Why is no one talking about the complete lack of evidence that these boats were involved in drug running anyway? And if they were, would it not made much better sense to capture the crew and interrogate them in order to learn more about the operation?

Anyone in the chain of command leading from Whiskey Pete on downwards needs to consider their position very carefully: www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1... The offence was killing survivors clinging to wreckage

I’ve just given to the independent news provider, Common Dreams, in the interests of keeping such sources alive: mailchi.mp/commondreams... If you feel as I do, please consider sharing and donating

I get useful summaries of US news from @hcrichardson.bsky.social, @aaronparnas.substack.com.web.brid.gy, @meidastouch.com etc. Are there in the any comparable sources reporting on UK or European news?

jujuliagrace.substack.com/p/why-doesnt... “But beyond the uninspiring interviews and robotic speeches, something else is lacking too. Starmer managed to recruit an enormous number of new MPs, but absolutely none of them stand out.” Deliberately excluding political dissenters? Jamie Driscoll, anyone?

“They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain. An organization that fought abortion rights in the United States is now an unlikely conduit between MAGA Republicans and Britain’s ascendant Reform U.K. party.” Why unlikely? Farage has been part of Trump’s circle for many years

Being a naturalised US citizen, I actually did take an oath to America. In it, I promised to uphold something called the Constitution. What follows?

You don't understand! If we brought them back for trial, some lefty woke anti-American judge and jury might conclude that there was no evidence that they were handling drugs anyway. Then where would we be?

Oh FFS is he still sharing that….well yes I am! Though 100k secures an outing in Westminster Halls it needs more to be a proper noise!!! To get to 100k so fast is outstanding…keep sharing! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

ICE will of course ignore this ruling. What happens next?

Does whiskey Pete Hegseth really fail to understand that this statement is a total admission of guilt? Or does he simply not care about the fact that ordering the killing of individuals who at the time pose no threat is a breach of international law and conventions, and US domestic and military law?

I as a Jew living in Scotland am deeply dismayed when people who claim to speak in my name equate support for Palestinian aspirations with anti-Semitism

Signed, shared here and on Facebook, forwarded to friends. Now at 90,000 signatures. 100,000 signatures makes it eligible for parliamentary debate

My American friends, your tax dollars at work

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w... In the UK, the Crown Prosecution Service says that prosecutions for the 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster are unlikely before 2026

"White House declares all of Trumps orders to military are legal" has exactly the same force as "White House declares the moon is made of green cheese." Though I really fear that the dotard-in-chief doesn't see it that way newrepublic.com/post/203628/...

I bet the Orange Bonespur and the Makeup Artist don't even know that

Signed, shared here and on Facebook, forwarded to friends

This in today: www.nsl4a.org/nsl4a-announ...

My UK friends: in the light of the Nathan Gill affair, Russian influence in supporting Brexit, the increasingly blatant Trump-Putin axis, and ongoing current investigations, I regard this as extremely urgent. If you agree, please sign and share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

So if you're wondering when ICE would start directly sabotaging the electoral process, the answer is, right now

This invites the question, whether such brutal conditions are constitutional, under the 8th Amendment. The dehumanising of inmates has been going on for a long time. But given how the regime treats the 4th Amendment (requirements for issuing warrants)…

We have all seen what ICE officials are doing to U.S. citizens — yes, U.S. citizens — in our nation’s cities. As disgraceful as their behavior is, I [Mark Elias] have urged you before to imagine what happens when they turn their focus to interfering in elections. Well, the time has come.

aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-t... We now have a President preparing to prosecute a sitting Democratic senator for warning service members not to obey illegal orders. “The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance

www.propublica.org/article/paul.... YET AGAIN, WHITE HOUSE, TRIES TO PROTECT THE DIRTIEST OF MEN -- THIS TIME THE TATE BROTHERS WOMEN OF AMERICA -- AND THE WORLD -- FIGHT BACK. BE FIERCE IN YOUR FIGHT. #MeToo didn't shut it down. What will????

While al Qaeda was armed by the US government to attack the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, despite warnings in the New York Times as early as 1988 that they would be as opposed to the US as they were to the USSR

While we are all talking about the Epstein files and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s antics and the price of turkeys and how Mamdani has managed to charm Trump, Trump is doing to Ukraine what Chamberlain did to Czechoslovakia: 1/2

Yes, it’s already happening; ICE being used to interfere with the electoral process: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

My local U3A had the good sense to cancel meetings two weeks before Boris Johnson acted: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

If, like me, you think Starmer needs to be placed as soon as possible, I can immediately think of two people (the other one is the Home Secretary) who would almost certainly be worse: jujuliagrace.substack.com/p/starmer-an...

There is no way to soften this moment. A sitting president is threatening to kill members of Congress because they released a video reminding U.S. service members of the most basic principle in military law: you must not follow unlawful orders… the military lawyer overseeing operations concluded 1/2

Is there any mention of "Eat out to help out,"in August 2020, before any vaccine was available, which must certainly, and predictably (I even predicted myself) have caused a considerable large number of deaths? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Out...

And of course, another Russian attack will follow in due course, just as 2022 followed the 2014 seizure of Crimea and part of the Donbas... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Indeed. The mid-20th century creationist revival allied itself with US conservatism from the outset: 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Just when you thought they couldn't do anything to make things worse…

Today’s prize euphemism: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/w...

Not only that, but he is going to do his best to make sure he doesn't accidentally dismember any more. Isn't that good enough for you?

Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2

Refugee Council response to UK Govt’s proposed changes (please don’t call them “reforms”): www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/press-office... Will help no one, will make it more difficult for incomers to contribute, and will require an expensive bureaucratic apparatus that (mercifully) does not as yet exist

More right wing rubbish from “Labour”: theconversation.com/the-uk-gover... The only people who can replace the present leadership are the backbenchers. Time for them to do their duty

From Mark Elliott, Professor of Public Law, Cambridge publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t... tl;dr Labour’s proposed new procedures for handling asylum claims involve granting officials discretionary powers incompatible with the rule of law. And then it gets worse

And let's also stop pretending that he's competent

And Mahmood is a barrister specialising in professional indemnity law. So she can't pretend she doesn't know what she's doing

Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say." But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question

Why are we even surprised at Trump defending Tucker Carlson’s interview of Nick Fuentes, when Trump had Fuentes to dinner himself, together with Kanye West: www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/u...

And maybe it is time for them to write, as I have, to their MP if Labour, saying they can no longer tolerate the present leadership and its deluded belief that it can disarm Reform by stealing their clothes

In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...

This is huge. If the military leadership is beginning to question Trump, that is surely the beginning of the end: aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-growi...