Jamie Osborne

“America is a republic, not a democracy” – many Maga supporters (turns out they were right).

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2026-10-16 10:32:43 UTC

Luke Harding popularised what many of us wonder: “if Trump were a Russian agent, what exactly would he do differently?”
It seems impossible that someone could do all this damage – always in Putin’s favour, either directly or via weakening the US itself, it’s alliances or prestige – purely out of ignorance, idiocy, narcissism and greed.
He’s an asset, no doubt: we know he benefited from Russian money, practically gifted to him. He makes no secret of his thirst for Putin’s approval.
The only doubt is whether he’s a knowing one.
It’s often said that Trump didn’t expect to win the presidency (why run?). Famously he looks stunned – even frightened – when he does. With Melania weeping.
Might that be the realisation of debts come due?
— ‘Kyiv’s relationship with Washington was strained further this week when Ukraine said Starlink services had been restricted, in effect hobbling Ukrainian drone strike missions and crucial air defences with a flick of the switch.’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/trump-calls-ukraines-resumption-of-strikes-on-russian-oil-refineries-a-disgrace

2026-10-15 13:02:44 UTC

— ‘Zacharia sat for the California bar exam after graduating from Pepperdine University law school in 2011, but did not pass.
Speaking briefly to the New York Times she did not clarify whether she had or had not passed the bar exam, but told the reporter that she had consulted with Pepperdine’s president as to how she should identify herself on TV. According to the Times, she said she was told to stay away from “attorney” or “esquire” but that “lawyer” was appropriate.
After her shaky and widely panned first briefing, a reporter asked Trump which state Zacharia had passed the bar exam in. The president, who had described Zacharia as an attorney when announcing her appointment, turned to her and asked: “Which state?” She replied: “when I moved to China”. Zacharia told the New York Times she misheard the question amid the sound of Marine One and believed she had been asked: “Where were you after law school?”’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/14/trump-press-secretary-lawyer-zacharia

2026-08-12 16:35:13 UTC

— ‘The Navy Times gave details of thwarted suicide attempts onboard the aircraft carrier during the current deployment. Annabelle Loma told the outlet that her husband had tried to jump overboard after his spell at sea kept being extended.
“He’s scared. He thinks he’ll get a dishonorable discharge, and just because he was burnt out his 13-year career is ruined, just like that,” she said.
The paper quoted another sailor’s wife who was involved in a separate incident on board the Lincoln in which he prevented a fellow crew member from jumping, grabbing them and bringing them back on deck.
Mike Levin, a Democratic member of congress from California, has sounded the alarm over conditions onboard the warship which is in its fifth month of combat operations against Iran … “moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks, long stretches with no hot water, a meal that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas. No soap, deodorant, or toothpaste.”’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/uss-abraham-lincoln-overboard-extended-deployment

2026-08-10 14:02:52 UTC

— ‘Sapp channeled his personal frustration into building a database of hundreds of brands and ranking them “approved” to “avoid” based in part by their corporate ownership. And as part of his publication, Worse on Purpose, he explains the financial transactions that have undercut the quality of some of the biggest name brands.
Sapp sees a structural problem within the consumer retail industry: founders who built brands they love take lucrative offers from big corporations or private equity investors. While they cash in on the decades it took to build their product’s brand, the new corporate owners eventually prove they don’t have the same emotional investment and are distanced from loyal customers.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/consumed-consumer-goods-quality

2026-07-08 16:42:10 UTC

It’ll be hilarious if all the publicity surrounding Farage’s stunt, and the possibility of being beaten by Count Binface, drives turnout to send the bin-faced count to Parliament!
Binface is planning to campaign (rather than just show up for the ‘count’) and is asking for donations at £3 a shot.
It’s really easy to send a few quid, and if you’re using Apple Pay or PayPal you don’t even need to fill anything in.
Let’s give Farage the humiliating defeat he deserves – and Binface might even make a decent MP (the bar in Clacton is about as low as it gets).
— “Unlike some politicians with their £5million war chests (and ITV detective series back-catalogues), I’m an entirely independent space warrior. I donated all profits from my London mayor campaign to charity, but I’d love to be able to keep fighting the intergalactic fight. Any amount of support is hugely appreciated. I’ve got lots of plans for future endeavours. Watch this hyperspace!”
https://ko-fi.com/countbinface

2026-07-06 12:50:42 UTC

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A toilet scammer; perfect! 🤦🏻‍♂️

2026-07-06 11:09:29 UTC

What definition of ‘sustainable’ could he possibly mean?
A higher but arbitrary share of GDP, that the country can’t afford, vs. the insane spending of the US on its overpowered but ultimately futile military (while its citizens go without basic healthcare etc.) is not sustainable.
— ‘On Sunday night, Matt Whitaker, the US ambassador to Nato, said certain Nato members were not moving fast enough: “Some allies are doing more than others. Poland, the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries lead the way.
“But many others are lagging behind, and President Trump expects all allies to step up immediately and not only get on a sustainable path to the 5% but to get to 5% as soon as possible.”’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/06/keir-starmer-nato-summit-us-rebuke-defence-spending

2026-05-25 09:58:50 UTC

— ‘The NHS is paying private firms record sums to analyse diagnostic scans because hospitals are too busy and understaffed to do the work themselves, research has revealed.
The amount being spent … is “spiralling out of control” and reflects a short-sighted failure to train enough doctors, ministers are being told.
…
The RCR also raised concerns that the analysis done by private firms was sometimes so poor that NHS radiologists had to read scans again, …’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/25/nhs-spends-record-241m-outsourcing-scan-analysis-to-private-firms

2026-05-20 17:46:28 UTC

Customer and order info leaked via (apparently simple) exploit; if complete, Trump Mobile sales are 1/20th of that claimed.
So the $59m number guesstimated for phone order (deposits) unfulfilled is probably only about $3m.
#nevent1q…8scq

2026-02-06 16:26:31 UTC

So Trump
— ‘Trump has told the Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, that he will unfreeze funds for major infrastructure projects in New York City if he supports renaming Dulles international airport and Penn Station after him.
The demand, which was first reported on Thursday by Punchbowl News, comes after the president in October halted $18bn in funding for a major subway line expansion in New York City as well as a new rail tunnel connecting the city to New Jersey.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/trump-penn-station-dulles-airport-renaming

2025-06-16 08:54:51 UTC

The Israeli govt has instituted a daily death march.
— ‘At Netzarim distribution point, people weak with hunger walked up to 15km over hot sand … Then they were led into an area surrounded by fences, where boxes of basic supplies were scattered on the ground, triggering frantic scrambles. People fought desperately to reach them.
…
After only 10 or 15 minutes, tanks began approaching the fences and opened fire on the crowd shooting at everyone, young and old alike.’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/16/starving-shot-no-longer-hope-palestinians-un-aid-gaza

2025-05-25 09:36:55 UTC

What’s he waiting for then? Starmer’s supposed to be the prime minister and he has to get permission from Morgan-fucking-McSweeney?
While Labour’s vacating all the progressive spaces to the left to chase rightwards, Farage is sliming his way around to fill them all with the kind of fake compassion Labour can only dream of.
Starmer’s done this to himself.
— ‘Starmer has privately backed plans to scrap the cap, and made it clear he wants to drive down child poverty.’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/25/farage-and-reform-would-end-two-child-benefit-cap-report

2025-05-17 11:27:34 UTC

— ‘The Leeds West and Pudsey Constituency Labour party (CLP), which campaigned to return Reeves to parliament last year as its MP, has agreed to write to her “as soon as possible” to make clear it does not support the cuts.
The Guardian has been told by a Labour source that the meeting – which took place on Zoom on Thursday night – saw the motion passed unanimously, with 30 delegates voting for and zero voting against or abstaining.’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/17/rachel-reeves-labour-leeds-disability-benefits

2025-05-14 17:25:01 UTC

— ‘Britain’s status as a cohesive, democratic society is at risk for the first time in a generation as the rise of social media platforms and disinformation fuel a “trust crisis”, …
Tim Davie said BBC News would start to make special content for platforms such as YouTube and TikTok, where disinformation can go unchecked, as he couched the broadcaster as a “precious national asset” preventing the UK from becoming a society in which there were no shared facts.’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/may/14/bbc-tim-davie-disinformation-trust-crisis-social-fabric-uk-at-risk

2025-04-18 07:28:32 UTC

MPs opposing benefit cuts should be negotiating on the basis they will vote against them. It’s all theatre if all they negotiate is their own theatrics.
— ‘One Labour MP said: “When people abstained on the winter fuel vote, they were warned that it had been taken by the leadership as voting against the government. This time, however, a number of MPs have been offered the opportunity to abstain.”‘
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/17/ministers-avoid-labour-rebellion-disability-cuts

2025-03-29 22:08:54 UTC

— ‘While the US prefers dictators to democrats, punishes its friends, and lies, bullies and plots to steal allies’ sovereign territory, there is no going back …
Forget what Starmer says. Britain will have to choose. It has kowtowed to the US all our lives, and this is where it has got us. Gradual strategic disengagement from America, coupled with renewed integration in a reformed, revitalised Europe, is the only sane, safe path.’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/29/britain-has-been-paying-a-high-price-for-uncle-sams-craziness-its-time-to-turn-to-europe

2025-03-27 07:25:39 UTC

— ‘When more than half of Britons say the country’s either heading back into austerity or has never left it, … they’re not thinking of the dictionary definition. What they really mean is a sense that nothing changes, no matter who is in power, and maybe this is just how life is going to be now.
Staggeringly, almost half say they can’t be sure the cost of living crisis will ever end, while seven in 10 think it’s unlikely this government will improve their lives.’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/rachel-reeves-swears-not-return-austerity

2025-03-01 06:05:43 UTC

Everything Trump does seems to have a rather blatant ‘side-effect’ of weakening or exposing the US.
— “The highly politicized discourse around FBI investigations will likely suppress interest and willingness to investigate violent far-right activity, especially [after Jan 6 pardons] …
We’re also looking at a dynamic wherein fewer bureau resources are directed to those few agents still tasked with overseeing domestic extremism which intersects with the far right.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/fbi-kash-patel-investigations-far-right

2025-02-21 21:33:35 UTC

Greenland next. 🙄
— ‘Trump is reportedly considering disbanding the leadership of the US Postal Service (USPS) and folding it into his administration in a move that would end the 250-year-old agency’s independence and potentially threaten the mail delivery system’s impartiality.
The Washington Post reported that an executive order was being prepared to fire the service’s governing board and place it under the authority of the new commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/trump-disbanding-usps

2025-01-09 12:29:36 UTC

— ‘by the end of [Biden’s] presidency he will have done more damage to the so-called “rules-based order” than Trump did. Fifteen months … of support for Israel’s horrific assault on Gaza has violated virtually every international norm on the protections of civilians in war and left America’s moral credibility in tatters. Biden showed that international law is little more than a cudgel to be used against our enemies while being treated as optional for our friends.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jan/09/democrats-war-foreign-policy

2024-12-05 08:33:19 UTC

— ‘The vote on a Liberal Democrat bill calling for a PR system for UK parliamentary elections and for local elections in England was passed by 137 votes to 135. It is believed to be the first time the Westminster parliament has backed such a plan.
The measure was introduced as a so-called 10-minute rule bill, which gives MPs that amount of time to make the case for a bill … they almost never become law because they are not allocated more time in the Commons.’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/03/mps-back-proportional-representation-system-uk-elections

2024-12-02 14:00:00 UTC

— ‘A Swansea woman has said she was left traumatised after being arrested under the Terrorism Act and held incommunicado for five days because her daughter was allegedly involved in an action against an Israeli arms company.
Emma Kamio, 57, … was led away in handcuffs from her home in front of her son and neighbours and had three laptops and mobile phones seized, after a Palestine Action protest at an Elbit Systems UK building near Patchway on the outskirts of Bristol.’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/02/swansea-mother-traumatised-by-arrest-under-terrorism-act

2024-12-01 19:36:37 UTC

— ‘The climate crisis means the problem is getting worse. The Teme’s flood peaks at Tenbury are projected to increase by a median 20% this decade, even in a scenario with lower emission increases. Residents have raised alarm at houses being built on flood plains.
Most people in the town centre cannot afford insurance – the premiums are too high because flooding is so frequent, they said.’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/01/could-tenbury-wells-be-the-first-uk-town-centre-abandoned-due-to-climate-change

2024-08-31 09:36:46 UTC

— ‘By last summer, Starmer had accepted more freebies than all Labour leaders since 1997 combined. As analysis by openDemocracy uncovered, that included multiple gifts from wealthy donors and companies, days at the races, an Adele gig, two Coldplay concerts and hospitality at Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur matches.
In total, he received £76,000 worth of freebies in the last parliament. These ranged from hotel stays to more than 20 football tickets …’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/31/keir-starmer-perks-disconcerting-cash-strapped-britain

2024-08-19 10:36:28 UTC

— ‘The graphic evidence is designed to support a request for a court order that the UK government has acted irrationally in refusing to ban the sale of arms, arguing there was not a clear risk the weapons would be used to commit breaches of international humanitarian law.
…
It is the first attempt to put such graphic testimony of alleged Israeli war crimes in front of a British judge since Hamas launched its deadly attack …’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/19/lawyers-seeking-arms-export-ban-submit-claims-israeli-war-crimes-uk-court

2024-08-19 00:13:02 UTC

— “Ministers claim that the UK has one of the most ‘robust and transparent’ arms export licensing regimes in the world, however this is the opposite of the truth. As a fully cleared officer raising serious concerns of illegality in this department, to be disregarded in this way is deeply troubling. It is my duty as a public servant to raise this.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/18/foreign-office-official-quits-over-uk-refusal-to-ban-arms-exports-to-israel

2024-07-17 20:08:15 UTC

— ‘It is now believed that Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old suspect, was spotted by law enforcement officials on the roof of a glass research company at 5.45pm, nearly 30 minutes before shots were fired …
… a police officer with the county’s emergency services warned a command center that a man with a range-finder had been scoping out the roof of the building that would become Crooks’s reported firing position [and had] later returned with a backpack.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/trump-shooting-butler-pennsylvania

2024-06-25 20:20:01 UTC

— ‘On one occasion, Republicans barred Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, from speaking for the rest of the day and deleted his comments from the Congressional Record after he railed against Mr. Trump and his court cases.
“When they censor any mention of Donald Trump’s criminal convictions, they are essentially trying to ban a fact, … I am not aware of any precedent where factual statements have been banned in our lifetime.”’
https://archive.ph/newest/www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/us/politics/house-republicans-trump.html

2024-05-31 19:49:30 UTC

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I haven’t read every one, but I’m also yet to see one that’s been released officially and not just “people familiar with the negotiations” putting their own (biased) briefings out.

2024-05-02 04:58:30 UTC

Republicans want to make it a federal crime to criticise Israel – having restricted free speech this way, why wouldn’t a future President Trump (or even Biden) not extend such protection to their own government?
— “Federal law already prohibits antisemitic discrimination and harassment by federally funded entities.
… instead, it would likely chill free speech of students on college campuses by incorrectly equating criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/house-antisemitism-bill-university-protest

2024-04-21 14:57:14 UTC

— “President Shafik’s testimony … has profoundly disturbed us. In the face of slanderous assaults on Columbia faculty and students and of gross interference in academic practices by congressional inquisitors, president Shafik not only did not object – she capitulated to their demands.”
“President Shafik, the co-chairs of the board of trustees, and the former dean of the law school … effectively pledged, on the congressional record, to end academic freedom at Columbia,”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/columbia-barnard-student-protesters