NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

Rumor is, the general was pissed about Hegseth dismissing the charges on the two helicopter pilots who did the fly by at Kid Rocks for Brains house and because he spoke up he is being fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Hegseth has never shown a willingness to explain himself to the public, nor has he demonstrated the character required to take that kind of responsibility. Maybe his latest victims can step forward and tell American citizens what is going on in Hegseth’s Pentagon. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The real reason for the Artemis II mission revealed... Today's cartoon by Enrico Bertuccioli. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #Epstein #Trump #ArtemisII

Reuters: ‘STRAIT OF HORMUZ WILL BE CLOSED 'LONG TERM' TO U.S. AND ISRAEL, IRANIAN MILITARY SPOKESPERSON SHEKARCHI SAYS’

Well, anyone left in DOJ who wants to talk, I’m on Signal at crg.32 Seriously, reach out. Would love to know what’s actually happening inside today. And at U.S. Attorney’s Offices. WSJ:

THE NEWS AGENTS Jon Sopel & Emily Maitlis “Putin is having the best day of his life with the stuff Trump is saying and doing – it’s every Russian dream come true.” #TRAITOR #FELON #TRUMP #APRIL This idiot is just like a bad joke 🤦🏻

Reform UK’s Simon Dudley says post-Grenfell safety rules go too far - 'everyone dies in the end' and safety regulation is choking housebuilding 🔴 @vickyspratt.bsky.social reports Read more: trib.al/3kh8lvT

Blossoms today, Arger Fen. #wildflowers #wildflowerhour #springtime #flowerphotography #argerfen

Spring flowers #springflowers #bluebells #blossom #flowerphotography #photography

“I was expecting an attack on climate science,” @drkatemarvel.bsky.social said. “But actually, who they went after 1st was pediatric cancer & Parkinson’s research, and childhood vaccines. I was completely unprepared for an attack on science, because it’s a means of finding out & telling the truth.”

When we reported terrorist posts and accounts, Musk’s platform left 93% of them on the site: https://goodlaw.social/220z

Bluebells #wildflowers #wildflowerhour

Daisies #wildflowers #wildflowerhour

California poppies #wildflowers #wildflowerhour

faded poppy #wildflowers #wildflowerhour

Elderflowers. #wildflowers #wildflowerhour

Bluebells. #wildflowers #wildflowerhour

Buttercups #wildflower #wildflowerhour

🔴 Russia shared satellite images of a US base in Saudi Arabia with Iran days before it was struck, according to Ukrainian intelligence. Follow the latest updates below. 🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

This point from @ldfreedman.bsky.social (who's been in Washington this week) is key. Out of malice and stupidity the Trump administration has destroyed its own decision-making capabilities.

“Sewage pollution is at record levels, companies are staggering under debts of £60bn accrued in part to pay shareholder dividends of £78bn and infrastructure has been left to rot.”

Fact checking fraud claims: Heritage Foundation documented 1,620 cases of voter fraud from 1982-2025, including 100 cases of noncitizens voting. That's about 0.000008% of more than 1.3 billion votes cast in presidential elections in that time. Linda Qiu www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

I describe the Ceaucescu Moment in my most recent book as: "The moment when the cheers turn to jeers and the formerly pliant 'peasants' decide that they have had enough." And it's beautifully demonstrated here.

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

1/8 NEW: @bellingcat.com has geolocated and verified two new videos showing the deadly strikes that hit an IRGC compound — and an adjacent elementary school — in Minab, Iran on Feb. 28. Here's what we found. 🧵 www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."

youtube.com/shorts/aInlA... Priceless from @mrjamesob.bsky.social . I can not unsee it now.

This is the effect of Trump's war on Iran on petrol and diesel prices in the UK. (Red = $ increase per gallon.) Perhaps seeing this will help Americans understand why people here are so furious at Trump, quite apart from all the other reasons to dislike him and what he's doing.

"You can do it, baby!" 🤣🤣 AI animation by Oda Show.

"Russia is close to completing a phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran, according to western intelligence reports that detail Moscow’s efforts to keep its embattled partner fighting" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

BBC Newsnight brought five Epstein survivors together for the first time. "During the hours-long discussion that followed, there were supportive gestures and, as they studied photos of themselves from the time when they first met Epstein, there were tears," the BBC reported. #EpsteinCoverUp

8 am update for you. The UK grid is currently close to fossil fuel free. Wind and solar 70%, nuclear 13%, gas… 4%. grid.iamkate.com

‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate

Presumably it's just a coincidence that, every week now, Mrs Tim and I don't get any mail for, say, three days and then suddenly get a glut of letters, all of which appear to have been posted on different days.

I wrote about Bombic back in 2022 for @bellingcat.com www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/08...

Surely not! Corruption in Trumpland?!

snowdrops #wildflowerhour

Snowdrop. #wildflowerhour

Snowdrop among the crocuses #wildflowerhour

crocuses #wildflowerhour

lone daffodil. #wildflowerhour

spring blossom #wildflowerhour

You know it's spring in England when....#photography #nature #lamb #blossom #spring #eastofengland

🔴 The most dangerous Reform policy no-one’s talking about

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere. Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating. Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins. (🎥 BBC News)

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I'm seeing a lot of these fake Donald Trump truths being posted on BlueSky (and lesser sites) at the moment. Its pretty easy to check, and you owe it to yourself and other people before sharing it.

BBC News, "This heat wave in the United States would be virtually impossible without human induced climate change" "In Arizona yesterday, they recorded their highest ever March temperature, 44 °C"