Christopher Oxford #WomenLifeFreedom

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

It's difficult to end a war if you don't know why you started it in the first place.

Leavitt's responses to questions about Trump's call with Putin and whether or not he pressed him about sharing intelligence with Iran are evasive

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Rising oil prices and uncertainty make homegrown clean energy transition more urgent than ever.

Today, we presented a new set of initiatives to boost clean energy investment, strengthen Europe’s energy independence, and help lower energy prices, including ⬇️

Markwayne Mullin is the same dude already under scrutiny for suspicious stock trades.

And he’s supposed to run America’s national security.

• No government security experience
• No law enforcement background
• No intelligence work
• No military service
• Not even a bachelor’s degree

This is the guy who works alongside eunuch Jared to represent us in the Mideast and other parts of the world.

Yes, he actually does!

I Recognize the Look on Liam Ramos’s Face The 5-year-old was briefly held at Dilley, where families are sent after ICE roundups.

Once used to detain recent border crossers, the Dilley Immigration Processing Center now houses families arrested in ICE sweeps, Caitlin Dickerson reports. Dickerson, who visited the facility most recently in 2019, writes about her experiences inside:

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

You once explained the dilemma of journalists who dare to ask the tough questions, “If you duff them up, they won’t come back.”
I suspect Shawn McCreesh of NYT will get his WH pass revoked for this but at least he’s highlighted the timidity of his colleagues.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

So we’re like Germany in 1939. But we’re going to wait longer to violate the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact after invading Poland. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--

RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?

REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question

Calum Miller (Lib Dem) to Isabel Oakeshott: “You’re a journalist who makes her money from commenting on what’s happening in the UK despite not living here. You & others have mounted a trenchant attack on what’s happening in the UK…”

#PoliticsLive

here's the full clip of Karoline Leavitt getting big mad when Kaitlan Collins presses her on Hegseth complaining about press coverage of US troop deaths

Someone needs to remind Trump that the "warfighters" are conducting a "special military operation."

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’ Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

The new war machine. Machine learning and large language models. Palantir, OpenAI etc are really the Krupps and IGFarben of the 21st Century

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is true if you recognize Reagan was an awful president who did untold damage to this country:

Lindsey Graham: “To Donald J. Trump, you just surpassed Ronald Reagan as the most consequential Republican president since Lincoln… You’re a Reagan plus, plus, plus.”

Brandon Straka: I’m at the Pentagon this morning for a briefing with @SecWar @PeteHegseth on the Iran strikes. Session starts in 10 minutes.

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”

This story has been puzzling, because im still not clear exactly what is meant to have happened where, or why DV insists there was egregious family voting but the council seems so sure nothing was raised with them on the day (bar one concern, I’m told, which apparently turned out to be innocent)

A case of “friendly fire” happened:

Iranian forces attacked the Skylight, a tanker belonging to the Iran–Russia shadow fleet, which was sailing under the flag of Palau.
The vessel was carrying Iranian oil and is subject to U.S. and EU sanctions.

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/jzxMUxz

At least 148 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is

Utterly horrifying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meltdown in Gorton puts wind in the sails of Labour’s imm... Feeling vindicated by the Greens’ byelection win, MPs hope to force the home secretary to rethink her plans

Exc: As many as 80 Labour MPs are braced to oppose the home secretary's immigration policies

Dozens of backbenchers and ministers are understood to be hostile to Shabana Mahmood's reforms. After the Gorton by-election they're pushing for a "recalibration"

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

This aged well. Note the author.

'inside the red-faced hawk is a dove, with an almost physical horror of violence'

'Trump is as close as a pacifist as we've seen in the White House'

Pure pundit brain from Ian Leslie in March 2025

A close second for Maureen Dowd...