Nick Logan

Editor/Publisher in the day

[Uber West Ham @UberWestHam]

Adrian sends a message to the West Ham fans after retiring from professional football ⚒️🇪🇸

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.”

— Bertrand Russell

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.

I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

When an army collapses, the runup often looks like the Russian army right now. ICYMI @BrynnTannehill:
https://t.co/zgETa10tET

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

This man was banned because of his nationality and for no other reason. FIFA did nothing to help him, not even lodge a protest. Ugh https://t.co/6ayCu4CPd9

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

Lewis Hamilton donated over £20 million last year to the Red Cross and other various charities as well as well fully funding STEM education for disadvantaged British children via Mission 44.

That was just last year. I'm sure like you, it's not necessary he publicly note every charitable donation for people to decry or praise.

A brief search would have shown this.

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

To all my followers, please may I have a moment of your attention‼️‼️‼️

I cannot single-handedly change what is inside someone’s head.
What I am doing here, as a citizen, is dismantling lies and misinformation. I comment directly to journalists and the media to help others see just how deep the manipulation goes. Share my posts, copy my text, do not even credit my name if you do not want to, if it helps uncover the truth, I do not mind. Quite opposite!

I am not a Labour member. But I have put my own shoulders to the wheel to defend them because it is the right thing to do for the stability of this country. Yet, I still have no issue sharing articles by Fraser Nelson, even if you can never take the Tory out of the man.

When someone lacks the basic knowledge to recognize blatant manipulation, it tells me they share the same traits as Reform. It shows a lack of education and a failure to understand the very essence of democracy.

Engaging in their aggressive debates only breeds more division and leads exactly to what they want, for us to become aggressive too.

We are not them. We love this country. Neither you nor I can educate someone overnight.
But we can expose the lies and corruption, especially within the media.

Our media outlets are giving them the weapons. They ignore positive news, rely on unnamed sources, spread gossip, undermine institutions, and fuel conspiracy theories.

That is why I do this. If we stop the media from feeding this machine, there will be far fewer people falling for it.

I look at this through the logic of prevention. It is better to prevent than to cure, because I cannot cure them.

You cannot cure racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, or fascism.

These things are not cured. They are processes that start in childhood, from parents, schools, universities, and the community. When you grow up still holding onto that hatred and causing chaos, in a country like the UK, you become a problem.

And you become an even bigger problem when the media encourages you.

I am surrounded here by a crowd of wonderful people who are patient, kind, and decent.

You are the people who ensure I am respected, accepted, and that my peace and mental health are protected from aggression.

Thank you for that. 🇬🇧🍒❤️

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

I’m not sure what the bigger disgrace is, the Vice President of the United States’ ignorant, anti-British bigotry or the journalists of my generation quite happy to encourage him.

[Nick Logan @logan_nick]

A beacon fading away, so sad

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Ex-Channel 4 News host Jon Snow reveals he has Alzheimer's https://t.co/PdEyLxyoYH

[Sarah Reese Jones @PoliticusSarah]

Trump's defamation lawsuit against the BBC has turned into a major liability as the broadcaster hasn't backed down and has demanded financial documents from Trump, which he won't provide.

https://t.co/HnRcde8zfI

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again.

Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision.

The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total.

In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain.

Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Pure, cold, rage.
https://t.co/Wodxm9yphe

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Partick's parents failed him. Hunter Biden's didn't.

[Nick Logan @logan_nick]

Love that someone in replies thinks he’s Sean Canary

[Luce @lucyshow11]

Holy smokes! Imagine playing a round of poker with these dudes! Do you recognize all of them?! 😮‍💨🔥

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Hunter Biden SHREDS the media's double standard toward the Trump family in one devastating post — and EVERY word is documented.

Hunter Biden just posted something on X that cuts right to the heart of America's broken media landscape — and it's IMPOSSIBLE to argue with.

"So let me get this straight," he wrote. "Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom," referring to the comments the CNN anchor has made about disbelieving some of the claims in Jill Biden’s latest memoir.

"Meanwhile, Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land." TRUE. Over 100,000 Albanians are in the streets. Anti-corruption prosecutors have opened an investigation. Flamingo habitats are being bulldozed. It BARELY registers on mainstream media.

"Don Jr. married the daughter of Epstein's banker." Also TRUE. While Epstein survivors read their FBI abuse reports aloud outside the Justice Department, Pam Bondi refused to answer a even a SINGLE question about Trump and the Epstein files, and DOJ lawyers intervened to make sure she didn't.

"A startup that Donald Jr. fund backs just got a record $620 million Pentagon loan." FACTCHECK: ALSO TRUE. While Trump's own financial disclosures show him trading stock in companies his administration then hands billion-dollar contracts to, Don Jr.'s SHADY investment connections to Pentagon contractors receive almost NO scrutiny from mainstream media.

"Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5 billion in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted." Also TRUE, but that story got almost NO coverage.

And then Hunter Biden delivered the punchline that lands like a sledgehammer: "And I know: 'But what about your paintings, Hunter?'"

HUNTER IS 100% RIGHT: His art sales, laptop, and legal troubles consumed years of breathless media coverage. The Trump children's CORRUPT overseas business deals, foreign investments, Pentagon contracts, and connections to Jeffrey Epstein's associates a free pass.

And while Jake Tapper attacks Jill Biden is being attacked for a book, Jared Kushner is bulldozing protected wetlands for a $4 billion resort while his father-in-law runs foreign policy, while raising BILLIONS from shady deals with foreign governments.

There is simply NO comparison!

Please like and share!

[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

🧵As I watch US podcasts on the internet about #Russia’s war against #Ukraine what I see increasingly defies reason. Academics like Mearsheimer or Sachs de facto repeat Russian talking points. For years now retired US colonels continue to declare #Ukraine’s imminent end, etc. 1/6

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

The German far right's open attendance at Russia's SPIEF conference proves that the threat to Europe is already inside the house.

If the RN, AfD and Reform UK win elections, European security will completely collapse.

European democracy is facing its most dangerous moment since the Cold War. AfD sending representatives to Saint Petersburg to smile for cameras alongside war criminals is not an isolated incident. It is part of a coordinated, long-term strategy to place pro-Russian traitors and their puppets at the helm of the British, French, and German governments.

A political victory for the National Rally, AfD, or Reform UK at the next elections would be a historical catastrophe. These groups are designed to paralyze Europe, cut off vital aid to democracies under attack, and legitimize brutal authoritarian expansion. They wrap themselves in national flags, yet they take their marching orders directly from Moscow. Real traitors!

It is time to speak with total clarity about what a vote for these parties actually means. Choosing to support these movements is a betrayal of national sovereignty and a direct contribution to the destabilization of the West. Voters who fall for their populist rhetoric are actively enabling foreign subversion. A vote for them is a vote for Putin.

We need a massive mobilization of citizens within these countries to fight back against this creeping threat. Passivity is no longer an option when the enemy is on the ballot. We must aggressively expose their lies, contest their narratives, and protect the values that keep Europe safe and free

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

On June 4 this year, as every year, I think back to that terrible night in 1989 when I watched China's army fire on the crowd that I was in and massacre unarmed protesters. I'll never forget the courage I saw that night, as well as the cruelty. #Tiananmen https://t.co/ySyNR1yjzM

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[Nick Logan @logan_nick]

Grrrrrr!

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

No I'm not "reaching out" I'm asking you a question