No words really - simply repugnant side of Trump's America. Don't chance a visit for the World Cup. You have been warned.

President Trump, "Let me pick a beautiful person from Japan to ask a question" Journalist, "Why didn't you tell your allies in Europe, Asia and Japan before attacking Iran?" President Trump, "Why didn't you tell us about Pearl Harbour?"

A man from Odessa is fanning a barbecue with a wing from a drone. It’s Ukraine baby 🇺🇦

Exposé of Trump's rambling post trying to backpedal US involvement with the Israeli strike on the Iranian gas field. substack.com/@adammockler...

NEW The Melsonby Hoards, one of Britain's largest #IronAge metalwork deposits, made the news last year when their discovery was announced, and now the analysis is published in Antiquity! Learn how they change our understanding of Iron Age Britain in this #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

President Trump calls the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, the President of the United States

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: When in fact what the report showed was a highly successful Russian effort to interfere in our election to benefit Trump in ways that the Trump campaign knew about approved of and expected to profit from.

Arrivals of military aircraft to Kaliningrad is on a year high the week that passed with 18 a/c noted. Mean last year 10. The stats are based on intercepted radio, not available on web services. There are however many similar highs. All credit to @rundradion.bsky.social

Still one of our all-time faves. ✊

2/ Releasing free data & maps of who owns the vast majority of land will enable greater public scrutiny of what goes on behind the barbed-wire fences that crisscross the countryside. The new Land Use Framework is an ambitious step towards making England a greener, fairer and more pleasant land.

the kindness of bluesky strangers saved my tuxedo cats' lives when i had nowhere else to turn i'm running the Great North Run to help other cats live good lives via @catsprotection.bsky.social, the UK's largest cat welfare charity — pls share & donate if you can thanks a bunch, from me & mine 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

A true British icon

I’ve written a bestselling book about it & still despair at everything described in this excellent thread.

wow! Rand Paul begins Markwayne Mullin's hearing by confronting him about comments he made describing Paul as a "freakin' snake" & "celebrating" Paul getting assaulted "I wonder if someone who applauds political violence is right to lead an agency that has struggled to accept proper use of force"

Alan Rusbridger will be talking us through this story on LBC at 12.30. www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-gb-news-...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social FYI

Forget about that Patrick guy. Today is also Saint Gertrude Day, the patron saint of cats.

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

“I thought it was lost,” my mom said. It is a vyshyvanka my grandmother embroidered more than 50 years ago for my mom. Now it is mine.

Can we get some Wikileaks or Anonymous to release the full and unredacted Epstein files? Or better yet, anyone credible with a shred of decency?

I'm so sick of this. I know it's been said a million times but NATO members have an obligation to assist each other if one of them is attacked, not to assist any member who launches a war. But if he wanted assistance for that he should've consulted them first. 1/2 www.france24.com/en/live-news...

There is one flaw in this analysis. Presenters are almost never ‘too busy’ to care about the quality & qualifications of a guest. Producers are. But many, many presenters simply don’t care and/or just want a guest to endorse their prejudices & camouflage their ignorance. It’s how Brexit etc happens

Farage has sold videos of himself endorsing a neo-Nazi event, repeating extremist slogans supporting a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot etc But don't worry Nige will be along in a moment to blame it all on the BBC, or Coutts, or refugees... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

If Paramount can shell out billions of dollars to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, then they can pay their unionized CBS staff a fair wage. I stand with the CBS staff who walked out today as they fight these corporate giants for essential protections and fair contracts.

Then we raised a glass to JFK And a dozen more besides When I got back to my empty room I suppose I must have cried... Happy Saint Patrick's day to all celebrating x

February 3, 2025:

NEW Somewhat unexpectedly, the US government has submitted an Article 51 letter to the UNSC articulating the US int'l law justification for attacking Iran. As someone who used to help draft these letters for the USG, I find the administration's legal arguments completely unconvincing. 1/n

Watch them pass this hot potato Reporter: How do you respond to attacks on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad? Trump [to Vance]: You—you want to answer that? Vance [shifts nervously]: Yeah—yeah. Marco, as Secretary of State, obviously has control over the embassy. Marco: [melts into couch]

🚨🚨 Alexander #Stubb is superbly on point about #brexit: " “I think Brexit was a colossal mistake,...“ But I do think it's not only shooting yourself in the foot, but it's like amputating your leg without medical reason for doing it.” www.politico.eu/article/finl...

It’s official: Nigel Farage will say anything to line his own pockets. He's not serious and simply not fit to be Prime Minister. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

What we have learned today. 1: there was no imminent threat (Head of the US Counter Terrorism Center) and 2: there was a viable offer from Tehran to accept tight controls on their nuclear programme (Jonathan Powell). Both from that much maligned species known as genuine experts. What a mess

Cheers to everyone who delayed fossil fuel phaseout by saying "you can't switch off fossil fuels overnight" Because thanks to them everyone now has to face a situation where fossil fuels are switched off overnight 🙃🙃🙃

Waiting to see how British media will report on the strong showing of left-wing candidates and the (nowhere to be seen) far right tsunami in the French local elections. My guess is that they won't.

Landed in London. The United Kingdom is one of Canada’s oldest, and most-trusted, partners. In a more uncertain world, we’re working closely together to create greater certainty, security, and prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic.

Palantir has no place in our NHS. The Labour government must get this Mandelson and Trump backed company out now. Listen to what health workers are saying. news.sky.com/story/nhs-ho...

These 52 people could have stopped a national and a world catastrophe any time they chose to. They confirmed Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, et al, okayed DOGE and tariffs, and green lighted Trump’s military attacks. The country and the world reels. Fifty-two people.

ZAKARIA: Trump compared you to PT Barnum. It seems he still has some resentment toward Ukraine and you personally ZELENSKYY: I don't know, Fareed. I'm looking just to the facts. What American bases need now are interceptors. It's our technology.

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: "We never asked for a ceasefire or negotiations. We are really to defend ourselves as long as it takes until President Trump comes to the point that this is an illegal war. There are people being killed only because President Trump wants to have fun."

If this war shows *anything* it’s how badly needed the transition to renewables is That that conversation has been largely absent from UK media while nonsense like this is published shows just how much the media ownership tail is now waging the dog

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com FYI fascinating but long and so much more than just AM-B! x.com/i/status/203...

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : "The White House put a video on social media that depicted this war as a video game… When 🇺🇸 service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries… it speaks to the moral rot of this administration." (H/T @atrupar.com )

objection your honor, my client is being brutally owned online

McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…

Superbugs resistant to antibiotics are rising fast. I tested water at Lough Neagh (40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water) & found high levels of antibiotic-resistant genes from human & livestock poo. If we treat waterways like sewers, this is what we get. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AGAIN. LARGE OXFORD BIOBANK DATA LEAK I do not find the CEO’s - Prof Sir Rory Collins - response in the slightest bit reassuring Pseudonymised data can be rehydrated “One dataset found by the Guardian contained millions of hospital diagnoses and associated dates for more than 400,000 participants.

Oh. Due process followed perfectly. The Tory politicians & client journalists lying desperately about all this were, of course, cheering & chuckling away when *two* of Boris Johnson’s ethics advisers resigned in disgust at his staggering contempt for ethics. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Hallucinatory” rather than “visionary” The conceit of these shallow rotten people.

'we should all be able to celebrate...the flags that represent the nations of our union'. Is it too much to expect the Education Secretary to add 'we abhor racism and will do all we can to make sure all children, whatever their colour or creed, feel safe'? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...