When I tell you I don't remember the last time I thought of this song...It has to be 2 decades at this point.

He’s laundered a genocide. He demonises desperate people seeking asylum. He panders to Reform at the expense of people of colour. He’s implementing transphobic policies. He cuts benefits for disabled people. “Inoffensive”? He’s deeply offensive if you are affected by any of this (Lewis isn’t)

I need Vic, Rehka and Bob TDQ for this next series, PLEASE.

This explains so, so much. From this week’s Popbitch

this isn't the point but it is funny and kind of a broader point that the focus of the subhead is "architects" and then they replaced what was, in the original photo, labourers.

The panopticon is in our pockets. From KOSA, online age verification laws, behavioral tracking, social media background screening, deportation tactics, forced AI, to biometric theft, we are being surveilled at every turn.

Anyway. 1 year closer to GTA VI.

Stuck on remand for over a year, political prisoners' demands for bail and a fair trial are concessions the government could make today. Yet it's entirely possible this callous government will risk the lives of those who are not convicted of a crime and who – unlike Elbit – pose no threat to anyone

Setting Madeley aside for a moment, I think part of the issue is that once people realise *just how much* wages have been allowed to fall away from where they should be, the figure seems insurmountable and therefore ridiculous to ask for, but that's our fucking money, stolen from us by capital.

To be fair to Madeley, he rather concisely captures the British disease of spite, vindictiveness, permanent race to the bottom of the bucket crab mentality, and "nothing must ever get any better"-itis

We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).

It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.

How can we draw more attention to this? They're Palestine Action hunger strikers who are now in critical condition in the hospital and the UK is just letting them die. It also feels like there is a media blackout

And after begging for invasion Machado has fled like the coward she is www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

They are clearly pushing for broader hemispheric influence to counter China--this is why they are bragging about the Monroe Doctrine. Should probably take them seriously!

If Starmer's so willing to blithely surrender rights to freedom from torture or to live your life privately without government interference, all in the name of "democracy", then Farage will try the same with the death penalty and freedom from discrimination. Anyway, happy Human Rights Day 😬

Sometimes I get really emotional when I remember Demolition Lovers exists.

Not me bringing up Maybe This Time in therapy in a very loose, related connection to something my therapist said, then going home and listening to it and realising just *how* on the nose it is.

Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised. Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for

You should be boycotting McDonald's anyway...now you have another reason

True headline: “Peggie Found By Tribunal To Have Committed Transphobic Hate Incident”

Having to pay to put in a job application job is fucking sickening, and we have allowed this to happen.

Weird little transphobes taking Ls left and right. Leave trans people alone, you freaks. www.bbc.com/news/article...

You’d never know this was what was decided as part of that tribunal ruling…

I've only seen The Herald report it accurately: www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2568...

Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US

our press is the problem with our democracy.

The Home Office also says it would cost too much to collect this information. It is evident that Labour, like its Tory predecessors, is making policy intended to crack down on protest rights based not on actual evidence, but on a culture war against protesters www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/prop...

I wonder what the British “contribution” was when they came to Bengal, or Kenya, or Palestine, or China, or…

The last Labour government were keen on torture too. Jack Straw renditioned people that he knew would be tortured by the US. Torture is a Labour Party value

Everyone involved knows Mel is a virulently racist fascist lunatic with horrendous views on the use of massive, murderous violence against civilians. But there she still is on Sky News, because her crackpottery is well within acceptable opinion, for our political/media class.

Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!

Once a loser, always a loser

An openly Nazi government that wishes the Axis powers had won World War II:

Queer activist among eight people on hunger strike for Palestine in UK prisons 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/queer-activist-among-eight-people-on-hunger-strike-for-palestine-in-uk-prisons/

Their main take-away from COVID was "saving as many lives as possible isn't worth it". Let that settle within you for a moment. While those that committed PPE fraud and facilitated it are still at large, living their lives.

“Give this as much visibility as possible.” UK pro-Palestine MPs have pledged to push the demands of Palestinian hunger strikers after meeting with CAGE, Prisoners for Palestine, and families. Activists urge the public to mobilise, pressure authorities, and amplify the strikers’ voices.

It feels like every day humanity hits a new, rotten low.

Ed Davey says it is wrong to boycott Eurovision because of the "ceasefire.” Meanwhile, since the ceasefire, Israel has killed 360+ Palestinians, injured 922+, and Gaza still sees 8 deaths/day on average. The Genocide continues. Pretending there is peace is a lie. #BoycottEurovision

...and yet he'll be just fine. this is how you can tell capitalism is a con. he should be living in ditch now.

Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch the story. The idea of a "D-notice" from the state seems less likely than the British press simply continuing its abysmal record of reporting on both Palestine solidarity and on prisons morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...

“A Ceasefire in Name Only” — @scotnational.bsky.social is not afraid to call out Israel's continued attacks on Gaza

I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

It's genuinely fucking evil. Like, think of what this woman has experienced as an 80 YEAR OLD TRANS WOMAN - the transformations she must have seen in both herself and in society, the rights she has had to fight for, everything she's won, only to have it all snatched away at the last fucking second.

What more is there to say on this topic

Removing jury trials is a very bad thing. It must be understood in the wider context of neoliberalism aiming to remove public participation in politics. The ruling class simply do not want the average person to have *any* way to push back on what they're doing.