Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

It's shocking that with a new Labour government and in 2025, equality of access to our railway for disabled people is actually being downgraded, not tackled. An important letter here to the Transport Secretary to do the basic decent thing and get disabled people's needs right on the agenda.

🔴‘MPs and the Media Cast Benefit-Claimants as Freeloaders – This Discrimination Is What Keeps Them Out of Work’ The media has gone on the attack after the welfare U-Turn, but they’re not telling the real story, argues Mathilda Mallinson bylinetimes.com/2025/07/14/w...

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

“If you’re religious then you believe those girls deserved to drown to death in that flooding because god intended it to happen” -Donald Trump supporters on Twitter defending cuts to NOAA

"Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40" Enough already. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

When I pointed out on Twitter a couple years ago that available evidence indicated that campaigning *against* Low Traffic Neighborhoods was functionally the same as campaigning *for* more kids to be run over, I got absolutely monstered for it. Anywhere, here is more of that famed Social Injustice

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If we don't start telling the truth about why this happened, it's going to keep happening. We have an idiot running this country who thought FEMA & NOAA were a drain on the budget. How much is YOUR child worth? That was TX, so you know most of them voted for the man that just killed their children.

The NWS did issue a flood watch but it took 4 hours for the state to send an alert. The state should have immediately sent an alert to cell phones but....Abbott, Patrick, et al...

I refuse to call an American concentration camp the same thing it calls itself at its attached gift shop Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?

Wishing all of my friends in the United States a happy Independence Day. Only took you 249 years to go back to having a King... 🇺🇸

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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Due to a “statutory requirement to automatically impose budget cuts when legislation increases the deficit,” Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill (which Rs just passed) requires “automatic sequestration cuts across the board,” including Medicare cuts, as “confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office…” 1/

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When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

#DisabledByTheRailway is one of 138 orgs who signed the reasoned amendment that has been selected today. Urging all MPs of all party colours to now put their constituents first! #TakingThePip #DisabilityRebellion www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

FUCK. THE. FASH.

I'd say roughly 75% of mainstream news reporting about the disability benefit cuts has been from a Westminster angle rather than the actual impact the cuts will have

I do this myself, but an awful lot of political Discourse consists of middle class people accusing other middle class people of being middle class

The thing with the disabled people of the future is they can't write to their MP by Tuesday. But if this goes through, one day they will.

Maybe alt text needs a rebrand? It sounds a bit techy. Like something that geeks do. Maybe call it "Help text" or "Tell people what's in the image, you selfish bastard" text?

"'Alt text', sir? 'Alt text'? Upon my life I have not the least idea what you mean! I don’t know what it is you call by that name, or where it might be employed, or how it might be in the slightest degree useful. I know nothing about it, I assure you; for I am a mere child!"

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

For every 238 people on incapacity benefits in London, there is just 1 disability confident role. Removing vital support from disabled people will not help them into work, it will only force many deeper into poverty with no way out.

Alt text: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are in bed with a purple bedspread. Trump is sat on the side of the bed on a landline phone which is on a side table as the entire room is on fire.

Just discovered the equivalent of stationlifts.org.uk for the Amsterdam metro! kanikdemetro.in and they're on Bluesky too: @kanikdemetro.in

He was humiliated last weekend. This weekend he bombed someone. My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.

If you have to self-censor at work otherwise you’ll get fired, what is it exactly that you want to say? www.foxnews.com/media/white-...

If I could persuade more non-disabled people to explore this and gain a better understanding of our lives then my work here would be done.

So much of the faux social justice grievance-narrative around LTNs is fundamentally built on basic misunderstanding, misrepresentation and often just outright lies about impacts.

Why do the ‘social injustice of LTNs’ gang never care about the role of drive-in retail in traffic on main roads? Because to them an impact is only a problem if hated outgroups benefit. They’re not interested in main roads they just want to maintain equality of degradation of our urban environment

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Private Eye has found that that 281,000 PIP claimants *already in paid work* stand to lose out under the proposed cuts (i.e the four-point rule) That's 55% of all PIP claimants in paid work, according to the article (not my article but I want to flag it)

Who is this and how do I give them money to do literally anything forever.

The DWP has admitted it expects 70,000 more people to lose disability benefits under its planned cuts than previously disclosed In total, the DWP predicts 440,000 disabled people will lose their existing PIP daily living benefit By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Keir Starmer says Labour is the party of work, equality and fairness, but less than a year after the election, changes at the Department for Work and Pensions have forced me to stop doing the job I love. The full video can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxpq... #AccessToWork

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Bloody cyclists

97% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. in 2024 were linked to right-wing extremists. It’s not a political movement anymore - it’s a hobby for failed men with too much testosterone and not enough brain cells.

Two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, State Senator John Hoffman and State Representative Melissa Hortman, were shot in their own homes overnight.

I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.

Absolutely nuts that they're even considering it when the technology isn't fit for purpose