Drones are attacking Kyiv. Explosions echo in the severe frost. And I wonder how much heat, electricity, or water will be left by morning. The morning will come, with or without us.

Kyiv. Midnight. No power. -20 °C outside. We’ve been warned of a possible missile and drone attack. What more can I say?

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“According to author Sam Roberts, Cohn’s strategy, & the reason he was known widely as a vicious and unyielding lawyer, consisted of three core principles: never surrender, always counter-attack, and always claim victory no matter what. Trump adhered to this playbook throughout his business career”

If only someone could have predicted this!

Totally this. I just don’t get it and the simplistic “all powerful men wanted the women he was offering” clearly doesn’t tell the whole story (it tells the story for some of them, sure).

A “graceful” retreat from Trump (Brexit/ Farage, too) 😹

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has urged House of Lords to urgently modernise disciplinary procedures so that Peter Mandelson can be stripped of his peerage and removed from upper chamber.

Under-reported is that civil service morale is pretty low due to redundancies in various departments - also applies to parliamentary staffers I believe. www.ft.com/content/2f71...

The Rafah crossing has reopened - but only barely. Despite 20,000 sick Palestinians waiting to leave Gaza for medical treatment, only around 50 will be permitted to leave each day. No aid will be allowed through to Gaza. No foreign journalists will be allowed in either.

Apparently the Home Office are continuing to contest Iranian asylum appeals. The law is that the judge has to assess risk on return as at the day of hearing.

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Thank goodness the anti-money laundering made it very difficult for me to reclaim the £180-odd in a dormant account of my late mother's—it only took about a year, but at least everyone could be sure I wasn't an international criminal!

A Mexican immigrant was taken to a hospital after bones in his face & skull were broken while in federal custody. ICE said he tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall," but hospital staffers said that couldn't explain fractures & bleeding throughout his brain.

Kyiv. Update on the situation. Heating is back (very minimal, just enough to keep the radiators from freezing). Power lasted about three hours, but that’s okay; rolling outages are our reality here. Having a warcoffee.

ICE genuinely going with the "they hit their head on a cupboard door" excuse for violence against innocent people. Regular reminder this is the organisation Tories and Reform have explicitly said they want replicated in UK, and which Labour's policies emulate in many ways. apnews.com/article/immi...

How to change the world from your little place in it? *** Speak about your passions a little. Do what you’re scared of a little. Challenge your tribe a little. Pause before you react a little. Believe that everyone is struggling a little. Spread hope a little. Love yourself at least a little.

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Alan Alda celebrated his 90th last week, so watched some M.A.S.H. clips, which was emotional. The U.S. wasn’t perfect in the 1970s, but it was still bracing to recall a time when ideals mattered, when we had a strong press, when feminism was predominant, and when you could dump a tyrant president.

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Fabulous 10/10 no notes

Tudor bioengineering.

“Where are all the other Veterans who swore and oath to the Constitution? Why aren’t they all out here?”

Trump’s version of “ending a war”….whilst still sending armoury to Israel.

Going through hell. (Walking to the shops and my headphones are broken.)

If you want to know what it's like living through a 21st century war (in sub-zero temperatures), this journal is both beautifully written and brutally honest.

Not even clear yet what the charges are. Assuming the Constitution applies to you while Black?

The fact that russia hasn’t attacked our energy facilities for a day doesn’t mean we have electricity or normal heating. Kyiv. No power, almost no heat at home. It’s already -10 °C outside and getting colder. russia has damaged our energy system so badly that one quiet day won’t fix anything.

The arbitrators hearing Rwanda's claim against the UK re the asylum seeker expulsion deal have issued a procedural order setting out hearing dates etc (the documents referred to here aren't public yet) pca-cpa.org/en/cases/370/

Just look at what you've gone and made me do.

H/t @samfr.bsky.social for this one “It's going to be hard to top "if this was shown on a plane people would walk out".”

As a clinical faculty member of the Education Department, I can confirm that experienced educator plus experienced clinician combine to make a synergistic whole in these workshops that is greater than the sum of its parts. I prefer working face to face, but the online courses are convenient!

No patient (or doctor) can speak for all patients. This also applies to PPIE.

If someone had made a film about how an Eastern European sex worker came to America illegally and ends up as First Lady I reckon it’d be a box office hit. But I guess they weren’t ready to go there.

An excellent decision—HT @rcphysicians.bsky.social !

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But sometimes one's own experience is very atypical. I reacted very badly to a very minor procedure, and also took a major procedure in my stride. So we have to be a bit careful of doctor-patients who claim to speak for all patients.

Sadly this hasn’t got less apt since last I posted it.

Just to clarify, as I see many comments on this: Generators Kyiv receives from Europe power hospitals, water pumping stations, heating facilities, and emergency response services. They are not for residential buildings; they help keep the city functioning during attacks on energy infrastructure.

An excellent dissection of the disdain academics so often have of things they cannot measure easily (McNamara fallacy alert!!).

Fascinating research in mitigating misinformation impact.

This post is the encouraging TL;DR for this thread. (Explanatory details within the thread)

It's amazing how this radical "step too far" is how every law enforcement officer in the country operated for our entire history.

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Same here—great podcast!

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