Steven Thomas

Ridiculous

A beautiful tribute. RIP Walter.

Their evil truly knows no bounds www.wsj.com/opinion/vikt...

2 down, 3 to go 🇷🇸 Serbia — Vucic lost 🇧🇷 Brazil — Bolsonaro lost 🇮🇱 Israel — 27 Oct 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 1 Nov 🇺🇸 USA — 3 Nov

More ulez please.

NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: Even on 100% gas power, heat pumps cut emissions by ~48% and EVs by about half. The authors of an “electrification doesn’t cut emissions” paper made a series of compounding mistakes and used misleading assumptions. Here's why. janrosenow.substack.com/p/heat-pumps...

This all seems very worrying. If the state allies with far right militias to subjugate and terrorise its own citizenry then that's not a very promising state of affairs.

ImpactMediaFR: "The number of videos we have received showing the violence committed yesterday by far-right, neo-Nazi, and neo-fascist groups in several major French cities is STAGGERING. This is especially true in #Nice, where the accounts reaching us are SHOCKING. ..

"One billionaire businessman says he's brought jobs to California, but the proposition made him feel "a little bit like I wasn't wanted"." Correction, California provided the infrastructure, resources, and demographics to help your business to be a success. All they want is you to pay your share.

It's just exhausting, the amount of brazen corruption.

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

Seems familiar

What's happening in France is hard to justify but easy to understand. In 1981 the UK had riots because 1 in 10 were unemployed and couldn't afford to eat. In 2026, 1 in 5 are IN WORK and can't afford to eat. What happens when AI doubles that number? What levels of policing will control it?

Having successfully compromised the climate COPs, the fossil fuel sector and its allies are now targetting the IPCC climate reports themselves If they succeed, then we can finally say goodbye to any serious action to cut emissions The end game beckons www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump Has Shamelessly Abandoned Ukrainians Doing so does not advance American interests or values. michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/trump-has-...

If you are wanting to learn about the Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory, this important film is a very good place to start. www.docnyc.net/film/traces/

This is the key point for me. They need to be there because everyone is there? Well if you move and explain why, people will need to follow.

Can I vote for the SNP from London?

Hiding in plain sight.

Of all the many evil betrayals I’ve seen in the last 60 years I’ve been alive, I’m struggling to think of any that match what Trump and Musk did to innocent Ukrainian citizens while Putin was sending missiles this way. A trio to live on in infamy well after I am gone

Of course Putin meddled in Brexit and here's how we know. Letter from London: A Brief History of Active Measures My latest for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/of-course-pu...

If you're still on X ... now my friends is the time to pull that plug. This very dangerous man needs to be stopped, not enabled www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

So-called journalists nodding along as Nigel Farage talks about locking up actual journalists for doing actual journalism

The idea that the US deliberately humiliated Russia in the 1990s is a bizarre myth. We were overtly solicitous and supportive of them and their hurt feelings. We just didn’t accept their claim that the nations or Eastern Europe could never seek their own destiny.

“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...

Trump waiving sanctions against Russia is the most predictable thing ever. The silence of some GOP elected officials is likewise the most predictable thing. Throw the trash out in November. This isn’t funny anymore

The most sickening thing is not that Elon Musk is pumping hundreds of millions into the midterm elections. The most sickening thing is that this doesn't make even a dent on his grotesque fortune, which means he will continue to abuse the power his wealth provides him.

Fernando Ceremido has “credited Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s former digital director, with teaching him the craft of bots and algorithms. In 2023, he boasted to Argentina’s La Nación that he controlled ‘farms’ of thousands of troll and bot accounts.”

And again, I ask: Why has this been allowed to happen? And it *has* been allowed. archive.is/3cjdT

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

How many more are there? Let's start a gofundme for drones specifically to target Russian data centres and their "internet research agency"?

TRUMP UPENDED PEACE TALKS, UKRAINIANS FURIOUS, RUSSIANS GET WHAT THEY WANT It’s been a whirlwind of a mess in Miami. The Ukrainians arrived expecting to work in good faith towards an energy ceasefire. Instead they were presented with American demands to stop hitting Russian refineries or face an

BBC needs to wake up and get a grip. "It's a familiar move from Trump – announcing a deal before it's clear it has been finalised, writes our North America correspondent" It's a lie, and it was made up by trump in a random moment, he put it out there with no conversation with anyone.

Our @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on The Norman Conquests continues Part 2: ENGLAND IN 1066

Here’s the dates!

How to respond to Russian escalation vs Europe & Ukraine… my latest commentary, just gone live… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There will be many appreciations of Chris Wickham - as a historian and as a human being. This is a good starting place. www.medievalists.net/2026/10/chri...

Someone get them new spreadsheet software. It's amazing to me that austerity isn't more openly maligned, and politicians haven't had to apologise since it's so widely known to have been based on a spreadsheet error. Instead they'll just make the same mistakes again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...

She speaks the truth. 💯 👇

This isn't my field, but this is an interesting read.

I worry America is already there. The money in politics, the capture of the media, the army under Christian nationalist control. We in the UK have a very small window to attempt to regulate out billionaire influence, media control. Get closer to EU and Canada. Will we do it? I worry not.

Dropping tomorrow . . .

“Controlling a plague is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman”

This reads like it was written by chatGPT.

"The party has also said it would look closer at whether parents' earnings and savings should be factored into welfare payments for their children" So according to the Tories, it's wrong to means-test benefits for boomers... but totally fine to do so for their adult children children.

America has had every warning to put a stop to this.

This shit is getting out of hand. The population of the country need to stand up and put a stop to this