I can just see him the day before the 2028 elections saying 'we are gonna be reducing cost of medicines by xxx% very soon'

This does provide some insight into how the Truth Social sausage gets made. The note in front of Trump says: "We need you to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first."

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight

Not loving this trend where pop culture that treats racists as villains is considered "too political." bsky.app/profile/step...

Is he getting Gaza and Portland confused? No, seriously. I spent the afternoon with an elderly neighbour with dementia, in hospital due to a fall, and this is what he was like.

Thanks to right-wing mischief maker Jack Posobiec for drawing a straight line between the rise of MAGA and the rise of the Nazis.

Fact-check: true

And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.

It's funny because London has a much lower homicide rate than any major American city, including those in red states. Nice disinformation though, and of course it's being spread by Elon Musk, the world's biggest spreader of disinformation

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023. www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

I'm sure this will stem the tide of air traffic controllers calling in sick

Bit racist, though.

Seems ever more prescient. www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03...

We? Who's we? Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy?

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

No wonder that journalists who continue to post there have a distorted view of the ‘mood of the people.’ As for the historians who stay on X, I have to ask: is that few thousand extra bot-likes that you’re getting really worth the legitimizing of Musk’s toxic swamp? Or do you just like it there?

Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication. Here’s the column they wouldn't run. Please consider writing: [email protected] [email protected] Stand with Dan.

If the RCN or RCAF started randomly sinking American fishing boats and killing American fishermen off the coast of Maine then I expect that the US government and US MSM would suddenly want to talk a lot about international law

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Warrior ethos

“We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans.” — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declares war on beards 👀

Fascist authoritarianism as performance.

Next time I get that Wikipedia funding prod, I'm doing it. Because freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four 👇

Jane Goodall is the kind of person that every flag in the world should be flown at half-mast for. The type of hero that we should inspire young people to look towards.

As predicted last week. And to repeat: Pushing forward with this will fragment the armed forces and risk not just the security but the existence of the Republic. For no reason at all.

If you're in London and swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond, please ensure our trans (and intersex and NB) sisters can keep enjoying the most body-positive, non-judgemental and frankly utopian spaces in the city. Letting the body police decide who's 'feminine enough' to swim would wreck it for all of us.

Actually, by sensible definition, that is exactly the word you can apply to someone who doesn’t want Romanians living next door.

The Imperial Japanese Army of the 30s believed, like Hegseth, that casual violence - slapping/punching of soldiers especially - would inculcate a cult of lethality among the rank and file. What it did was so brutalize the troops that they took out their frustration and anger on civilians and POWs.

This entire speech is deeply insulting to every single servicemember who joined the US military to serve and protect their nation.

More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

So much unreality. There is an actual WW2-scale war going on in Europe now and no sign that we are learning anything from it.

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

So anyone in the UK armed forces want an exchange post with the US military anytime soon? No?

The professionalism that our most senior military commanders exhibited with their silence today despite repeated attempts by Hegseth & Trump begging them to please clap was encouraging, & should be an example to all troops when they try to exploit them for partisan politics. bsky.app/profile/atru...

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

Trump deleted his bizarre post featuring an AI video of him endorsing “medbeds,” which raises the question of whether he’s so confused that he thought it was a real video of him talking

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The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Thinking of pitching a book about US military history the thesis of which is that when America has won wars in the past it has had less to do with ‘warrior ethos’ than with some grown ups in charge who knew what they were fucking doing. Apparently this is an urgent thesis to restate.

In 1935 German leadership called a surprise meeting and informed their previous oath to uphold the Weimar constitution was now void and they instead must swear a personal oath to the Führer. Many claimed they didn’t like the order, but they did it anyway. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Most unhelpful comments by person from country that allowed operations without ADS-B and on another comms frequency close to an international airport. Go away, please.

#Onthisday 17th September 1944 at 12:45pm the Dunwich Microwave Early Warning plot of American airborne forces approaching the Netherlands for Operation Market Garden. @nationaltrust.org.uk