This federal officer being assaulted by Trump supporters was the only person in the picture below who didn't get a pardon.

If what you wanted this morning was to hear a #RakuLang program¹ playing the Amen Break forever* then I've got you sorted: thisisnotpopradio.co.uk:8000/stream ¹ github.com/Raku-Noise-G... * (or until I want to use the thing for something else.)

Trump's Davos speech had to be hastily rewritten as he thought he was going to meet Davros. However, Davros has agreed to join Trump's Board of War. All's well that ends well.

If there was one "smart" feature I would like in a washing machine it would be that it could warn me that I left one sock in there when I took the stuff out to dry. "AI" not required.

Europeans are rightfully angry. "We've never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them." Trump made that remark about NATO allies in Afghanistan in Davos. "They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines."

If what you wanted this morning was to hear a #RakuLang program¹ playing the Amen Break forever* then I've got you sorted: thisisnotpopradio.co.uk:8000/stream ¹ github.com/Raku-Noise-G... * (or until I want to use the thing for something else.)

In other news, I was inadvertently racist at school, I inadvertently lied about my house purchase to avoid tax and inadvertently led a party that was infiltrated by Russia.

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Perhaps Nigel Farage would like to explain to the families of British soldiers killed in Iraq why he’s such a good pal of Donald ‘bonespurs’ Trump?

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call: - 453 Britons - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards “Stayed a little back, off the front lines “! No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

Greenland, Iceland someone tell him the one he really wants is “the rich, fertile land just a bit to the south of Vinland” and maybe we can still get out of this

“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.” “What does it do?” “We were hoping you could tell us.”

When you haven’t quite learned to share yet… These are the kind of antics you can expect from #Winterwatch. Tonight we’ve got biofluorescent slugs, badgers, dolphins are more – what a treat. 🎥: BBC Winterwatch

I’m still gutted that Ed wasn’t made Foreign Secretary. We could have had Chagos with Ed Milliband.

Your Afternoon #TimelineCleanser .. Here, Have Some Golden Retriever Puppies.

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Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable

TACO Trump strikes again.

These news organizations really need to move reporters from the organized crime beat over to cover Trump because clearly political reporters don’t understand obvious threats.

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I mean it's probably nothing but there's an RAF Poseidon doing circuits over Lakenheath and Mildenhall. www.flightradar24.com/FALCN03/3e00... 🤣

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

Reminder that Farage's friend, whose donation to him here was initially undeclared, is a convicted fraudster

It's possible that Faisal Islam is the only BBC journalist who isn't trying to sane-wash Trump.

In other news, the Guardian is now running scam ads. This is what happens when you choose to data harvest your readers with surveillance adtech & run shitty programmatic ads…a literal fake BBC news report (starring @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com) embedded into an actual news report

From our "he would say that wouldn't he?" correspondent. The LLM-bros completely depend on cornering the market on the computing resources required in order to achieve a segmented monopoly.

US Speaker Mike Johnson has been sent to win Britain over. But can he hear the words coming out of his own mouth? My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/calm...

Zaporizhzhya police have urged Ukrainians to care for stray animals during severe frost and have begun letting cats and dogs into their police stations themselves

📌 ICYMI — How Neo-Nazis Posing as ‘Ordinary Parents’ Embedded Themselves in Anti-Immigrant Protests A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/how-neo-nazis-posing-as-ordinary-parents-embedded-themselves-in-anti-immigrant-protests/

"Good Tsar, bad boyars" in other words.

It's time to remind people again of the principle of Trump's Razor: if all else is equal, the stupidest possible explanation is the most likely.

While Denmark is no match for the US in military terms, it does hold legal title to Greenland, along with the right to the self-determination of the local population.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

This had better be on every Labour leaflet between now and 2029.

Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:

Ukrainian businesses have joined the #WarmTheAnimals initiative and started allowing stray dogs and cats into their premises

1/ So, should the EU retaliate against Trump's Greenland tariff threats? There are roughly three schools of thought, each progressively more interesting than the last. A brief tour through the logic of escalation and deterrence: 🧵

We must protect these people with everything. 🥲 🇬🇱 🇪🇺

1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

Just a reminder that as of now, Iran is still run by cruel theocrats, Venezuela is still run by far-left socialists, Russia is still run by a destructive dictatorship, and Ukraine is still run by a vibrant democracy.

It was the United States that chose to scale down it’s military presence in Greenland in past decades. #FactsMatter

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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.