.