I joined @newstalkfm.bsky.social breakfast to discuss the article too: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

"Continuing to build more roads to alleviate congestion, especially in a geographically constrained city such as Dublin, is precisely the kind of failed thinking that has resulted in our capital becoming the 10th most congested city in the world." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

People should note that Voloshyn tried to disguise Gill’s bribes as ‘media payments’ Do we know how much Farage received for his regular appearance on RT/Russia Today around the time of Brexit?

Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold. #ShakespeareSunday

Lots of these fake "hero stands up to ICE" videos doing the rounds ALL of them are AI. Look at the letters in the background.

Fred Trump died with Alzheimer's Disease. LEOEMBI is drug that is infused often in the hand to treat Alzheimer's. It requires continuous MRIs to monitor the patient.

@europeanjournalists.org this is a well earned follow!

It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine. Then, in a single social media post last week, Donald Trump set the former Honduran president free. on.ft.com/4oA2Km0

This is pretty much exactly like a European saying the United States should be abolished, so that the governments of individual states can better represent their people. It’s a take, you’re entitled to it, but what’s it got to do with you, buddy?

Why have so many corporations donated to Trump’s White House ballroom project? Could it be because many of them have lucrative government contracts? Or because they have mergers and other regulatory business before Trump? I’m sure they just thought a ballroom sounded nice…

Drones over French nuclear submarine base last night.

"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst." Everything this administration tells us is a lie.

NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DROPPED There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight. The party has five MPs

In #Iowa City, buses have been #fare-free since August 2023 and the results are impressive; ridership jumped, driving dropped by 1.8 million miles. 🚍🌍 The city council has now extended the pilot program after seeing faster boardings, fewer cars on the road. 🔄💨

🚨NEW POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 All Evri executives to have their Christmas presents delivered by Evri, to see how they like it. Love Christmas. Vote Binface.

“Put bluntly, net migration fell because 400,000 fewer foreigners arrived, and 200,000 more foreigners left the UK. This is precisely what Reform, the Mail, and the new, nastier Tory Party have claimed – again and again – they wanted to happen. And now that it has, they have ignored it entirely.”

Facts

Dedicated to fighting wokeness.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

📍 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐃, 𝐖𝐀: Elaine Miles, a Native American actor, says she was stopped by ICE while walking to a bus stop — agents dismissed her legally issued tribal ID as “fake,” refused to verify it, tried to take her phone, and only released her after she was detained. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience

All these years after Brexit and the UK still wants the cake and eat it. Wants access to €150bn in SAFE backed projects with the ability to produce over the 35% component cap, but only offers €82m to enter. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Really bad news. And completely irresponsible given where we are.

The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...

Yeah the NL is flat, but in my most humble opinion, rain + cold north wind makes for the absolute worst cycling conditions. I'd take Calgary winter over Dutch winter any day.

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies" Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations www.wsj.com/world/russia...

“The only decent Black Friday sale out there.” — Juan Orlando Hernández

And it goes on. The man is completely unraveling. Bombing boats, threatening invasions “to stop drugs,” and now promising a full pardon to a president convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. This isn’t law and order. It’s the most lawless presidency in American history.👇

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Next meeting is in my basement. BYOB. Mermaids encouraged

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."

TRUMP APPROVED THE DC SHOOTER. The shooter applied for asylum in December 2024 and was approved for asylum in April 2025 under Trump. Can’t wait to see how the cult spins this one.

🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨 "And Finally, Madam Deputy speaker, we are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets." "But let me be clear. I don't actually mean the Honourable Member for Clacton."

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history." BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

On Today before 7 a former Trump official claimed without challenge that US spending on Ukraine far outweighs that of Europe (at least contestable) and that Europe was now irrelevant to the peace talks. 30 mins later Steve Rosenberg made clear that Europe’s irrelevance was a Kremlin talking point

French poll shows far-right leader Bardella winning presidential election www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...