NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in. Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

Israelis launch a wide-scale violent attack on Palestine’s industrial zone, sparking major fires & injuring scores of people

‼️ "Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. …Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt."

www.theguardian.com/business/202... Profitable green wash

That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership

'“Chatroom contributions are given equal status with serious academic work,” [Richard] Evans, an expert on the Third Reich, told the Guardian, after being invited to test out Grokipedia. “AI just hoovers up everything.”'

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests. Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet. share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...

1/3 🧵🧵 Details are emerging of intimidation tactics used by USA delegation to derail climate action on shipping at the International Maritime Organisation “It’s like dealing with the Mob” said one veteran of the talks www.ft.com/content/4e0a...

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

👍🏼 Essex inventor built a filter that removes microplastics from water pumped from washing machines, so they don’t reach the sea.

Farage: epic grifter

We’re giving $40 billion to Argentina. This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds. www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

I am a serious professional scientist. I am also a commissioner of climate change and have to discuss practical and pragmatic solutions with people who disagree strongly with climate action. I have a calm and optimism-driven approach to climate action. 40 inches of rain is biblically catastrophic.

substack.com/@joealter/no... Well said

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Of course.

As the poet said, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

The grifter-in-chief knows no bounds.

Looks like Maccabi have saved the UK government from the spectacle of somehow overturning an expert public safety assessment. Either politicians make public safety at sports stadiums an absolute priority or they do not. #AVFC

When people call it fascism, it's almost giving Trump too much credit. It's just a looting spree. All the ideological moves - the murders at sea, the masked goons arresting folks in the streets, the collapse of rule of law - are just cover to steal as much as he can www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

You've gotta read quite a long way through this before you reach the bit where the Greens are polling level with Reform among British Indians www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good to see from HASC Ranking Member Smith. "They have failed to demonstrate the legality of these strikes, provide transparency on the process used or even a list of cartels that have been designated as terrorist organizations.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh

Hey @nytimes.com, did you change your headline, and change "Islamophobic attacks" on Mamdani to just "attacks," because Elise Stefanik and the GOP bullied you into it? Really? Why are they no longer Islamophobic attacks, as your headline originally and correctly stated?

EU to bypass Washington and woo US states on green agenda - on.ft.com/479RLJt via @FT 👍

We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

"Christians United for Israel, the evangelical Zionist group founded in 2006 by Texas pastor John Hagee, claims 10 million members, more than the entire population of 7.5 million Jews in the United States." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No words

Horrifying. #Portland

Academics and university staff being put on leave because of coordinated campaigns by right wing groups accusing them of criticising Charlie Kirk. I must admit I find the hypocrisy under the current US administration re free speech utterly outrageous.

China — here is stem cell therapy breakthrough in treating severe diabetes US under trump — WiFI radiation opens up your blood brain barrier … VaCcINes aRE bAd www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes." - Anne Frank

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

A new KFF study reports: 24 million Americans will see their health care premiums under the Affordable Care Act DOUBLE. Further, 15 million people will be thrown off their health care entirely.   Unacceptable. We can’t subject millions of Americans to this unnecessary suffering.