"Pouring Down" - my oil painting

He makes a persuasive case.

The creativity & the signs yesterday were epic. The fight for democracy that’s ahead of us is going to have to be too joycevance.substack.com/p/well-done-...

Gas skyrocketing, bombs dropping, our standing in the world in tatters, taxpayer dollars up in flames — meanwhile this oligarch dictator wanna-be brags about his new ballroom and the “Corinthian” columns

How is every American not sickened by this?

Sunday thought: Trump’s Real Reason for War Friends,

What's the real reason for this war in Iran? Trump and Netanyahu are using the same authoritarian playbook. A big part of that playbook is using war to blot out your failures and any criticism you are facing at home.

Some thoughts...

Just remember what this is all for…. Distracting from the Epstein files

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"The Peace President." [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]

G&D and Caerphilly painting quite the picture about how the public really feel about Reform - despite much of the media’s desperate attempts to persuade us that a Farage premiership is inevitable come the next GE.

"What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Pizza Express meal?"

Stop foreign interference in British politics British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...

🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

Reform should call itself Retory:

Nadhim Zahawi
Ben Bradley
Malcolm Offord
Jonathan Gullis
Chris Green
Lia Nici
Kruger
Dorries
David Jones
Sir Jake Berry
Graham Simpson
Marco Longhi
Ross Thomson
Andrea Jenkyns
Aidan Burley
Alan Amos
Lee Anderson
Ann Widdecombe
Maria Caulfield

And counting

Why we won't be using X anymore ⬇️

‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctors Firms including United Healthcare have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say

Health insurance giants, including United Healthcare, have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say

Delighted with my (provisional) 1st term module results at @uniofgalway.bsky.social
- Cloud Web App Development 86%
- Algorithmics & Logical Methods 74%
- Java Programming 60% - and that’s one’s bloody hard and I thought I’d failed! 😊

Every single day the UK loses £600m because of Brexit.

£600m yesterday, £600m today, £600m tomorrow.

For what?

Jonathan Pie on the money as usual youtube.com/watch?v=R3XO...

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

I used to scratch my head as to how they all allowed the world to go to hell in a handbasket in the 1930s and why not enough was done to prevent it. We all know now.

Fighting for facts in the era of Trump and Musk EDITORIAL. The alliance between Donald Trump and social media platform bosses such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg represents a global threat to free access to reliable information. Le Monde has ther...

One of France's most prominent newspapers, Le Monde, is abandoning Elon Musk's X

“The alliance between Donald Trump & social media platform bosses such as Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg represents a global threat to free access to reliable information”

www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

The White House President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength, a...

Words fail me
www.whitehouse.gov

Extract from article: "The department's view that the constitution prohibits the continued indictment and prosecution of a president is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the government's proof or the merits of the prosecution, which the office stands fully behind," Smith writes. "Indeed, but for Mr Trump's election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial."

Post by Tory, Daniel Hannan: “In contrast to the European Union, based on technocracy and central control, let's build an Anglosphere Union based on liberty, open markets, secure property, free contract and the rule of law.”

Special Counsel (Jack Smith’s) report confirms Trump went to “unprecedented criminal effort" to retain power in 2020. Only election in 2024 stopped him being convicted.
So, when Tories say he represents the “rule of law” - just laugh at their sorry immoral arses.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Holy SHIT, Jack Smith gives no more f*cks:

“Mr. Trump's letter claims that dismissal of his criminal cases signifies Mr. Trump's
"complete exoneration…That is false.”

Translation: Trump’s immunity argument is bullshit and he’s GUILTY.

Sounds familiar...

Eastern black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) from Skinninggrove beach taken with my old p900 17th December 2016 #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #twitching #rarebirds #wildlife #wildlifephotography #redstart #blackredstart

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

This is going to continue happening, more frequently and more intensely, as long as industries are allowed to expand unchecked. This is the direct result of Republican climate change denial, and putting greed over the value of human lives.
abcnews.go.com/US/climate-c...