Sorry for anyone affected by the violence in the Middle East and that sympathy extends to Isabel Oakeshott and her family. Perhaps this experience will help her reflect on the fear and suffering of millions of people who suffer far far worse and are obliged to flee famine and war.

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Assisted dying, Shia-style.

Department of Defense became Department of War so, presumably, Trump’s Board of Peace will be similarly renamed.

Labour *has* to now ditch the Reform-lite policies and go full-on progressive.

Reform: There's too much state interference. Also Reform: We will force you to marry, stop you getting divorced, make you have babies, dictate your religious beliefs, control your sexuality, penalise you if you are disabled and deport you if you don't look right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Conspiracy theorist relieved that proposed local amenities have been voted against and will now be a 30 min drive away." @urbantruth.bsky.social

“Walkable neighbourhoods aren't scary, they’re convenient.” Timely new info/campaign org started by @grantennis.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social and @brenttoderian.bsky.social

BREAKING: The 21-year-old man shot dead after entering Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and gas canister on Sunday was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files, according to people who knew him. trib.al/tHO6gez

cant.stop.laughing

If he lived in Gorton, Gove would vote Green.

Far Right: “WE DON’T WANT 15 MINUTE CITIES!” Also the Far Right: “WE WANT A CHIPPY A BUTCHERS AND A PUB THAT SELLS BREAD WITHIN EASY WALKING DISTANCE, JUST LIKE THE OLD DAYS!” @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social

So, when’s FIFA going to send Trump some tariffs to play with?

Pork markets!

Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Some light historical reading for any remaining Musk fans — the Mechanical Turk saga of the 1770s, with the con finally discovered in 1827: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechani...

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

“You would have to go as far back as King Charles I [in 1647] to find the last senior member of the British royal family arrested prior to today's developments.” Andrew Montbatten-Windsor and some FOFO. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

Grok is gonna be default in Tesla cars. Huge risks to all down the road, then.

Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico. Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Over my dead body.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

i can’t stop laughing

First sunny day in ages. We didn’t waste it.

Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social sums up why Starmer is responsible for voters hating him after such a short time:

Women killed was British. She had asked her US-domiciled father: "How would you feel if I was the girl in that [Trump-involved] situation and I'd been sexually assaulted?" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The dancing is disgusting, says the “they let you grab them by the pussy” guy who’s mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein files.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

WOW! WHITE HOUSE SAYS TRUMP DOESN’T WRITE HIS OWN TWEETS??? AUTOPEN!

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

FOX REPORTER: “What do you have to say about the ICE agent being attacked by a domestic terrorist puppy?” KRISTI NOEM: “I’d’ve shot the dog.”

Our Josh on the cover of @cyclinguk.bsky.social's Cycle magazine in 2011. (I'm in white, next to him, and spot Phil Liggett, too). And here's Josh, solo, on the cover of the current Feb/March issue.

I’m having a hard time thinking of an interview between two human beings I enjoyed more than tonight’s interview of the great Ian McKellen by the great Stephen Colbert. Every moment of it was a pleasure that I highly recommend… but then came the most REMARKABLE ending that you really HAVE to watch.

If you build it, they will come…

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.

Driverless cars, hey? Since the dawn of motoring it has always been possible, for a fee, to be taken somewhere in a car without having to drive it. The technology is called “taxi cabs”. (Try getting a robot taxi to help a disabled/infirm passenger from their front door to inside the cab.)

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Donald Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah for telling jokes at the Grammy Awards. I'm sure the self-declared free speech absolutists will be rushing to Noah's defence at any moment.

What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?

It’s fair to say that when judges do this sort of thing, you are not in a constitutionally or legally normal place.