Very good from Starmer.

“Reform has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries… Once again: Reform is largely funded by fossil fuels” Private Eye on the anti-thought, pro-corruption threat of Reform

Ossoff: "This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand. That our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas. Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions."

It is shit like this which is why I get so angry at the people who try and defend or dismiss Labour's rampantly xenophobic and hostile policies on the basis "Reform will be worse". Yeah, they will, it doesn't excuse how utterly abhorrent Labour is though. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

An effective push back against GOP culture war tactics? Seems to me it should be.

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

The damage is done and will continue to be done until the British electorate is able to see itself as just another European country. It will be a happier - and better - place when it gets there. Ends

Giants OLB Abdul Carter on why he responded critically to Jaxson Dart’s decision to introduce Donald Trump: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Getting into the EEA is so obviously the right thing to do economically it's painful. It's also the ideal half-way house while we figure out if full membership is really what we want or worth sacrificing the advantages of a fiat currency etc. The EU isn't perfect or a cure all as some think it is.

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Come on @celticfc.bsky.social ! 💚☘️🏆

The EU we want. ❤️🇪🇺

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We sing of freedom And we speak of liberation But such chances come But once a generation So I'll ignore what I am sure Were the best of your intentions You were judged by your actions And not by your pretensions -Billy Bragg

Social care reform, immediately. Bon the commission, give task force 3 months to propose final recommendations building from Dilnot proposals, implement immediately with penny on basic and higher rates of income tax to pay for it. Immediately transforms local govt fortunes too…

The next election will be a wild gamble leaving 75% of the electorate disaffected if conducted with FPTP. It would be actively dangerous for our democracy.

🔥 HAYES: “You get the pattern here, right? One after another… so there’s no Black members of Congress left in the states of the old Confederacy. They want a New Jim Crow, now they have a blessing from the Supreme Court.” #Tennessee #Memphis @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

I think he puts himself in this position though... 'We must break the status quo/no more incremental change' wow sounds exciting, what are you suggesting? 'incremental change!'.. ok thanks Keir that could have been an email

The EU will not trust closer relations with the UK until Reform is emasculated and Tories shift to centrist sceptical remain position and that requires PR - without that Farage is a spoiler and EU won’t touch us…👆👆👆

There's a sort of core to Labour support, of people who feel a genuine connection to the party and see voting for - even working with - those of other parties as a betrayal. This group seems chronically unable to understand that *even among historically reliable Labour voters* they're a minority

The PM's speech was just sticking plaster politics. The country wants leadership and it wants a direction. What it got was more nebulous gesturing towards possible policy. Compass in @the-independent.com.

Maybe he'll tell us his father was a tool maker.

It's just a bit embarrassing really. The big much-hyped Europe policy is: we'll be better mates in a way I cannot describe or define.

This is the end result of Shabana Mahmood’s nasty immigration policies… more votes for Reform and so, more racism scaring and dividing our communities. Not sure how Labour can justify this, politically or morally. It’s so far from what we’d all hoped. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A lot of the scepticism about the idea that someone in Labour should turn the next few years into a debate about the EU again forgets that this strategy really just amounts to 'telling the truth to voters about Brexit and suggesting that we act on it'. It's not some 4D Chess move.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

“HANDS OFF MEMPHIS!” Protestors & Democratic legislators leave the scene of the crime arm in arm, after Tennessee Republicans broke the law to strip Memphis of representation with a racist 9-0 map, drowning out the majority Black city with white power. @GovBillLee

Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band are telling us something important #USDemocracy

Said as if Starmer hasn’t demonstrated unbelievably poor political judgement, pursued a policy of punching the base in the face, and sacked everyone else for his mistakes. The drama will end when the source of it is replaced by someone even remotely interested in being PM.

I'm re-upping this article, as we should never forget the history of prejudice, and its many terrible destinations.

Most of the cruel, racist stereotypes now being propagated about Muslims and immigrants were originally crafted as antisemitic attacks on Jews. The language and sources are in some cases exactly the same. Prejudice against any minority endangers all minorities. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

That's the west coast mainline for you

Israel kidnapped 211 European Nationals this morning 1,000km from Israel, for committing the great crime of trying to bring food to Gaza where people are dying every day from starvation. You won't see this on the news though, and no major politician will mention it.

Once again Labour MP @antoniabance.bsky.social doing everything she can to turn her constituency into a Reform / Green marginal. Word to the wise Antonia: no-one is voting for a Labour MP standing on a Reform platform. It’s either “full-fat” or look for a progressive alternative.

Maga lecturing on political violence is peak hypocrisy.

I’ve worked in immigration for 30+ years and what we’re seeing from this Labour Government regarding asylum seekers, settled foreign nationals and those seeking settlement would make Enoch Powell blush. Everyone should really make an effort to look closely at these Reform voter-appealing policies.

Shabana Mahmood wants to remove indefinite leave to remain Doctors: 36.3% are non U. K nationals 47.5% of specialist medical practitioners were born outside the U. K Nurses: 30.0% are non-U.K. nationals Dentists: Approximately 30% of dentists qualified outside the U. K Labour fuckwits in action

And do you think you're supposed to care about Palestine because it's poor them, pity on those people so far away & so unlike you? No. You're supposed to recognize your humanity in them & act to honor their humanity. That's solidarity. Which y'all don't have trying to get rich, at all.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

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Well done Spain. "The new plan, worth €7 billion, triples government investment in public housing over the next four years. It ensures that subsidised housing cannot be reclassified after a few years. It also includes help for young renters and home buyers" www.euronews.com/business/202...

Dave Matthews Band: “Stop the Genocide. Stop Killing Children”

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants. “And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

We should be learning from other countries...

Mamdani: Democratic socialism viable anywhere. “...this is a politics that can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country – that’s the working class, and it’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of [public policy]..." www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...