The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

What a surprise www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Longer summers are not just more time to spend eating watermelon. No! It’s far more sinister! | First Dog on the Moon We have done so much climate change research, if they made a big pile of it you could climb up to the afternoon sun and tape a sheet over it to cool things down

First dog on the moon harried by space stalkers... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Close UK Airspace to US warplanes.

‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall War is testing operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it

It’s going to cost the lives of so many people. It’s going to devastate the US economy and the regional economy. It’s going to set back America and its standing in the world. It’s a horrific moment.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

1 in every 50 Americans, over 8 million people made history on Saturday attending a #NoKings USA rally! Americans are fed up with Trump/GOP! Trump is polling at 33% with Americans suffering from high costs from Trump/GOP’s war of choice in Iran, chaotic tariffs, elimination of healthcare subsidies!

No Kings is worth attending for the entertaining signs.

Sign says, "Arrest the Real Terrorists" with pics of kegsbreath, miller, and trump

Finished my sign #NoKings

Elderly man with a thin mustache holding a cardboard sign

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE

John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown

(Pic via petermarietoto on X)

Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat

What is it going to take before the public wakes up? Global war? Loss of social media? A shortage of hair conditioner? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nuclear armageddon! Is this it for real? Really?! | First Dog on the Moon The last time I was genuinely worried about nuclear war was more than 30 years ago. It’s nowhere near as fun now

FDOTM say it like it is...again! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Colonel Tom's Dancing Chickens YouTube video by Henry Sparks

Remembering Mr How... Chris H is the bassplayer right of centre with his white guitar. Meanwhile his daughter and her friend cut some classy shapes outside the window as the band played on clueless (as usual)! youtu.be/3bCOKWfpIyo?...

Starting With Chump,Bibi And
Barron........

How it is...

Is Trump’s war on Iran legal? That’s up to the US and Israel to decide and they have a great track record on these things | First Dog on the Moon International rules-based order for thee but not for me

FDOTM says it: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

368K views · 22K reactions | Solidarity with Ukraine on the fourth anniversary of Putin’s illegal invasion. 🇺🇦 ✊ (Location: Russian embassy, London, 2023) | Led By Donkeys Solidarity with Ukraine on the fourth anniversary of Putin’s illegal invasion. 🇺🇦 ✊ (Location: Russian embassy, London, 2023)

Nice! www.facebook.com/reel/2223828...

Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression | Kenneth Roth Their actions are no different from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Worth a read... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cockatoos! Everyone loves cockatoos (except property developers) | First Dog on the Moon Developers in Western Australia are planning to bulldoze an endangered banskia ecosystem to build some overpriced homes

As an architect I don't think I ever met a decent developer...First Dog has got the hump about that pack of thieves! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ukraine is the biggest and most consequential of all the American betrayals | Simon Tisdall As the war enters its fifth year, it’s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lost, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

'For shameless treachery, Trump has no modern equal. Yet the belief is growing that it cannot and will not continue.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion says FBI is investigating it for terrorism Extinction Rebellion says some members have been visited by agents claiming to be FBI amid Trump’s threats toward liberal groups

More political witchunt... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

He's got something to say that the short fingered vulgarian does not like! youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Carolina Says: YouTube video by Henry Sparks

Carolina Says: youtu.be/-Fe_egKOi7s?...

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful – live Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge; home secretary ‘disappointed’ by ruling and says government will appeal

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Data-driven climate action in America can make up for the Trump slump How smarter prioritization of straightforward voluntary actions can slash 20% of global carbon emissions

Looks like there are practical options to sidestep the attempts by the 'carnival of fools' in Washington and still keep reducing GHG emissions: drawdown.org/insights/dat...

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

To follow up my last post on the folly of abandoning carbon reduction initiatives: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation

Jaw dropping stuff from the Trump administration. Just when they should be encouraging the US economy to de-carbonize and and prepare for the future they do the reverse. How much damage can these clowns do before the US kicks them out? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon Police charged at people who could not flee due to being kettled. As always police say that is not what happened

FDOTM says it like it 'appears' to be... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

Interesting read: www.theguardian.com/environment/...