Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

Nett. Even if the context is unclear/ nicht klar.

In 2016, when Russia first moved to demand payback for getting Trump elected, they tested two envoys to get to Trump. First, a buddy of Jared Kushner's. Then, W/DMITRIEV SPECIFICALLY, W/Erik Prince. Prince & Bannon then deleted texts about what went on. The plan has literally not changed at all.

Once a government gets a taste for censorship, it tends not to stop. www.ft.com/content/0ef7...

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

i mean... uh... well... lordy. this defies summation. incredible story. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid. A pissed off thread using data. Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10

So why are NHS leaders and the newspapers sounding the alarm? Well, the NHS never copes well in winter and this year is no exception. Also, I imagine they want to put pressure on doctors not to strike. 8/10

But we see these sorts of headlines every year - it’s the sheer predictability of these headlines and the lack of any real plan to stabilise the NHS over winter that should be the front page story! Not some - in my opinion - highly misleading use of statistics! END OF RANT 10/10

EVERYONE should watch this jaw-dropping exchange. Bennie Thompson asks simple questions and receives stammering answers, highlighting the political BS like nothing I’ve ever seen. Astonishing.

“The Danish Defense Intelligence Service published a new report on Wednesday morning. For the first time, the US is mentioned as a security threat to Denmark.“ www.vg.no/nyheter/i/7p...

All in one day: Immigration Minister lied about me with a slur. Wes Streeting then tried a different attack. And the Evening Standard write yet another attack piece because I dare to say we need to tax the rich. Want to help create our better future? Join.greenparty.org.uk

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

And if the UK government proposal to introduce a national digital identity is successful, then imo, that identity will tied to this 👇

The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers. Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...

It may not happen soon, but Mitch Bradley should remember that he can be recalled to duty someday and court martialed for ordering murder.

It's clear Russia doesn't want peace, so we need to make Ukraine as strong as possible -- Kaja Kallas No decisions on Ukraine can be made without Ukraine, no dictated peace over the heads of Ukraine -- Friedrich Merz Все буде добре. Everything will be OK. 🇺🇦

We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it. goodlaw.social/zr8w

What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

This is a really well-done corrective to the NYT/Atlantic party line on how attitudes about trans people affect Democrats' electoral prospects. Liberal Currents continues to shine. www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...

I thought I could not be shocked by what prominent transphobes feel able to say about me. Turns out I was wrong. Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.

Listen to ALL episodes, but especially Ep 10 - the call to leave ECHR is a war against democracy - the right to fair elections, written within the Convention. Follow @thenerve.news & @carolecadwalla.bsky.social & @peterjukes.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/s...

Crooks in the United States are determined to join hands for deepening ties and personal profit from Russia. This is an outcome that would be terrible for Europe and democracy in the world The only thing he way is those pesky Ukrainians… www.counteroffensive.news/p/a-phony-pe...

How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage. Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar. Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...

Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

They're small. Muddy knees. Higher voices than adults. Easy.

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies" Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations www.wsj.com/world/russia...

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Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail? H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!

Another UKIP traitor, Scottish this time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU

Thank you, Nicky Adding the post that includes Kasparov’s righteous rant. We need every politician to speak with this level of urgency, moral clarity, and conviction! bsky.app/profile/andr...

And here's David Coburn again in the European Parliament accusing the EU of "unwarranted imperialism in the Ukraine" Coburn denies taking any money from Russia to make these statements www.youtube.com/watch?v=52W7...

Wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Feels more relevant still after today. And it’s a deficit of self awareness which goes far beyond some members of the BBC board.

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.

Nothing to see here, just @thetimes.com having to apologise for calling an anti-trans group anti-trans. The British media's complicity in instigating and prolonging moral panics targeting vulnerable minorities will be studied for years to come.

Реформа UK...

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this

Did he make all those RT appearances for free?

All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.

This is the key moment: Gill hosted this event for a spurious Ukrainian peace plan for Medvedchuk - who then flew the next day to boast to Putin about the support of MEPs

It's always the ones you most expect... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

ICE agents in Queens, New York break down a bedroom door and point guns at a mother & her four US citizen children They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!” This is tyranny These kids are traumatized It was warrantless and no ID was shown.

It is indisputable that Brexit has been an economic disaster, and notable that none of its political architects have paid any price.

Has Nigel Farage or Zia Yusuf remembered who Nathan Gill is yet? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...