About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

The Court, blocking Trump's deployment of Texas NG to Illinois: "not even the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one state’s militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

How many kids died for no other reason than Biden and his people not giving a shit?

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues. Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

People in the US who have no connection to Canada or Canadians have no idea how pissed they are at how the Trump administration has betrayed them and how determined they are to reject all US-made products

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

The msm pursued the Rayner story in such detail it forced her resignation . Now there’s a much bigger scandal concerning Farage of possible treason it’s like they’ve forgotten how to spell investigate & corruption. It’s not only Farage who has a Russian problem, if our msm protects him we all do .

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Absolutely horrifying #BBC #Panorama into Met culture at a custody suite. Intentional harm - use of force, misogyny, racism. What has the Commissioner been doing to address it!? Institutional discrimination. Needs complete overhaul & alternatives to policing, so much harm caused.

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

It was wrong under Blair It's wrong under Starmer! An attempt at government overreach. Private citizens should be allowed to remain private! Governments bring in these measures by distraction and misdirection, in this case using illegal immigration, but they will creep into the rest of our lives

Everyone: What's government doing about the cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, and the unfolding genocide in Gaza? Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards". This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.

After being used in WW2 compulsory ID cards were abolished in 1952 because of the widespread sentiment that they are fundamentally at odds with British values and civil liberties. That was true then and it’s true now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The ID consultation will likely take longer than Starmer has left as PM. So there's that.

Kind of amazing how UK news media still remains obsessed with the structurally limited impact in economic terms of small boats even as this potentially terminal havoc works its way through key UK industrial supply chains on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF

Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan. The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”

Still trying to figure out what MAHA hates more: women or vaccines.

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

They are f*cking lunatics

Leaving aside optics of attending at any time an event hosted by industry that does so much to create misery, transferring billions from the poor and desperate to billionaires, Rachel Reeves’ decision to do so ahead of a budget seriously questions her judgment www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

There was a HUGE contingent of very hacky comics who went anti-Biden/pro-Trump claiming that "woke scolds" were "canceling comedy." Feels like maybe they should be speaking up?

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

Yet more compelling evidence to support @greenparty.org.uk policy that public services should be in public hands 👇

Kash Patel trying to kill multiple litters of kittens with incinerated meth is the kind of subplot we don’t need on this season

Yes, yes you are. Stop cosplaying "legitimate concerns". When you join a far right rally, organised by well known far right leader Tommy Robinson, with a host of speakers who outright say they are far right, you are a racist. No ifs, buts or maybes. There are no excuses for being there.

Solidarity, again, with Diane Abbott The amount of misogynoir directed against Abbott *by her own party* is frankly staggering & tells you everything you need to know about Starmer & his ghoulish, racist political faction that is running the show

#NoNewNuclear - cost is just one of the arguments against it. See also too slow, lack of resilience, inability to deal with waste, and safety www.ft.com/content/30d3...

Another self defeating and right-wing policy that no-one voted for prefaced with 'depsite ...... promises from Keir Starmer..." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is fun, and quite the musical education! youtu.be/WRfsibwR5x4?...

The Greens could be polling at 40% and all we’ll read about is the rise of Reform

This wasn't the reaction to Melissa Hortman's death, who was murdered by a man posing as a cop specifically because she was a sitting politician he hated. But they relate more to Charlie Kirk. That should tell you everything you need to know.

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

I’ll keep telling anyone who’ll listen that if we can survive to the Nuremburg-trials stage of this stupid segment of history, the prosecutors and judges are going have a relatively easy go of things

Three pictures which won't age well. There's diplomacy, then there's cowardice. We know which this is.

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

this is called "doing a streeting" which is to position yourself firmly on the wrong side of an issue for no reason and to no one's benefit

When Kemi Badenoch got elected Tory leader, Starmer congratulated her and said he was looking forward to working with her. When Donald Trump got elected President, Starmer congratulated him and said he was looking forward to working with him. Starmer loves a fascist. No such unity for the left.

Excellent article: "..... Starmer's Labour has the whiff of spiteful incompetence" perfectly sums up this govt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...