Peter Marcus

Theatre Director. Panto Lover. Writer. Former Election Candidate. European. Views my own (unless I stole (or RT'd) them). He/Him

[Peter Marcus @theitkid]

"This is a time to organize, to mobilize, and to stay engaged. For the sake of freedom, and justice, and the future we all know we can build together." - @KamalaHarris

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Judge: "If the government decides very quickly to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty - nothing can be done?"
DOJ attorney: "I think that's right, yes."

The argument is: move fast enough, install enough steel, attach a national security label, and courts become powerless. The only remedy is Congress - the same Congress that can't pass the ballroom funding bill.

That is the legal theory being argued in federal court today on behalf of the United States of America.

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

Reform UK is sabotaging LGBT+communities across Britain: defunding Pride festivals, cutting community group funding & banning Pride flags

Now the Reform UK council in Essex is banning libraries from promoting LGBT+ events

Reform UK is a threat to LGBTs

https://t.co/zRJXABNWa4

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

they've built concentration camps and i'm expected to act like it's a mere difference of political opinion

[Alfie | HITC Sevens @HITCSevens]

No country should be allowed to host the World Cup while imposing discriminatory rules on qualified and participating teams.

This ought to be a very basic requirement.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[MOBO Awards @MOBOAwards]

It is with immeasurable sorrow that the MOBO Organisation announces the passing of its Founder and CEO, Kanya King CBE.

Kanya passed away peacefully on 3 June 2026 after a courageous and characteristically determined battle with colon cancer. She was surrounded by her family, close friends and love.

Thirty years ago, Kanya King remortgaged her home, alone, without institutional backing or industry support, to build a stage that would transform British music forever.

She was a single mother from a Kilburn council estate who was told that Black music was too niche, that there was no market and that the industry was not interested. Instead of arguing, she built. Six weeks later, the first MOBO Awards was broadcast to the nation, and nothing was ever the same again.

What Kanya created was never simply an awards ceremony. It was an act of cultural justice. MOBO did not just celebrate Black music; it legitimised it, amplified it and transformed the cultural landscape of the UK.

From Stormzy, Little Simz and RAYE to Craig David, Ms. Dynamite, Amy Winehouse, Central Cee and countless others, generations of artists have benefited from Kanya King's vision.

She built a platform that reached hundreds of millions of people around the world. She was awarded a CBE and received an Ivors Academy Honour in 2025. She never stopped. She never asked for permission. She never accepted that the word “no” was final.

When she stood on the MOBO stage in Newcastle in February 2025, just months after her diagnosis, she told the audience: “I never allowed someone to define my limits. Not in life. Not in business. And I’m certainly not going to have that happen now.”

That was Kanya King. Right to the very end.

The 2026 MOBO Awards, held during the Organisation’s landmark 30th anniversary year, will be dedicated entirely to her memory.

The world was a profoundly better place with Kanya King in it. The MOBO family is heartbroken, but endlessly grateful, proud and inspired by everything she gave to music, culture and future generations.

Rest in power, Kanya.

You built this.

All of it.

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Reform UK’s @RobKenyonReform just brought up the issue of HMOs in Wigan on #BBCQT.

He should ask his fellow Wigan Councillors Lee Moffitt and Gemma Painter about HMOs, their estate agency manages and lets them out.

It’s @reformparty_uk hypocrisy at its finest.

[Here's What I Reckon: @angryaboutbikes]

“Officer, I’ve been stabbed”
“No you haven’t, due to mandatory woke lessons I was given by the left”

Is this the version of events we are all being forced to pretend has happened?

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

I call BS.

The facts are these:
Henry Nowak told officers he'd been stabbed. He told them he couldn't breathe. An officer replied, “I don't think you have, mate”. They dragged him along the ground and handcuffed him. He died before anyone called an ambulance.

No DEI course teaches you to ignore a dying man. Officers have a duty to assess injured persons, call for medical assistance, and not take one party's word as gospel. They failed on all three.

This is incompetence repackaged as ideological victimhood. “DEI made us feel certain ways” shifts anger from officers who let a teenager die onto a culture-war target. That's their defence strategy.

Henry told them he was dying. They didn't listen. They didn't follow protocol. That's a conduct and skill problem, not a DEI problem.

[Nordic Daily @Nordic_Daily]

🇩🇰🏛️ Denmark has unveiled its new coalition government made up of the Social Democrats, SF, the Moderates and the Social Liberals.

👉 The government consists of 21 ministers, including 11 women and 10 men, making it the first female-majority government in Danish history.

Here is the full list ⤵️

Prime Minister: Mette Frederiksen (Social Democrats)

Finance: Peter Hummelgaard (Social Democrats)
Justice: Nicolai Wammen (Social Democrats)
Immigration & Integration: Morten Bødskov (Social Democrats)
Education: Magnus Heunicke (Social Democrats)
Employment & Equality: Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen (Social Democrats)
Defence: Jeppe Bruus (Social Democrats)
Health & Church Affairs: Ida Auken (Social Democrats)
Nature & Animal Welfare: Christian Rabjerg Madsen (Social Democrats)

Economic Affairs & Interior: Pia Olsen Dyhr (SF)
Community Security & Civil Protection: Lisbeth Bech-Nielsen (SF)
Urban Affairs, Regional Development & Transport: Signe Munk (SF)
Environment: Maria Reumert Gjerding (SF)
Children, Seniors & Housing: Jacob Mark (SF)

Foreign Affairs: Lars Løkke Rasmussen (Moderates)
Research, Higher Education & Digitalisation: Christina Egelund (Moderates)
Taxation & Growth: Jakob Engel-Schmidt (Moderates)
Social Affairs & Nordic Cooperation: Monika Rubin (Moderates)

Culture: Zenia Stampe (Social Liberals)
Climate, Energy & Utilities: Samira Nawa (Social Liberals)
Business & Competitiveness: Martin Lidegaard (Social Liberals)

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I swear to God we are living in Idiocracy. Everyday I think 'This can't be real.' But it is.
You couldn't write a satirical movie like the insane shitshow we are being forced to live through in real life.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Donald Trump has posted a photo of himself along with the caption '007', in a clear reference to his current approval rating

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Every time the shadow docket has touched a contested map, the outcome favors Republicans.

Texas gerrymander: allowed.

New York Democratic flip: blocked.

Louisiana: VRA gutted.

Virginia Democratic map: refused to save it.

Alabama: a Black district erased.

Same direction every time.

[Josh Simons @joshsimonsmp]

Yep. It’s almost funny.

@RobKenyonReform never came to 1 meeting on Ashton Library. Me, cllrs and residents worked backsides off to save it.

In politics, berating ppl on socials doesn’t get stuff done.

He’s local, angry, but no plan to actually DO anything. Like @reformparty_uk

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

@ZiaYusufUK What is wrong with you?

Black men are at significantly higher risk of prostate cancer. This isn’t “two-tier Britain”. It’s basic medicine.

The programme will save lives and the NHS money. That’s great news.

Stop rage-farming and log off for a day. It might do you some good. 👍

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If any other president had done this, it would have been a massive controversy and talking point.

With our current weirdo, it has just been normalized.

[Peter Marcus @theitkid]

"[Trump's] takeover of the @kencen and its renaming led to a steep decline in sales at the institution," because artists and audiences don't want with Trump's autocracy.

Recent court losses could save DC's arts centrer
https://t.co/n8oy7W8Qgm

[Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe]

Sean's team declined/failed to comment for this story for a full day, both before and after publication. Then they posted this publicly today.

Our story reports that:

1) UFC has long been popular with U.S. troops

2) There's an organized effort to find troops interested in attending

3) Troops must pay for their own travel, according to several messages from obtained by the Post

4) There are height and weight restrictions on troops attending.

All of that is true and accurate.

Have a good one.

[Bruce McD @brucemcd23]

Unsurprisingly Farage , having made the massive claim that his phone had been hacked by Putin’s agents , has ignored a deadline to report it to police

Reportedly Farage ‘wants to move on’

Which would be natural enough if there was zero evidence to stand up his claim

But a security breach of the scale Farage alleges simply has to be investigated