Sadly, this is NOT satire.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Amazing! Way to go Minneapolis!

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Renee Good tells ICE, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you" - then ICE agent shoots her and says "f*cking b*tch"

America, how can you be ok with this?

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

#MorningVibe

“Good energy…I don’t need no negativity around me.”

Look for the good. It’s there. ☮️

I’ve put myself in the recovery position after finishing #Prisoner951. I followed Nazanin & Richard’s story closely when it was happening in real time, signing petitions etc - but this dramatisation reveals the brutal psychological horror endured. It’s a traumatically magnificent love story 👏

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous ends, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty

Zohran Mamdani's full victory speech following New York mayor election YouTube video by Guardian News

POWER TO THE PEOPLE
#MamdaniWins

youtu.be/R6ocK3AZ24U?...

Call to Activism - Joe Gallina

MAMDANI: “The conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate.

I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older.

I am Muslim.

I am a democratic socialist.

And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.”

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53277-new-second-term-low-donald-trump-job-approval-government-spending

Maybe it was way more than seven million? "8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18."

p.s. Older people are really showing up.

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

Cute frogs vs. armed police. How inflatable costumes are changing the narrative around U.S. protests | CBC Radio Whether it’s the ongoing anti-ICE protests in Portland and Los Angeles, or the massive No Kings rallies that swept across the U.S. this weekend, the crowds are full of cutesy, cartoonish and colourful...

It started with a few people in inflatable frog costumes protesting outside an immigration detention centre in Portland, Ore.

Then, the frogs multiplied. And pretty soon, they were joined in solidarity by all manner of inflatable creatures, both real and mythical.

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”

– Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Jennifer Lawrence spoke up for Palestine at the San Sebastian film festival press conference today-

“what’s happening is no less than a genocide.”

America, 2025

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Been a while since I had this much fun in the studio. Apart from during Mystery Hour, of course. Not sure they made this cut but there at least two occasions when I nearly lost it completely.

Nicolas Witchell eat your heart out! James please get your name down to be the next BBC royal correspondent. You absolutely nailed the gilded banalness of it all. When you said ‘the full Cinderella’ and ‘now a horse has arrived’ I spat my tea out😂

Putin puts Trump to the test in Alaska | Simon Marks' American Week YouTube video by LBC

And a reminder that if you want to watch "American Week", you can now find it every weekend on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIfA...

Today was the culmination of three years of organising (with 2 other fabulous women!) Actually the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever - for the first time in the Haworth landscape which inspired Emily Brontë’s novel! Massive thanks to everyone who supported us & the event! #KateBush #Bradford2025 ❤️

I’ve been a few times but haven’t been able to get a ticket since 2022, so now have the agony of hearing about it from friends who are there who DID. I watch bands at #Glasto on telly to find out what’s contemporary. My absolute highlight was Doechii - empowerment manifest

An overhead photo showing 100s of people corralled by fencing and barbed wire into a tiny area. Three security people in high vis on the other side of the gates.

NEW: After an 86-day blockade of food into Gaza, starving residents are pictured being herded like livestock & surrounded by fencing and barbed wire as they await food parcels.

This photo was posted in the last hour by Gaza-based journalist Motasem A Dalloul.

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear:
The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here.

Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead.

This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.

Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto.

Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Trump marks 100-days in office with fresh blizzard of false claims and disinformation. My chat earlier today with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk

🎧: audioboom.com/posts/871347...