If flying is statistically safe, why does it feel anything but? This contribution from @claireaj.bsky.social captures the tension between fear and awe at 30,000 feet - and why our brains are perfectly capable of holding both at once.

we really are badly underestimating the parallels between Trumpworld and the UK's current highest polling party. Arguably, this is one of the most dangerous links of all - westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

"Like Trump, he wants to be a cult leader insulated from the brutal, humbling process of electoral politics – willing to deploy the power of the state to silence dissenters." Important wake-up piece by Sam Bright on Farage / Trump parallels open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Since Facebook is blocking this Insta clip, I'm just gonna quietly put it here instead - US planes loaded with bombs taking off from RAF Fairford. Gloucestershire, UK www.instagram.com/reel/DWG4zBZ...

The Government needs to realise more regulation won’t fix our broken water system. We need to kick financial predators out & take it back into public control. But don’t just take it from me. Listen to a sewage campaigner who inspired Channel 4’s ‘Dirty Business’. @windrushwasp.bsky.social

Read this headline. Now read it again. Now read it again. You are not alarmed enough. It is later than you think. 🇺🇸 deadline.com/2026/03/trum...

BYLINES NETWORK, MAKING SENSE OF OUR TIMES POWER, PEOPLE & DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA Mike Galsworthy, in conversation with: Alexandra Hall Hall, Former UK diplomat, Washington DC Anouska de Georgiou, Epstein survivor Ben Meiselas, Meidas Touch Network LIVESTREAM WEBINAR Sign up here bit.ly/bookBN

More Epstein files consequences land. Bonus: article contains the phrase "Lords behaving badly" which is surely a rule 34 exception (do not google that)

For International Womens Day, Claire Jones exlores Reform's Epsteinian outlook and calls for women from across the political spectrum to come together to halt this poisonous backward slide on human rights - westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

Two more deaths in ICE custody were reported this week, including a refugee who died after an untreated toothache. buff.ly/V4e2eYc

“Brexit.. caused the biggest voluntary loss of rights in British history, and economically was somewhere on the spectrum between a mistake and a disaster… The old voted to jeopardise the economic prospects of the young.” www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

@lgbtiscotland.bsky.social westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum... "Reform policy creators are re-positioning society in ways that orientate male thinking towards a future of increased sexual abuse" Claire Jones writes for West England Bylines to commemorate International Womens Day -

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum... "Reform policy creators are re-positioning society in ways that orientate male thinking towards a future ofj increased sexual abuse" Claire Jones writes for West England Bylines to commemorate International Womens Day -

The name of Trump's latest military foray reminds us they are a bunch of small boys drunk on power. ‘Operation Epic Fury’ is the kind of name my lads would have given their garden war games with Lego helicopters & Playmobile warships. Except they were 7yrs & didn't wipe out a classroom of kids.

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I hate to have to ask but, frankly, what are the chances of women and girls not being subject to varying kinds of abuse at the detention centres, some of it along Epstein lines (see, e.g. growing allegations regarding Dilly's Blue Butterfly Zones)?

NEW: Judges are asking increasingly pointed questions about why ICE is detaining pregnant/nursing mothers — and whether a 2021 policy sharply restricting the practice remains in force. They’ve ordered many released, warning of threats to safety/health. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

This is an incredible piece by @smencimer.bsky.social that really gets to the heart of—and the numbers that demonstrate—how terribly Trump is screwing over the communities that offered him the most support

guys if I'm murdered please don't turn it into interpretive dance I don't want that

Great summary of how economic inequality leads to plutocracy which in turn leads to democratic atrophy. According to the author, we need policy mechanisms to interrupt the cycle -

Britain is sliding backwards into open racism. Can we reverse this tragic shift?"" By Claire Jones. Full article in link - westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/imm...

"... The terrible duo, or one of them, would be taking over at just such a volatile point. Authoritarians win using charisma, gaslighting, and lies, but stay by installing fear ..." By Claire Jones. Full article in link: westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ame...

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

Absolutely spot on. Trump’s transactional and feral nature is so unpredictable (and voters are so complacent about democracy enduring because they’ve ever known different) that he can flip and promise the opposite of any previous policy just so that enough people will decide to vote for him again.

"... The terrible duo, or one of them, would be taking over at just such a volatile point. Authoritarians win using charisma, gaslighting, and lies, but stay by installing fear ..." By Claire Jones. Full article in link: westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ame...

My latest - Is America enduring a "wild last-ditch attempt to salvage a failing administration or is neo-fascism tightening its grip in preparation for the midterms?" Full article in link - westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ame...

Britain is sliding backwards into open racism. Can we reverse this tragic shift?"" By Claire Jones. Full article in link - westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/imm...

America is approaching a genuine inflection point: Phones, citizens and visibility on one side. State power, fear and authoritarian drift on the other. @claireaj.bsky.social brilliantly analyses where the US currently finds itself, and where we go from here. Well worth a read and a follow. 🐻

"Britain is sliding backwards into open racism, fuelled by political silence and immigration narratives. Can we reverse this tragic shift?" By Claire Jones. Full article in link -

Tim Pool started his career by embedding himself with Occupy Wall Street protesters. Numerous independent journalists embedded themselves with January 6 protesters. Tim and the January 6 reporters were never charged. What's different about what Don Lemon did? Not much, from what I can see.

Is it bad that I saw "NS-919" and thought "Stormtrooper name?"

Textbook fascism - now they are coming for the journalists

Yea, and I'm the Queen of Sheba

@enareurope.bsky.social "Britain is sliding backwards into open racism, fuelled by political silence and immigration narratives. Can we reverse this tragic shift?" By Claire Jones for WEBylines. Full article in link -

"Britain is sliding backwards into open racism, fuelled by political silence and immigration narratives. Can we reverse this tragic shift?" By Claire Jones. Full article in link -

Prize-winning composer Philip Glass has canceled the world premiere of his symphony about Abraham Lincoln at the Kennedy Center.

⚠️ BREAKING: #ICE kidnapped another baby! She is 2 years old. A judge ordered her to be released but they sent her to a detention center in TX anyway‼️

Board of Peace - Season 1

1) Our desire to believe in fairytales blocks necessary action. The world is patiently waiting for US democracy to return. Sometime, somehow a miraculous messiah will step in & banish the fascist dictatorship now installed there. But the successful functioning of the 1 US device for recovery -

This is very salutory - indeed 😰

1. Let's not forget it's only Thursday. By Saturday Trump could have backed down on backing down, especially when he's no longer surrounded by large numbers of formidable leaders. Arguably, his quiescence at the WEF was an ear-flattening, roll over response to feeling dominated (for

Asked if we can take it for granted that the US is an ally of Europe, he says “unfortunately, not”. “I would like to confirm that they are an ally, but then they have to behave like an ally.”

1. The fundamental explanation, as Trump himself admitted, is psychological. He's a vindictive narcissist with an infantile conception of ownership - 'if I want x, then x is mine'.