Gotta give some credit to @vanhollen.senate.gov for taking the initiative to fight for Kilmar last year, when other Dems were cowering on immigration issue also, shout out to total badass @cnewman.bsky.social, lawyer for Kilmar’s family & @ndlon.bsky.social legal director

The Kilmar Abrego Garcia case ends exactly as most observers anticipated: dismissed as a vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

FBI Director Patel referred to Abgrego as a “gang banger and human trafficker and wife beater” etc in Congressional testimony etc as recently as a week ago.

Satuday's @theguardian.com cartoon #transrights #EHRC #LGBTQ

Some 2,000 years ago, a Roman fresco painter transformed a room into an enchanting garden filled with lush plants, trees, and birds, all under a clear blue sky! 🌿🌳🐦‍⬛ 😍 House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology

For #RomanRoadsFriday a section of the 'Via delle Gallie' in Donnas, Val d’Aosta, Italy. The wheel ruts are still visible. The arch was carved into the rock. The road that was built under Augustus. It began at Mediolanum, present-day Milan, and passed through...🧵1/2 📷 🏺#archaeology

Trump is just out here making shit up

it's an older meme but it checks out (satisfying watch; also I want a tinier solar bot to clean the solar bot cleaning the panels)

People seem to have forgotten that Trump already stole $1.25 billion in taxpayer funds for his Gaza land grab “Board of Peace.” That included taking a billion straight from international disaster relief and putting it into a phony organization where he is president for life.

"The theft of your entire life's work by billionaires and devaluing of your skills is a tool, make it work for you. Hey, I'm going to keep using what I stole from you and profiting from it, deal with it.... why are you booing?"

Why the scare quotes? Huge numbers of people in this country are struggling with their mental health, esp since the pandemic. Most politicians diminish this harm and gaslight people suffering for somehow not being robust enough. I celebrate @carladenyer.bsky.social being brave and honest.

For business owners, the important part of the new ECHR advice is this: 13.179: There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex. [...] Therefore, it is unlikely to be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex.

So a trans woman I know, almost 70, now has to use male toilets? Why? She had gender reassignment surgery in the 1980s and has been using women's toilets for 40 years. She has never been a threat to anyone. Will she be safe in men's toilets? Where's the law to protect her?

So proud of what we do - giving space for this kind of discussion without pretending we have all the answers. Just people having a real conversation. It shouldn't be so rare. If you dislike the state of our media, why not vote with your fingers and give this a listen? Reward what you want more of.

It's hot... 🥵☀️ Make sure to put out plenty of water for birds & wildlife so they can keep cool and have enough to drink. They'll thank you!

Ohio’s state sales tax exemption for data centers cost $1.6 BILLION in 2025 — 11x more than its original estimate. That’s $1.6 billion that could have gone to public schools and healthcare instead of Big Tech CEOs’ pockets. Is it any wonder communities are organizing against data centers?

The glee with which the transphobic lobby is celebrating this says everything. Nasty, spiteful, and hateful. Shame on anyone bullying this most bullied of communities. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tobacco company Reynolds American donated $5 million to Trump’s super PAC. Then, an executive and two of their lobbyists had lunch with Trump. Days later, the FDA rolled out new guidance that would allow tobacco companies to start selling e-cigarettes. Everything is for sale.

Call Mark Zuckerberg before Congress and offer him a glass of water from the site, Erin Brockovich-style

moments after claiming the US has total control of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump demands Iran open the strait

Equality watchdog completes draft report into ‘unlawful acts’ by DWP and its Conservative ministers www.disabilitynewsservice.com/equality-wat...

Anger over TUC’s decision to draw close links between #PIP and work in Timms Review response www.disabilitynewsservice.com/anger-over-t...

Michael Flynn, who has already received a payoff, twice pleaded guilty to felonies in open court, as part of the Russia scandal that was not at all "fake" or "phony." He’s a hopelessly ridiculous example of a “victim.” tinyurl.com/67yt87te In related news, Byron Donalds just isn’t good at this.

Remember: it was like pulling teeth to get Republicans to fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. But it took them no time at all to create a $1.8 billion Insurrection Slush Fund to pay off the legal fees of the January 6th rioters who beat cops. These are sick, corrupt people.

Eliminating foreign aid that helps fight disease globally and then sending people with Ebola elsewhere. We are the baddies

In this Bizarro world we live in, I suppose I should not be surprised that a Brexit architect would be here in California running for Governor. I don’t think he is going to win, but good lord… Steve Hilton should be hiding in shame, not running for bloody office!

Y’all need to know the dirty deeds of Hilton in Britain. What happens abroad has a direct impact upon what happens at home. Steve Hilton was one hundred chain saws to civil servants in the British Government. They’re in a shambles today because of him. www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...

🚨Last night in House Appropriations, all Republicans present voted to allow THEMSELVES to get settlements from the January 6th Slush Fund. I am not making this up.

The war that never had to start. An illegal war.

Median annual gross wage for a UK employee in April 2026 was £31,524. In 2025, a single person needed to earn £30,500 for a minimum acceptable standard of living. A couple with 2 children needed £74,000 between them. Richest 50 families have more wealth than combined total of 34m Britons.

wow -- Durbin grills Bhattacharya and gets him to contradict Trump's line on vaping "Kids having more access to vaping does not make sense to me," Bhattacharya acknowledges

Dark, but funny from SNL... the latest polling shows Trump's approval close to the 20s too.

An image of a large crowd has been shared on social media with claims it shows last weekend’s Unite the Kingdom march. This isn’t true. The image has been circulating since at least February, and was either made or edited with Google’s AI tools.

I don't usually much like or post memes like this, but honestly, this image is just priceless...

So we have full 2025 immigration stats - Total net down by 2/3rds in 2025 (3/4 from peak) - Small boat arrivals in 2026 down 40%. Asylum backlog down 48%; returns up 9% - Asylum seekers in hotels down 35% (down 48% from peak) YET PUBLIC PERCEPTION 49% think 2025 saw increase; only 16% know it fell

*glub*

Tomorrow evening, all welcome.

Yep he said it..

Well done, MAGA. Well done, my former Republican congressional & right wing media colleagues. Your cowardice, your fear, your caring only about ratings/audience/votes/getting elected/staying in power, your cultish devotion to a corrupt, lawless sociopath got us here. Well done. Hope you’re proud.👇

Reform UK's Councillor Sam Redfern is the son of farm owner / Parish Councillor Danny Redfern. He just declared an interest at the latest Parish Council meeting that he’s signed up to this 900 acre farm solar project (including Sam's ward): www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...

The poorest 20% of UK population pay a higher proportion of income in direct and indirect taxes compared to the richest 20%. Dividends and capital gains, mainly accruing to the well-off, are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. Progressive taxation wasn't part of the King's Speech.

There's no question that Labour are losing more voters to their liberal-left flank (to the Greens and Lib Dems) than to Reform.

MAHA was just another con. The corruption of the Trump admin is absolutely staggering.

You read the latest news about NATO, Iran, and Ukraine, and then you look to London with the current inner-Labour hissy fit, combined with a peevish PM devoid of direction or strategic thinking, and it all just seems maddeningly inward-looking and, dare I say it, provincial.

This is a failure of journalism, on a really basic level, but it is also a failure of political leadership. It was going to fall simply in the basis of what the previous govt did. But Starmer somehow conspired to actively spread the impression it was rising.

Standard Chartered CEO collecting £12.7m refers to workers as 'lower-value human capital'. Wants to replace 7,500 jobs with AI. Pat on the back and 'stab in the back' are normalised in predatory capitalism. Shareholders/Execs want more. Light years away from Cadbury/Quaker capitalism.

This would be a pointless and vindictive move which would shame those who propose it for the rest of their careers.

Breaking: 141 countries just voted for a just transition away from fossil fuels! Vanuatu and Pacific nations’ leadership have achieved a VICTORY for climate justice. More >> www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

WSJ doesn’t bury the lede. “This payment deal is rotten.” It is. And the photo is perfect: Trump’s giant banner hanging over DOJ, a visual reminder of what Van Hollen says the department has become--not the people’s lawyer, but one man’s. zurl.co/T0PIs

Columns are now arches apparently. What this shows is that they know the current project would not be approved, so they are scouring history for the thinnest piece pretextual legalism to be found.