BREAKING: The Majestics have also withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration

just watched The Winter Guest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E05Y... written by Sharman Macdonald and Alan Rickman dir Alan Rickman Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson et al.. what an amazing portrait and mood. also WTF?!?

Hay Festival: Actress Emma Thompson gets Medal for Drama award https://www.inbella.com/1605087/hay-festival-actress-emma-thompson-gets-medal-for-drama-award/ Thompson said her love of reading continued into adulthood, with authors such as Jane Austen and fantasy writers shaping her imagination …

Hay Festival: Actress Emma Thompson gets Medal for Drama award https://www.newsbeep.com/565019/ Thompson said her love of reading continued into adulthood, with authors such as Jane Austen and fantasy writers…

Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar for editing the original Star Wars and scored a nom for American Graffiti, both directed by her then-husband George Lucas, and worked with Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, died May 27 of cancer in Rancho Mirage, CA. She was 80. deadline.com/2026/05/marc...

Dr. Patricia Bath overcame sexism, racism & poverty and saved the sight of millions of people. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment, 1986; it was patented in 1988. She co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, 1976. She died #OTD in 2019. #WomenInSTEM

The Israeli soldier saw his teammates yelling in celebration. They had just struck a vehicle of Palestinians near the Israeli-controlled part of the Gaza Strip, killing everyone inside. “It was a jungle,” the soldier told AP. “To call it a ceasefire is a joke”. apnews.com/article/gaza...

Gaza was the first AI war of the twenty-first century, an algorithmic genocide. If Global Trumpism gets its way, Gaza will now become the testing ground for the ruling classes to rule through technocratic authoritarianism, blood and capital. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/pax-...

Happy Birthday Anne Reid, born this day in 1935.

(cartoon Clay Bennett) #politics

Top of the Pops (28th May 1981). Hazel O’Connor is at number 23 with Will You?

Gaza — from the yellow line to forced removal According to UN human rights office, since Oct “ceasefire”, around 1/3 of Palestinians killed were in areas near yellow line -warned incidents could amount to unlawful killings, possible war crimes by “Israel”. www.thecanary.co/global/2026/...

QUESTION Time called out for “dangerous” lack of balance on panel – Zack Polanski says BBC allowed billionaire to buy “entire episode”. Carole Cadwalladr said panel “equivalent of pitting Nigel Farage against Rupert Lowe with a bit of Tommy Robinson thrown in”. www.thenational.scot/news/2614585...

Everybody Scream: Florence Welch on Femininity, Horror, and Near-Death Experiences – The Baron thebaron.ca/everybody-sc...

Today is not Mark Hamill's birthday, but it is Frank Oz's.

A Palestinian woman and a young girl were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, officials say www.lmtonline.com/news/world/a...

Holy shit this cartoon.

The Justice Department is moving up the court hearings for hundreds of immigrants and scheduling them for mass hearings. If they don't show up, they could be ordered deported. n.pr/3Q0eove

NEW: She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help. Emily Waldorf’s case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.

Reform’s Robert Kenyon: ‘Women get abortions for vanity’ www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Basque Police Beat Global Sumud Flotilla Torture Survivors In Spain These are the same cops who've taken €1.6M in Israeli security contracts,trained by former Mossad agents, and equipped with Israeli surveillance tech. open.substack.com/pub/ahmedeld...

Positive noises from The Stage and Television Today for the opening episode of The Aztecs (The Temple of Evil).

On this day in 1964, The Temple of Evil (episode one of The Aztecs) was broadcast.

Ten years ago the UK government issued a travel advisory for LGBTQIA+ individuals about risks of going to the US partly because of trans bathroom bans. Now we have those bans in UK. This is what I mean by Labour being worse on trans rights than the previous government.

A typical episode of Rainbow... Listen to our Rainbow deep-dive on Long Distance, Bit Weird right here: longdistancebitweird.podbean.com

Happy Birthday Johnny Ball, born this day in 1938.

Rescuers in northern China looked for survivors after the country’s deadliest coal mine explosion in recent years killed at least 82 people. Hundreds of rescuers and medical personnel were sent to help with rescue efforts, state media reported.

BREAKING: At least 16 people were killed and 70 wounded after a bomb exploded near a railway track in southwest Pakistan.

Suspect shot dead near White House after firing at security checkpoint Officers returned fire and hit the suspect – named as Nasire Best (21), who later died in hospital www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

FBI Director Kash Patel said on social media that officers were responding to shots fired and that he would "update the public as we're able." President Trump was inside the White House at the time. n.pr/4dsCfwv

A powerful bomb exploded near a railway track as a train carrying passengers passed through the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, wounding more than two dozen people, officials said.

The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) expresses its profound outrage and condemnation following a violent assault by the Ertzaintza (Basque autonomous police) against newly returned flotilla participants at Bilbao Airport. globalsumudflotilla.org/press/bilbao...

Palantir claims its software saves medics time they can spend on patient care. But leaked internal NHS documents have revealed that Palantir software is 10 times slower than alternative tool 🐌 https://goodlaw.social/t009

During a House hearing, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed jars of murky drinking water taken from Morgan County, Georgia, where new data centers were constructed.

A song from last night at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Treat yourself to a song that goes out to every piece of shit I've ever met...and a good few that I haven't. Back on June 14th: www.vauxhalltavern.com/events/event...

This week on Long Distance, Bit Weird I introduce @mbalazo.bsky.social to Rainbow. Imagine if Sesame Street was made for a quid and the characters all hate each other. Available wherever you get podcasts. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l... 🎧

Cartoon by @bishtoons.bsky.social

The Late Show aired its final episode on Thursday, bringing an end to Stephen Colbert’s decade-long run as host and the show’s 32-year run as CBS’s premier late-night talk show.

Racist thug threatens council with lynching “What the f*ck is wrong with you, inviting these people into our country? This is a Christian country … you all deserve to be strung.” Edward Lang spent 4 years in prison awaiting trial for charges related to Jan 6 2021 Capitol insurrection - pardoned

London families wait for news of loved ones amid Ben-Gvir 'detainee taunting' video outrage MPs demand sanctions on Israel Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says incident ‘violates the most basic standards of respect and dignity in the way people should be treated’ www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

Elon Musk announced plans Wednesday for one of the biggest sales of stock to the public ever for his space company that is currently losing billions of dollars a year.

PM’s aide Morgan McSweeney told about investigation into Paul Holden 2 years ago, Democracy for Sale reports. Also included in email from Labour Together’s Josh Simons was Paul Ovenden. email requested meeting with them +Tom Harper, who prepared report on Holden. www.thenational.scot/news/2612480...

A leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for soliciting violent attacks against the Jewish community and minorities, including a scheme to distribute poisoned candy to children during the holidays.

Digital ID is not about helping you, it's not about saving money. It's about putting everything behind a door, and in order to use anything you have to give them all your details. Most importantly of all, it's not the Government who wants or even controls it. It's billionaires

Judge overturns US sanctions on UN official who called for war crimes prosecutions over Gaza

A woman demonstrating her exceptional intelligence in contrast to a wealthy but arrogant individual.

["gerrymander" practice of manipulating boundaries of electoral districts to benefit a particular political party] Republicans think they could gain as many as 15 seats from new House maps in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee and Alabama. www.dailynews.com/2026/05/13/l...

#Watching SHEEP DETECTIVES The last time I watched a movie with this many sheep it violated several Acts of Decency Laws in about a dozen states. And Emma Thompson was in it as well. Go figure. letterboxd.com/noeljpenaflo... #movie #moviesky #filmsky #film #movies #letterboxd #letterboxdfriday