Amanda Kendal

I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

Jason Yates, former CEO of My Faith Votes, pleads guilty to child porn possession Former My Faith Votes CEO Jason Yates, a prominent conservative Christian activist, has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography, months after he was arrested

Oh, look! It's not a drag queen or a transgender person.

#AnotherChristian
#NOTaDragQueen
#NOTaTransPerson

The test cricket at Old Trafford … OMG!

Photo of the late comic and activist Janey Godley holding a placard saying “Trump is a cunt”, while a police officer looks on, at Turnberry in 2016.

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Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).

Liz Truss has warned the British Museum against losing its marbles. Ironic, really.

WTF?!? Border Czar Tom Homan claimed that ICE and Border Patrol agents don’t need probable cause to detain people they suspect are undocumented, saying they can do so based on factors like physical appearance. This is straight-up racial profiling, not law enforcement.

The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.

Caster Semenya: South African double Olympic champion wins partial victory at European Court of Human Rights in her long legal battle over athletics' sex eligibility rules. Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights in her long legal battle over athletics' sex eligibility rules.

Good.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympi...

Wait until the silly season really gets going.

No One Is Safe. Not Even Here. The destruction of Gaza’s hospitals marks a terrifying breach in the idea that healthcare is ever off-limits.

Hospitals are supposed to be where the suffering stops.

In Gaza, they are where the killing continues.

Channel 4's Gaza: Doctors Under Attack has exposed a terror campaign that sends a horrifying message:

No One Is Safe.
Not Even Here.

America at war

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And never forget how some media published photos of him being carried off the pitch.

Marc Vivien Foe in Manchester City kit.

01/05/75 - 26/06/03

RIP big man.

#MCFC #CTID

The proliferation of these groups is a bit odd given it's all the same people on all of them. (And they have fairly similar policy views to most of the existing right-wing think tanks).

The spirit of Liz Truss, ridiculous but relentless, still stalks British politics | Rafael Behr Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have much more in common with the failed Tory leader than either cares to admit, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

This is an absolutely brilliant column by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social . Every Word of this. I would only add that I personally think that this started even earlier than Truss.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Screenshot of a daily Mail Headline

What do we think?🤔

Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.

Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!

So, what’s going on here?

Let’s take a look!👀

🧵

1/13

Trump: “Offer up your trans Keir - then we can do business.”

Starmer: “Yes Mr Donald. Did you see Friday, Mr Donald? Did we do good?”

Labour will absolutely do this. 🏳️‍⚧️

Reading Anne McElvoy on how convenient the Supreme Court decision is for the Starmer government and the rest of the Establishment reminds me that human rights are, for the boss class. An area where there is minimum actual commitment and a lot of lip service.

“Sickening and heartbreaking”

Someone who was at the Marge Greene town hall where folks who dissented were arrested/targeted/tased by police — who has voted for both parties — writes about what she saw 👇🏽

Truss social: the latest chapter from a woman who really knows what the people want | Zoe Williams She’s threatening to launch an ‘uncensored and uncancellable’ online platform – like we don’t have enough of those already, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Concentration Camps Existed Long Before Auschwitz From Cuba to South Africa, the advent of barbed wire and automatic weapons allowed the few to imprison the many

The first modern-day concentration camps were in Spanish-ruled Cuba and in South Africa in the Anglo-Boer war in the late 19th century.

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/conc...

White House removes wire services from press pool rather than restore AP’s access The Associated Press filed a court motion stating that the press policy is “a clear violation of the court's injunction order,” urging a federal judge to enforce his ruling against the White House.

White House removes wire services from press pool rather than restore AP’s access

Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report

Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

This is it. We’ve abandoned Europe and our allies for a Third World tinpot dictator.

Louisiana baptist pastor, Shane Wiggins, has been arrested for the rape of a child.
www.baptistmessage.com/63415-2/

And guess what?

Also-fuckin'–lutey–not.

ANOTHER ONE!

Donald Trump didn’t just deport Albrego Garcia to a foreign torture prison—he deported a Venezuelan teenager who wasn’t even the intended target.

His name is Merwil Gutiérrez. He wasn’t in a gang. He wasn’t a threat. And even Trump’s own administration admitted he wasn't the target.