Fran Parry

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED.

Thank you, @donlemonofficial.bsky.social, for your courage in the face of censorship, and for joining us in NYC as our special opening guest.

HRC is proud to stand with you, and will always defend a free press.

Kyiv.
1:50 am.
Electricity is back for a short while.
I’ve put all the essentials to charge.

Sitting here, looking at the light and grateful to everyone who keeps it on in Ukraine. Titans.

Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.

Reform by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have kids should pay more tax Exclusive: The Reform politician’s suggestion would ‘punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose’, Labour’s deputy leader has warned

So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony.

This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Vote Reform, get The Handmaid's Tale.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

a meme — the top says “My dog just got a haircut and now he looks like he gave up drinking and got his life together” and underneath are 2 photos of a dog (a schnauzer i think?). on the left, the “before,” he’s scruffy and in need of a haircut and a bath. and on the right, the “after,” he’s clean and clipped and wearing a jaunty red bow tie and looking very dapper indeed.

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity Podcaster claimed former prime minister not English because he is ‘brown-skinned Hindu’

It is terribly sad that the former PM feels the need to say this in the face of low life blowhards.

We cannot allow this to even be a question.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Last night Peter Mandelson used IPSO the press regulator to ask UK media to stop contacting him, approaching him, or photographing him

Today’s Times Magazine - (an interview conducted towards end of Jan) 👇

Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client

New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Still here Yara and always will be. Russia's crimes are heinous. Sending love and support to you, your family and a remote tummy rub to Victory, the cat #SlavaUkraini X

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore

It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

Kyiv.
There was a time when I ordered books.
Now I order thermos flasks.

The time for books will come.

Name them
shame them

Ukraine Is Freezing — And Trump Is Lying About Putin’s War Energy infrastructure was the target — Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro hit hard. While Ukrainians suffer, Trump plays cover for Putin.

Ukraine Is Freezing — And Trump Is Lying About Putin’s War
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The US president indulges in horrific racism online. And the BBC report on this outrageous behaviour? I can’t see a word about it on their site. Am I missing it?

Greetings from Kyiv
and a warcoffee after the workout.

The repairman fixed the windows, and I hope the little warmth we still have will now stay inside the flat.

1,126 high-rise buildings on the left bank of Kyiv (where I live) remain without heating after the latest russian attack.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.

2019: President Trump, "I am the least racist person there is, anywhere in the world.. African Americans are so happy.. So thankful"

2026: President Trump posts a video which shows Michelle and Barak Obama's heads on monkey bodies

It was posted 8 hours ago, has 4.24k likes, 1.74 RTs, 251 comments

This absolutely shocking scandal has got to end

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Kushner & Witkoff attend the most pivotal meeting in the world, dressed like unserious bums. Contrast their appearance with the Russians.
It's clear Trump wants Ukraine to fail even more than Putin b/c Zelensky refused to invent dirt on the Bidens, causing his 1st impeachment.

Sounds like a plan.

Can the EU formally investigate Nigel’s ties to Russia too please?

Greetings from Kyiv.

Winter’s survival mode drains a lot of energy.
Voltage drops and constant power cuts wear out the meter. I have to choose what to charge in the rare hours of electricity.
Finally found someone to fix the windows, the drafts make the flat even colder.

Spring, we need you.

screenshot of Press Gazette homepage leading with "A letter to the 300 axed Washington Post staffers from Carole Cadwalladr"

Lead story @pressgazette.co.uk
"To the journalists of the Washington Post I say, there is another way.... What if you could try to do journalism in a different way? And persuade a community of readers to build a new kind of journalism?"

THANK YOU to our community for making the Nerve a success 🔗👇

There’s literally past ministers and Tory MPs standing next to you.

Unbelievable