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If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Waking up to good news is a very novel experience. Must try it more often.

always nice to meet American tourists who have not previously encountered other humans, standing in an inconvenient place at a major London railway station with no hint of awareness they might be in anybody's way

My unshakable conviction is that America could fix its politics by importing a dozen British journalists to sit in events like this laughing loudly.

It features a huge ballroom with niches for portraits of the dictator and his wife and a sliding roof so that a helicopter can enter and exit. The building also had a nuclear bunker. The aesthetic sense of the two men is much the same but Trump’s construction will probably be even worse.

I have been trying to think of what Trump’s hideous “ballroom” project reminds me of — and I finally have it — it is Nicolai Ceausescu’s infamous and unfinished House of the People in communist Romania, which also brought awfulness to a lovely downtown.

Can confirm that #Algonquinpark in Fall is as beautiful as expected 🍁🇨🇦

Kenan Malik in the Observer on the farce of proscribing Palestine Action

Well, that’s my vote secured.

Oh well, no harm done, eh?

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Absolutely wonderful. Do listen to the (unedited) end. It’s worth it.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

You’re not politically neutral. You’re just a coward who is comfortable with injustice as long as it doesn't touch you.

Since there’s an opening for press secretary, I know a great candidate who’s not only a lawyer, but a neurosurgeon, a Grammy-winning recording artist, and the inventor of the Post-It Note.

Courageous stuff here. Real leadership. www.ft.com/content/5862... US business leaders are waking up to the perils of plutopopulism

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Hey #BBC. You know what you can’t ‘both side’? Public executions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

Through this livestreamed execution, the Trump regime will declare that it has departed from the civilized world and has plunged headlong into its own Dark Ages.

Pete Hegseth says the December 3rd firing squad execution of Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan will be public, for anyone who wants to watch. It is impossible to overstate the barbarity of these people. There is no way back. humanevents.com/2026/10/08/e...

Trump, Vance, Hegseth, whatever this is - they’re all just so profoundly weird. And they have the gall to attack trans people for altering their bodies.

No offence but if you needed a bike to get a 4:54 marathon time maybe fitness influencer isn't the thing for you.

We are just out of a summer with five record breaking heatwaves which literally killed thousands and bought climate change up close and personal for millions for the first time. This should be the Greens' big moment in history. But instead they're doing this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. The prime directive of the Conservative Party is to get and hold power. The idea that it would risk throwing away the opportunity merely because it involved an albeit uncomfortable arrangement with another right-wing party is clearly for the birds.

Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.

Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

No words…

Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.

Normal? Not at all. Birdsong fades. Summer temperatures soar. The danger is we simply adjust – but we shouldn’t. We cannot allow the climate crisis to rewrite our idea of what's normal.

I mean, I am a gay man and I think about cock less often than Hegseth or RFK Jr do.

He's one white cat short of being Blofeld. I hope nobody notices the alt text. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

Your starter for 10 - is the quote below from #ratcliffe or a pub bore after 5 pints? "We had the greatest empire in the world. We were a great people. We won two world wars”. Deeply fed up with the poor me billionaires & the fawning press coverage every time they try to justify their greed.

Imagining my parents if this had existed in the 80s "oh he's gone to Hampstead Heath again, good that he's getting out in nature"

I'm sorry, but what on *Earth* is that quote from Lisa Nandy? Who does Labour think its voters are? Does anyone in the party have any kind of theory of how they win the next election that isn't just slammjng the "appease racists" button over and over again until it starts working?

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Around the world, the Trump regime is viewed as government of, by and for pedophiles. And this is a Tory MP, btw.

But the #BBC is - as far as I’m aware - continuing to make the entertainment pestilence that is ‘The Apprentice’ 🤦

Nothing sinister about this at all. Although the shorts inevitably make you think of Roderick Spode.

Frankly, I am unclear why it is being allowed to continue? The events of the weekend were clearly illegal, he's literally advertised his participation?