Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

There is no link between Tylenol and autism. There is, however, a link between Trump and fascism.

This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.

🇵🇱 "We know that you disregard international law and cannot live in peace with your neighbors. Your extreme nationalism is a thirst for domination that will not end until you accept that the era of empires is over and yours will not return," — Sikorski told the Russian representative at UN meeting.

🔴 Russia dropped at least 5 bombs on Zaporizhzhia, killing 3 and wounding 2. One house was destroyed, 15 apartment blocks and 10 houses damaged.

⚡️US move to ease Belavia sanctions raises fears of spare parts reaching Russia, Politico reports. There is growing concern that U.S.-made aircraft components could be diverted to Russian airlines, which face acute shortages of spare parts and maintenance capacity under Western sanctions.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

I’d never seen this one.

🤬 Russian drones have started dropping explosives directly onto the streets of Ukrainian cities. One such incident occurred the day before yesterday in Nizhyn.

This is what Myrnohrad in Donetsk region looks like. a town near Pokrovsk, where Ukraine’s Armed Forces are holding the line

Lebanon will expedite an extradition request to Bulgaria after the arrest of Russian-Cypriot citizen Igor Grechushkin, Minister of Justice Adel Nassar told OCCRP’s Lebanese media partner, Daraj: www.occrp.org/en/news/beir...

Hi All, Just released my latest free weekend update. The big story of the last month was not the original Russian infiltration near Pokrovsk--but the speed and effectiveness with which Ukraine reacted to it. The Russian military could not do what the Ukrainians did. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Cambodia and Armenia woke up not knowing they’ve been fighting each other According to the president, Armenia has also been fighting Albania and Aberbaijan - not to confuse with Azerbaijan

NEW: Kremlin insider statements continue to indicate that 1) Putin remains committed to his strategy that Russian forces will be able to win a war of attrition against Ukraine & the West, and 2) that the West has thus far failed to convince Putin to reevaluate his strategy.🧵1/7 isw.pub/UkrWar092025

“So far for 2025, the Trump Organization has posted to hire 31 foreign temporary workers for its winery.”

Every Trump call for “peace with Putin” is met with fresh Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukraine. Putin answers words with war. 🧵 1/5

Putin's war machine grinds to a halt as Ukraine begins to advance. youtu.be/S6tgAx164iI?...

This is what the Russian munitions that struck Dnipro this morning were loaded with. People are finding these fragments scattered across the streets and stuck in the walls of their apartments.

Hey so that’s mass psychosis❤️

Keep the pressure on, people

In less than a year, Trump has appointed and fired both of his U.S. attorneys in Virginia, one for not purging his office of prosecutors deemed insufficiently loyal, the other for not making up charges against Trump's political enemies.

This invasion is giant mistake. I should have let Ukraine join NATO and only then invaded. The alliance would have just had some meetings about it.

On hearing the news that Putin's fixer Kozak has resigned, I'm reminded of my assessment in the 2nd half of this episode back in October '23, when he was being touted as a potential successor. I concluded Russia could do worse. So, of course, he's gone www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...

Another huge attack on Ukraine - though not a record so not likely to get much attention abroad: 579 drones, 40 missiles - 94.2% shoot-down rate, missile or drone hits in 10 locations, damage from shoot-down debris in another 10 locations. Air alert still on in north-center.

Practically all Ukraine on alert after around 20 Russian cruise missiles launched earlier enter 🇺🇦 airspace. West of country just went on alert as some missiles heading their way. Shahed drones also in the air, and there have been ballistic missile attacks in SE of country.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

A reminder that it took Turkey 17 seconds to shoot down a Russian Su-24 in 2015.

GB News risks beating the BBC out of its place at White House press conferences, according to Private Eye. It's hugely loss making - but vying for influence. And bringing Trumpism to the UK. Every day it's becoming clearer that GB News is a far-right political project. (Excuse pic - see alt text)

“Six weeks, four courts, two counties, dueling rulings and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal expenses later, Paxton’s case against the former El Paso congressman seems on the brink of collapse.” www.texastribune.org/2025/09/17/k...

No comment from the President? Republicans? The DOJ? National Guard to Pennsylvania? (Yes, it was a white man with a gun.) www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Nazi shit

⚡️'Tyranny threatens Europe' — King Charles voices support for Ukraine during state dinner with Trump. "Today, as tyranny once again threatens Europe, we and our allies stand together in support of Ukraine, to deter aggression and secure peace," King Charles III said.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed a bill makes ivermectin — a drug used mostly in this country to treat livestock for parasites — available to Texans without a prescription.

September 17 marks four years since the Taliban banned secondary education for girls in Afghanistan. It is a devastating anniversary that should make everyone angry – furious even. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

I somehow missed this incredible story last month. Apparently the cops who killed Tyre Nichols will get a new federal trial. Why? Because someone shot a clerk for the judge who presided over the original trial, and the judge believes the shooter is in a gang that's connected to one of the cops.

Kharkiv citizens watch the sunset as russian drones fly over the city and the air raid alert wails. I can’t explain this to anyone who hasn’t lived here. Being so close to the frontlines, with no warning before the bombs fall, changes you. 1/3

Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ russian drone.

I look forward to the Free Speech Union, the Telegraph, Nigel Farage, and Kemi Badenoch all protesting at the apparent attack on free speech here

this doesn't look like a normal distribution

🔴 Russia launched a mass drone strike on Ukraine’s railway infrastructure, targeting power substations that supply the national rail network. united24media.com/latest-news/...

„One of Trump’s main accomplishments is that he has incentivized unprecedented levels of cooperation among US allies around the globe, who are trying to work around the US itself.“ @alanderminna.bsky.social: phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/canadas-ch...

⚡️ Russia preparing 2 more 'heavy offensive campaigns,' Zelensky says. "There were already three of them, and ahead... there are two more heavy offensive campaigns," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

I wrote about the war on research and science as a way to discredit every authority but the Leader, and how RFK Jr. functions as a modern-day Lysenko, but much worse.

EU companies suffer renewed China rare earth licence delays on.ft.com/3IqSTzS