Victoria Derbyshire, "You promised Brexit would lead to lower migration, you actually delivered the opposite" Jacob Rees Mogg, "We had a plan for migration, Rwanda was about to happen, it was already serving as a deterrent" Victoria Derbyshire, "So it was all fine when you got kicked out"
“LIKE A BROKEN RECORD” Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trump’s lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago — even as 🇺🇸 media wouldn’t.
Oh, I do hope it's worse than that.
it wasnt covid restrictions that turned people crazy, it was a group of immoral cynical right wing media grifters who took advantage of their scared followers to get clicks and subscribers and make money
"The public say this is a national emergency," he says caressing the Daily Mail. "Why don't you call it that? Why don't you call it that? Why don't you call a spade a spade?" Since @skynewsrss.bsky.social have such a firm editorial view, I'd love their definition of a national emergency. ~AA
Although the wind was screaming in my ears it was a scene of serenity & breathtaking majesty as the Cuernos del Paine lit up in magnificent light. Light I had not witnessed in 5 years of exploring Patagonia. #bluesky #photography #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #landscape #travel
very intense night in Greenland a few days ago. I say 'night' because this light lasted all night.
Until Trump speaks publicly, I’m going to assume he’s incapable.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Anyone here even aware that this happened on Sunday? Literally a Russian attack on the head of the EU. Barely a whisper. Europe, you in danger, girl. Get your shit together. You may not think you are at war, but Putin's Russia sure does. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
🔥 future Senator of Maine @grahamformaine.bsky.social Platner rallying with Bernie…
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
This is a positive big development that should have dominated the UK news. What on earth has happened to Labour Comms?
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
2025: Yvette Cooper suspends the rights of child refugees to come to the UK, effectively rejecting Article 8 of the ECHR 2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
And, notably, she wasn't in a governmental position.
JFC, Atlantic Monthly. Michelle Obama wanted kids to eat healthy and exercise. She wasn't bent on destroying our federal health agencies.
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
Ah fuck my lawyer got drunk & kidnapped a woman & then her husband went to save her but he hit my lawyer’s car from behind when my lawyer slammed on the brakes to pull in to a gas station to buy boner pills 🇺🇸🗽
EPA Fires ‘Dissent’ Statement Signers The EPA fired agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-... as Labor Day weekend started.
⚡️75% of Ukrainians are ready for a ceasefire only if security guarantees are provided. A survey by the Rating Group, conducted Aug. 21-23, found that the majority of Ukrainians polled want peace & are open to concessions, but only if their country receives security guarantees.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
It’s September! The leaves are falling, the air is chilled and Congress is back. Ok, let’s see the Epstein files, Mr Speaker.
I'm wondering whether, the next time we see Trump, he'll look like this:
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.
Did Putin bring poison to Alaska?
Where's his hair? He looks like he's on death's door. He needs to address the media.
"The courts have been unpersuaded that we live in a state of permanent national emergency that is global in scope and decades-long in duration, requiring swift executive action on the theory that Congress could never assemble in time to address the issue. … www.nationalreview.com/corner/divid...
You know all those slasher-horror movies where they go in the haunted house or down the basement? And you scream, "OMG, how TF could they be so dumb!?" Yeah, well – that's America right now, with RFK jr as the head of HHS, including the CDC, NIH, etc. No good endings. Insane AF.
You, of course, don't show the video and let the CEO make his exuses unchallenged. Why not let people make up their own minds?!
"No one in the administration – the president or anybody under him – has called anyone in my administration or me – have not called the city of Chicago or anyone else. So it's clear that, in secret, they're are planning this – well, it's an invasion with US troops." Gov. JB Pritzker
Ed Milliband in 2016, "Labour leaders are clear that we want to remain in the European Union" Back when Labour put country ahead of ideology
✍️ Atlantic circulation collapse could come sooner than expected Brian McHugh interviews Professor Sybren Drijfhout, lead author of the new report, who explains why cutting carbon dioxide emissions to net zero is becoming even more urgent to prevent AMOC collapse and climate disaster.
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
Susanna Reid, "The shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp is saying the Labour government are doing nothing" "Under the Conservatives, immigration and the asylum system was completely broken" Andrew Pierce, "Completely" Kevin Maguire, "Chris Philp is a waste of space"
This Wednesday..... let the truth come out....
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Has Trump addressed the public yet?
Trump family’s World Liberty Financial token falls in trading debut on.ft.com/46ijDf2
When 9 former CDC directors are ringing alarm bells about RFK and his dangerous policies, all of America must listen and act
If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
Welcome back - after a 20 year absence, water voles have returned to the River Wey! Photo: Richard Bradshaw
I'm wondering whether, the next time we see Trump, he'll look like this:
My grandparents got the hell out of Eastern Europe because they were sick of pogroms. Now we have our own! Thank you, ICE!
In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cue shorter meetings and public engagements... I really do hope they feed him drugs to burn him out quicker.
Literally.
Opinion: The insistence on absurd and public flattery for the leader is a hallmark of authoritarianism. on.ft.com/4mJy69K
Pathetic, yes, empathic, no.
On the plus side, we could in for some of the most ridiculous and obvious hairpieces ever seen. "Nobody could tell, it was the best hairpiece ever made."
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
Last tickets for my Bristol show on September 19th. Please do come along. redgravetheatre.com/event/2025/0...
9 #CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." 🎁 article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
How Trump gutted America’s disaster relief agency on.ft.com/422V8zW
Autumn in the Dolomites 💛
A beautiful arche shaped iceberg that we found in Disko Bay early August during one of our late night sailing. To give you an idea the mast of the boat is around 30 meters high 😵💫⛵️🧊… This piece of ice was massive.
Gareth Southgate can do this. Why can't Starmer?
Starmer pandering to people who will never vote for him, but who will put Farage into No10 truly is the dumbest of dumb politics.
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says
CNN: “250+ news outlets from over 70 countries will simultaneously black out their front pages and website homepages, and interrupt their broadcasting to condemn the murder of journalists by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.” www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/m...
The far-right gained absolute power in the Weimar Republic based on 30% support in a democracy. Still it took a few years and catastrophic appeasement by other parties for this to end up with the Enabling Act. FPTP provides a shortcut to absolute power.
Keir Starmer’s legacy could be electoral reform – or Farage as prime minister | Polly Toynbee
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People want simple solutions to complex problems, which is what Reform is doing, saying "Immigration is the problem!" I like what @garyseconomics.bsky.social is proposing, because its a simple solution that will actually WORK. THAT should be Labour policy. Make THAT the mantra to get behind.
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
Bullshitter gets caught bullshitting. It's only this could happen in the US...
Seems like he had another xcancel.com/adamscochran...
This weekend's round-up of toxic media and advertisers include a barrage of anti-migrant hate pieces in The Express (all were published in just one day). Supported by ads from #Specsavers, #MarellaCruises (by #TuiUK), #BritishGas, #Asda, #Tesco, #OakFurniture #RyobiTools, and #Yimbly.
It is a dangerous and possibly catastrophic mistake to assume that Reform will automatically be incompetent, or at least incompetent to a degree that makes them unelectable. (Their supporters are the people least likely to look closely at what's going on, so they only need a veneer of competence.)
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
He put chalk on his shoes then walked on the Pulse Memorial crosswalk. Police arrested him. But the court said they had no cause and he was released. The man arrested is now considering suing the state of Florida citing first amendment right violations.
Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". -seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951. This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
Our government is complicit. Our mainstream media, BBC included, is complicit.
Brilliant
Labour are also REALLY shit at comms. Things like this are getting totally eclipsed by the flag nonsense and the phoney ECHR debate.
Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims. As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.” That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea.
Golden hour heron #ShareMondays2025 #birds #UKBirds #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #UKWildlife #ThePhotoHour #blueskymondays
BBC using the phrase 'approved asylum seekers' today. It's technically correct I suppose, but emotionally barren - taking a word that inspires sympathy and turning it into a dead administrative phrase. They are refugees.
Crazy idea: what if we make electricity cost more for non-residential use.
Perhaps she could describe what that is...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent six years planning a perfectly aligned shot of the Moon with Turin’s Basilica of Superga and Monviso. Weather delays thwarted annual chances until December 2023, when a crescent Moon with visible da Vinci glow completed his long-envisioned composition
If he DOES come back for a press briefing, first question should be EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN. And as a follow up, EPSTEIN.
I'm going on record. You don't cover up dead. He's not dead. However, he's sick as shit. That you can cover up for a bit. But just a bit. Mostly I hope he feels like absolute shit and is very scared of death. That I can work with.
Mining sludge metal, free improv, krautrock, sacred music, electronica, and folk, Rún are playing with horror, not just as a trope, but as a worldly experience Rún - Rún buff.ly/NIspZR6
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
California stepping up.
