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$1m... seriously? I suspect that's at the extreme end of optimism. The Guardian reported one (1) ticket sold at a theatre in London, and apparently the buyer thought it was a porno.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

When they turn out to be just like you suspected... "I will not put up with that same kind of abusive, misogynistic behaviour that I have been subjected to from the leadership clique here in Scotland" www.thenational.scot/news/2666844...

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Using the Presidency to manufacture himself billions in tax breaks through golf courses. Scam artist doesn’t even begin to describe this President. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

I get these hunches. I'm getting one now. Matt Zerrusen, his pamphlet printing business & his ministry are about to be famous.

Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed he promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10B before ultimately placing at least $2B into his accounts. Paywalled, use archive. archive.ph/FHGAt

I have been praying for this kind of pushback from Democrats against Elon Musk for a long time now and I am thrilled that the Talarico camp is leaning into it. Light. Him. Up.

A gambling company closely linked to Nigel Farage’s right-hand "Posh George" Cottrell got its licence using a document which appears to have been faked. Major coop w/ @coramazov.bsky.social and @georgegreenwood.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/gambling-s...

This is mad. Farage's right-hand-man George Cottrell is linked to a gambling company called Tether.Bet. It turns out that the company used a fake document to secure a licence. By @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @georgegreenwood.bsky.social and @coramazov.bsky.social 1/3 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The names and faces of those behind the Kremlin's misinformation network 'Doppelgänger' have been revealed. These facts must be investigated and those responsible brought to justice, as individuals who create and promote Russian propaganda commit a series of grave crimes

Russian propagandist Solovyev offers Trump to unite and attack Europe. In exchange, he promises Trump a Peace Prize and Greenland. He suggests leaving the energy market to Russia. "Let's divide Europe like brothers," Putin says through Solovyev's mouth.

We are sensing a pattern

140 days of protests triggered by a corrupt kushner/trump family luxury island deal… yet 🇺🇸 media is essentially crickets 🦗 🦗

In troubled times Trump’s attempt to sue the BBC ... which is backfiring on him quite spectacularly... brings both hope and amusement newrepublic.com/post/216805/...

Calling this response shameful feels too kind. How does the sitting vice president not know about this? These are the people you serve. This is your administration’s war. It’s your job to know what it’s costing Americans, from the families burying their soldiers to everyone paying more at the pump.

BREAKING The BBC subpoenaed Jack Smith for a deposition to defend itself against Trump's defamation lawsuit. Smith didn't object to the subpoena. Team Trump opposes. buff.ly/cf6GaG2

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

He was elected in May last year.

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/10/16/i...

Donations to Labour Govt ministers by Israel : Andy Burnham £393,346 Lisa Nandy £184,219 Rachel Reeves £348,652 John Healey £39,216 Shabana Mahmood £137,168 Wes Streeting £459,182 Yvette Cooper £144,650 Angela Rayner £86,800 Chris Bryant £130,940

This is awesome. If your vote didn’t matter Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you.

Fuck Elon Musk. Fuck Donald Trump. Traitors to this country. Traitors to the free world.👇

Organize. Speak up. Call. Boycott. Protect your neighbors. Guard your kids. They won’t honor an honest election. They never have, they cry & do insurrections if they don’t get their way. Cheating & sore loser shit on the menu, never blink.🇺🇸❣️🤍💙

It’s the corruption. Trump is the king of it.

The crowd absolutely erupts when Carney says the Pacific Link pipeline will reduce Canada's dependence on the U.S. Mark Carney: "Careful. They might think that's election interference. They're a little touchy down there. We're not. We're getting on with it."

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"3 year old Mariam Ahmed Ghanem is now being treated in hospital after suffering second degree burns. Both her mother & father have been killed in the war. There have been near daily attacks.." Meanwhile the UK media pretends a motion declaring zionism is racism is the problem

In Scotland alone an estimated 250,000 native animals are killed annually to facilitate the shooting of another, the grouse.

Hey #r4today please stop dancing around trump. This is who trump is; a liar, an idiot, a spreader of disinformation, a convicted sex offender, and a felon. These are the facts we know. Stop reporting him as a normal person.

Call me a masochist, but I'm returning to this issue, as I feel it has been poorly understood. Please read the whole thread before responding. First, I hope we can agree that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza and horrific crimes in the West Bank and the wider region.

Excellent comments by @stephengethins.bsky.social, MSP, and Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Energy in #ScotParl. #RejoinSingleMarket #RejoinOurEU (And a reminder that nowhere in #Scotland ever voted to leave! 🇪🇺)

Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ukrainian Defenders struck a modernized Russian Mi-28 attack helicopter with an anti-aircraft FPV drone. Glory! 📹: 115th Separate Mechanized Brigade

The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.

Last night the BBC’s Newsnight booked the former spokesperson to a war criminal to call UK PM Andy Burnham a liar about Russian interference in the Brexit vote: Putin mouthpiece Sergei Markov. What was he supposed to say? Yeah, hands up, you got us.

Full story by ‘Gold Digger’ online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/columnists You can contact Gold Digger with financial stories at: golddigger@private-eye.co.uk

Trump is taking bribes in thousands of different ways. Despite great reporting we still only know a tiny percentage of it.

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were."

If you are shocked this am that Trump’s government executed a search warrant against a Democratic Member of Congress and ignored a judge’s order then you haven’t been paying attention. Stop saying this isn’t how it works in the US. It is exactly how it works under Trump.

Given how finely balanced the Brexit vote was, it didnt require that many people to be influenced by fake propaganda and the tonne of lies the Brexit campaign told to swing the outcome. The real insult here comes from the likes of Britain Unbound who refuse to see that at all

We’ll tell you what’s boring, Farage and the BBC… honking out Reform’s latest anti-asylum seeker bollox, as if it’s workable or wanted, and without any meaningful scrutiny. Yusuf on #r4today like a firehose of fascist idiocy, when this is the ugly truth behind their desperate outburst…

Eight years ago

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.