Hello! It's been an age Bluesky pals. Are people still on here? I'm attempting to spend a little less time on SM atm. Last year one of my closest pals, Keith (JD Twitch) shuffled off this mortal coil.. I made a 'Peace Mix' tribute for NTS radio. www.nts.live/shows/peace-...

🔴 NEW: Israel has authorized the use of electronic tracking devices on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, allowing real-time surveillance of civilians placed under administrative movement restrictions, a new IDF directive states. It applies to civilians who have not been charged, tried, or...

"Hernández boasted that he would 'stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses' while trafficking more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. "Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

i am really happy to see this statement from the ED of the most important professional organization of international lawyers/academics in the united states. very proud to be associated with it and i hope it gets wide attention, b/c there is no question: the attack on venezuela violates int'l law.

The hunger strikes continue. The following people are on hunger strike: Day 64: Heba Muraisi. Day 58: Teuta Hoxha. Day 57: Kamran Ahmed. Day 43: Lewie Chiaramello. Parliament House, Edinburgh, 12 January from 9am. Against genocide, solidarity hunger strikers www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

another must read by @chrischirp.bsky.social - the data vis of the timeline of U.S. authoritarian actions building up the operation to capture Maduro is chilling and really puts this into perspective. The sugarcoating and international apathy has to stop, it's not like we didn't know it was coming..

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

Sky News playing footage of a damaged Venezuelan apartment as their correspondent makes his report. But no mention of how the apartment was damaged, who was responsible, and who was killed. I guess these are things we don't need to know.

I think Trump’s doctors have been undertaking the wrong sort of psychometric tests:

BREAKING: An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.

Good discussion on the New World Order here ⬇️ www.aljazeera.com/video/inside...

If you think of what all this chaos means for EU/UK industry: for derisking means make sure you have alternatives to what comes from the US and China. Because if the US annexes Greenland all economic bets should be off.

It’s all rushin back now

Gang of Four / Not Great Men youtu.be/rz6CFChd01s?...

Breaking news: US secretary of state Marco Rubio has laid out a series of demands that Washington expects Venezuela’s remaining rulers to meet, saying it would weigh its next steps with Caracas based on whether the conditions were met ft.trib.al/4P0bFvH

Just to make this quite clear: the legal assessment of the US intervention is not complex - it is clearly illegal. However, assessing what can and should be done as well as possible fallout (Greenland, Ukraine) is.

Excellent

I'm not a diplomat, but one thing I have to do regularly is to draft or help to draft public statements that parties to litigation agree as part of a settlement. There is an art to drafting something that reasonable readers can agree is clear but from which they draw irreconcilable meanings. /1

I wrote this only last week, after saying that Trump seems about to wage war on Venezuela. It seems pretty relevant to what transpired today. UK and Europe *must* reduce our dependence on America and its technologies as rapidly as we can. christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...

“The shock lies in his readiness to “run” a sovereign country of almost 30mn people. The last time the US tried this was after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. That turned into a Vietnam-style quagmire. Trump made a lot of hay ever since in promising never to repeat George W Bush’s forever wars..”

Rodriguez's main messages were that Maduro is still President of Venezuela, and that the government will not yield to the US' attempt to take over its oil resources. Again, no indication at all that she's collaborating with Washington, which Trump indicated was the case earlier today.

Rodriguez: "Together, the Venezuelan people will find a peaceful way forward. Those who use violence and violate international law are in the wrong (...) We call on other nations to stand united, because what happened today in Venezuela can happen anywhere"

democrats need to introduce a resolution disapproving trump's aggression and directing him to withdraw US forces. here's a draft. it's not rocket science.

can't believe the guy whose entire political philosophy revolves around domination would turn out to be a hawk

“Key to all of this is understanding that US companies are explicitly going to be used to enforce US national security interests. And that includes the US technology companies that are at the heart of our national infrastructure and embedded into our everyday lives.”

"How Europe and “the west” responds to Trump now and the actions that governments take downstream from that is going to set the path for 2026. Because Trump isn’t just a rogue, out-of-control president, America is a rogue state. And the longer we fail to acknowledge that, the more danger we are in."

Good that Gen Z gets to experience what Iraq was like for older generations, but somehow dumber.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

How does the Green Party suggest we divest from US big tech? Microsoft, Palantir, even Bluesky is US owned. Same problem across Europe. Our infrastructure is dependent, tracked, monitored.

nobody from the trump admin will be hauled to the hague at least for this, but (a) that doesn't make the act any less criminal and (b) the whole notion of combating aggression was at the center of the creation of the UN Charter. congress has an int'l responsibility to stop illegal war.

this is a war of aggression. it is illegal under international law, and he has no right to launch it. you might fairly argue that it none of that has constrained him, but laws matter when powerful actors insist they do, and there are powerful actors who could start insisting they do.

‘The Gaza genocide radicalised the world - and there’s no going back. People can't unsee a live-streamed annihilation defended under the banner of liberal democracy. They know the Israeli apartheid regime can no longer exist.’

State of Israel accuses _______ [fill in random name] of antisemitism Every time this accusation undermines genuine attempts at tackling the coloniality at the root of all racism, everywhere. Emptying antisemitism of content repeatedly like this is genuinely dangerous for challenging racism

Why is this not headline news across the globe? If Putin said this about Ukraine, rightly there would be condemnations galore plus rolling news. Yet when it's the Palestinians.... Silence. It is unbearable witnessing this Western hypocrisy.

Police are probing a late-night break-in at a Scottish aerospace factory which saw Palestine activists attack machinery with hammers ⬇️

And BBC R4 insisting on two siding this giving equal weight to lies that are coming out of Netanyahus genocidal mouth.

These two legends youtu.be/CT4WwpLPWsw?...

Unbelievable we are watching these young people dying before us for protesting our government’s active and continued participation in genocide. Heba is on day 60 of her hunger strike & will likely die. Cannot even begin to articulate the contempt I have for Starmer, Lammy, Cooper, Streeting et al

At the beach

A New Year message from Bisan Owda www.instagram.com/reel/DS8GMwK...

🔴 Major INGOs barred from Gaza for refusing to help Israel build a kill list Israel has moved to block 37 international NGOs from operating in Gaza after they refused to hand over names & addresses of local staff. The reason is obvious: Israel has repeatedly used such information to target and...

Rest in peace you absolute legend of an artist

“The vast majority of these patients are dying slowly and quietly in their tents and will never actually even be known that they died this way.” — Dr. Feroze Sidhwa spoke w/ Drop Site abt Israel’s medical siege on Gaza & how it's crushing the hopes of... Clip below👇🏼. Full podcast out shortly.

It was the ‘Human Rights Lawyer’ participating in Genocide that did it for me.

Israel kills doctors then bans international Doctors Without Borders Israel kills children then bans Save the Children www.savethechildren.net/news/save-ch... www.thenational.scot/news/2573097...

“The real target is not aid, but advocacy. Israel is moving to silence and erase the last international voices speaking for Palestinians.”

— There were an estimated 20,000–25,000 Hamas fighters before October 7, 2023. — Netanyahu said Tuesday there now remain 20,000 Hamas fighters. 🔴 On December 30, 2025 after Israel annihilated all of Gaza and massacred at least 80,000 Palestinians.

Need to remember, there is a purpose to indoor training in the winter: it’s called FUN! Tho does absolutely nothing for bike handling skills…