Choice Words is back with a new episode w/ Alex Wagner! We discuss her new podcast Runaway Country from @crooked.com, the current state of journalism, and why we just need 16 years with no bozos in the White House - is that too much to ask?

Motorola Solutions won a $7 million contract to modernize the emergency radio system in Kerr County, Texas. When a deadly flash flood swept through in July, emergency crews had trouble using it.

Let me help the investigation along: Chemtrails: not a thing, it is water vapor. Weather manipulation: Exists, but can't make huge controllable storms. There, saved the US a lot of money.

Can he get to the bottom of: -chupacabra -big foot -Bermuda Triangle -many Scooby Doo villains -is a a tomato a fruit -who shot JR -have the castaways on Gilligan’s island been rescued, or are they still there? -is James Comer Arnold the Pig? -and so much more I need to know!

Being a twat online and then saying 'I need to log-off', no - you needed to log off well before you showed your true colours.

Trump calls off federal deployment to San Francisco, mayor says reut.rs/4qnUZ4H

BREAKING: Israeli forces have carried out massive bombing operations southeast of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report from the ground. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oiwpck

Been back to my childhood village in Essex for a funeral. High Street is littered with tatty flags attached to every lamp post and telegraph pole, and by God, it looks awful. Everyone I spoke to hates them. So intimidating. Apparently- "Epping Forest council is scared of offending the nasties."

Blaming Democrats, Johnson won’t bring House back to pay air traffic controllers.

Forty-one aid organizations accuse Israel of 'arbitrarily' rejecting aid shipments into famine-struck Gaza.

Loch Ness monster next?

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said Donald Trump is calling off a deployment of federal forces to the city, less than 24 hours after reports that the White House was sending more than 100 border patrol officers

"Most Brits are pro-immigration, which is why a firm stance on irregular migration is so important. The small numbers are used to smear and demonise the larger proportion of legal migration." @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com

It started with Reagan and has accelerated under Trump.

So... Is Trump being shown AI slop of troops engaged in hand-to-hand combat with teens on the streets of D.C. or what? Because that's not *actually* happening. Read more: interc.pt/3LdDdko ✍️ @nickturse.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

Apple loses UK class action lawsuit over ‘excessive’ App Store charges on.ft.com/4o7tRFH

There were zero Kristi Noem videos at the San Diego airport. 💙❤️

Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, was working at a construction site in coastal Alabama when ICE agents tried to take him to the ground as he yelled, “I’m a citizen!” They held him handcuffed for more than an hour and dismissed his REAL ID as fake. Two weeks later, he wrongfully held by ICE agents again.

"If Trump decided to bulldoze the entire White House complex, pave it over, and move the seat of executive power permanently to Camp David, or Mar-a-Lago, or Moscow, could he do that?" We do in fact have to ask this. Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/of-kings-a...

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

Updating my LEGO White House

If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

Excellent. I've long said that Gripen is the plane they need. Not F16

Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity

Or: does the sound of a concrete tree falling over in an empty forest make a sound?

The East Wing Obscenity This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that

"Steve Bannon bragged about helping secure an early prison release for confessed mafia hitman Vito Guzzo because he is 'the single biggest Trump fan you’ve ever seen.'" www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-gran...

Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"

“The clearest sign of state failure is not that Trump won the presidency a second time, but that he was allowed to run in the first place. There was no meaningful prosecution for severe crimes committed in plain sight...”

We have just over two weeks to pass Prop 50. And when we do, it will send a message of hope across the country, that change is possible if we do the work. So, let’s get to it. linktr.ee/cadem

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

Where is Chris Rufo and all the culture warriors who went nuclear on the proposed Cracker Barrel rebrand? I think we can safely say WHITE is their favorite color and this is the past home of several famous slaveholders. Clearly the White House is a historic monument that must be defended, right?

Donald Trump is building a ballroom twice the size of the White House. He says it’s “his money,” but it’s really from companies chasing favors. Meanwhile, farmers can’t sell soybeans and the government’s shut down. This isn’t what Americans voted for.

Thank you, everyone! 🐻

In 1972, Idi Amin expelled Uganda’s Asian community in the name of culture. In 2025, a British MP is using the same language to justify removing lawful residents. Don’t say it can’t happen here.

How in the world would it ever be justified to have a damned "guided missile warhead" for work largely related to immigration?! What?!

Hahahahahahaha! Hahahahahahahahaha! Hahahahaha! Hacked, he says! Oh deary, deary me. Pull the other one.

Especially gays - and there's usually a very good reason that involves cupboards and hiding.

This is Ramrod our lab having gone crazy in our living room. You can see the guilt. However he claims he was hacked by another dog. He has apologised & promised that he has taken steps to ensure that his future canine security is enhanced. The other photo is of Mike Graham.😉

Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.

The White House said on Tuesday it will submit plans for President Donald Trump's $250 million White House ballroom project to a body that oversees federal building construction, even though demolition work began earlier this week reut.rs/4ndTcfL

“Trump is going to steal $230M in taxpayer dollars by having his DOJ pay him a settlement for his legal trouble. Watch.” @muellershewrote.com bsky.app/profile/muel... bsky.app/profile/madd... bsky.app/profile/gtco...

Tear down this ball(room). Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...

One of the best parts of writing a book is getting to discuss it in public conversations & share ideas with the audience. Hope you’ll read Giving Up Is No Excuse:A Manual For Keeping A Democracy. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/801635...

Lovely weather here in Pyongyang.

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.