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Q: why was Melania always on top when they used to have sex? A: because donald can only fuck up.

80 per cent of the money received by Reform UK from donations in the year 2025-26 has come from individuals or companies who have been based abroad in the past two years

Today’s budget looks like being worse for our future and the young than even anything Starmer came up with. A budget based on approval of mass new oil drilling is a betrayal of our future.

Zelensky praised Norway and Finland for putting their diplomacy "completely out in the open: discussions in advance, a full briefing, and transparent objectives," saying that not all countries had taken the time to speak with Ukraine beforehand.

🆕 The 10th annual report of @lancetcountdown.bsky.social on Health and Climate Change launches today. In the report, experts call for climate change to be declared a global health emergency, as many health impacts outpace climate action. Find out more: spkl.io/633257k5Y7 #LancetClimate26

This blog post is a bit meta (small m) maybe, I wrote about what I have learned about writing about the Greenland ice sheet mass budget for the @carbonbrief.org with @martinstendel.bsky.social each year ... sternaparadisaea.net/2026/10/27/t...

Thirty years of hurt (and eleven years of writing about it) … sternaparadisaea.net/2026/10/27/t...

Not only is everyone's favourite rube, the British state, still committed to carbon capture and storage - which simply does not work - but they're committing 24bn which now isn't going to solar and wind, things we know will make a difference. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered a police investigation into alleged ties between a donor network co-founded by Vice President JD Vance and the presidential campaign of Flávio Bolsonaro in the run-up to Sunday’s election.

He has no shame.

"Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID."

The reason that some media outlets won't describe transwomen as women isn't because they lack an appreciation of objectively correct semantic classifications - it's because they're bigots.

I can't really believe it but it seems to be the case that the Times has not covered a credible accusation of rape against the President of the United States, but has two solid stories on Obama's cheesecake factory quip.

Tasmania’s expert Scientific Advisory Committee recommends formally declaring Macquarie Harbour a ‘critical habitat’ for the endangered Maugean Skate. Tas Gov must act now to remove salmon from the harbour and protect the skate in its only refuge #savetheskate

It's no longer left versus right, liberals versus conservatives or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. Know the stakes. The midterms are here.

In 50 years time (if the species lasts that long), when kids are studying history, they will look back at this period and ask: "But why didn't the people stop it?" ("It" being any number of terrible/crazy things happening right now.) It's really shameful.

$78 billion and counting... That's how much Australia has missed out on by not implementing a 25% tax on gas exports. See the live tracker here: https://gas.australiainstitute.org.au/ Sign the call for a national plebiscite: https://gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ARTISTS TAKE BIKE LANE PROTEST ART TO THE STREETS Massive scale projected billboard messages call for support in keeping Toronto's bike lanes intact on the eve of the Provincial Parliament's return to legislature.

Who does that?? 🤬

holy shit -- it's a cult

the projection here from Mike Waltz is just incredible

Wizard producer @angusrb.bsky.social has taken us full vid! This week on After America, I spoke to Allan Behm about the security boys’ pivot to the “Euro-Atlantic” and the looming US mid-terms. youtu.be/_p7-8xMuztk?...

The family of Alex Pretti, gunned down in Minneapolis during the ICE protests, says they haven't heard a word from federal authorities about charging the agents who disarmed and shot him. dailymontanan.com/2026/10/27/r...

Booksellers and indie publishers take note! ⚠️ Elizabeth Soto is appealing a 50 year sentence connected to the publication and distribution of anarchist literature in Texas.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Data centres should carry the cost of higher electricity rates if allowed to build now, and bring their own renewables later, as suggested by regulator https://reneweconomy.com.au/letting-data-centres-build-first-catch-up-on-renewables-later-could-add-40-billion-to-power-bills/

A reminder for Corporate Democrats: New research from Yale found that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. It's no surprise why the majority of Americans — including 90% of Democratic voters — support it.

Someone queue up the montage.

His passport is cancelled. So Donald is going to let a South American criminal with no paperwork illegally enter the USA...

Ask not "why would Donald lift sanctions on Russia sovereign wealth fund". Instead ask "how big is the bribe he is getting for lifting the sanctions"

Thank you to the Pretti family for their courage. Minnesotans have not forgotten.

There's another way of putting this: "Markets prefer fascists" www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Raskin: "When historians look back on this miserable period of our history, they might say that the first problem was disregarding all those women who told us back in 2016 that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump."

Sysco’s $29B grab for Restaurant Depot doesn’t just hurt independent restaurants. It hurts the small farmers who sell to them. More consolidation means fewer choices and higher prices for you.

When they tell us "there is no alternative," what they mean is "stop trying to think of alternatives." To imagine radically is to move beyond the helplessness of prediction: a radical imagination dares to insist that history is what we make, not what happens to us.

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

It's not just about climate chaos. It's also about landscape chaos. The damage we do to the land's hydrology is layered on top of the damage we do to the atmosphere. Our mismanagement of land commits us to a cycle of flood and drought. We can change this, as explained here. Please read. Thanks.

“Offsets are designed to allow business as usual at bargain prices for Australia’s biggest polluters,” Research Director Rod Campbell in The Australian. For more on why offsets are dodgy, listen to this episode of What's the Point? ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/whats-the-point-of-offsets/

Under constitutional challenge, Albanese Govt has revealed just how much Labor and Liberal could benefit from their election law re-write last year: "Labor a total of $15.4 million better off and the Liberals $9.4 million ahead” if donors split $ between state branches to avoid the caps.

The department said the material was “complex”, but most of it had already been quoted in estimates. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/27/a...

The Govt's new aged care algorithm has been assessed as neither fair nor consistent. The Govt must listen to experts and ensure they don't pursue another robodebt-style automation designed to cut costs at the expense of desperately-needed support #auspol

And the freaking greatest thing I have ever seen: this intersection has a traffic signal that is set by DEFAULT for pedestrians and cyclists, cars have to activate to cross. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Lisa Kearns, who is running for mayor of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, responded to several of her signs being vandalized by embracing the humor of the situation in a hilarious campaign ad.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Backlash to data centers might very well be the biggest issue in the midterms, with nearly 70 percent of Americans opposing them. Is it any wonder why?

Steve is trying his best at middle management.

This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...