The direct experience of the website changes does the damage among those using it (they used to like the site) but Musk's public interventions mean that visibility and familiarity breeds toxicity: fence-sitters and undecided become negative

Ibrahim al Khalili reports on the dire conditions people in Gaza are living in. Israel doesn't just kill Palestinians with bombs and bullets.

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼 www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

So none then

Statement: Jewish Council Condemns Adelaide Festival Removal of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Good news Canterbury! Your lovely Reform council are scrapping your historic Georgian street lights.

In January-October 2025 alone, the EU imported metal products from Russia worth €1.72 billion. The biggest fans of Russian goods are Belgium, Italy, the Czech Republic and Denmark.

British woman left stranded in Hungary after the Home Office refuse to let her bring 13-year-old niece to the UK. The girl, who was abandoned by her parents, could now end up in state care, following the Home Office's decision bylinetimes.com/2026/01/08/b...

According to witnesses, this is the masked ICE agent who shot the driver in Minneapolis. He shot from the side into the vehicle. This is him walking away from the crashed vehicle.

The US is more likely to fight Europe than fight for it.

Maybe the greatest example of the bizarro world in which we now live is that European states are maintaining the dangerous fiction that the US would fight for them, when the more likely use of US military force would be to kick Europe out of Greenland.

the telegraph has finally got upset not over images of kids or others, when its only their beloved Kate that is the problem

NEW ‘Scandal’. A word to be used sparingly - but this is it. Ministry of Justice is spending over £100 million on a prison that can’t hold prisoners - Dartmoor. Key decisions taken in March 2022. Justice Secretary was Dominic Raab & Permanent Secretary Antonia Romeo, now at the Home Office…

New on @labourhame.com: Labour Hame editor @dhothersall.bsky.social, a former Twitter addict, says that while he understands the motivation of staying on a platform where vital communities of support and engagement have been built and prospered, it is now morally unjustifiable to remain on X.

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We havnt forgotten. 👌💪

15% of people report using X as a source of news. About 7.5 million adults (15% of 50 million) though 15% of the population is 10 million The government seems to have garbled it. Used 10m, turned a source of news into *main* source of news + people into households bsky.app/profile/sund...

On Sunday Israeli citizen Mohammed Tarabin was shot dead by police in the Bedouin-Palestinian village of Tarabin. His murder came as police launched a massive raid on the village, with cement blocks blocking entrances and police requiring anyone entering or leaving to show ID. (1/2)

All Trump is thinking is that it makes for great television.

🇻🇪🇺🇸 Kremlin is ready not to interfere with the US from dominating Venezuela in exchange for US's concessions on Ukraine, – Reuters They believe that the US has shown: Latin America is their zone of influence. Kremlin took this as a signal that backroom agreements "sphere by sphere" are possible.

🔴Reform Chairman Who Boasts of Expertise in Business ‘Compliance’ Had Ten Firms Struck off for Breaking Company Law Exclusive: Paul Donaghy established at least 10 firms struck off by Companies House, according to official records bylinetimes.com/2026/01/05/r...

This relates to a wide range of issues - including supporting Trump, hardening Brexit, scrapping ECHR, scrapping net zero, being willing to revoke past settlement grants, being sceptical as to whether naturalised citizens count - that tend to be misrepresented in right media ecosystem as popular

This is funny, and possibly important. But if Putin can’t even take half of Ukraine, how is he going to get through Poland and the Baltics? Let alone Germany, France and UK. Some crayon filled naïveté at play

A great new episode from @olddogua.bsky.social . Though Trump might go weak at the knees about Russian power, the Russians are actually on the defensive in many areas. Ukraine definitely has some cards to play.

Its like Trump spends the whole day mooning around, desperate for Putin to ask him to the prom.

I’ve taken this piece out from the paywall for everyone to read. What happened this year could have been prevented, but the US made Putin’s terror campaign much easier. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Russian foreign ministry having a laugh: “Such actions, if they actually took place, constitute an unacceptable violation of the sovereignty of an independent state, respect for which is a key principle of international law."

"Remind me again Pete. Why are we attacking Venezuela?" "To set the country back on the pathway to freedom and democracy, Sir." "Oh." "Only joshing Mr President... it's for the oil and the gold."

‘most of the stylistic repertoire of modern western popular music would be unthinkable without the Black American tradition that itself adapted and reshaped African idioms in the new and terrible world of enslavement.’ Too right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Never before seen footage‼️ Tornado genesis of the Clear Lake, South Dakota tornado earlier this year. @myradar.bsky.social #tornado #weather

Israel wants to eliminate humanitarian aid workers in Gaza 👇❗

Nothing has prepared most European policymakers for what they’re now facing: threats from Russia; the end of the US as friend and protector; US alignment with Russia; uncertain political futures in Moscow and Washington; external interference threatening their own democracies.

I can’t imagine what Trumps joyous uplifting message to the country and world will be!!

They want to complete the Genocide now?

Displaced people in Gaza warn new restrictions on aid group will 'lead to catastrophe' in devastated enclave.

Suspending Doctors Without Borders is definitely a thing healthy countries do

Think @sundersays.bsky.social is accurate here. The UK has not suddenly become much more racist. However the (re)normalisation of open racism by "respectable" right-wing media and politicians has led to both increased visibility for open racists, & radicalisation of some "soft" racists/xenophobes

Indeed. But it's not just Putin. It is also Trump, Musk, and the other plutocrats. I don't think this is about Russia v. EU, it's about plutocrats and oligarchs v. democracy.

Republika Srpska’s politics has long been dominated by Milorad Dodik, a genocide-denying nationalist who is under UK sanctions Dodik is close to Orbán and Putin Ex diplomats Charles Crawford and Sir Dominick Chilcott are taking money to lobby ministers on Republika Srpska’s behalf

Remember these two names: Charles Crawford, Britain’s ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the mid-1990s, & Sir Dominick Chilcott, a former UK ambassador to Ireland, are registered as lobbyists for Republika Srpska on the government’s recently launched Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS)

In the late 1990s Tony Blair’s MoD went to the trouble of dispatching the SAS to Bosnia to capture suspected war criminals. They were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. With them, the MoD has continued military cooperation. www.declassifieduk.org/good-and-bad...

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"fossil fuels are killing your grocery bills" is a clear, simple and undeniably true message that voters *already understand*, but centrist parties would never broadly run with that (and the "climate pragmatists" would NEVER suggest it) because opposing fossil fuels directly feels wrong to them

Seized from a Gaza hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya still held by Israel a year on - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/seized-gaza-hospital-dr-hussam-abu-safia-still-held-israel-year

Israel systematically targets families of Palestinian journalists: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-systematically-targets-families-palestinian-journalists-report

💔Its as if Indonesia hit by an asteroid In West Papua now - over 5 million acres being destroyed Sumatra lost 4.4 million hectares of forest since 2001 Borneo Jungle over 33,000 hectares of rainforest, an area nearly half size of Singapore, obliterated in last 3 years alone Video CUT PUTROE 🌸