Gregory Norminton

Black and white portrait of a girl, featuring with a bow in their hair, looking directly at the camera.

1 March 1932 | Dutch Jewish girl, Ingeborg Engelander, was born in Amsterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

I wonder when Bernie and the remaining Bluesky diehards will finally recognize the situation here.

Well on the way to a quarter of a million by summer. Who'd have thought Britain had so many sectarian extremists?

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

America and Israel bomb Iran, aiming to topple its regime Donald Trump calls on Iranians to rise up. War could quickly engulf the Middle East

America and Israel have unleashed a mighty war machine, but Iran’s Islamic regime has also been preparing for this day. It is highly unlikely to leave without a fight

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?

A reminder that the administration spent the day before it launched a war in the Middle East feuding with tech companies over whether and how the AI models the Pentagon buys will be restrained from autonomously killing people.

Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage X.com We don't need to take foreign policy advice from the American President. The last time we did that it was called the Iraq War.

Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage The Prime Minister needs to change his mind on the use of our military bases and back the Americans in this vital fight against Iran!

Weasel.

The timing of the initial strikes is unusual.

Often you see these types of operations launched in the pre-dawn hours at the target site partly to limit civilian casualties.

This operation began at the beginning of a work and school day, with millions of adult civilians and children in harms way.

Hello world, may I recommend switching to electric vehicles?

I think it’s time to acknowledge that Trump is a sadist. He likes harming people, killing them:
- USAID vaporization, 10m dead
- Killing people on high seas
- ICE terror regime
- Cutting health care, food assistance to tens of millions
- Iran War, backing genocidal Putin

"In Paris, France, water is 100% municipally owned and the customer satisfaction rate of the publicly owned Eau de Paris ranges from 90-96%."

After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.

> @covie93.bsky.social

The cries of anguish. Jesus Christ.

A colourful wash montage of Sweeney sitting on a large antler, and small, sitting on ivy. He is sat amongst aspen, alder, wild strawberry and fallen apples. There are two blackbirds, one drinks rainwater captured in the leaves of the wild strawberry, the other is singing whilst perched in the ivy.

New Patreon post - A Natural Draw - Sweeney's Lament - @gregorynorminton.bsky.social

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

Great point here from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Trump effort to sabotage elections could get easier with right wing oligarchic control over big news organizations, which gives pro-Trump forces "effective control over how it is presented."
newrepublic.com/post/207138/...

He looks like he spent those two days sitting next to a pile of radioactive graphite.

Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:

Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...

This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.

State AGs must step in and block it.

This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.

So good, I was suspicious it wasn't real.

I don't want Labour to fail. I'm willing to vote tactically but at heart I'm a Labour voter. Yet I turned on the radio to hear a witless, robotic Starmer compare the Greens to Reform and my heart sank. The tone-deafness, the intellectual laziness, the obstinacy. He has to go.

Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’ The Labour MP told Byline Times that, from her experience of 'clan-based politics', it was not present in the Manchester by-election as Reform UK claims

🔴 Naz Shah MP on Gorton & Denton Claims: 'How Do Supposedly Sectarian Muslims End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?'

The MP for Bradford West told Byline Times: "I know what clan-based politics looks like, I have a history of fighting it, this isn't what this is"

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing.

"It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

Wrote up the by-election, the Green victory and the conferences for Labour at the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

The claim that Muslims in Gorton and Denton voted in 'blocs' is an instance of othering. Tacitly, it's saying that Muslim voters aren't individuals but a conspiratorial mass, electoral automata controlled by sinister forces.

Opinion | Don’t Look Now, but the Green Transition Is Still Happening

Let me offer a slight rebuttal on climate politics, beginning with us (enviros and Dems) having done a terrible job on climate communication for a long time. A legacy of bad work is not reason to stop work, it’s reason to do better work.

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1/2 NEW: This national security assessment, broadcast for the first time after the Government tried to hush it up, makes clear what many have sensed for some time...