Celebrities have shared their disappointment and anger over Donald Trump’s re-election as president.

The Republican’s Tuesday victory over opponent Kamala Harris sent shock waves throughout Hollywood after the Democratic candidate ran a campaign filled with A-list names including Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Bruce Springsteen and Julia Roberts.

The Don’t Look Up director Adam McKay expressed frustration with how the past year has been handled by the Democratic party. “Who would have guessed lying about Biden’s cognitive health for 2 yrs, refusing to do an open convention for a new nominee, never mentioning public healthcare & embracing fracking, the Cheneys & a yr long slaughter of children in Gaza wouldn’t be a winning strategy?” he wrote. He later added: “It is time to abandon the Dem Party.”

Rapper Cardi B, who had appeared at a rally for Harris, shared an Instagram video of herself watching the results with the caption: “I hate y’all bad.” When asked if she would appear at Trump’s inauguration during an Instagram live, she said: “I’m sick of you! Burn your fucking hats, motherfucker. I’m really sad. I swear to God I’m really sad.”

In a lengthy Instagram post, Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis wrote that it would be “a return to a more restrictive, some fear draconian time” and that minority groups will now be more afraid. “But what it really means is that we wake up and fight,” she wrote. “Fight for women and our children and their futures and fight against tyranny, one day at a time. One fight at a time. One protest at a time. That’s what it means to be an American.”

Actor John Cusack, who has long been politically outspoken online, wrote: “The fact that the country would choose to destroy itself by voting in a convicted felon rapist and Nazi is a sign of deep nihilism. To put it mildly.”

Christina Applegate, star of Dead to Me and Married … with Children, conveyed her upset over the effect the result will have on women. “My child is sobbing because her rights as a woman may be taken away,” she wrote. “Why? And if you disagree, please unfollow me.”

The Wire actor Wendell Pierce congratulated Harris for running “a great campaign” and warned of what will now happen under Trump. “Elections have consequences,” he wrote. “The Supreme Court will be changed for a generation. I’ll never see a moderate court again in my lifetime.” He also criticised Trump’s “racism, misogyny, xenophobia”.

Author Stephen King shared the following: “There’s a sign you can see in many shops that sell beautiful but fragile items: LOVELY TO LOOK AT, DELIGHTFUL TO HOLD, BUT ONCE YOU BREAK IT, THEN IT’S SOLD. You can say the same about democracy.”

Duncan Jones, director of Moon and son of David Bowie, posted that he was feeling “very Brexity” while expressing pessimism over the millions who voted for Trump. “I think we may have overestimated the goodness in people,” he wrote.

Singer Ethel Cain called the situation “bleak” and had a strongly worded message for Trump voters. “If you voted for Trump, I hope that peace never finds you,” she wrote. “Instead, I hope clarity strikes you someday like a clap of lightning and you have to live the rest of your life with the knowledge and guilt of what you’ve done and who you are as a person.”

The British author Philip Pullman simply wrote: “Goodbye, America. It was nice knowing you.”

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We’ve just witnessed an extraordinary, devastating moment in the history of the United States. In 2016, we promised that our coverage of a Donald Trump administration would meet the moment – and I think it did. Throughout those tumultuous four years we never minimised or normalised the threat of Trump’s authoritarianism, and we treated his lies as a genuine danger to democracy, a threat that found its expression on 6 January 2021.

Now, with Trump months away from taking office again – with dramatic implications for wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the health of American democracy, reproductive rights, inequality and, perhaps most of all, our collective environmental future – it’s time for us to redouble our efforts to hold the president-elect and those who surround him to account.

It’s going to be an enormous challenge. And we need your help.

Last week, Guardian US media columnist Margaret Sullivan spelled out in black and white the threat to a free press from another Trump presidency.

“Trump,” she wrote, “poses a clear threat to journalists, to news organisations and to press freedom in the US and around the world.” He has, for years, stirred up hatred against reporters, calling them an “enemy of the people” and referred to legitimate journalism as “fake news”.

Kash Patel, a potential Trump pick for FBI director or attorney general, has said, “We’re going to come after people in the media” and Project 2025, the blueprint for a second Trump presidency, includes plans to make it easier to seize journalists’ emails and phone records.

We will stand up to these threats, but it will take brave, well-funded independent journalism. It will take reporting that can’t be leaned upon by a billionaire owner terrified of retribution from a bully in the White House.

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South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham has sent an ominous message to special counsel Jack Smith as Donald Trump was on the precipice of being announced as the winner of the 2024 election.

Early on Wednesday morning, mere moments before Trump took the stage in West Palm Beach, Florida, to give his victory speech, Graham posted a note on X “to Jack Smith and your team”.

“It is time to look forward to a new chapter in your legal careers as these politically motivated charges against President Trump hit a wall,” Graham wrote.

“The supreme court substantially rejected what you were trying to do, and after tonight, it’s clear the American people are tired of lawfare. Bring these cases to an end. The American people deserve a refund.”

The US attorney general Merrick Garland appointed Smith in November 2022 to determine whether Trump should face criminal charges stemming from investigations into the former’s president’s alleged mishandling of national security materials and his role in the 6 January attack on the US Capitol.

Smith charged Trump last year in Florida over his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club, and in Washington over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

With the election mere months away, Trump’s legal team tried to stall the proceedings as much as possible.

Their case was aided in July, when the supreme court conferred broad immunity on former presidents and narrowed the scope of the prosecution.

Smith and his team detailed their case against Trump in a 165-page filing that was unsealed in October, in which they argued that Trump should not be entitled to immunity from prosecution. In the filing, federal prosecutors said that Trump “resorted to crimes” in a failed bid to cling to power after losing the 2020 election and that he is not entitled to immunity from prosecution.

The charges filed by Smith and his team were not the only one vexing Trump since leaving office in 2021. When he takes office in January, Trump will be the first convicted criminal to win the White House and gain access to the nuclear codes.

In May, Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to a hush-money payment to the adult film performer Stormy Daniels. Sentencing was originally scheduled on 18 September, but delayed to 26 November after a request from Trump for it to be postponed until after the election. It’s unclear if the date will stand.

Since the unsealing of Smith’s case in October, Trump has spoken publicly about how he would immediately fire Smith if he were re-elected.

In a conversation with the conservative podcast host Hugh Hewitt, who asked whether Trump would pardon himself or fire the special counsel, Trump said: “Oh, it’s so easy. It’s so easy … I would fire him within two seconds.”

Releases of European beavers, Castor fiber, both controlled and unofficial, mean that this aquatic mammal is now again a part of the British landscape, returning 400 years after being wiped out by human hunting. The public is generally enthusiastic and environmental campaigners say there are gains for many forms of river life as a result. The retention of water in the landscape leads to a reduction in flooding and can protect against droughts.

However, not everyone is so impressed – particularly landowners and foresters, who complain of damage to carefully regulated watercourses and tree felling.

In Germany, where beavers made a comeback decades ago, scientists say biodiversity has been dramatically increased by beavers, but the same divide still exists. Only 25% of the general public found beavers annoying, but 75% of farming and forestry folk said beavers made them angry.

And in Britain, too, beavers are feeling this backlash from some of those that live closest to them and manage their river habitat. Government licences to remove them in England are being granted. Some animals are captured and relocated, while a smaller number are killed.

The German scientists believe that the best way to protect beavers is to educate the landowners and the foresters, so that they realise their gains from their activity are greater than the losses.

The UK is falling further behind on sewage pollution regulation as the EU tightens its rules to clean up Europe’s waterways, say critics.

EU member states agreed on Tuesday to update the urban waste water treatment directive to strengthen rules to clean up sewage and chemical pollution from treatment plants. European countries will have to update their sewage systems and treatment plants so that large amounts of human waste and chemicals are removed from rivers by a deadline of 2035. The companies deemed responsible will be required to pay for the infrastructure changes.

Meanwhile, the UK still has the old 1991 UWWT directive legislation, which was brought into EU law when the UK was still a member. UK water companies are charged with rules from this original directive, such as not allowing sewage to spill from storm overflows into rivers except under exceptional circumstances, for example extreme rainfall.

Earlier this year, the Guardian revealed that the UK is falling behind the EU on almost every area of environmental regulation, as the bloc strengthens its legislation while the UK weakens it. In some cases, ministers are removing EU-derived environmental protections from the statute book entirely.

Ben Reynolds, director of green thinktank IEEP UK, commented: “The recently adopted wastewater legislation in the EU increases and expands their standards to include things like a wider range of pollutants such as microplastics. Standards in the UK are no longer keeping track and are falling behind. With the dire state of river pollution in this country, in part due to sewage, the UK should be looking hard at all options to tackle this, and keeping track with these higher standards alongside smarter investment and more resources for enforcement should be on the table.”

UK companies have failed in many cases to update infrastructure to meet the 1991 directive, resulting in record sewage spills, in some cases happening when it is not raining at all. Meanwhile the EU is updating requirements. The new EU directive specifically targets phosphorus and nitrate pollution, which come from human and animal waste and contribute to an excess of nutrients in rivers, causing algae and plants to grow in large volume, and choking out the life in the waterway. This is removed by what is known as “tertiary treatment”, which is a more precise form of removing pollutants from water. In the 1991 directive, only water being discharged into “sensitive areas” such as nature reserves was required to go through tertiary treatment. The new EU rules require that all large wastewater treatment plants put their water through tertiary treatment.

Human health while swimming in open water is also addressed in the EU rules. Wastewater from certain treatment centres will have to go through a new and even stricter form of water treatment known as quarternary treatment, which removes micropollutants from water. These come from industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetic products, pesticides, and hormones. Assessments of threats to human health from these pollutants, including specifically to bathing waters, must be made. These rules are not being carried across to the UK.

There are fears the costs of implementing the new provisions will be significant in many EU member states.

“Britain wasn’t the only country struggling to reach the targets set even in the old rules,” said Tiemo Wölken, a German MEP from the centre-left Socialists and Democrats, who sits on the European parliament’s environment committee. “Especially in countries [that have] joined the EU more recently, you can still find many, sometimes a majority of plants, that are not in compliance.”

To ease the burden of ensuring cleaner waters, the new directive pushes most of the infrastructure costs on to industries such as cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, forcing manufacturers to pay for the removal of pollutants their plants spew into the water.

Wölken said: “It is problematic that this practical example of making polluters pay is not implemented in the UK, where the privatisation wave lies at the heart of the problem that exposed British citizens to raw sewage in their beautiful rivers and beaches.”

If EU states manage to implement the changes, sewer systems across Europe will become far more sophisticated than in the UK, leading to healthier waters that are more hospitable to people and wildlife.

Mark Owen, director of the European Anglers Alliance, said there was a lot of public and government awareness in the UK, with sewage and pollution having “made headlines daily for the last two years”, but that the new Labour government had not yet made concrete proposals.

“You must remember we’ve been screaming about this from the rooftops for decades,” he added.

Environmentalists have given the green tick to just one brand of canned tuna as industry heavyweights threaten dwindling fishing populations and other marine life.

For the first time, the Australian Marine Conservation Society has evaluated the nation’s most popular tuna brands and classed them as green, amber or red based on their sustainability credentials.

Safcol’s No Net Tuna is the only fully green-ranked product, with the society ranking it a “better choice” than others.

Most products received amber rankings due to their use of purse seine nets. A purse seine is a large weighted net used near the ocean surface to encircle and catch schools of fish like tuna, sardine and mackerel. Wires, like purse strings, trap the fish inside when pulled by closing the bottom of the net, but nets have been known to catch non-target species too.

Brands have largely stopped using fish aggregating devices (FADs), which are designed to cast a shadow in the water to attract fish with less effort.

The devices, which have a higher chance of entangling sharks and turtles, had been replaced by the purse seine devices, the society’s sustainable seafood program manager, Adrian Meder, said.

“While better than FAD, purse seine can impact endangered marine life such as manta rays,” he said.

“There are still major issues in the tuna industry.”

Safcol’s No Net Tuna only uses fish taken by pole and line methods, while others were given mixed green/red ratings for their sourcing.

Sirena and Aldi’s Ocean Rise tuna received mixed ratings because some of their tuna is sourced from healthy populations, but they also use yellowfin tuna from overfished stocks in the Indian Ocean.

Meder said a number of brands only listed the fishing zones on the cans, meaning little to the consumer.

Cans with FAD57 or FAD51 stamped on top come from the overfished yellowfin tuna populations.

The Check Your Tuna guide was based on scientific evidence from international regulations and monitoring organisations, independent from government, fishing industry or retailer sources, the society said.

The organisation’s imports lead, Kimberly Riskas, said labels on all seafood cans should include specific information about the species contained within, where it was caught and how.

“We were pleased to see that every canned tuna product we examined stated the species in the can, something conspicuously missing from a lot of the seafood sold in Australia,” she said.

“We have a right to know what we’re eating, but instead we’re being left in the dark.”

Riskas said more needed to be done to address issues with other seafood sold in Australia, but the tuna industry was making a good start.

The organisation’s 2025 Check Your Tuna criteria will incorporate an assessment of illegal fishing, including labour abuses on boats.

When does a blip become a slump? Pep Guardiola was asked this before the game and pointed to Manchester City’s supreme run of success. Now, their last three matches have been lost for the first time since April 2018 so Saturday’s trip to Brighton is ­certainly about arresting the slide.

Two years ago, Rúben Amorim’s Sporting were cuffed aside 5-0 in a grand City show of power football. This last home match of Manchester United’s incoming manager ended in him becoming to sections of the Red Devils faithful, at least, the “new Ferguson”, as he prophesied would occur should their cross-town rival be downed.

After Viktor Gyökeres starred with a hat-trick, Amorim’s evening closed with a deserved lap of honour and his players giving him the bumps. He leaves Sporting driving their Champions League destiny on 10 points, while City are stuck on seven, and all with the 3-4-3 shape he brings to United when starting work on 11 November.

Sweet Caroline rang out, the José Alvalade was below a sell-out and Amorim’s home swansong had a terrible start. Phil Foden pilfered possession from Hidemasa Morita. Sporting backed off, so City’s playmaker ranged into the area and fired beyond Franco Israel.

After City’s reverses to Tottenham and Bournemouth this was welcome succour. But fragility was evident in a Gyökeres raid that took him clear – and this was an augury, too, of what unfolded. Yet as Ederson advanced the Swede hoped to chip the goalkeeper, fluffed this and the ball was collected.

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Borussia Dortmund left it late to secure a 1-0 win over Sturm Graz courtesy of Donyell Malen’s strike four minutes from time. The Dutch forward came off the bench in the 67th minute and combined with Serhou Guirassy before firing home to earn the hosts their third win from four games.

Thilo Kehrer stabbed home from close range in the 86th minute to lift Monaco into third, one place above Dortmund in the ‘league phase’ table as they earned a 1-0 win over Bologna. Both sides saw goals disallowed in the first half but the visitors got the winner to leave Bologna without a goal in four matches.

Dusan Vlahovic’s second-half penalty cancelled out Jonathan David’s opener as Juventus drew 1-1 with Lille. The French side threatened to follow up their home win over Real Madrid when David finished a quick counter, but Vlahovic levelled after Francisco Conçeicao was brought down in the area.

In the early games, Dinamo Zagreb earned a second consecutive victory in the competition with an emphatic 4-1 win over bottom club Slovan Bratislava, while PSV picked up their first Champions League win this season with a 4-0 home thrashing of Girona. PA Media/Reuters

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Guardiola has talked about his walking wounded and how this is all part of this season’s challenge. With Rúben Dias and John Stones on the injury list, the manager handed ­Jahmai Simpson-Pusey a full debut, 24 hours after the defender turned 19, and Gyökeres’s next act was to go at him along a left channel, the youngster robust enough to see the challenge off.

Before this, City threatened via two Foden corners and two Erling Haaland efforts. The first drew a ­flying Israel save, the second blazed off the Norwegian’s weaker right foot and wide.

City had Portugal’s champions in a familiar grip: hogging the ball and forcing them to live off scraps. When Israel dawdled playing out from the back, Haaland nearly mugged him. The next time Sporting tried, Savinho nicked in, and City had them by the jugular in a sequence that featured another Foden corner from which Josko Gvardiol went close.

As impressive was a back-to-front move that had Mateo Kovacic ­scheming along halfway and Rico Lewis slipping inside from right-back to set Savinho galloping through. Result: a cross meant for Haaland and one more Foden corner. His next was floated on to Haaland’s head and though he beat the airborne Israel the ball was cleared off the line.

City were a relentless force ­cowing their host with percussive pass play. Foden popped up down the left and swept in a delivery that Haaland swiped at on the volley and Israel repelled. The 72.9% ball-retention rate was the contest in microcosm. City were in shooting practice mode. Bernardo Silva shimmied through and unloaded to beat Israel but missed.

Gyökeres then broke – from ­Geovany Quenda’s pass – and on reaching the area held off Simpson‑Pusey and fashioned a ­delightful sand-wedge over Ederson for 1-1. A carbon copy nearly arrived in ­Sporting’s next break beyond City’s high line but Francisco Trincão’s composure failed and the forward blasted wide.

City melted as, from virtually the second-half kick-off, ­Maximiliano Araújo got in behind from Pedro ­Gonçalves’s ball and beat Ederson. The visitors, stunned, were soon shocked. Gvardiol was the culprit, foolishly upending Trincão and the referee, Daniel Siebert, awarded a penalty. Gyökeres smashed this past Ederson and the stadium was a racket of noise.

For the first time in a long time City were being asked questions and they struggled to find answers. Even when Lewis drew a free-kick on the edge of Sporting’s area Foden’s offering did not beat the wall. ­Guardiola, in the technical area, was cast as impotent, while Amorim, on the other side, as the coach of cunning and control.

City never write themselves off but the conveyor belt of chances had stopped until Silva claimed a penalty when challenged by Ousmane ­Diomande – via Siebert being ordered by the VAR to the sideline screen. To his anguish, and in the face of copious home whistles, Haaland crashed the spot-kick on to the bar.

From here, a long way back for those in blue and a famous final salvo on Sporting turf the prize for Amorim. The result was sealed when Matheus Nunes felled Geny Catamo and Gyökeres scored Sporting’s second penalty.

It proved to be City’s biggest defeat since a 5-2 reverse to Leicester in 2020 and for Amorim the finest of send-offs.

As Gyökeres said: “We will miss him a lot. We’ve done amazing things together. We will miss him and the other guys in the staff who will leave. We have to look forward and attack the next challenge ahead of us.”