"I still don't understand the fuss about ID cards". No, no, you don't. So we may as well stop there and move on to a different topic...

Folks, is it good when the government starts asking institutions for "lists of Jews"? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We’ve just secured the largest amount of offshore wind in any auction ever in Britain - enough to power the equivalent of 12 million homes. In Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 the first offshore wind project in three years has been successful - a landmark moment demonstrating our commitment to the whole of the UK.

One huge error with HS2 was framing it as about the ‘S’ - speed. It was and should be about capacity. And the midlands and the north need greater rail capacity.

Trump has bet on oil instead of new technology and no amount of tariffs can hold back the competition when you do that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Put a 3-minute limit on VAR - if they can't find sufficient evidence to overturn an on-field decison within that time, then it's not a clear and obvious error... #theFootball

Mask off.

Let's remind ourselves of what was promised in 2018 for £70bn of new east-west high speed lines across the north, thanks to far superior reporting to what we're seeing today: www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

I was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!

Proud Boys leader Tarrio found on the leaked list of ICE officers.

People aren’t talking enough about how the “agents” are intentionally giving mixed directions to people. Go! Get out of the car! Keep moving! I said out of the car! They’re intentionally confusing them so someone can claim they’re not following orders (because they can’t follow conflicting ones) /1

Th NYT got its hands on Grand Jury testimony from GA in which top Republicans mock and express disgust at Trump’s stolen election claims. 🎁 gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Also, we should take responsibility for the code we submit regardless of how it was generated, and part of the review process helps me gain enough confidence to make that decision.

Chart admirably demonstrating the climate trend It's leading to record wildfires, floods, rising seas, extreme storms & typhoons, harvest failures And whilst the tech is around to curtail the problem, humanity, right now, just isn't doing so www.ft.com/content/e995...

Wow. She plays a long game

Maybe now the UK can find the courage to act?

Oh here we go again. This will surprise nobody.

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

Scenes that Farage and Badenoch want to bring to the UK.

...such radicalisation is, unfortunately, likely to be a necessary (but not sufficient) condition if they want to have lives of joy and meaning.

I bet this is all an elaborate scheme to land an interview with Pete Hegseth

WATCH: Trump shows his middle finger and appears to say "fuck you" after Ford worker yells "pedophile protector" - TMZ

What's behind Keir Starmer's digital ID U-turn? Bit from me on the govt thinking behind this big change www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Shouldn't all of our politicians be at least as ethical?

The National Crime Agency should launch a criminal investigation into Elon Musk and X. We cannot stand by and wait for him to do the right thing while people are being abused and exploited.

Musk now whinging that Starmer hasn’t posted on his sewer for a few days. No longer defending free speech, but wants forced speech

He needs turning off and on again. Wait. Skip the second bit.

President Trump, "I say, Make Iran Great Again" "It was a great country until these monsters came and took it over" ChatGPT: The CIA with Britain’s MI6 openly admits it helped overthrow Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953

Oopsies "A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department."

Watching Semenyo score for City and wondering if his arrival at the Etihad might mean Marmoush is available... #nffc tried to sign him before, might be a more fun option than Strand Larsen?

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

If I'm Welsh and I've got the opportunity to reject both the status quo AND the far right then you better damn believe that I'd be taking it too...

After ten years asleep, Rogan briefly opens his eyes.

From the always prescient @davidneiwert.bsky.social: "This is what the opening stages of a civil war look like. And Americans are deluding themselves if they don’t want to believe that this is what is befalling them."

this is wildly illegal and the courts will rule it such, but congressional democrats should be thinking long and hard about the terms under which they will agree to continue funding this government

Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, "Now we are faced with a geopolitical crisis, and if we have to choose between the USA and Denmark here and now, we will choose Denmark" "We choose NATO" "We choose the Kingdom of Denmark" "We choose the EU"

This really is *not* some finely balanced debate about freedom of speech.

New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis. The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.

Unfortunately McSweeney's "hero voters" don't live in those rather large red zones and so the jury is still out.

the one silver lining of Bari’s tenure at CBS is that she is Very Online and she knows exactly how much we mock everything she does keep it up, folks

I would LOVE to stop following, commenting on, and being horrified by, American politics. But the same forces that inflicted Trump on the US are trying their damndest to inflict their poisonous philosophies on the UK and so we cannot simply ignore the horrors over the water...

Trump Praises Anti-Authoritarian Protests Overseas, Reminds Americans That Protesting at Home is Punishable by Death

They can feel it slipping away

They're doubling down on the attempt to create an alternative reality that contradicts all video footage. This will not end well - for anyone.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more: www.404media.co/police-unmas...

Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll: 46% support abolishing ICE 43% oppose abolishing ICE This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support

Perhaps one of the most clear examples you could ever hope to see of the media "both sides"ing an issue unnecessarily. Given the level of coverage provided to the far right to defend X, would you guess that *97%* of folks think CSAM factories should not be allowed? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...

Absolutely normal for a democracy to ban museum exhibitions that express “improper ideology”. And in no way reminiscent of either Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy or totalitarian Communist Soviet Union.

A number of people on this platform are willing to tie themselves up in all kinds of sophistry to try and avoid acknowledging the faults and bad choices of this government. Even when lives are at stake.