Andy Newey

Guitarist, Tai Chi, Kung Fu, SUP and Surfing.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Fortunately, Britain has a Bermuda-registered mass circulation newspaper owned by a French-domiciled billionaire, a television station owned by a Dubai hedge fund and a political party backed by a Thailand-based crypto tycoon to remind us of the importance of patriotism

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Wow! After Donald Trump mocked Gavin Newsom and other people with dyslexia and learning disabilities, Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, just completely torched him.

The end is the best part.

[Channel 4 @Channel4]

For various boring reasons we have to say that these are Hugh Grant’s views not ours, and that we definitely haven’t printed his post out and put it in a little frame on our desk

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

🚨 Warning for NHS doctors

The GMC will hold supervisors accountable for the actions of PAs if their work is outside of their scope

Here’s the kicker - there is currently NO defined scope for PAs by the Royal Colleges & NO standards for supervision

Don’t risk your license!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: MSNBC just confirmed it.

The Epstein release included a spreadsheet of allegations involving Trump and other powerful figures.

Then it disappeared.

Not disproven. Not corrected. Removed.

I saved it before they could delete it

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents are now hitting unaccompanied minors with their vehicles, detaining and disappearing them, even after being shown a U.S. passport.

Yesterday, agents rear-ended a car being driven by a 16-year-old, with her 15-year-old brother in the passenger seat.

Instead of calling a guardian, agents photographed the 15-year-old… and then took him.

The 16-year-old showed agents her U.S. passport…. But, that did not matter, they still handcuffed her and threw her into their unmarked car.

Both minors.
Both unaccompanied.

Detaining children, ignoring proof of citizenship, and hauling minors away, after rear ending the car they were driving, is not immigration enforcement.

That is child trafficking.

And it’s happening in broad daylight by the Trump administration.

Share this.
Document everything.
Demand accountability.

Because if federal agents can do this to kids with a passport, no one is safe.

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

This is state criminality by our greatest ally. Disappearing people is one of the worst state crimes, carried out by the most heinous dictatorships.

[finely @tunedhuman]

@JoJoFromJerz Especially if it wasn't a giraffe.

Trump's own words:
"The first couple of questions are easy, a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe."

The actual test:
This is a lion, rhino, camel.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Why on earth does this story about suspected treason
not all over the British press ?

Because the billionaire off-shore press owners are
doing what they can to help Farage ?

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Jeez… if we don’t wake up
To this we deserve everything we get… when I say we….

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

I keep hearing “we want our country back”. Yeah we all do. How’s about being able to buy a home on one wage? Or wages even being liveable? What about same day GP appointments? Or ambulances arriving within minutes? Clean rivers and beaches? I could go on and on. But I’ll tell one thing… it’s not migrants who’ve taken these possibilities away… it’s capitalist greed. Have you noticed we don’t own anything anymore? Almost everything is subscription… films, music, software for your phone or PC. Tell me how this is anything to do with migrants? Look to the people with the power, not to the people with NONE.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

She was right.

About Everything.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

As The Foreign Secretary at the time of the leak, how did you not know of it?! What exactly are you shocked about?

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A Florida meteorologist just went on air and said he can’t accurately report the weather anymore, because Trump’s DOGE cuts gutted the satellite data he relies on.

We’re not just defunding science, we’re sabotaging public safety.

And for what? So a billionaire surveillance firm can get another contract while Americans can’t even get a hurricane warning on time?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"But Thames Water told the Financial Times that because the payouts were 'retention payments' they would not be covered by Ofwat’s new powers. The awards — up to half of annual salary — come on top of executives’ salaries and other bonuses. 

The retention bonuses do not fall under the Water Act as they are not performance-related, the company said."

So there you have it, govt's grandstand scheme, the centre of its getting tough strategy sidestepped in a heart beat.

https://t.co/FuiUofmc79

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Imagine the hysteria in the right wing mediasphere if this had been so called Sleepy Joe

[Angel calling @Angelcalling5]

If you're planning on voting Reform, please tell me:

What's Reform's plan for children living in poverty?

What's their plan for crumbling schools?

What's their immediate plan to get waiting lists down?

What's their plan to help people with the cost of living crisis right now?

What's their plan for the war in Ukraine?

I could go on. They have no real policies. Certainly no workable policies, and no plans to help ordinary people today.

They've already voted against workers' rights

When someone tells you who they are, believe them

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

Who’s the whistleblower?

Daniel Berulis — a senior DevSecOps architect at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), formerly with TS/SCI clearance.

He just told Congress the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) pulled off a covert cyber op inside a federal agency.

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony: