@jparkins10.bsky.social
Born Scouser, raised in Toronto, worked all over the world, long retired, interested in travel, sports, news, politics, current affairs, history, music, science, technology, markets & business. LFC supporter
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Did Trump just release the contents of his bowels into his diaper on national TV? That's the question everyone's asking.
I don't know the answer, but PROOF *did* publish the most exhaustive, fully sourced journalistic analysis ever on Trump and his diapers.
It is long.
I don't know the answer, but PROOF *did* publish the most exhaustive, fully sourced journalistic analysis ever on Trump and his diapers.
It is long.
Will Americans Vote for a Man Who Is Now Widely Reported to Exude a Rancid Odor?
The one thing Donald Trump can’t bear people saying of him is something many near him confirm is true—he smells terrible. What will voters do with this intelligence? This report unpacks that question.
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Did Trump just release the contents of his bowels into his diaper on national TV? That's the question everyone's asking.
I don't know the answer, but PROOF *did* publish the most exhaustive, fully sourced journalistic analysis ever on Trump and his diapers.
It is long.
I don't know the answer, but PROOF *did* publish the most exhaustive, fully sourced journalistic analysis ever on Trump and his diapers.
It is long.
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The bill needed 60 votes to pass, but only four Republicans broke with their party and voted to extend the subsidies that millions rely on: Josh Hawley, Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Susan Collins, resulting in a total of just 51 votes in favor. trib.al/6MSW0cH
List of Every Republican Who Voted to Make Obamacare More Expensive
Here is the full list of Republicans who don’t care that health insurance costs are about to skyrocket for millions of Americans.
trib.al
December 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The bill needed 60 votes to pass, but only four Republicans broke with their party and voted to extend the subsidies that millions rely on: Josh Hawley, Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Susan Collins, resulting in a total of just 51 votes in favor. trib.al/6MSW0cH
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He could've written this in 2016 and probably did.
December 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
He could've written this in 2016 and probably did.
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A common hostile response to pointing out Ru isn't offering a settlement but demanding Ukr capitulation is to say Ukr should've taken the 2022 Istanbul "deal". Reminder: Ru demanded capitulation then too. "If Ukr had surrendered in 2022, Ru wouldn't be asking for surrender today" is a dumb retort
December 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A common hostile response to pointing out Ru isn't offering a settlement but demanding Ukr capitulation is to say Ukr should've taken the 2022 Istanbul "deal". Reminder: Ru demanded capitulation then too. "If Ukr had surrendered in 2022, Ru wouldn't be asking for surrender today" is a dumb retort
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The shameless hypocrisy and dishonesty of the nationalist right are its greatest strengths because they have permanent control of the UK news narrative.
Amazing, the @dailymail.co.uk manages to publish an entire lengthy feature bewailing (!!!!) the exodus of Poles from Britain without once mentioning Brexit. Apparently this outcome (which is surely exactly what they campaigned for in 2016) is all the fault of Keir Starmer.
mol.im/a/15379789
mol.im/a/15379789
The great exodus: How Poles are ditching UK for their booming homeland
New statistics reveal that while 7,000 Poles arrived in the year ending last June, 25,000 returned home: a net outflow of 18,000. The UK's total Polish population has shrunk to 750,000.
mol.im
December 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The shameless hypocrisy and dishonesty of the nationalist right are its greatest strengths because they have permanent control of the UK news narrative.
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Always good to be reminded that Trump isn’t America.
Inside the fight for MAGA’s foreign policy
economist.com/internationa...
from The Economist
Inside the fight for MAGA’s foreign policy
economist.com/internationa...
from The Economist
December 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Always good to be reminded that Trump isn’t America.
Inside the fight for MAGA’s foreign policy
economist.com/internationa...
from The Economist
Inside the fight for MAGA’s foreign policy
economist.com/internationa...
from The Economist
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Another one of the “are these things really an improvement?” arguments falls away.
EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids.
Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km.
We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.
Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km.
We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.
December 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Another one of the “are these things really an improvement?” arguments falls away.
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“Unlike pretty much every other conservative party in the industrialized world,” American Republicans seem resigned to bleed out on health care, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues. Why can’t the GOP make peace with Obamacare?
Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care
It’s one thing for Republicans to deny hypothetical care. It’s another to take this tangible benefit away.
bit.ly
December 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“Unlike pretty much every other conservative party in the industrialized world,” American Republicans seem resigned to bleed out on health care, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues. Why can’t the GOP make peace with Obamacare?
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I've often been critical of violent, racist, tax dodging, would be Mayor of London Ant Middleton, but you have to applaud someone who, having said that people who are "anti British culture... [should] Leave," has moved to Dubai. 👋
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I've often been critical of violent, racist, tax dodging, would be Mayor of London Ant Middleton, but you have to applaud someone who, having said that people who are "anti British culture... [should] Leave," has moved to Dubai. 👋
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The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
The Farage Apologists
The same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
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The buzziest private companies are being sold to a select few as the universe of stocks everyone else can invest in shrinks rapidly.
Inside the Invitation-Only Stock Market for the Wealthy
The buzziest private companies are being sold to a select few as the universe of stocks everyone else can invest in shrinks rapidly.
on.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The buzziest private companies are being sold to a select few as the universe of stocks everyone else can invest in shrinks rapidly.
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Barron's makes the Kevins race the cover story
December 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Barron's makes the Kevins race the cover story
DHS may not be violating any constitutional rights by requiring visitors to hand over their social media history when applying for a travel visa, but it certainly breaks with the spirit of the founding principles the administration claims it wants to protect. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Forcing visitors to share five years of social media history is nuts
America’s closest allies are among the 42 countries in the visa waiver program targeted by Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Just seen that this is the longest period of no small boat arrivals for seven years.
No crossings in 28 days. Just bad weather?
🚨 WATCH: Migrants leave France in a small boat after there were no crossings made in the last 28 days
[@markwhiteTV]
[@markwhiteTV]
December 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Just seen that this is the longest period of no small boat arrivals for seven years.
The generals say all goals of the war will be achieved. The economists say the economy will outlast Ukraine’s. Trump says that Russia is much stronger and Kyiv has no cards to play. It is little wonder that Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
With an army of yes-men, how Putin’s world turned into an echo chamber
The Russian president has little incentive to compromise in the ongoing peace talks because everyone around him keeps reassuring him that Russia is winning.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Stephen Yaxley Lennon Tommy Robinson is holding a carol service today billed as “Britain belongs to the British People.”
He wants to create “a muscular Christianity…separate from the Church.”
Meanwhile the Far Right’s next target is to infiltrate the Anglican Church.
He wants to create “a muscular Christianity…separate from the Church.”
Meanwhile the Far Right’s next target is to infiltrate the Anglican Church.
December 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Stephen Yaxley Lennon Tommy Robinson is holding a carol service today billed as “Britain belongs to the British People.”
He wants to create “a muscular Christianity…separate from the Church.”
Meanwhile the Far Right’s next target is to infiltrate the Anglican Church.
He wants to create “a muscular Christianity…separate from the Church.”
Meanwhile the Far Right’s next target is to infiltrate the Anglican Church.
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As Donald Trump’s America formally aligns with far-right, racist parties across Europe, the transatlantic alliance is effectively over.
Transatlantic rupture
Relations between the US and Europe crumple further over Trump’s national security strategy and pressure on Ukraine
www.ft.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
As Donald Trump’s America formally aligns with far-right, racist parties across Europe, the transatlantic alliance is effectively over.
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Important piece.
European leaders know this but they aren’t getting their public ready for this.
Media still report on US diplomatic initiatives are though they were serious attempts at policy and the Trump administration were just a more nationalist version of normal America. It isn’t.
European leaders know this but they aren’t getting their public ready for this.
Media still report on US diplomatic initiatives are though they were serious attempts at policy and the Trump administration were just a more nationalist version of normal America. It isn’t.
>The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.
>Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
Accurate.
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
>Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
Accurate.
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
www.readtheline.ca
December 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Important piece.
European leaders know this but they aren’t getting their public ready for this.
Media still report on US diplomatic initiatives are though they were serious attempts at policy and the Trump administration were just a more nationalist version of normal America. It isn’t.
European leaders know this but they aren’t getting their public ready for this.
Media still report on US diplomatic initiatives are though they were serious attempts at policy and the Trump administration were just a more nationalist version of normal America. It isn’t.
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What's happening to the ICC judges could happen to all of us if the US cuts off access to the basic infrastructure that Europe's economy runs on.
As I argue in my new book The Owned Continent, Europe needs to urgently transition to sovereign economic infrastructure. www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
As I argue in my new book The Owned Continent, Europe needs to urgently transition to sovereign economic infrastructure. www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
“I can’t think of any other way to describe it but an attack on the independence of the judiciary and the ICC's independence as an institution, which is why I’m so interested in the public hearing this.” @naomiohreally.bsky.social interviews ICC Judge Kim Prost.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
What's happening to the ICC judges could happen to all of us if the US cuts off access to the basic infrastructure that Europe's economy runs on.
As I argue in my new book The Owned Continent, Europe needs to urgently transition to sovereign economic infrastructure. www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
As I argue in my new book The Owned Continent, Europe needs to urgently transition to sovereign economic infrastructure. www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
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“One wants Far Right social destruction, the other to get rich quick and do exactly what they want to do. But that anti-government passion is what gets them both on the same bus.”
Crypto and the Far Right
Big money betting on big returns
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“One wants Far Right social destruction, the other to get rich quick and do exactly what they want to do. But that anti-government passion is what gets them both on the same bus.”
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Leader of the 2020 Belarus protests Maria Kolesnikova has been released from prison following talks with the US. No doubt part of the Potash deal.
December 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Leader of the 2020 Belarus protests Maria Kolesnikova has been released from prison following talks with the US. No doubt part of the Potash deal.
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Thailand's leader vowed to keep fighting on the disputed border with Cambodia as fighter jets struck targets on Saturday, hours after US President Donald Trump said he had brokered a ceasefire.
https://cnn.it/4iSeOh8
https://cnn.it/4iSeOh8
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Thailand's leader vowed to keep fighting on the disputed border with Cambodia as fighter jets struck targets on Saturday, hours after US President Donald Trump said he had brokered a ceasefire.
https://cnn.it/4iSeOh8
https://cnn.it/4iSeOh8
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Realpolitik
Canada has heavy oil there can only be refined for use in US. The US needs Canadian oil because its own is light and needs to be exported.
Meanwhile the US refuses to adopt modern clean electricity for political reasons. This keeps
the mad Trump administration dependent on Canada.
Canada has heavy oil there can only be refined for use in US. The US needs Canadian oil because its own is light and needs to be exported.
Meanwhile the US refuses to adopt modern clean electricity for political reasons. This keeps
the mad Trump administration dependent on Canada.
December 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Realpolitik
Canada has heavy oil there can only be refined for use in US. The US needs Canadian oil because its own is light and needs to be exported.
Meanwhile the US refuses to adopt modern clean electricity for political reasons. This keeps
the mad Trump administration dependent on Canada.
Canada has heavy oil there can only be refined for use in US. The US needs Canadian oil because its own is light and needs to be exported.
Meanwhile the US refuses to adopt modern clean electricity for political reasons. This keeps
the mad Trump administration dependent on Canada.