This Silicon Valley nonsense - designed to stop journalists writing stories powerful people don’t want in public domain - getting a press release on BBC radio 4 Media Show now Sigh objection.ai

“Turning points are usually only clear in retrospect, but Iran and the Greenland crisis may prove to be the turning points that confirmed what negotiations over Ukraine merely suggested: This United States, far from being an ally of Europe, acts against Europe.”

Zeina Khodr: "Southern Lebanon remains.. an active warzone, there is no ceasefire there. Air strikes have been relentless.. civilians are paying a heavy price.. Israel continues to issue those forced evacuation orders, basically depopulating villages further north.."

Apocalyptic aerial footage from east Gaza City.

“For decades, federal agencies have gathered data on everything from climate risk to the rising cost of childcare. It is information funded by taxes, and that belongs to the American people. But over the past year, the Trump administration has been altering and removing decades’ worth of datasets”

How to troll back Russians..

Both the United States and Israel were founded and exist on land taken during ongoing genocides. Settler colonialism drives these genocides, and both nations share an ideology that justifies the theft and rationalizes the killing. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/unde...

FEDOROV: We had meeting with SAAB today. We believe Gripen jets can change situation in Ukraine’s skies. This is one of the best aircraft in the world, and we're working to acquire them. In few months, there will be good news for Sweden and Ukraine, and bad news for Russians.

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

Protestors are entirely peaceful, but the rotunda is literally filled with troopers as Tennessee Republicans pass their racist 9-0 maps stripping majority Black Memphis of representation. @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

THIS IS NOT NORMAL!!! ALL EYES ON ALABAMA! Amid tornado sirens, flooding, and evacuations, the AL State Senate rammed through a bill to disenfranchise voters and strip representation But ppl are still showing up b/c this is an attack on us all & our democracy -TN

Israel to build Jewish heritage center at abandoned Palestinian airport in occupied East Jerusalem: Report

Here's Nigel Farage's "Tiktok guru" and adviser, Jack Anderton, telling GB News that he would be "worried" if the Jewish population was growing in the UK. When do we start seeing all the coverage about the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?

This is crazy work by Alabama Republicans… As the Alabama Senate was being forced into the basement while tornado sirens were going off, the Republican supermajority kept moving, rammed through a cloture vote on redistricting, passed the bill, and adjourned. [video by Sen Merika Coleman]

For every attempt, pledge $50 million to Ukraine. apnews.com/article/russ...

Israel has bombed Beirut for the first time since mid-April, when it agreed to a ceasefire with Lebanon, although Israel has continued to carry out strikes, home demolitions and other aggressive acts in other parts of the country.

Russische aanvallen hebben de afgelopen dag in Oekraïne 13 mensen vermoord, 54 anderen raakten gewond. De gemeenteraad van Soemy heeft vandaag uitgeroepen tot rouwdag. De Russen eisen een staakt het vuren voor hun "feestje" op zaterdag. Maar geen gebaar van hun kant, geen tegemoetkoming. Niks..

‘Any other leader, twenty points ahead’ / ‘Inexcusable’ / ‘Driving the party off a cliff’ etc. spinning around my head like one of those scenes from The Simpsons :)

Hope Scotland votes today for a future that brings people together with hope, compassion, and unity, rather than division or exclusion 🤞

i hate all of this shit

Just about to go out and vote Green in the local elections ✅

This is an amazing video.

When I taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville we shut down the campus so literal Nazis could speak to a room of 8 or so white supremacist peers in the name of “free speech.”

Almost 90% of comics creators who earn income from traditional publishing do not earn the national living wage from their work, with 13% relying on state benefits 👇 #BookSky

"La préfecture de police avance que le mot d’ordre de la mobilisation antifasciste «Pas de nazis à Paris» entraîne «un risque important» de «propos appelant à la haine et à la discrimination». Contre qui ? Les nazis et autres néofascistes qui peuplent le cortège du C9M ? ...

This was allowed to happen, through support from the USA and relative indifference from European countries. It’s totally unforgivable, and further destabilises an unstable world to boot.

A Palestinian woman & her 78yr old mum vanished in Gaza & no-one knows what happened to them Months later their family discovered a photograph posted by an IDF soldier on social media showing the two women blindfolded in an IDF vehicle Sky News has identified the Israeli soldiers in the photo

Not his biggest fan but trying to blame Burnham for what will be a terrible set of results for Labour because he’s attending a conference in a couple of weeks is desperate. If that’s your best shot Luke then probably a good idea just to remain silent. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I mean, this OK, but doesn’t face the elephant in the room: ‘sensible’ and ‘adult’ has been taken to mean not challenging the racists and xenophobes over immigration.

Op 3 april 1946 publiceerde historicus Jan Romein een column op de voorpagina van Het Parool. Hij beschrijft het dagboek van een Joods meisje. Naar aanleiding van deze column besloot uitgeverij Contact Het Achterhuis uit te geven. De tekst grijpt nog steeds aan. resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=...

"Students are quietly prepared for careers in the GRU – Russia’s military intelligence directorate, whose operatives have hacked western parliaments, poisoned dissidents on foreign soil and interfered in elections across Europe and the US." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Belgian foreign minister Prévot, back from China, says EU must endure any retaliation from Beijing to save its industry Politico: "Is Europe prepared to endure temporary hardship to stand behind omeasures to eventually reestablish a partnership based on level playing field?"

Between Republicans wanting to destroy our entire profession, and Democrats using us as a convenient rhetorical punching bag to prove their supposed moderation, those of us in higher education have to accept that everybody on all sides hates us right now.

In fact it is apparently too difficult to get the Germans to fulfill an already existing legal obligation under EU rules to accurately *label* goods which come from illegal settlements

Cathy Newman "Thailand-based Chris Harborne has given you and your party £17 million.. Interfering in democracy" Nigel Farage runs away

🔔 TWO DAYS LEFT TO LISTEN! 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #TheDivineComedy #BBCQuaySessions #RoddyHart #BBCSounds

If I am counting right, there have been four polls for the Holyrood election out today, three of which make for great reading for the @scottishgreens.org and the fourth would still be a record result.

📍Loci: All Saints', Brixworth - one of the few surviving C7th buildings in the country. www.digest.andymarsh...

Not a single completed prosecution for any of the 2 million instances of illegal sewage dumping in the last 5 years. Yet the government claims to be taking action. #Channel4 is continuing to expose the privatised water industry tonight. Time to end this mess. Take water into public ownership.

⚠️ Israel has bombed Beirut again, right on schedule to sabotage negotiations for an end to the Iran War. BBC reporting:

If the mainstream press refuses to investigate Reform’s candidates and their scandalous backgrounds and attitudes, I guess @bylinetimes.bsky.social will have to do it. These are just some of our exclusives from the last couple of days Www.bylinetimes.com

A young Scottish theatre star is set to expose the dark past of Fife's witch trials in a new production later this year

Louisiana GOP is obviously & severely harming the public by nullifying the election of Calvin Duncan but also my jaw dropped, when researching, seeing how much Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill are like 'fuck this one Black man in particular' ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Labour braced for large losses in local elections

This is the 82-year-old state senator the FBI just raided because she successfully redistricted Virginia to match racist Republican redistricting efforts. They targeted her because she's ruthless and effective. They don't want anyone else to play within their new rules.

"Corruption" identifies scoundrels who are hurting ordinary people & stealing our power -- including making everything less affordable. "Affordability" doesn't point fingers at the people *causing* un-affordability by commission & omission, nor recognize broader harms to people power & well-being.

Every settlement in pre June 1967 territories is illegal according to the plain letter of the law of the Fourth Geneva Convention & UNSCR 2334. There is absolutely no distinction, zero, none between settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, any of the WB, or Gaza. Anyone who says different is lying.

New @survation.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social @newyddion.s4c.cymru poll of Senedd voting intentions Plaid Cymru - 30.3% (+2.4) Reform - 28.2% (-1.4) Labour - 15.3% (-0.1) Cons - 9.5% (-0.5) Greens - 7.2% (-2.7) LibDems - 6.2% (+2.5) Others - 3.4% (-0.2) #senedd26 #senedd #devolution

With under 15 hours until the polls open for tomorrow's Scottish Parliament elections, what are the polls telling us? The SNP are set for a fifth consecutive election victory, and John Swinney to remain in Bute House, but plenty remains contingent on everything from turnout to marginality: