President Trump has pushed to move briefings out of the White House press room. Aides say he wants an indoor swimming pool instead. nyti.ms/4eoW3AV
Official US policy is that Ukraine is a strategic partner, and Russia is an adversarial threat to US interests. Trump himself formalised it in Feb 2026. It was still the case when Starlink went down. If a US citizen harms allies and assists adversaries in a war, that's treason.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterdayBreaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcxkt
New post: Over the next year there a series of European elections where the radical right could gain more power than ever before. How will this play out? We have 30 years of evidence that tells us they will struggle. Obituries for liberalism are premature. samf.substack.com/p/the-strait...
The straitjacket of power
What happens when the radical right wins
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Rifkind says what everyone else is thinking - the Emperor is naked.
I didn’t know much about about Abdul El-Sayed before watching this but I knew as soon as I’d seen it that he’d worked as a teacher — and sure enough he was an assistant professor in epidemiology. This is how you walk a student through a dumb take.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
US foreign policy feels increasingly like a feedback loop with a kill count.
October 8, Ukrainian drones hit Yandex’s major data center facility in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, causing a massive fire and shutting down the facility. Follow-up Attack: A second drone attack hit another Yandex facility in the Kaluga region the following day. Is this the end of a Trump Bot Farm?
The ability to hold two thoughts in your head at the same time marks one out as a dangerous subversive sent by the imperialists.
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2w agoThat substantial portions of the European and US Left struggle with the idea that it is possible to condemn criminal actions by the Israeli government while also condemning the vicious brutality of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continues to baffle me.
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
The safeguarding lead at Ellis' nursery once came out at pickup to talk to me. "Ellis has been talking about Colin. He says he shouts loudly, threatens to kill people, and he and Ellis play with guns in the garden." I explained Colin was a Dalek. There was a pause. "Is he a real Dalek?" #DoctorWho
Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack.
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
The lesson from this week is that most of the UK media thinks Hot Fuzz is a horror movie about a woke city cop destroying a perfectly admirable local community.
Every night I go to bed thinking I have seen the dumbest shit I’ll ever see in my life and every morning I am wrong before I’ve even finished my coffee
And now more than a thousand reposts of this. Thank you all. Yes, there is perhaps a technical reason why one is ’terrorism’ and the other is not, but sometimes one has to stand back and see the law as simply being the wrong way around.
The Empty City@davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2mo agoSeems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
'Nigel Farage tells BBC he wasn't listening during foreign donor talks filmed undercover.' So he 'smoked' some dodgy dealings, but didn't inhale. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks
The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
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🧵”Dealmaker” Trump. An excellent thread from threads by @chrisfb87 who is not currently on bluesky www.threads.com/share/BASUkZ...
✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...
The 30,000-mile fish finger
There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...
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Brennan: "Nearly all of Florida is below the 95% immunization rate for herd immunity for measles. So, is your message to Florida parents to get your kids vaccinated?" Byron Donalds: "No. My message is the reason we have seen a measles outbreak is because of rampant illegal immigration."
Great stuff on the US Canada trade deal meltdown, & with a helpful glossary for non-Aussies…. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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NEW | So… CHANNEL 4’s NOT SO GREAT ADHD POLEMIC Press coverage of Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? shows how willing publications are to applaud stunts when they favour their conclusions. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/channel-4s...
Channel 4’s not so great ADHD polemic
Press coverage of Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? shows how willing publications are to applaud stunts when they favour their conclusions.
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amazing how this is still relevant a year after i posted it
Ed Morrish@edmorrish.com · last yr.if “tens of millions” of british people wanted a “full blown revolution” they would be protesting outside parliament. as it happens, dozens of british people are chucking bricks at asylum seekers, so i’ve come to a different conclusion about what it is these people want
Blanche’s confirmation underscores a simple truth: a handful of Republicans in Congress could stop this chaos tomorrow. They simply choose not to.
Trump's actions as opposed to his words still make clear that Trump is sitting firmly in Putin's breast pocket.
