For red-green colour-blind people: The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Biggest story today? Oh just the US military flying over our heads to seize a Russian-flagged tanker off the Scottish coast after breaking the Venezuela oil blockade Full recap of our live reporting 👇

Legal falsity aside, I think “our masked, anonymous paramilitary thugs have an absolute right to kill you and your job is simply to trust that they won’t” isn’t so much a defense as a confession

Only 1 person in the US has absolute criminal immunity and that's Donald Trump for "official acts," b/c of a bullshit opinion by SCOTUS. "Absolute immunity" is not a real thing in criminal law. That no one is immune from criminal law is an essential part of the rule of law.

Among the more notable instances of migration to the British Isles during the early modern period there was *an entire royal family*

Good news Canterbury! Your lovely Reform council are scrapping your historic Georgian street lights.

More than a minute in and no mention of the BBC’s own open source team which found nothing that tallies with Vance’s tendentious nonsense www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Ah here. The 10 o’clock news on BBV Radio 4 is leading with ‘JD Vance has described a woman shot dead by an ICE officer in Minnesota as a deranged leftist carrying out a terrorist attack’ This is not public service broadcasting

And the BBC package ends with some crap about ‘in these politically charged times, dualling narratives’ WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD IS GOING ON!?! There is no dual narratives An innocent woman was shot dead and the Trump administration is lying about THAT in the story

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Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles. Absolutely vile.

This is an unusually confused piece of writing from the FT. Roughly: - all these experts say Trump is a fascist, but I found one book that says he’s not so that’s probably right. - there’s a long checklist of things he’s done that are fascist, but he hasn’t done everything Hitler’s way, so he’s not

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

The most generous explanation for this is that he's an idiot who just hasn't even bothered to look at how vaccines work. The worst is that he's deliberately spreading misinformation that will put actual lives at risk, in order to please his conspiracy-theory loving base

This case really is as good an example of a black and white moral test for news organisations as you’ll get, and many of them are failing it. You cannot both-sides a factually unequivocal event unless you use ‘a lie’ as one of those sides.

"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Minneapolis Public Schools canceled classes district-wide for the remainder of the week, citing “safety concerns,” following the murder committed by an ICE agent. The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal.

When some people cannot cover the cost of daily life, and cuts to support services and benefits are compounding this harm, what kind of Govt even considers demanding further billions to pay for a deeply unpopular digital ID scheme that threatens our basic rights? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Do your fkn job. Stop using what each side said as some sort of proxy for doing your fkn job. Look out the window and tell people whether it's raining or not. That's your fkn job.

Sky News on Renee Nicole Good murder: "There are deeply conflicting accounts of what happened." REALLY? Gonna both-sides this? One "account" can be seen on video and is confirmed by a dozen eye-witnesses. The other is a social media post by history's most notorious pathological liar. Grow a spine.

Just in case you think I am somehow exaggerating, this was their framing at the top of the hour, all morning.

This is a US government official calling for any US citizens who dissent from his immigration policy preferences, and "get in the way" of federal officers, to be executed by being shot in the face. By "get in the way" he means: being present, unarmed, dissenting, & driving away, without attacking.

As if public figures and institutions needed any more reasons to quit X - this is horrifying.

Any news outlet that values truth should state unequivocally that US government officials are lying when they say that Renee Nicole Good tried to harm the ICE thug who killed her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

The UK faces a shortage of modern foreign language teachers. One key reason: Brexit. ⬇️ 🎥

“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”

Excellent piece @jontrickett.bsky.social "Starmer has to explain whether the wider public is ideological in its support for public ownership of water, for example The truth is that taking such an action is a pragmatic response to the failure of private ownership" tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/tax-...

Meanwhile, the Ukrainians are expecting a huge air attack tonight on Kyiv. The Russians may use hypersonic ballistic missiles

🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

The ICE agent who murdered Renee Nicole Good and fled the scene has deleted all of his social media accounts. The Trump administration says he is currently at home on paid leave, enjoying time with his family. After this administration, we are going to need a Nuremberg Trials 2.0.

34 witnesses to Farage’s pathological racism & antisemitism now. But the most telling comment from Farage is about Reform’s core support base. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

JD Vance supports murdering American citizens. He's made that perfectly clear today. If he's willing to defend the murder of Renee Good, he would defend your murder, too.

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Vance is probably more dangerous than Trump because he knows *exactly* what he’s doing, and what the playbook is

Two of my favourite fish species!!! Why not follow Norfolk Ponds Project for very positive environmental news!!!

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Musk is laughing at us. There is *nothing* that’s decent or free or safe about being on X. The only responsible ‘counter narrative’ to stem the profound damage X is doing to society and democracy is to leave it, or - better still - to shut it down. (Private Eye)