David Thomas

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist! And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!). So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic 🧵1/25

In case facts still matter

As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

People still talk about the foreign policy of the Trump administration as if (a) it's designed to advance US national interests, rather than private ones and (b) there's a reasonable expectation of competence and coherence. Neither of these things is correct.

Repeat after me: Russia has no legitimate security concerns; only its neighbours do. Russia has been the only one invading others.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

18/ Millions marched in France today "The Anglo media seems to have lost all interest in covering the mass protests in France today because there was no rioting or looting, just boring legitimate demands from young people for decent education funding and an end to austerity." - @moshik_temkin

🤨 From Viz 😂

Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

Today is the first day of early voting in New Jersey. That’s why I’m taking action to ensure our elections remain free from federal interference. 

In a democracy, voters choose their leaders, not the other way around.

Peggy Flanagan: "In Minnesota, fraudsters are getting prosecuted and going to prison. In Donald Trump's Washington, they are getting pardoned. We are not the same."

no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

The welfare that needs to be ended is corporate welfare.

Found some voter fraud. Surely Blanche will make arrests.

If kids got raped by clowns as often as they get raped by preachers it would be against the law to take your kids to the circus. www.joemygod.com/2026/10/colo...

The Anduril billionaire’s latest plan: a dog with “advanced cybernetic Augments, software, and battlefield situational awareness.”

The poisoning of the US rightwing mind long predates Trump. But now, under Trump, we are seeing the logical conclusion of politics built entirely on a lack of shame or any aversion to lies. Even promoting the rapists of children, and their defenders, is now deemed acceptable political territory.

UK law requires companies to pay dividends from realized profits, must maintain capital. Law is poorly enforced. Water companies flout it. Carillon abused it. Now Govt proposes that dividends can be paid without capital maintenance. Madness to appease corporations.

*Even their financial infrastructure is a strange ouroboros, a self-inflating ring of I-loan-to-you and you-loan-to-me *It's like Enron with Nvidia chips instead of natural-gas

UK Chancellor announces £2bn Energy Wealth Fund after Jackdaw gas project. PR gesture. UK squandered North Sea wealth in tax cuts for corporations and the rich. Norway didn't, has $2.4 trillion sovereign fund. UK govts fight class wars, long-term neglected.

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.

If the bubble pops just after the midterms, the GOP will claim the Dems taking the house and the senate caused the crash to try to scare people to vote for them in 2028, when the reality is it’ll likely be Those two big AI companies failing IPOs and Oracle getting downgraded to junk that’ll do it

I'd like to remind Trump administration that after Iran war started, Ukraine deployed experts and technology to the Middle East to help Gulf states defend themselves against Iranian drones and protect US bases in the region, while Russia provided targeting information to Iran.

Elon Musk says Italians should stay in Italy and the Japanese in Japan. Then why is this South African in America?

Is it bad if you can't remember what animals were included in your dementia test?

🔴 NEW Jason Arday and the Story Behind the Story of the Times’ ‘Impossible Data’ By @nafeez.bsky.social Read below. ↓

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

FFS Dawkins, why didn't you think of this?

This is called ‘This isn’t really a poem’.

Invasion, mass murder, rape, kidnapping of children - all fine

Don’t look away from how shocking this is. Yes, unsurprising. Still shocking.

Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water. Here are some suggestions. Enforce laws. Prosecute execs for harming health, environment. Cancel licence to operate. Put TW into special administration. Nationalise at knockdown price. Apply to all water companies.

Sadly there seems to be very little empirical correlation between "people who believe 5G/wifi is evil" and "people who have therefore decided to log off"

Exactly 10 years ago today: Hillary Clinton said Vladimir Putin would rather have "a puppet as president of the United States.” She absolutely nailed it. 🔨

Me coming home from kindergarten

A young US man interrupts JD Vance's propaganda rally and calls for the release of the Epstein files; MAGA the pro-Epstein Trump cult chanted USA as the brave man was dragged out by police for questioning the Trump-Epstein class.

Conversion practices are rooted in shame and the false idea that being LGBT+ is something to be ‘cured’. The Minister for Women and Equalities is right that this abuse has no place in modern Britain. After almost a decade of broken promises, a ban on conversion practices is long overdue.

Mysterious Right-Wing Think Tank Demanding Charity ‘Transparency’ Won’t Say Who Runs or Funds It EXCLUSIVE: A group with no legal status and using fake names for the authors of its first published report, has won widespread media coverage, despite refusing to say who is behind it...

“Donald Trump is a traitor. And he’s not simply a traitor in the loose sense of someone who commits an act of betrayal…Trump is a traitor in the very particular sense laid out in the U.S. Constitution…’adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.’” www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...

When Trump says the Ukraine does not want to end the war, what he is really saying is that Ukraine does not want to surrender to a deal that he has worked out with Putin which would see the Ukrainians hand over more of their land and people. Speaking the truth is important.

“…it is truly astonishing to see Republicans…stand aside as Trump trashes the post–World War II system of global security in order to ally the United States with a Russian dictator.” 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 10.18.26 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18...

It's like Yalta but with three Stalins www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Trump is taking us straight back to 1939... Martin Niemöller continues to sound the warning bell, all his immortal words need now is a couplet about "They came for non-Whites, and I did not speak out, because I am White."

Dam that’s on the nose🤬🤬🤬🤬

Key lies in Trump's stmt: 1) diesel is up due to Iran's blockage of the Straight of Hormuz, which resulted from his vanity war with Iran (#EpsteinFury); 2) Russia is providing intel on US bases in the Middle East to Iran so it can kill US soldiers there. Trump doesn't care about these deaths ...