While Kristi Noem funneled $220M in taxpayer funds into self-promoting political ads, she refused to distribute $500M+ in FEMA funding for LA Fire survivors.
The Trump Administration must immediately release that relief and redirect those wasted ad dollars to recovery efforts.
Israeli attacks on UNIFIL peace keepers tonight. Irish service men were not directly hit, but they aided their counterparts from Ghana. This will further deteriorate Irish Israel relations.
Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.
This confirms what we already knew, but what is not talked about enough.
russia, a terrorist state, is directly targeting Europe with acts intended to kill.
It is at war with us.
This will only intensify, maybe dramatically, until Moscow is completely defeated in Ukraine.
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Tory peer quits after investigation into PPE role
(No, not that one)
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This is almost exactly what I said would happen on yesterday’s show. The conflicting & contradictory reasons given for the war, coupled with client journalists & pusillanimous politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, will enable him to claim ‘success’ when nothing remotely successful has happened.
Reform UK Leader in Notts Mick Barton advised that 1000 potholes could have been fixed with the £75k wasted on putting flags up. His response 'Shut up about the flags, listen we've run out of money'. #ReformUK
#USEmbassyUK #Bastards
How quintessentially English!😂😂🔥
Man walks past the US embassy in the UK shouting 'bastards'!
“Dear Diary,
Super excited to say that I’ll be serving my Clacton constituents today by flying to Mar-a-Lago to meet Donald Trump and to undermine the UK government. God I love being a patriot!”
🇭🇺🇺🇦 The Hungarian government showed what the cash and gold bars seized from Ukrainian collection vehicles look like.
Just sick.
A woman from Mariupol, whose husband died, or was killed, in a Russian jail as a POW, has now been jailed herself for "high treason"
Anhelina Skiba was given 13 years by a court in St Petersburg for "high treason"
It's alleged she transferred about €80 to support the Azov regiment.
A protest now in Vienna in front of the Hungarian Embassy. The transport took money from Raiffeisenbank in Vienna with destination Ukraine.
Judging from the prose, the Pentagon appears to be using AI to announce the death of soldiers. If it’s not AI, it’s a person who simply does not care.
Biden: "We're in a tough spot, folks. We've got an administration that doesn't share any of the values we have. And I don't think I'm exaggerating."
The Reform UK leader has spent over 1,000 hours or 140 working days at his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament– neglecting his constituency and Parliamentary duties.
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Something big is in those files... Even [Trump] recognizes whatever's in there is so immovable in terms of the impact and damage that it would to to him that he cannot allow it to be made public."
Obama on Jesse Jackson: "The message he sent to a 22 year old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place, any room, where we didn't belong"
Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
Obama has the crowd at Jesse Jackson's eulogy hanging on his every word
In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.
Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
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Oh, just the business vehicle of Nigel Farage masquerading as a political party breaching its obligations at Companies House.
Nigel Farage is in Mar-a-Lago tonight (not Clacton, obvs). Via Politico: "What Farage should be doing: Sorting out his Reform documents with Companies House. The party is overdue on submitting a [legally mandatory] statement."
Axel Springer has big £600m to buy The Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph. It also bid £600m to buy the titles back in 2004 (it was beaten by the Barclay bros £665m offer). With inflation though, that 2004 bid would equate to about £1.1bn now.
FT exclusive:
Russia has shared targeting intelligence with Iran, including locations of American military assets in the Middle East, as Tehran unleashes a barrage of drone and missile strikes against the US and its allies, said people familiar with the matter.
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A very interesting open letter to Donald Trump was published today by one of Dubai's most prominent figures.
@KhalafAlHabtoor is richer than Trump +his family will ever be, even after White House enrichment, and he packs a LOT of clout.
Here's the translation.
Spot on ⬇️
@stellacreasy.bsky.social: "The performative cruelty of repeatedly demanding that refugees prove they are still refugees – or else face deportation – cannot be understated. It is also a waste of money given that so few refugees, when retested, will change status."
Lots of things are great in this country. But driving on potholed roads to collect my daily ration of bottled water along with a queue of others on an industrial estate because a broken pipe means no water at home starts to shake your faith (and mood) a bit. *Resists urge to rant about Thames Water*
Interesting that the BBC justifies its generous coverage of Reform using polling numbers - but only from "positive" polls! Turns out that Reform also tops the "negative" polls, ie it's the party most would vote AGAINST. And given tactical voting, the negative effect may even outweigh the positive🤔
Suspect I speak from a fairly unique perspective on this (certainly on BlueSky) as someone who failed his 11+ went to a secondary modern and then a grammar.
Franky: deliberately disadvantaging a majority of pupils so a small group, who are largely already privileged, can do better is immoral.
President Trump demands unconditional surrender in respect of something his government insists is not a war.
