Hearing people are urgently needed at the counter demo at New Bridge Hotel in Newcastle today - if you can show up to support local asylum seekers and to say no to the fash!

1 trillion dollars with nothing more than the hope that this time the monorail will work behind them. Obscene.

Capitalism has made this man a trillionaire. Can we be honest now that it’s not a real and effective way of organising social relations.

Capitalism has made this man a trillionaire. Can we be honest now that it’s not a real and effective way of organising social relations.

Capitalism efficiently distributing $1trillion dollars to one man who continuously bullshits about what his companies will be able to do and then doesn’t deliver.

🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission. A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis. To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning. 🧵 https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

Other than noting the obvious patheticness of this, I note the figure on the left is wearing a replica Dr. Who sweater-vest from Sylvester McCoy’s “bring down the [tory] government” era. Just totally went over his huge bonce I imagine.

What happened when, after decades, there was finally a serious risk that Britain might elect a PM who was likely to e.g. ask to see the Northern Ireland files, just to have a look at what was in them. Was that welcomed, was it encouraged

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Our fishbone cactus is happier than usual this year. The whole room smells amazing because of these flowers.

Israel is breaching the ‘ceasefire’ by conducting air strikes on Rafah. They are claiming this is retaliatory, which is a lie.

New Blood Orange record is so good

I’m not a numbers guy but this seems very bad

Anyone know a good place to learn self defence in Gateshead/Newcastle area? Don’t want to go somewhere and find they have various dodgy political commitments when I get there.

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help. This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Profoundly unhelpful intervention that obfuscates larger structural problems and solutions in favour of some vague moralising, which lays the groundwork for yet more muscular benefits policing. As someone who suffered severely with anxiety and depression in my twenties this discourse is infuriating

Galling, given all that time plotting to defeat the Labour left, that any idea they have had seems to have moved from the back of a napkin to an article written for the daily telegraph at light speed, seemingly with few threads joining them up.

Guess the occupation of the vocally BNP supporting kid in my class at secondary school? I wonder where those views came from? A complete mystery.

Vichy Labour. Deliberately and repeatedly affirming and amplifying the inflammatory far right *lie* of "uncontrolled migration".

And analysis by Unite argued that in a recent half-year, 58.7 % of inflation was due to profit increases (versus ~8.3 % from labour cost rises). www.unitetheunion.org/media/4757/u...

This matters because "orthodox" price setting policy of the type supported by centrists in the UK, particularly during an inflationary spoke, is geared to punish wage demands. At the height of the inflationary spike, Bank of England officials were urging "harsh medicine" on wages.

In the UK, the @ippr.org and @cmmonwealth.bsky.social concluded that "large companies appear to have preserved or even expanded profit margins during inflationary times, thereby amplifying the inflationary shock." www.ippr.org/media-office...

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There is a deeply tragic irony and a moral cowardice to recognising the Palestinian state only at the too-late moment in which its material conditions, its social forms of life, are being annihilated by the genocidal mania of Israel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is a deeply tragic irony and a moral cowardice to recognising the Palestinian state only at the too-late moment in which its material conditions, its social forms of life, are being annihilated by the genocidal mania of Israel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In Britain, every time you... — turn on a tap — flip a light switch — board a train or bus — post a letter — drop your child at nursery ... you take part in a system designed to extract wealth & concentrate power. 🧵 From cradle to grave, this is how a failed experiment has shaped your life.

www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a... This is a good layman's terms explanation of why chatbots are not getting significantly more correct despite immense investment.

This is a very powerful way to show it tbf

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

These people genuinely know nothing of the history—white conservative state & vigilante violence has been arguably *the defining feature* of U.S. history. They apparently also know very little of the present, in which, again, the very opposite is the case.

Rentoul is pretending “stopping the boats” is an immutable social priority that has emerged organically from the body politic and so something the government has to reactively affirm, regardless of ethical issues and violent practicalities. Both cynical and incompetent.

Every now and then they just openly say "the value of this brown person is that they'll give us more latitude for our racist policies".

Going to tell my grandkids that this is Michel Foucault

”Not only am I encouraging of flags but the flag encourages me… to completion… when I’m sleeping on the couch… again… because my wife doesn’t love me.“

Cruel, unncessary, damaging, right-wing-appeasing and utterly stupid. Our government summed up in one policy.

With every new announcement from this Labour government, this question appears less polemical In fact, at this stage, it would be hard to justify in good faith this Labour government is not consciously paving the way for the far right reacpol.net/starmer-far-...

Always a pleasure to see the Labour right in action, trying to appear vaguely relatable to their target audience of reactionaries baying for migrant blood, and coming across as a massive freak anyway.

What do we owe to our fellow humans? Labour are saying ”nothing, in fact we believe it is both right and good to impose suffering, pain, and death upon vulnerable populations in order to impress some monstrous billionaire media owners and their credulous followers“

Turning up the racism dial to impress people who hate you and are itching to burn down the auditorium

Re last post:

Labour once again signaling they are profoundly unserious about issues surrounding asylum by placing the fascist desires of swing voters over and above moral and practical solutions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just saw Weapons and it was fun, well paced and well acted and, unfortunately, reactionary dreck.

Cool that the bbc is just doing propaganda work for fascists now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you that at a time when everyone else is feeling the pinch, CEOs are now paid 122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker.

The Met says they are well up for mass arresting and imprisoning pensioners. I hope that disabuses people of the notion that there is some grander project of ‘protecting’ or ‘serving’ communities. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A classic of Liberal politics, the present is always on the cusp of disaster but implicitly affirmed as the baseline of acceptable.

You would have to say that, if there is such a thing, the telos of our society is injustice.