Artist De Strandharker, a Dutch creator known for large-scale beach rake drawings, give remarkable tribute to the victims of Trump's ICE (Renée Good and Alex Pretti) 🫶

More please.

Not disagreeing with @nateo.bsky.social's point, but the risk of Matt successfully suing him, me or anyone else for accurately describing him as racist is slightly less than the chance of me being selected as a candidate for the Gorton by-election.

It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

Labour-run Erewash Borough Council has agreed to stop using “unsafe” TwitterX. (h/t @peterallison.net)

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

More of this

Fascinating analysis

Staggering

From the UK - he struck me as a deeply serious man

Agreed

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

All Donnie needs is a bit of ice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8...

We have made the decision to formally close our X social media account. Once a vibrant platform to promote the interests of authors, we feel X is no longer a trusted place for balance, community support, and reliable information.

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

Seen near the U.S. Embassy in London, UK 🇬🇧 (Nonce is UK slang for pedo.)

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced that Greenland will henceforth be called Epstein Island, so that Trump will stop talking about it... 😂

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles says: Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality” and is "score settling." Vance only supported Trump for "political" reasons. Elon Musk is “an avowed ketamine user.” Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

This sums it up rather well.

I had an interesting exchange with the chatbot issued to students by my university about the advisability of using it—at a university. It thought this was a terrible idea.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

@sangitamyska.bsky.social Fuck Reform Shoulder to shoulder every day

A traitor was at the very top of Reform UK, aiding and abetting a foreign adversary. Nigel Farage and his party are a danger to national security.

throat goat www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

The world is changing, don't let the greedheads win

Well, Epstein dead-catted the BBC bullshit thing

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

On the one hand it’s useful to have a reasoned and measured debate on the perceived bias inherent in BBC news, on the other hand Donald Trump is a cunt.

Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane. We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Not expecting to see a strawberry, it is the second week of November in North West England

A truly majestic sentence

“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.

With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton. No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.