🤦‍♂️Facepalm

Pressure grows on ministers to end secrecy over UK medicines deal with Trump Critics say government hiding true cost of agreement ‘despite being forced to admit financial burden will grow year on year’

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

And this?
What risks are being taken with our health behind closed doors?

GOP in 1992: "Clinton will take your guns!"

CLINTON: "No, I won't."

GOP in 2008: "Obama will take your guns!"

OBAMA: "No, I won't."

GOP in 2020: "Biden will take your guns!"

BIDEN: "No, I won't."

GOP in 2024: "Harris will take away your guns!"

DONALD TRUMP: "You can't have guns."

This is true of ALL measures supposedly to protect children. The biggest impact is on adults, and on privacy.

This isn’t a political account by any means, but I can’t help but say how much I love the USPS driver that flipped off ICE and yelled “go home you fucking losers” out the window of his mail van.

🎯🎯🎯🎯

Okay, so this is an authoritarian playbook trick, once the evidence is overwhelming say everyone needs to wait for the official investigation then either fix it or attack it when its completed. Same shit Russian pulled with MH17 and chemical attacks in Syria, very predictable.

Ofcom won’t investigate TalkTV’s climate misinformation – we’re taking a stand | Good Law Project Ofcom dismissed complaints over TalkTV’s blatant climate misinformation, so we’re fighting back

With @stopfundinghate.bsky.social we've uncovered that The Times' sister channel TalkTV is pushing climate misinformation like “CO2 is not a threat to the planet” and the science behind it “doesn’t add up to a row of beans”.

We've written to Ofcom giving it 14 days to explain why it failed to act.

Just a reminder to the people of Gorton and Denton that Matthew Goodwin believes that even being born and brought up in the UK did not mean that people from black, Asian or other immigrant backgrounds were always British.

He's a hard-right activist and Reform UK will try to soften this image.

Left: Nigel Farage says that Llandudno's economy is on the edge of a cliff

Right: 54% of those on Conwy (including Llandudno) voted for Brexit

Baroness Humphreys explains what the EU did for Conwy:

YouTube video by Democracy Docket How Trump Is Using Minneapolis to Rig the 2026 Election

NEW EPISODE: Trump's DOJ is using the recent tragedies in Minneapolis to demand access to Minnesota’s voter rolls. I explain why Pam Bondi and the DOJ are targeting voter data nationwide ahead of the 2026 midterms, and how election denialism is driving violence and intimidation.

Stop fannying around and rejoin the EU then, more than 60% of the population now know they were sold a dud by Fartrage and Johnson. Just get it done

Released 26 Jan 1970, Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel. It topped the charts in 10 countries, including the US & UK. It was the best-selling album for 3 years & was at the time the best-selling LP of all time. It held the record till the release of Michael Jackson's Thriller in 1982.

Removing US as World Cup host would be eminently sad – and entirely justified | Alexander Abnos A country where safety is under threat from federal violence on the streets is not fit to stage soccer’s showpiece event

"A country where safety is under threat from federal violence on the streets is not fit to stage soccer’s showpiece event," writes @anabnos.com.

Screenshot of an X post by Brett Meiselas (@BMeiselas) saying, “You can tell these people aren’t actually religious because if they were they’d actually be worried about going to hell.” The post quote-tweets “The Megyn Kelly Show,” which displays a quote attributed to @megynkelly about not feeling sorry for Alex Pretti and saying she wasn’t shot because she stayed inside and out of “their operations.” Below is a video thumbnail of Megyn Kelly in a studio with a microphone, red background graphics, a QR code overlay, and SiriusXM branding.

It's as if she already sold her soul.

McFeeters files residency challenge against Tommy Tuberville with Alabama GOP | Alabama Reflector Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken McFeeters filed a challenge against U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for Alabama governor to the state Republican Party Tuesd...

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social :“Public reporting and available records raise serious and unresolved questions as to whether Senator Tuberville has been a continuous resident citizen of Alabama for the seven years immediately preceding the upcoming election,” GOP candidate Ken McFeeters wrote.

Braverman’s predictable defection is Farage’s biggest political gamble yet Twice-sacked former home secretary seen as ‘not a team player’ and may limit attempts to expand Reform’s appeal

"As the mock chatshow host Mrs Merton might have asked: what was it that attracted you to the hard-right, culture war-friendly, anti-immigration party that happens to be leading every opinion poll?"

Jumping ship to save their political skin...

Twitter showed us that most of the initial issues with TikTok will be due to some dipshit touching things he doesn't understand, not direct evil

„Russian forces are increasingly using Starlink satellite systems to extend the range of BM-35 strike drones to conduct mid-range strikes against the Ukrainian rear.“
Institute for the Study of War

Keir Starmer could pump billions into areas where Reform is leading The £5bn Pride in Place fund for disadvantaged communities could be supplemented by a £50bn ‘neighbourhood recovery fund’ delivered over 20 years

Keir Starmer could pump billions into areas where Reform is leading

The £5bn Pride in Place fund for disadvantaged communities could be supplemented by a £50bn ‘neighbourhood recovery fund’ delivered over 20 years

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

GB News presenter Matt Goodwin unveiled as Reform UK's by-election candidate The Greater Manchester seat of Gorton and Denton became vacant after Andrew Gwynne stepped down for health reasons.

"In recent years he [Goodwin] has slightly moved away from studying the politics of the right to becoming an activist ..."

"Slightly" is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just days after a group of Trump-aligned billionaires officially took over TikTok in the U.S., users reported their videos criticizing ICE and the shooting of Alex Pretti were suppressed or delayed.

The oligarchy is tightening its grip over even more of our media.

Beware.

The Steady State Sends Demand Letter to Department of Homeland Security Over Threats to Protected Speech The Steady State

My law firm sent demand letter on behalf of @thesteadystate.org to DHS to seek renouncement of statements by Border Patrol official Greg Bovino that there will be “consequences” for those who exercise 1st Amendment protected activity.

Letter is here:

steadystate1.substack.com/p/the-steady...

'It's going to be catastrophic': The inside story of the Challenger disaster Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy.

When the engineers say, "It's not safe. Something bad will happen," it's always best to listen and err on the side of caution.

28 Jan 1978, Fleetwood Mac's album Rumours went to No.1 on the UK album chart. The group's 11th studio album sold over 45 million copies worldwide and spent 440 weeks on the UK chart. The songs 'Go Your Own Way', 'Don't Stop', & 'You Make Loving Fun' were released as singles. #Rumours #FleetwoodMac

ICE agent tells a protestor,

"If you raise your voice"

"I'll erase your voice"

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

Hi @electoralcommission.org.uk, is it permissable for a parliamentary by-election candidate to present their own TV show during the election period?

"My poll numbers have never been hotter!"

⬇️ "The Member for Clacton is warmly welcoming people who spent 14 years undermining public services, who wrecked the economy, who botched Brexit, and who then got booted out by the British people in 2024."

😲 "Mr. Speaker, their latest recruit was so bad, she managed to get sacked by Liz Truss!"

With Burnham blocked, Labour’s attention turns back to Angela Rayner Keir Starmer’s former number two will be a focus of the renewed speculation about party’s future leadership

ANALYSIS: With Andy Burnham blocked, Labour’s attention turns back to Angela Rayner…

“Angela says she took the scars for Corbyn, she took the scars for Starmer, and so next time she takes the scars it will be for herself,” a senior Labour figure says.

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