After pressure from the Justice Department, Apple pulled apps from its App Store that encourage reporting ICE activity. Google followed suit by pulling similar apps from its Play Store. The government shouldn't be choosing what apps we can download, and neither should tech companies.

The deranged madman now threatens to blow up commercial airliners flying in and out of Venezuela.

Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail? H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!

Pardon my French, but this is fucking disgraceful! 🤬🤬🤬 UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This Guardian piece, from last Saturday, doesn't seem to be getting the attention it deserves: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Sen. Mark Kelly: “I’m not backing down. I’m not shutting up. If somebody in my situation was to do that, what is the message that sends to not only service members but government employees?How about to just U.S. citizens about what our First Amendment rights are?” www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Trump wrongly indicted me. I’ll rightly impeach him. Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

BBC Civilisations last night - interesting enough to continue with, but a bit heavy-handed in stressing the contemporary relevance. Some of us prefer to think it out for themselves. Oh, also, why didn't Shakespeare write about the fall of Rome? Right up his street, surely.

Looking forward to the Department of War sending Mark Kelly to trial for saying that service personnel should "refuse illegal orders." erm

It's not going away

Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent. Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...

Lord Lucas on the 1000 amendments tabled to the assisted dying bill in the House of Lords. “It is an attempt to frustrate the legislation”. @lbc.co.uk @lewisgoodall.com

@zackpolanski.bsky.social on taxing the rich: "This is about inequality. For decades now poor people have got poorer and rich people have got richer... the money [raised] is important but the real point is about tackling inequality.. we need to get those assets flowing around the economy"

Bluesky. Come for the politics, stay for the bird photos.

I hope Baroness Hallett has Boris Johnson hauled up before the courts for contempt. Seems he lied under oath to the Covid inquiry.

Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill” Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill." searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this. We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

Richard Tice, March 2025: "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"

“The world of 2026 is entirely different from 2016, the old red lines no longer make sense and Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford” @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone. Don't fall for it.

“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”

John Major labels Brexit an ‘act of collective folly’ 'Britain's enemies celebrated and our friends despaired.' www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/joh...

Unbelievable. "The utility's lenders, led by a group of hedge funds including combative American firms Elliott Investment Management and Silver Point Capital, have in effect taken over the business ... [they] backed [the] decision to pursue Maynard for costs." Fortunately - this time - they lost.

wonder if the Washington Post has any strong words about the President being buddy buddy with the man who ordered to have one of their reporters dismembered

Gary Stevenson, "You cannot allow the richest people in your society to take a bigger share, in economies with almost no growth, and not expect ordinary families to get poorer" "The reason ordinary families and the gov get poorer year after year is because of this massively increasing inequality"

So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?

"Polanski was joined by many Labour MPs in opposing the government’s plans, although most of them are thought to be prepared to reluctantly support the measures." What's the point of being in Labour? Join.greenparty.org.uk

NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market. Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Hey Labour Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety? We're still over here 👋

A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina. The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

What's tearing the country apart is the cruel and nasty rhetoric from the indistinguishable mass that is Mahmood, Farage, Jenrick, & Tommy Ten-Names. The LP has betrayed its long time supporters, and I for one will not forgive or forget. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

The real danger we face is that if Trump mounts a military coup, he may not need many troops, since local police like this across the country may readily join his effort and suppress any local uprisings against it.

Superb from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This needs to get a LOT of traction.

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe. Share it widely.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Exactly right; while bishops argue about theological principles in the House of Lords, real people are suffering, including their own congregants; what happened to compassion - isn't that a religious value?

More illegal fly tipping resulting in fears of toxic waste run off into the nearby River Cherwell, near Kidlington An organised crime group is suspected. The tip is estimated by the BBC to be 150m (490ft) long and 6m (20ft) high appeared in the span of 1 month. apple.news/AKuooST2hSp6...

After Ghislaine Maxwell lied to Todd Blanche, someone waived her sex offender status and moved her to Club Fed with "OUT" custody - allowing her to work outside the prison walls. 3 months ago, I got her Bureau of Prisons points screen as proof. We still don't know who approved all this.

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

The more you look into the Prescott memo, the worse it gets