Simon Himsworth

Independent thinking since 1964

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Donald had a temper tantrum on national television and walked out of an interview simply because Kristen Welker presented him with a basic fact.

Note to other journalists: now is the time to pile on. He won't be able to handle it.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Accountability in politics requires a long memory.

The disastrous reality of Trump's second term means it is time to permanently discredit the influencers, tech billionaires, politicians, and other figures who pushed for his return to power.

Trump's second term has proven to be an absolute catastrophe, far exceeding the chaos of his first four years. He has easily earned the title of the worst president in American history, defined by unparalleled corruption, incompetence, treason, and completely arbitrary decision-making. The entire global community is currently suffering from the fallout of his erratic policies and betrayal of traditional alliances.

Voters must remember the exact individuals who guaranteed that this administration would bring prosperity. Consider when Elon Musk claimed that it would be the end of the United States as we know it if Trump lost the election. The exact opposite turned out to be true, and the country is now fractured because he won.

These pundits and tech moguls have exposed their complete lack of moral and intellectual judgment. Anyone who weaponized their platform to sell this vision has earned a long disqualification from public discourse, and their political advice should be ignored for years (if not decades)

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump’s egregious (repeat) lie about Jan. 6 in the new NBC interview he walked out of: “They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI: ‘Go into the building.’”

There’s precisely no evidence this happened. DOJ’s inspector general found that the FBI had zero undercover agents in the Capitol crowd. Kash Patel has himself debunked a Trump-promoted conspiracy theory on this subject, saying FBI agents were merely deployed to do crowd control after the police declared a riot.

And of the dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who tried a “the cops let me in” defense, just one (1) was acquitted. Even in that case, the acquitting judge said that though the defendant reasonably believed he was being allowed in, the officers in question were actually overrun by the crowd and standing back reasonably and responsibly, not explicitly encouraging anyone to enter. (And they weren’t FBI.)

[Simon Himsworth @simonhimsworth]

@EvBogey @julie_kelly2 It wasn't a set up though it was a pre-arranged attempt to stop Pence giving assent to the election result.

[Simon Himsworth @simonhimsworth]

@julie_kelly2 @NormOrnstein Treason in the form of insurrection is not negotiable.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Trump completely lost it on Kristen Welker.

He said she was crooked, stupid and walked out of the interview!

I stand with Kristen Welker and all of the journalists Trump has attacked over the years.

Who is with me? ✋

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Pete Hegseth's D-Day speech was a grotesque, ignorant, and idiotic desecration of the memory of every Allied soldier who stormed Normandy — nothing but pure American white supremacist stupidity.

To stand at the graves of young men who gave their lives fighting an actual Nazi invasion and then equate desperate migrants in rubber boats with the Third Reich is beyond disrespectful — it's morally bankrupt, historically illiterate garbage.

Those heroes liberated Europe from the same kind of fascistic tyranny the authoritarian Trump regime is promoting in America, not from immigrants seeking a better life. Weaponizing their sacrifice for cheap far-right anti-immigration rhetoric dishonors their graves and exposes Hegseth as a comic-book nobody utterly deaf to history.

Shame on him. Pure, self-important vulgarity.

[Simon Himsworth @simonhimsworth]

@Kilhoon @campbellclaret Look up what the HMRC decided the case. No penalty was administered.

[Simon Himsworth @simonhimsworth]

@MrHarryCole It was a mindless and asinine intervention by a bloviating nutter and it directly and insultingly ignored the express wishes of Henry Nowak's parents.

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

If Satan has a residence on Earth, it is in Russia: the story of former Kherson mayor Volodymyr Mykolayenko, who survived Russian captivity.

After seeing Russia from the inside, he described it as a moral void, completely incompatible with Ukraine.

In captivity, he survived purely through willpower—holding on by sheer determination. When he finally returned home on August 24, 2025, it felt as though he had grown wings.

What struck him most was the way Ukrainians welcomed the released prisoners. From the Belarusian border all the way to Chernihiv, crowds stood along the roads waving Ukrainian flags. For the first time in a long while, he felt genuine respect and love.

Mykolayenko neither hid nor fled, even though he had the opportunity. He joined the Territorial Defense Forces because he asked himself a simple question: who else would protect his family?

He was given an assault rifle, but quickly realized that rifles alone cannot stop tanks.

The Russians lured him to a meeting under false pretenses, threw him into a car trunk, and took him away.

In captivity, he was beaten almost daily and suffered a broken rib. The occupiers offered him the position of head of the occupation administration, but he refused.

They demanded that he publicly condemn Roman Shukhevych, yet Mykolayenko instead called him a Hero of Ukraine.

Later, he was transferred between detention facilities—first to occupied Crimea, then to Russia’s Voronezh region, where the beatings became even more severe.

He never received a single letter from his family. He even refused prisoner exchanges, insisting that wounded young soldiers should be released in his place.

In his view, this war did not happen because of abstract mistakes. It happened because of geography and irresponsibility.

Russians chose Putin twenty-five years ago, and many continue to support him today. At the same time, too many members of Ukraine’s elite behave as if they have a “backup country”—Paris, Prague, New York—places they can escape to while blaming the people who were left behind.

But most Ukrainians have no alternative. There is no second homeland. There is only Ukraine.

According to Mykolayenko, the true strength of the country lies in its people—those who have survived occupation, torture, and loss, yet continue to fight.

Victory rests on two pillars: the soldiers who destroy the occupiers every day, and the civilians who do everything they can each day to ensure that the army can keep fighting.

He himself endured for the sake of his family and his faith in victory. He is proud of his daughter, who has been fighting since the first day of the war, and hopes that his grandchildren will one day be proud of both him and their country.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH: “Where’s the evidence? You’ve never presented any evidence.”

Unhinged, lying Trump has a MELTDOWN and WALKS OFF when @kwelkernbc refuses to let him get away with lying about rigged elections.

Finally some pushback.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump stormed out of his interview with Kristen Welker after she challenged his false claims.

The orange buffoon then launched into a rant about America being a “third-world country” and how Welker, ABC, and everyone else are “crooked.”

What a deranged, weak, pathetic man. Yet MAGA thinks this is what an alpha looks like. Lol.

[JB Thinkin™️ @JBThinkin]

STAGED Assassination Attempt (Butler) UPDATE: Butler, PA Sheriff’s Office reportedly exchanged EMAILS with gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks BEFORE the incident!!
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was forced to release heavily redacted documents that revealed Thomas Matthew Crooks, trump’s would-be “assassin”, had exchanged emails with a Butler County Sheriff’s deputy prior to his attack on July 13, 2024.
Judicial Watch forced the FBI to make dozens of documents public through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, revealing that the deputy exchanged two emails with Crooks before the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. The heavily redacted document was part of an FBI electronic communication titled “Disc of 5 Deputies of Butler County Sheriff’s Office” conducted on July 16, 2024, which compiles interviews the bureau conducted with deputies.
The file indicates that a deputy had “checked her emails and records and only had two email communications” from Crooks. The nature of the communication was redacted, and the unnamed deputy said she had not had any “personal interaction” with Crooks.
WHY redacted? What was that conversion? What are they hiding??
Remember how I reported the Butler Chief of Police retired just one month before the incident and my earlier reports outlined how local law enforcement seemed coordinated in the effort to allow Crooks to get into position, even after several eye witnesses were pointing him out. This further indicates a multi-faceted scheme, complete with local law enforcement and the Secret Service to pull off the greatest HOAX in the history of American Politics! STAGED!!

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Top-secret clearance requires vetting for insider threats. One standard red flag: hostility to the US government. Another: foreign military interest.

Irizarry entered the Capitol through a window with a metal pole. Was convicted. Pardoned. Allegedly texted about joining Russia's military if America's wouldn't have him. Now works in Pentagon counterterrorism with top-secret clearance.

The vetting process produced this result because the vetting process is now loyalty. The clearance follows from the pardon. The pardon followed from January 6th. The circle is complete.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

D-Day wasn’t about keeping desperate refugees out of Europe.

It was about defeating a fascist regime that treated human beings as less than human.

Hegseth using that anniversary to score cheap political points is cynical, disgusting & fucking shameful.

[Simon Himsworth @simonhimsworth]

@Kilhoon @campbellclaret Rayner's solicitors made a mistake that she paid for and the HMRC enquiry said it was a mistake anyone could make. It's not the same as taking a bung of £5 million to promote the deregulation of cryptocurrency.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican candidate Tommy Tuberville committed voter fraud by voting in Florida while living in Alabama.

Many legal scholars now claim he is not eligible to run for governor of Alabama.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

“They never wanted to end cancel culture. They wanted to control it. Some forbidden ideas - the ones MAGA likes - must be protected and platformed. Other ideas - the ones Bari Weiss dislikes - are genuinely verboten. Say them out loud and you lose your job”

[Simon Himsworth @simonhimsworth]

@CBoneuvre @Reuters Why,?

[Simon Himsworth @simonhimsworth]

@Reuters The invasion of ersatz Fox-Inspired cosplay Nazism being top of that list. Kegsbreath and his bf Bovino along with JD Vamp love playing at being tough but they are fatuous simulcra.