Paul Docherty

Wow. Prescient, and painful to read.

I'm in love.

Robert Kraft — who's given millions to pro-Israel orgs like AIPAC — once got a $1M award from Netanyahu for helping stop people from boycotting Israel. "Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft," Netanyahu said. Now, Kraft helps kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran's tour:

Author @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: "Their massive tax cuts for the rich, crushing of trade unions, reduction in public housing, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services were all proposed by Hayek and his disciples." Read more: evonomics.com/ruthless-net...

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

The UK is holding local elections, today. ..... all I can think about is what Douglas Adams wrote of lizards.

One would think the U.S. State Department would condemn a foreign nation for abducting and illegally detaining a U.S. journalist in international waters. One would be wrong. Instead, the U.S. government condemns the humanitarian flotilla while parroting Israeli talking points.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

Doctors Without Borders on the war in Lebanon. Link: xcancel.com/msf/status/2...

Israel continues to demolish the homes of more than 600,000 people in Lebanon, because Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide is what they do. Can you imagine the outrage if this was being done to Israel? But Israel does it. Complete SILENCE.

They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

And you thought AI posed problems for academia...

Pete Hegseth is a disgraced major who was kicked out of the DC National Guard.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Congress now has access to unredacted versions of the approx 3M Epstein files that the DOJ has released. Trump is at the heart of the crimes.

Want to talk to the past? Here' an LLM "trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 & 1899, drawn from a dataset made available by the British Library" Quite different from an LLM roleplaying a Victorian. huggingface.co/spaces/tvent...

This is what trump does with everything he says he’s done. He takes what other presidents did, destroys it & when he puts it back he says it was all his idea. He’s done this his entire life. The republicans think their voters are so gullible that they’ll believe it when they tell them the same lie.

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

It is plain and undeniable, that our government is now fully controlled by Epstein class ghouls who celebrate and feast upon the starvation, suffering, and killing of children. www.propublica.org/article/trum... bsky.app/profile/adam...

We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

The Scottish Literature volume of the online Literary Encyclopedia seeks entries (1500-2500 w) on works, authors, and topics not featured in the database. If interested, please contact: pre-1945 ScotLit: Arianna Introna, Arianna.introna@open.ac.uk; post-1945 ScotLit, Gina Lyle gina.lyle@york.ac.uk.

February 18, 2026

North Carolina’s @katebarrcanwin.bsky.social gave us the perfect metaphor for what we are all doing in this perilous moment. From today’s Politics Chat, watch now on YouTube.

February 16, 2026

Wow.

"Folks like to say that no one believed my warnings. I wish that were the case. The hard truth is officials believed them and let the worst happen anyway." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

I urge you to fill in this consultation if you can - with this very helpful support from Amnesty International - although AND because ! it is heart-breaking that this country has sunk so low that Amnesty suggest in a number of cases to provide no answer as the terms of the question are so evil

www.sarahkendziorbooks.com

The late sex trafficker appears to have had his own personal fixer in Moscow.

A DAY FOR GAZA The Nation, as part of its ongoing commitment to cover Gaza, devotes its entire Feb. 3 website to writers, photographers, thinkers who are in or from Gaza. “Collectively, the pieces embody an enduring affirmation of Gaza’s refusal, in the face of the world’s neglect, to be erased.”

February 3, 2026

www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

"Let us go." Immigration attorney Eric Lee shares a drawing by his five-year-old client, stuck in an immigration prison.

Please listen to this interview.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.