This fixation with opposing anything that smacks of socialism and liberalism goes back to the days of McCarthy. It’s totally lacking in any intellectual rigour and now under Trump takes the US closer to a one party state. Communism was a murderous abomination; but it’s not the same as liberalism.

I can’t see an end to this madness. Total cult brainwashing from the President on downwards.

The obsession with TikTok and its alleged connection to the Chinese Communist Party is ludicrous; yet you go on YouTube and it’s like the Wild West… all protected by its US owner and the First Amendment. So you can peddle hate, crap medical advice and dodgy product reviews and it’s all protected.

It’s been proven by several independent journalists and researchers that the imagery showing the ‘margarita drinking’ was faked. Yet the MAGA Cultists continue to peddle this nonsense to an adoring Trumpist fan base.

Scenes from an authoritarian regime

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

Do most Americans realize this is total bullshit? He is just making stuff up.

100,000 to go after today’s walking and running. #OneMillionStepChallenge #EveryStepCounts for #DiabetesUK

Out again this evening with the Parkside Panthers and ran another PB for 5k. Small improvements, but I’m still smiling and that’s the main thing. We did hills again, so that’s another reason to enjoy my PB times, and explains the red streak on my Garmin data as we ran downhill. 😃

Considering the British government has a long track history of cost overruns and ballsing up IT projects I’m not hopeful.

#Netflix #HouseOfDynamite

youtu.be/_wpw2QHJNco?... Obviously my no.1 question is why SBIRS didn’t detect the launch… But this does look good and I’ll probably park my questions until afterwards and just enjoy the story. It’s got a great cast, and I think Bigelow did a great job with ‘Zero Dark Thirty’. #RadarLove

Women allegedly abused by Andrew Tate decry ‘misleading’ Spectator article www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

🙂 Daily Quordle 1340 5️⃣7️⃣ 8️⃣3️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨🟩🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #WQuers

squareword.org 1333: 11 guesses 🟨🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 <6:🟩 <11:🟨 <16:🟧 16+:🟥 #squareword #squareword1333 #WQuers

#waffle1343 2/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 20 🏆 #waffleelite wafflegame.net #WQuers

Strands #571 “Simply divine” 🟡💡🔵💡 🔵💡🔵🔵 🔵 #WQuers

Connections Puzzle #837 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 #WQuers

Wordle 1,559 6/6* ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 @scoremywordle.bsky.social #WQuers A close result today! #Wordle #DailyWordle

Okay, here's that good news! Thank you to everyone who picked it up this week! You have officially made my evening.

We talked about the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGa...

Obama says Trump linking paracetamol to autism is ‘violence against the truth’

He could just have used the steps… set an example to the country.

Eric Trump: "He deserves the Nobel Price Prize so many times over. I've been in that office for one conversation where he literally stopped a war ... he deserves that Nobel Peace Prize, he deserves to be on Mount Rushmore, and I think in time he'll get both.

This is why we fund science. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"This is the first genocide in plain sight that has generated a global response from civil society." UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese tells Matt Frei American sanctions against her won't stop the movement against Israel's ongoing offensive in Gaza. Read and watch here:

"He doesn't really need your approval, nor your fact checking, nor anything else." Matt Frei talks to Danielle Pletka, from the American Enterprise Institute, about President Trump's description of climate change as a "con". Read and watch here:

The prime minister of Denmark has formally apologised for a Danish health programme of forced contraception which for decades systematically implanted coils into young women in Greenland. Read @georgvh.com's article: www.channel4.com/news/denmark...

‘Science demands action’: world leaders and UN push climate agenda forward despite Trump’s attacks

dawnwalk.samaritans.org/fundraising/... Looking ahead to the weekend of Friday 10th October I’m doing a one-off walk for #Samaritans on #WorldMentalHealthDay #DawnWalk

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#waffle1342 0/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 19 🏆 #waffleelite wafflegame.net Phew indeed. Kept my streak going. #WQuers

squareword.org 1332: 8 guesses 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 <6:🟩 <11:🟨 <16:🟧 16+:🟥 #squareword #squareword1332 #WQuers

Strands #570 “Lip service” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵 #WQuers

Connections Puzzle #836 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 #WQuers

Wordle 1,558 4/6* ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 @scoremywordle.bsky.social Happy with a 4. Have a great Wednesday my fellow #WQuers #Wordle #DailyWordle

First Farage platformed notorious UK anti-vaxxer, Aseem Malhotra, who insinuated that Covid vaccines caused the Royal Family’s recent cancers. Now he’s openly trashing scientific method & evidence, pretending neither can be trusted & facts are a free for all. This is deeply dangerous populism.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/barrow-par... I’ve created an event on Eventbrite for my new #WellbeingWalk around #BarrowPark #BarrowInFurness #Cumbria I’ve already had some expressions of interest, so I’m getting a bit excited. 🥰

Nothing in this acknowledges the economic reality of why many brownfield sites don’t get away as housing: they’re not financially viable unless someone (usually us, in some form) pays for them to be cleaned up and made ready

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

Great afternoon at a local school working with a young class on the story of our local Wellington Bomber crash site in 1944. The questions they came up with were brilliant! https://menofworth.org.uk/memorials/canadianmemorialoakworth/

This looks very cool. My History O-Level was pretty much British Social & Economic History from the industrialisation of agriculture to the development of cotton mills in the north-west. Music, theatre, steam engines and snacks. My kind of evening! 🤓 Plus riotous fun. 🤩

youtu.be/_pa1KLXuW0Y?... This looks so good. I still can’t forgive Lucas for Jar Jar Binks; but the healing of the wound is helped by exceptional #StarWars productions like #TheMandalorian and #Andor #ThisIsTheWay #SciFi #SFF

‘Frustration’? Surely it was rooted in ignorance, prejudice and anti-science conspiracy theories? That’s got nothing to do with frustration and everything to do with Trump’s stupidity and petty mindset.

I keep saying this every time there’s a ‘drone incident’ that the UK needs a primary air defence radar at every military airfield and civilian airport. And ideally the means to engage any drone if the radar detects something. Wringing our hands and dialling 999 won’t cut it.

Legendary cricket umpire Dickie Bird dies aged 92 www.channel4.com/news/legenda...

It’s anyone from antifa to Kamala Harris.

Shared from FB on behalf of the @rafadrm.bsky.social #RadarLove Following on from the success of the Sheringham 40's weekend the museum is holding a two day ‘Back to the 1940's’ event. They are looking for local re-enactors who are available for either or both days. See alt-text for more info.