Andrew Robertson
@andrewrobertson.bsky.social
Escaping X for lovely Blue Sky and Sunshine. Steam engines, transport books, photography. My avatar is Popeye from Lings Moonrocket at the Fairgrond Heritage Trust, Lifton in Devon.
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So far, Thomas Massie is the only Republican offering pushback against Trump's latest early morning fit of warmongering.
January 2, 2026 at 3:44 PM
So far, Thomas Massie is the only Republican offering pushback against Trump's latest early morning fit of warmongering.
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Remember when the right-wing press and the private schools lobby said VAT would mean an exodus to state schools causing a crisis? Not so much.
(From this FT analysis: www.ft.com/content/c979...)
(From this FT analysis: www.ft.com/content/c979...)
January 2, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Remember when the right-wing press and the private schools lobby said VAT would mean an exodus to state schools causing a crisis? Not so much.
(From this FT analysis: www.ft.com/content/c979...)
(From this FT analysis: www.ft.com/content/c979...)
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Small boat crossings total for 2025 was 41,472 - up 13% on 2024, though below the 2022 record of 45,755 (BBC)
January 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Small boat crossings total for 2025 was 41,472 - up 13% on 2024, though below the 2022 record of 45,755 (BBC)
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Alabama had 717 murders in 2023, with a population around 3.5 million less than NYC.
A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
January 1, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Alabama had 717 murders in 2023, with a population around 3.5 million less than NYC.
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"An aide to Farage when he was an MEP, tells Crick that his boss hated policy meetings. “He was totally out of his bloody depth. Intelligent people – he was scared of them. He has an inferiority complex about education and highly qualified people.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/f....
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/f....
One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage review – the man who broke Britain
Michael Crick’s gripping and vivid study of Mr Brexit is full of revelatory stories, but pulls its punches at the end
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:47 PM
"An aide to Farage when he was an MEP, tells Crick that his boss hated policy meetings. “He was totally out of his bloody depth. Intelligent people – he was scared of them. He has an inferiority complex about education and highly qualified people.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/f....
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/f....
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen: “Over the past year, we have had to endure a great deal—threats, pressure, and condescending rhetoric, even from our closest allies of a lifetime.
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January 1, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen: “Over the past year, we have had to endure a great deal—threats, pressure, and condescending rhetoric, even from our closest allies of a lifetime.
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Apparently, in order to become mayor of a 9 million person city in what claims to be the world’s most technologically advanced nation, you have to hand over $9 in used bank notes in a disused subway station, to a random bureaucrat so he will issue a paper form to say you’ve sworn the oath of office.
January 1, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Apparently, in order to become mayor of a 9 million person city in what claims to be the world’s most technologically advanced nation, you have to hand over $9 in used bank notes in a disused subway station, to a random bureaucrat so he will issue a paper form to say you’ve sworn the oath of office.
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I’ll be waiting with the actual facts
January 1, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I’ll be waiting with the actual facts
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I'm still gone at people repeating that you can't put the AI genie back in the bottle.
It's not a genie, and yes, you can.
You're just repeating billionaire propaganda, where they're enriching themselves by automating theft. Let's put the billionaires back in the bottle, and chuck it into the sea.
It's not a genie, and yes, you can.
You're just repeating billionaire propaganda, where they're enriching themselves by automating theft. Let's put the billionaires back in the bottle, and chuck it into the sea.
December 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I'm still gone at people repeating that you can't put the AI genie back in the bottle.
It's not a genie, and yes, you can.
You're just repeating billionaire propaganda, where they're enriching themselves by automating theft. Let's put the billionaires back in the bottle, and chuck it into the sea.
It's not a genie, and yes, you can.
You're just repeating billionaire propaganda, where they're enriching themselves by automating theft. Let's put the billionaires back in the bottle, and chuck it into the sea.
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More evidence that the Trump administration is cozying up to cybermercenaries. The Treasury Dept has removed three people closely affiliated with Intellexa, the company that makes Predator, off a sanctions list: therecord.media/treasury-san...
Treasury removes sanctions for three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa
The Treasury Department on Tuesday took three people closely affiliated with the holding company behind Predator spyware off of a sanctions list, reversing their designation in 2024 by the Biden admin...
therecord.media
December 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
More evidence that the Trump administration is cozying up to cybermercenaries. The Treasury Dept has removed three people closely affiliated with Intellexa, the company that makes Predator, off a sanctions list: therecord.media/treasury-san...
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watch for this to pick up in 2026, as Tesla increasingly circles the drain
Elon Musk is making up claims about Tesla on X and won’t allow community notes to be attached.
December 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
watch for this to pick up in 2026, as Tesla increasingly circles the drain
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Somewhere, Peter Hitchens is screaming at the top of his lungs that there is no New Year and that being happy now is a communist woke move
December 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Somewhere, Peter Hitchens is screaming at the top of his lungs that there is no New Year and that being happy now is a communist woke move
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"Farage and Badenoch are free to offer up an explanation as to why Connolly should be able to incite violence without consequence, while el-Fattah should face extrajudicial punishment for it. Until they do so, there is an all too obvious one: they are openly pandering to racists."
Calls to remove el-Fattah’s UK citizenship are dictatorial
Yes his tweets were disgusting, possibly criminal, yet it should not be possible for politicians to revoke someone’s national identity just because they dislike their views
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Farage and Badenoch are free to offer up an explanation as to why Connolly should be able to incite violence without consequence, while el-Fattah should face extrajudicial punishment for it. Until they do so, there is an all too obvious one: they are openly pandering to racists."
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“So far, dictators and autocrats have proved most able at exploiting the gullibility of the man occupying the Oval Office. If they want to get anything out of Trump, European leaders and other democratic leaders need to learn how to do the same. The future of the free world might depend on it.”
Putin has just exposed Trump's weakness for the world to see
Who needs the CIA or the National Security Agency when the Kremlin can just tell you what’s going on, after all?
inews.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“So far, dictators and autocrats have proved most able at exploiting the gullibility of the man occupying the Oval Office. If they want to get anything out of Trump, European leaders and other democratic leaders need to learn how to do the same. The future of the free world might depend on it.”
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good LORD
December 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
good LORD
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🧵: NHTSA has opened not one but two separate investigations into Tesla and the doors
1/In September, NHTSA opened a defect investigation into Tesla's electrically powered doors. The scope of the "ODI" is here:
December 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🧵: NHTSA has opened not one but two separate investigations into Tesla and the doors
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This is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
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😏 Oops! His AI hasn’t learned to lie yet 🤷🏽
December 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
😏 Oops! His AI hasn’t learned to lie yet 🤷🏽
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What inauguration?
Trump: I'm doing a magnificent, big, beautiful ballroom… we're under budget and ahead of schedule. Now. It's bigger than I told you…after realizing we're going to do the inauguration in that building
December 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
What inauguration?
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Trump: "We have a fool at the Federal Reserve. I mean, Biden reappointed him. It's too bad. You would have thought he wouldn't have done that."
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)
December 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump: "We have a fool at the Federal Reserve. I mean, Biden reappointed him. It's too bad. You would have thought he wouldn't have done that."
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)
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This is the level of depravity of the current USA regime.
#TACO is defending #Nethanyahu with #Putler 's talking points. Regardless of the facts. This is depravity.
Megalomaniac decline in plain sight.
#TACO is defending #Nethanyahu with #Putler 's talking points. Regardless of the facts. This is depravity.
Megalomaniac decline in plain sight.
December 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is the level of depravity of the current USA regime.
#TACO is defending #Nethanyahu with #Putler 's talking points. Regardless of the facts. This is depravity.
Megalomaniac decline in plain sight.
#TACO is defending #Nethanyahu with #Putler 's talking points. Regardless of the facts. This is depravity.
Megalomaniac decline in plain sight.
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Still unreported, should be investigated:
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
Huge win for Richard Noticias LA, TikTok journalist shot by ICE. Criminal charges dismissed with prejudice, meaning can’t be refiled.
ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture.
Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.
ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture.
Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.
Federal judge dismisses indictment against TikToker shot by ICE, citing constitutional violations
Days before Carlitos Ricardo Parias was set to to go to trial for assault on a federal officer, a federal judge dismissed the case against him. The judge cited the deprivation of Parias' access to cou...
www.latimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Still unreported, should be investigated:
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
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These two images of Chinese train driver Han Junjia were taken less than 30 years apart.
Transformative change is possible when it is relentlessly pursued.
Transformative change is possible when it is relentlessly pursued.
December 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
These two images of Chinese train driver Han Junjia were taken less than 30 years apart.
Transformative change is possible when it is relentlessly pursued.
Transformative change is possible when it is relentlessly pursued.
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The Conservative Party is simultaneously arguing people shouldn’t be jailed for social media posts directly calling for violence, but also that people’s citizenship should be revoked over social media posts they don’t like.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
December 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Conservative Party is simultaneously arguing people shouldn’t be jailed for social media posts directly calling for violence, but also that people’s citizenship should be revoked over social media posts they don’t like.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.