The Bell smashing it again by taking the time to bring out the human stories and local history that bigger news headlines are rooted in.

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

They should stop in the first safe country they pass through

This should be read as a companion piece to the Vittles article about the shittiness underpinning Jamie Oliver's campaigning on school meals. www.ft.com/content/9589...

This should be read as a companion piece to the FT article about Jamie's Italian. It's more important to read this one though.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Very very worth a read, this packs in a wealth of horrible detail and treats it with the disgust and contempt it deserves.

Come friendly bombs, and fall on this

When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project

Amazing idea, and that name! Bravo! 🧪

It's giving "Mormons retroactively converting Anne Frank"

wow and the missile just did that? by itself? that's crazy

My hairdresser and friend opened her business last week. Tonight it burned to the ground. This is devastating. I’ve set up a fundraiser. If you haven’t done anything for international women’s day yet, here’s a chance to support a women-run business in need: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9nhn...

It is truly incredible that with a conflagration on this scale, nobody was killed or even injured. I think it's worth taking a minute to think about the systems and people that made that happen.

A map of the many burnings of Glasgow's historic buildings www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-fi...

Was only a matter of time, but the cupola has gone.

‘You couldn’t treat any other group in our society — Jew, Muslim, Black, white, disabled — the way we’re being treated. Because it’s discriminatory. Apart from anything else, it’s deeply uncivilised.’ Chotiner could not have done this better than @henrymance.ft.com has www.ft.com/content/ab4d...

This is the building we're currently losing

Why did this have to be one of the four days a year in Glasgow when it doesn't fucking rain?

Footage as the fire next to Glasgow Central station spreads. Follow LIVE updates: www.heraldscotland.com/news... 𝘝𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘖: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵

Thinking tonight of the firefighters and their families, and everyone whose job obliges them to be there for the rest of this long, cold night breathing in a toxic mess of smoke and fumes.

"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."

It is an irrefutable fact that many lighthouse workers recorded in history were male. Yet the sisters, wives and daughters of keepers did so much more than merely assist in emergencies. 🌟 Learn more about female Lighthouse Keepers of the UK and US 👉 hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/sto...

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Chat, is this real? (But I'm asking a French cat and it pretends not to understand with Gallic insouciance.)

Mate that's the last thing they want, get that green light switched off ffs share.google/VHksu1nb0alj...

“Who could take that kind of commander-in-chief seriously?” as.ft.com/r/c0061b12-d...

It is not quite true that Stratford International has never seen an international train: it sees them rather a lot. What is true, however, is that they don’t stop. Not once; not ever. What, you might wonder, the hell? open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/w...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

"I was hoping people would understand. My mind was saying: These people have seen the film. They will know I can’t help this. They will know it’s not me." Q&A with John Davidson which helps cut through all the hot takes about Tourette's. variety.com/2026/film/aw...

NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by @professorshaw.bsky.social for @thenerve.news which starts with ‘Yachtgate’, Mandelson’s 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

Gone With The Muppets

The answer: Epstein's friends and collaborators knew, and they were complicit. [Despite the barrel-loads of excuses and claims they "never witnessed or participated in any misconduct," et cetera ad nauseum. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

This series is the best gentle British magical realism. Check it out.

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

YOU MUST DO YOUR STRETCHES TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

Children need their families. Refugee children are no different. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

This is an important piece to revisit now and then although it will not make you feel any better about things.

I really want people to check in with the organizations that have been pushing back on surveillance for 10+ years. Just to be blunt, there are a lot of folks who realized yesterday that surveillance is bad and many are suggesting well-intentioned but misguided strategies for fighting it talk to us

Britain's high streets will be one of the key electoral battlegrounds for months and years to come. Reform UK are making big advances in towns suffering the greatest high street decline. Big piece from one multibillionaire-owned town centre in County Durham: www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

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2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?

A fistbump across the centuries to this one monk writing a stroppy text about his boss.

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

White Americans keep looking to 1930s Germany for lessons on authoritarianism, but they ignore Black Americans who have survived it here. Slavery, Jim Crow, and racialized state violence are forms of American authoritarianism.

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

I vote we call things like this "a toothcomb" I find them kinda delightful tbh.