We‘ve gotten to the Anne Frank stage of the presidency.

It’s so curious how every single person who parks like an arsehole (usually outside a nightclub or takeaway) actually has a medical emergency that required them to park on the pavement on a double yellow.

Looks like Lib Dems are the counter to Reform (alongside the Greens, but I suspect they’ll be competing for very different kinds of seats to the Lib Dems)

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

This seems pointed! Someone will be very upset. ‘Norwegian Nobel committee chair, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, commended Machado as a “brave and committed champion of peace” who “keeps the flame of democracy burning during a growing darkness”’

I love how Zelenskyy has worked out the key to getting US support is to say Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize 😂

British Transport Police's decision to not investigate bike thefts outside train stations where bikes have been left for more than two hours is really concerning. It could effectively decriminalise it. Together with Lib Dem colleagues I've written to the BTP to get clarity.

The Guardian has published a list of all the children killed by Israeli action in Gaza.

Anyway a it’s usually not this explicit but the attachment to fossil fuels is a huge driver of illiberalism

Btw if you want to help fight transphobia IRL: fill out this consultation and tell Hampstead Heath Ponds why discriminating against trans people would be unlawful and immoral. The Equalities Act hasn’t changed, and gender reassignment is still protected. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

Shabana Mahmood: “there is no excuse for holding up placards”

Show us the last four albums you listened to

inb4 transphobes claim men have an innate biological advantage at cheesemongering

Watching Jay, I realize I am simply exhausted by folks in positions of leadership who are driven to distraction by critique. If you can't function with critique and pushback, a leadership position is not for you. Leadership REQUIRES you to absorb and process the critique of stakeholders.

ope stage 5

“The entire world got together and decided to single out the Jews”. I mean ya that’s literally the history of anti-semitism lol.

Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester

To clarify, this is the CEO of Bluesky gloating about the fact that Jesse Singal is still on this site.

There is no such thing, as Starmer well knows, as a "golden ticket of resettlement and family reunion" for people who have been granted refugee status. This is meaningless guff aimed to play to populist fantasies that refugees get provided with everything. 1/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“Putin and Trump agree new peace plan for the Donbas and warn Ukraine to accept”

When one party to a conflict, that’s currently inflicting a genocide on the other, proposes a “peace plan” and warns the leaders of the other side that they’ll “finish the job” if it’s not accepted: That’s not a peace plan. Can someone tell the so-called journalists at the BBC?

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

imagine being a consultant doctor here and having to go out litter picking to be given your citizenship lol www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

The ethic of this are fucked, but it’s also massively counterproductive too. The majority of the people who are applying for ILR have jobs, which are often highly skilled, even post-PhD level. And you’re going to take them away from those jobs to what, pick litter? Dig holes?

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Always annoying when a central figure to the day’s discourse has blocked you for some reason and you’re left wondering what everyone’s on about 😅

When it comes to road deaths, we often put the onus on people doing the dying rather than people doing the killing.

Virgin Active call themselves an LGBTQ+ ally, but decided to ban trans people from using their changing rooms and bathrooms... so we created a new slogan for them 👀 We need to make make as much noise as possible and make Virgin Active feel the pressure. Will you join us? 👇 goodlaw.social/d922

Don’t worry, Starmer is only going to break international law in a limited and specific way. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“If you’ve nothing to hide, who’s bothered?”

legendary YouTube find youtu.be/oCE9mkkoflQ?...

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

Liberal Democrats cannot support mandatory digital IDs. People shouldn't be criminalised just because they don't want to hand over their private data.

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

I AM A LIBERAL AND I AM AGAINST THIS KIND OF THING

Signalling before you switch lanes isn’t “defensive driving” any more than stopping at red lights is!! Or for that matter, obeying the speed limit, but Americans seem to have an issue with that one.

www.libdems.org.uk/news/article... I thought this speech from Ed was bold and said some things that others have been unwilling or afraid to say.... please have a listen

fuck yeah 😎

Our flag doesn't belong to the nationalists. It belongs to all of us. So let's reclaim it for those who want to reunite and rebuild, not those who want to divide and destroy.

The climate and nature crises are the defining challenges of our time – yet Conservative and Labour governments have failed to act with the urgency needed, leaving the UK unprepared for the damage already underway.

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

A powerful essay about what it means for a country to turn to fascism. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

You will never guess where this conversation started.

Well the new iOS call holding feature seems to not work entirely as expected. Just spent an hour on hold to my internet provider and it looks like the moment I got to the front, they hung up. No notification I’d reached it. I’m not sure if that’s an iOS problem or shit customer service though

The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies

BBC Radio 4 😭

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

Right now, Donald Trump is at a lavish banquet at Windsor Castle, while in Gaza a genocide is unfolding. He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.