Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Probably late to the party, but I have to defend Ratcliffe's comments. The UK *has* been colonised by immigrants; Saxons, Romans, Vikings, Normans... there may be more, but my knowledge of history is poor.

Important thread. Who'd have thought that the Telegraph, a once serious if politically iffy paper but now an outrage generator, would print such disingenuous guff?

Last night, russia struck Bohodukhiv in the Kharkiv region, with drones. One of the strikes hit a private household, which was completely destroyed. Rescuers recovered the bodies of 2 victims from the rubble: a woman and a 10‑year‑old boy‼️ 3 more people were injured.

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

In the Kyiv region, russia attacked a residential high-rise. A man and a woman were killed, and four more people were injured‼️

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96,441 now. Farage was all in favour of this until the influx of sitting Tory MPs started giving him a parliamentary boost. Do Farage a favour and sign.

An overnight Russian bombardment on Kyiv left thousands of residential buildings and parliament without heating and water in -14C temperatures (AFP)

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

A long, excellent, thread that deserves as much reach as possible.

They shouldn’t surprise me, but Trump’s constant efforts to plumb new depths still do. A relatively unimportant indicator of his narcissism was the Trump pin badge under the American flag worn at his recent Whitehouse appearance. He demeans the office of POTUS with every breath.

Nasenraub 😂

@jonesycartoons3.bsky.social your page 31 MAGA Christian cartoon in the current Eye made me chuckle. (It’s a vintage page; the little one at the bottom left was good too, but I don’t know who drew it.) Thanks, and keep ‘em coming.

In which Mandleson completely misses the point: he's right about Greenland being pivotal and Europe recognising its strategic role, but completely glosses over an "ally" implicitly threatening it with invasion. Even the Spectator's readers will find it odd. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Users of a dark web forum boasted about using Elon Musk's X/Grok to create sexualised imagery of young children. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Cynically duplicitous chancer, or simply ignorant? Of course, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

Your occasional reminder to vote with your money.

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Sharon's "man what the fuck" foes not do justice to the true level of what the fuckery required.

This gentleman's analogy encapsulates the pedophile president's blithering idiocy in Venezuela to perfection. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.

1/2 Trump has launched an illegal act of aggression against Venezuela. A clear breach of the Nuremberg principles - which the UK helped write. Now a Labour government won’t even defend them. This silence isn’t diplomacy. It’s the moral equivalent of a white flag.

This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.

“Trump: the Putin of the West” Piece from me on how the US cannot justify the attack on Venezuela as a neocon liberal intervention or war on drugs. It’s imperialism, plain and simple – the naked and unashamed lust for power comment.press/trump030126

The bodies of a 3-year-old boy & of a 22-year-old woman were found last night in the rubble. In that devastating landscape of horror created by Ru, there are upside down cars, cables dangling & glass everywhere. People who used to live here, lucky to still be alive, now try to salvage what can be.

For a government that is led by a former human rights lawyer, the treatment of these hunger strikers is truly debased

@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social has published his worst five columns of 2025. I note: 1) The general tenor of these columns make a Charles Moore piece from the '90s look measured. 2) Matthew Paris seems to be calling for the mercy killing of Andrew MW; seems a little harsh. bsky.app/profile/brok...

Good old Donald coming to the rescue!

Kyiv did not sleep once again last night. On the last weekend of the year, the capital should have smelled of mulled wine, cinnamon, chocolate and joy. Instead, our city was filled with smoke, gunpowder, explosions, screams, and curses. The Russian attack lasted twelve hours.

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Greta Thunberg being arrested this morning for holding a sign which says "I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide" What happened to freedom of protest? We declare anybody we don't like a 'terrorist'.

Something to cheer up this shortest day.

The latest in WTFery from the USA. What a sorry crowd of dismal incompetents.

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@majesticwine.bsky.social I won't be buying from you again unless you stop advertising on GB News. Why encourage it in its mission to divide the country? That is all.

Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones. The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.

The author of the national security strategy that committed the US to aiding the far right in Europe is a race-obsessed hysteric and paranoid fantasist Piece from me (Free to read but please subscribe) comment.press/anton1212

I wrote about Russia's greatest disinformation campaign, and then had some thoughts about Putin's useful idiots on the far left. open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...

In the least surprising news ever, Rupert Murdoch, a man whose moral probity is so great that Dennis Potter named his terminal tumour after him, has been feeding cash to the IEA. A guest post by Sam Bright on @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social's substack: open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

Time to promote the best Christmas song this side of Bach's Christmas Oratorio (which is, obviously and objectively, the best.) I give you Dylan's Must be Santa. It and its video are magnificently bonkers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE... You can thank me later.

War on Christmas update:

The BBC made a stupid and careless edit or two in a documentary - Trump threatened to sue. The first of Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's BBC Reith lectures was edited to remove a remark that Trump was the most “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” Read the article; he is.

Oh crap - not here too?

Okay, here we go. Health & care staff are no longer allowed a Covid booster, but they're still expected to look after COVID+ patients. NHS/govt is reneging on its duty of care. Staff will become unwell, and patients too will suffer. You know what to do 👇✍️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

This young man has it exactly right.

The prospect of Comcast buying ITV doesn't thrill me. I've signed this Change org petition against it (for all the good it'll do); it's the only thing I can think of to try to stop it. If you agree, please add your signature. www.change.org/p/prevent-am...