This is the story of how democracy died.

I guess we know why they cover their faces now

I fkn hate football. #LUFC #MOT

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GOOGLE, AGREE TO SETTLE LAWSUIT CLAIMING AI CHATBOT LED TO TEENAGER'S SUICIDE - COURT FILING

Breaking: Women's Aid Ireland will no longer maintain a presence on X from tomorrow. @womensaidireland.bsky.social

Fifty million Brits had a Covid vaccine. The speed at which they were developed is one of the success stories of the last 25 years. Farage took to the airwaves today to say they were not real vaccines. This might be a popular view in the MAGA movement, but it's not where the British public is.

A new note on my child's Clacton nursery app today: They're going to stop leaving free surplus food for parents in need (a mini food bank) by the door because there's a new fridge to keep things fresh for longer. 'Please take what you like but consider others, so that everyone who needs to can.'

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

Sadly, Badenoch is right (at least partially). Our defence spending is now ludicrously low given this new Trumpian anti NATO era we have walked into. #PolioticsLive #PMQs

She walked mouth first into that one. #Badenoch #PMQs #PoliticsLive

Ngl, it's both disconcerting and highly surprising that Badenoch has started to sound vaguely competent at #PMQs #PoliticsLive

Presumably the Trump crime family insist on having a little taste of that delicious charity money.

Sorry, I also need soft two ply loo roll.

Indeed the 'fraud' and 'shirker' argument was being pressed by Labour ministers and the PM. Depressing.

At least a week late, but better late than never, I guess. #Grok #ChildAbuse #r4today #CSAM

Now a US president can simply share security secrets with Russia without consequences. Amazing how times change. #Trump #PutinsPuppet #r4today

Oh. #r4today #Venezuela

Have I accidentally tuned into A Book at Bedtime? #r4today

Trump's "Somali fraud" line was always a purely racist attack, but this short clip from Mehdi Hasan really drives the point home. #r4today

Given all we know about Trump, & this regime in particular, does anyone seriously believe whether something is legal or not plays any part in their decision making? He & his cronies have immunity either directly bestowed by the craven SCOTUS or in Trump's pardon power. This is the result. #r4today

So Capitol Police officers were assaulted and injured on Jan 6th, the White House today is blaming them for the violence, and the people who attacked them have been pardoned and are back to mock and abuse them on the 5th anniversary. And the GOP is the party of the police? Really? REALLY??

Is Schumer going to write a very strong letter?

Things are going well between Dan and his old friends.

Warnings were clear 2015-20, & the UK/EU should have at least started thinking then. As it became more obvious Trump could win in 2024, minds should have been extremely focused on preparing for the worst. It really doesn't look like any European leaders made any defensive preparations at all.

Many Americans can't afford to travel (or don't have sufficient leave from work to do so, or even benefits); even when they do, they think travel is more expensive and daunting than it is. I think this is intentional. When you leave the US, you realize how bad things really are here.

Just ban the nazi childporn site. If the owner wasnt a billionaire it would already be banned. Its pathetic this making excuses just because people are insanely rich

When it comes to the reason Donald Trump wants to discredit the BBC, maybe we've all been looking in the wrong direction. #Panorama #Epstein #ChildRape #C4News

Can't wait - love this show. #ThePitt

Sheesh. I use twitter to search my old 250k+ tweets for information. At some point, I assume very recently, Musk changed the search algorithm so that when looking for my own tweets that include specific words, other people's posts (that include my search terms) appear interspersed with my own.

JUST IN: Wyoming top court throws out abortion bans, keeping the procedure legal reut.rs/49nEEFt

“By the Tax Justice Network's assessment, France is already losing $14 billion a year to tax cheating US firms, Germany is losing $16 billion and the UK is losing $9 billion. Today’s bending of the knee to Trump will cost countries billions more.” www.msn.com/en-us/money/... #UNTaxConvention

Starmer would win both the election, and the Rejoin vote. It's the only way I'd ever consider voting Labour in 2029. Sadly,this is all fantasy politics. He has neither the vision nor the balls. #BrexitReality

Welcome to 2026, where Reform UK candidates have psychic pet pigs. Perfectly normal.

Those of us outside of the US are going to have to do more of this, and if we don't do it willingly, our govts will need to start forcing change upon us. The mass take-up of US based technologies has created massive national security risks throughout Europe & the RoW. We must change. #r4today

Trump's narcissism is really quite something.

Put otherwise: a world of countries behaving themselves, trading, and just more or less getting along should be the goal. In the long run, everyone wins in a world of boring, boring abundance.

The talk of the international law stuff is incredibly important in these matters, but it's also very much worth saying that the resource claim is nonsense. You are not rich because of resources. You are rich because of lots of people and machines and ideas working in concert across space and time.

This is important not just because it's true, but because it gives the lie to the idea that conquest is security. Stable institutions are WILDLY more valuable than any amount of undiscovered resources in, let's say, Greenland.

What's the source of wealth? Human capital, institutions, knowledge. You can convince yourself that this matters more simply by looking at your laptop, which is largely made of cheap stuff, along with a tiny bit of gold, neodymium, etc. The value is in the pattern and the ability to construct it.

This is a) right but also b) imv the funniest thing about the Tories going 'Kemi is doing better' - they literally *cannot* conceive of 'some Labour governments are better than others', so her pulling 'a point ahead in some polls' is being treated as a major achievement.

But how would the UK's nuclear submarine fleet receive their orders?

They don't believe it because it is a fkn lie. Trans people, and those that support them, will be abused and, some will be violently attacked as a direct result of what Trump is saying in this clip. Fuck that guy. #TransRights #bbcpm

No, Kemi Badenoch, the US has not walked away from the World Trade Organization, not even "more or less". It has disrupted dispute settlement and Trump's tariffs violate WTO rules, but the US is active in much of the WTO's regular work and it has paid its contribution to the budget. #BBCR4Today

Is Trump going to play by the rules? No! Is everyone going to let him? Yes, they’ll change the rules so he doesn’t have to! https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/us-exemption-oecd-global-tax-deal-multinational-companies

People rightly think the AI bubble bursting is going to be catastrophic, but look around the markets right now, there's an absolute madness with a wall of money just punting around any old horseshit trade. The next crash is going to be devastating, and guess who will end up paying? #Bitcoin #ETF

I wrote to my MP about this today and any other Brits out there can do the same. Kthxbye

“During the Brexit referendum, supporters of staying in the EU who warned of severe consequences if Britain left were accused of running a “Project Fear” campaign of bogus claims. The survey found that most voters now believe the grim forecasts were right” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Amzingly hilarious. #DunningKruger

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason