Mari Strachan

What’s the opposite of a Nobel Peace Prize?

I think we have a winner.

JD Vance spending this weekend skiing at Sugarbush. TY Vermont 🩵

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @llinosmedi.bsky.social has tabled an amendment to devolve the #CrownEstate to #Wales.

That would mean more money for services in Wales.

Will Labour support us? 👀

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

Anyone who has read Michael Lewis's Fifth Risk will be familiar with the reason @NOAA is a critical public service, not just for the US, but in the global battle against climate change.

Trump's #Project2025 has a stated objective of closing it down,& that will be catastrophic.

@climate.noaa.gov

I used to think the excesses happening in the US couldn't happen here. The 2016 US election and Brexit changed my mind.
Our parliamentary systems rely on trust and would not survive a Musk-like assault. Our MSM is even more compliant and ineffective. Don't think similar couldn't happen to us.

Dominic Cummings on Twitter: When we recapture No10 we'll then retake Chagos, fuck Starmer's treacherous sell out using his scum lawyer friends getting rich from betrayal - and investigations into everybody involved in the deal. We can roll that into the investigations into Grieve et al and the need for jail sentences for those who worked with foreign enemies to overturn British democracy... Plus Starmer is sending them ... 18 billion which is ... £350 M per week. We took back control and spent our money on the NHS. Starmer is giving away control and sending foreigners 350million per week of your money *The system is working as intended*

Well, Cummings has seemingly gone full batshit crazy

Like Trump, facts escape him. The Chagos deal was put together by the Tories before July 6th election but they did it of course to leave the poison chalice to Labour

The rest is just hom backing the latest politics to try and curry favour

A reminder that the BBC can still do accurate, informative analysis when it wants to.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gary Lineker called for Israel to be banned from International Football.

Do you stand with Gary Lineker?

Like if you do.

Tesla Sales Plunge 63% in France, the EU’s Second-Biggest EV Market Tesla Inc. registrations plummeted 63% last month in France, the European Union’s second-biggest market for battery-electric vehicles.

Bad news for TeSSla's owners. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Must has been tweeting manically overnight about defunding USAID, citing lurid right wing disinformation. USAID is key to America’s soft power, and the only beneficiaries of its destruction are Russia and China

Hostile Takeover “Department of Government Efficiency” Hijacks The Federal Government

“Make no mistake, what’s happening right now is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private agency operating with a broad mandate and no concerns for the stability of the United States or the interests of the average American.”
Alexander Vindman

open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

Elon Musk is terrified of everyone knowing the names of the people who work for him.

So do your work.

A photo of a Welsh flag with "Wales still isn't receiving fair funding!" in Welsh in large white text with a neon red glow.

😡Mae cyllideb Llafur yn methu mynd i’r afael â’r argyfyngau o fewn ein NHS, cynghorau a phrifysgolion, a mae eu haelodau meinciau cefn yn cytuno

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Mae #Cymru angen ariannu teg ond dyw Llafur ddim yn brwydo am hyn gan eu pencadlys yn Llundain

🔥Dim ond Plaid Cymru sy'n ymladd dros gyllid teg i Gymru!

1 YEAR OF 20MPH

There were around 100 fewer people killed / seriously injured on 20/30mph roads.

Casualties from July-Sept was the lowest Q3 figures in Wales since records began.

Over the year the number of casualties on 20/30mph roads is 28% lower than the year before.

Good policy making.

Mushroom Complex

Not an ally of women

They exaggerate their self importance

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı

🎉

President Zelensky: 150 Ukrainian firefighters are ready to travel to California to help combat the wildfires.🇺🇸🇺🇦

Michael Sheen to fund new national theatre for Wales The actor says he is putting everything behind starting Welsh National Theatre.

BBC News - Michael Sheen to fund new national theatre for Wales - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Left: Liz Truss says Gordon Brown crashed the economy, he didn't. And that Rachel Reeves has pushed the UK to an economic crisis, she hasn't

Right: Truss apologises/ Sunak says he was made PM t fix her mistakes. Hunt says he reversed her budget. Even Kwasi Kwarteng said he told her to slow down

Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

Fact-checking is not censorship.
Requesting evidence is not censorship.
Refuting falsehoods is not censorship.
Stopping a lie from travelling halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on is not censorship.
But Zuckerberg's grovelling to Trump will sure as hell lead to censorship.