the extent to which this administration is out of control is really summed up by the fact that they immediately went with “this was an armed terrorist there to kill law enforcement” knowing that video from multiple angles completely disproving them was out there and would be seen by everyone

this guy just wanted to help defend his community and they murdered him for it and the highest officials in the nation are lying about what multiple camera angles are showing the nation this cannot stand

On one side is a nurse and a poet dying while saying “Are you okay?” and “I'm not even mad at you dude" And on the other side are armed officers of the state saying “Boo hoo” and “Fucking bitch.” And they want you to believe the first side are the domestic terrorists.

If this were happening in a Latin American country, ICE would simply be described as a death squad

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I don't know. You kill a man and then you just leave? You're law enforcement and you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not going to clean up our mess'?"

They shot an unarmed mother in the face in front of her wife then called her a “fucking bitch”. They kidnapped a five year old and used them as bait. They deported a two year old despite a judge’s orders. They maced, pistol whipped, and disarmed a nurse legally carrying then shot him nine times.

Not the main thing right now, but I don't think teams should be going to play a World Cup in a country whose fascist government is currently murdering its own citizens in broad daylight and lying about it. Russia and Qatar were bad but at least weren't ongoing worsening situations were wading into.

In case you missed it: My suggestion that Farage was whispering to Trump behind the scenes while Trump was going after Greenland has been essentially confirmed. As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.

Filed my tax return last week. Wondering what the HMRC would have done if I'd neglected to declare £380,000 on account of the fact that "I don't do computers." #Farage

Update from Channel 4:

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Proceeds from this sale helped fund the underground railroad for Jewish scientists escaping Germany and Austria via Copenhagen The scheme was arranged by Nobelists Niels Bohr and August Krogh (founder of Novo Nordisk) among others

What's remarkable is not just that Trump is so loathsome and narcissistic that he doesn't care when an innocent woman is killed in a protest unless and until he finds out that her dad was a fan of his ... it's that he's so disregulated he *can't help but say so out loud*.

💥💥💥 Denmark has just produced proof that America accepted Denmark's sovereignty over the whole of Greenland in 1919. (via @faisalislam.bsky.social) 🇬🇱🕊

“We have embedded a notorious US military surveillance company whose founder is a close ally of President Trump into the heart of our military at a moment in which the US is threatening to invade our NATO ally, Greenland.” – @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Palantir https://bit.ly/4sHG9al

67% of Reform MPs have previously been elected as representatives of the Conservative Party. They broke the country last time; do you trust them to fix it?

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

Do not be surprised if in the first days of an incoming populist radical government there is an entire raft of statutory instruments and other measures prepared and ready to go, exploiting every gap in our constitutional arrangements.

Incredible scenes at Luton airport this morning: easyjet overbook flight, and there’s a family of 5 where 2 have assigned seats and 3 will be bumped if everyone turns up, and those 3 are children. Gate closes, no available seats, so what do mum and dad do? Get on the flight and leave the kids

Musk's X has turbo-charged the anti-science movement & amplified misinformation, racism, misogyny & hate. It permits the creation of digital child porn at one click. If these aren't grounds to eject him from the Royal Society, then what are? Shame on them. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

There were more than 1 million larger cars - SUVs - sold in 2023. This is around 60% of sales and is projected to be 75% of sales in coming years*. 🚸 We believe children should be safe travelling to and from school. * Stats @cleancitiescampaign #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

When my late mother got Alzheimer's, we had to label everything too.

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Christ politics is mucky

In the grand scheme of things €300m is nothing. Wandsworth Council is spending £4MILLION on beautifying 100metres of a bridge underpass and the Labour government is spending £9BILLION on just 12-miles of new road

Let alone their future driving permissions… Why is road crime treated differently to other crime? IMO complacency and acceptance of road danger as inevitable have dulled accountability. Strategy isn’t enough — we need a fundamental root & branch cultural reset. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content

The casual acceptance of risk from driving cars is utterly bemusing. If this many people were being killed on trains the rail system would be shut down until the risks could be eliminated. Why is it seen as normal that so many people are killed and injured while people drive vehicles?

A reminder to people discussing the government’s road safety strategy today, bereaved families and seriously injured crash survivors will be listening. The only goal for the numbers of people killed on the road each year is ZERO.

Road casualties are utterly normalised in political debate, but in England and Wales alone, on average around 80 people are killed or suffer injuries which could change their lives forever *every single day*. More should be done.

100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.

It’s crazy the UK has not yet rejoined the EU's roaming area. Another example of us being left behind

Ah, New Year’s Day! That can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! The 148th anniversary of New York Herald proprietor James Gordon Bennett Jr being banished from polite society for pissing in his fiancée’s fireplace, thus giving the world the phrase ‘Gordon Bennett!’ 🧵

This is both entirely correct and misses the point completely, which is that the 'online weirdos" are effectively writing Conservative and Reform policy & have significantly influenced the government's own worst and most xenophobic policies. Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.

Three of the top five British grid electricity records smashed in 2025! This is a huge success story, despite what Russian bots and U.S fossil fuel shills scream on X. Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce means a safer future for our children…🥳

TAX. THESE. OUT. OF. EXISTENCE! These monstrosities should be illegal! Large vehicles are markedly deadlier for pedestrians. Being struck by a large SUV raises the risk of death by around 40 per cent compared with a smaller car; for children, the risk is up to eight times higher..."

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

Wishing all billionaires a pleasant Three Ghosts

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

Funny how that works, huh? [Cartoon by Joe Heller]

THREAD. A collection of notes I have made about my dad in my notebook. 1. My mum almost kills TV presenter Monty Don.