Tony Blair joining Trump's "Bored of Peace" tells us everything we need to know about Tony Blair.
23.02.2026 08:48
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Tony Blair joining Trump's "Bored of Peace" tells us everything we need to know about Tony Blair.
Screenshot of an X post from “Republicans against Trump” questioning why FBI Director Kash Patel is flying to Milan on a government jet to watch Olympic hockey at taxpayers’ expense. The embedded image shows two men taking a selfie-style video in what appears to be a locker room, one holding a gold medal.
Screenshot of an X post from “Republicans against Trump” quoting Kash Patel in 2023 criticizing FBI Director Chris Wray for using a government-funded jet for vacations and suggesting fines for each takeoff. The embedded image shows Patel seated on a couch during an interview.
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Massive missed opportunity for a newsletter that’s just “what is everyone going on about on Bluesky today”
Neat little summary, 300 words, I can read it first thing in the morning and be saved 30 minutes of trying to peel back the layers of meta-commentary to get at whatever kicked it all off
Half the posts people bring over here from X to get everyone riled up have 700 likes while your average guy making Pad Thai on YouTube shorts has 120k and the people who constantly go on about “persuasion” and being where people are never seem to notice
🚨🚨This is no "peace" plan, it is a recipe for further suffering and #Russian imperialist expansion in the #west. It is difficult to appreciate just how much damage the #trump administration has done to #Ukraine and its war efforts. It is disgusting beyond words. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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The letter says We hereby inform you that we do not intent to maintain our relationship and notify you this day, subject to a one-month notification period, the end of our banking contract for your account in existence since December 22", 2006. that is with effect on January 21", 2008. Consequently, after this period is over, you should retumn all unused checks still in your possession and provide us with your new banking references, in order to enable us to wire the amount remaining on your account upon closing date. If not provided, we will issue a certified check for said amount, Furthermore, we would like to have communication of the list of drawn checks which may still be presented for payment on your account, so as to keep sufficient and useful amount in order to avoid your account to become in debit. Failing that, your checks will be rejected. The end of our banking contract occurring at HSBC's request, no charge will be invoiced for the closing down of your account.
NEW/EXCLUSIVE: A French branch of HSBC closed a bank account maintained by Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 after compliance officers flagged transactions for suspicious activity, including payments tied to a modeling agent later accused of rape & sex trafficking
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Reporting from @kylegriffin1.bsky.social: Sen. Elissa Slotkin tells NBC News that Capitol Police are now with her 24/7.
"We've had hundreds and hundreds, if not closer to 1000 threats come in to our phones, our emails" since Trump’s threat. joycevance.substack.com/p/sorry-geor...
Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
Trump continues to work for Putin after he exempted Orban’s Hungary from sanctions on Russian oil today.
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
My god. If only @arusbridger.bsky.social was a BBC director instead of Robbie Gibb. The whole country would be in a much better state
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
This is wonderful. Everyone should read it. Central to understanding why Britain is having such a hard time coping with its problems. And almost every other rich country has its own version.
Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.
www.politico.eu/article/zohr...
Polling from @amnestyuk.bsky.social shows we want to stay in the ECHR.
The public have seen the harm leaving European institutions has done to Britain and they recognise calls to leave the ECHR are just asking for even more damage to all our rights
nation.cymru/news/more-su...
Amid many a silly “free speech” panic, here is a genuinely chilling case …
Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The cool thing about this is it incentives “real” news orgs to write stories with headline keywords that might be found by people googling for more info after being primed by the insanity!
And the whole Royal carriage cheered
Incredibly, people still take this bloke seriously when he tells them he'll be terraforming Mars by easter. He's an inveterate liar, a child.
Morning Bluesky.
The Putin puppet Trump told journalists he wasn’t considering sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine - even though the Pentagon said it was okay.
Age restrictions on social media for over 50s.
Bluesky User Count 40,064,351 Total Bluesky Users
Slow but steady. Just passed the 40m mark.
Remember when Farage talks *about* work he is largely talking *to* people who have retired from it
And this is why everyone needs to stop trusting Grok.
And leave X.
AI images should be digitally watermarked.
And people need to stop asking AI anything.
Too often it is dangerous nonsense, social manipulation controlled by some of the world's worst people.
A British bloke called Anthony Williams is charged with the train stabbings.
This is an extraordinary read which does make you want to bang your head against the millions of pounds of steel and concrete used to build this pointless bridge
I must admit I’m finding social media a struggle at the moment — filled as it is by toxic chancers deliberately targeting my fellow citizens (and friends) with hateful racist lies. The mental violence is sometimes overwhelming. But we must fight back
If he's left wing, why are so many failed Tories joining Reform?
