Why, “the White House”? It’s Trump. Say so!

One man put us in this deadly quagmire. One man is wrecking our economy. One man’s immigration agents have terrorized our communities. One man has ridden roughshod over our system of government. We said "No Kings" 250 years ago. Congress must say "No Kings" today. If not, they must be replaced.

“… a whole civilisation”?! The balloon has just confessed to genocide.

Dozens of politically vulnerable foreign nationals (including Brits and Americans) are often among the 5k-plus held in Iranian jails at any one time. And Trump is about to bomb the hell out of them, indiscriminately and with no remorse.

5,000 kids arrested?!

Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ann Coulter have all slammed the president, with the latter accusing him of war crimes.

The slaughter of 168 Iranian schoolchildren in Tehran - independently verified but denied by the world’s most brazen liar, Donald Trump- will one day be remembered as the biggest US war crime since the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam in 1968. Shame on you, America - and a lingering pox on your president.

JERUSALEM (AP) — The investigative group Bellingcat says newly released video “appears to contradict” U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for an explosion at an Iranian school that killed over 165 people at the start of the war raging in the Mideast.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said he received a call from President Donald Trump to dispute that he knew about Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's $200 million public relations campaign that was primarily used to boost her image.

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone. She goes out looking for him. "I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

Brian Allen 🚨 Gavin Newsom isn’t mincing words: “Trump owes families their money back. $1,751 per household.” Trump illegally taxed working Americans through tariffs. Took hundreds of billions. Got caught. Got ruled against. Now he needs to return every dollar. No excuses. No delays.

Getting seriously heavy now. No way is this over, whatever Trump, Bondi and all the gangsters might imagine.

Did you know Spurs have a player called Miracle Adewole? He scored against Arsenal in a 4-1 win for the under 18s this week. So, all good for Sunday’s derby, then.

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just wow and double wow… open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Still clearing the swamp…

The Olympic committee bans an athlete from Ukraine for wearing a helmet honoring war dead but it’s totally cool if one of the major people planning an upcoming Olympics was mentioned in the Epstein files. See, this is the kind of shit we are upset about

Do we feel pity or revulsion? I’m going full on revulsion… www.facebook.com/reel/1411735...

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

British police are assessing a complaint that ex-prince sent confidential trade reports to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Seems rumours of Starmer’s demise were not quite on the money… is there more to him than we suspected? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Inspired!

Go Spain!

More than one way to skin a cat, and the Times have twisted the numbers artfully here. If you look for it (last paragraph), 63 per cent of Labour voters want him to carry on - which is surprising! Starmer’s Labour sleazier than Tories, say third of voters - The Times and The Sunday Times

“The Israeli officer told me: ‘Why did you return? Tell the people of Gaza: pack your belongings and get out" Palestinians returning to Gaza through the Rafah border say they were blindfolded, interrogated, and beaten by Israeli forces. www.middleeasteye.net/news/blindfo...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... this charmer ?

Lovely hatchet job on the monstrosity that is Suella Braverman. Crace covers it all; her dishonesty, disloyalty, nastiness, incompetence, her wild vanity… and her deep stupidity. How dare these utter arses think we’d be persuaded by their swaggering nonsense. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The US is now formally out of the Paris Agreement, one year after it triggered the exit process from the climate treaty. It has subsequently announced it will also withdraw from the UNFCCC and IPCC.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Alex Pretti’s face on a billboard in Times Square. From “healthcare hero” to target of state violence. They want this story buried. The city just put it on a screen the whole world can’t ignore. 💙NYC 👏👏👏👏

I’m rubbish at maths but I couldn’t walk away from this astonishing explanation of the universse through mathematics. You will be similarly mesmerised. www.facebook.com/615785643625...

This is truly excellent - as always from one of America’s most respected and intelligent commentators … open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

If true, this is awful for Starmer, not good for Labour and bad for the country. Andy Burnham blocked from byelection race by Labour ruling committee - The Guardian

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Great news. Burnham is a hero in the north and will in invigorate Labour where it matters most. Whether he challenges Starmer is the stuff of Westminster village rumour. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

He lies. But nobody calls him out.

Mehdi Hasan "When people ask me why I singled out Israel for expulsion from the UN and not other countries that have human rights abuses, this is why. Which other country destroys UN buildings in plain sight? Kills UN personnel and fires at UN peacekeepers? How is the UN ok with this?" 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

ICYMI. Worth listening to every carefully considered word. A sense of history, realism+responsibility. A knowledge of globalisation, trade+the consequences of a world of “fortresses”. The contrast with last night’s self-adulatory, grievance-ridden, destructive ramblings could not be clearer. #Carney

Incredible and inevitable— Police chief says ICE agents violated his own officers' civil rights while off-duty. A female officer was boxed in by ICE agents who demanded her papers, pulled their guns on her, and knocked her phone down as she tried to film.

They claim they’re putting personal ambition aside and defecting to Reform to help fix the country. To stop that pisstaking farce, they should be made to hold by-elections in their constituencies and let the voters decide if that’s ok with them. Please sign. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Anyone surprised? Feeding info to Putin? Today we read he’s invited Putin to serve on his peace team for Gaza? Translation Putin has the P tapes, Putin has the Epstein files!

You’d like to think so…

This is what a coward looks like when cornered … youtube.com/shorts/qPLAX...

Another deliberately misleading heading to have a dig at Labour… Conservative shadow foreign minister defects to Reform - The Times and The Sunday Times

For you or generally? If for you, overnight Putin rejected the ceasefire (in the notes) and then on film he called for resuming direct talks with the Ukrainians “next Thursday” in Istanbul without any preconditions (ie so no ceasefire).

And while we’re recommending YouTube films, here’s the inimitable @petergeoghegan.bsky.social doing the Lord’s work. Because nothing says ‘free speech champions’ like, erm, going to Court to keep who funds your payroll secret. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP0O...

Maybe Stanley could emigrate.