this is heartbreaking reading the shit we make these people put up with and the square root of fuck all we give them and at no point will the BBC reflect on how their own reporting helped create the unbelievably hostile environment they have to endure

Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc.

“Vaccine fatigue” started back in 1998 with Andrew Wakefield’s MMR autism fraud boosted by our trashfire right wing media

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel closes West Bank-Jordan crossing 'until further notice' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-closes-west-bank-jordan-crossing-until-further-notice

If you're going to take away people's human rights, the least you can do is make an *actual human being* look at the submissions of those people's submissions to your so-called consultation. Bastards.

Happy equinox #now

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

A bid to end Reform UK’s controversial ban on speaking to Nottingham Post has failed after councillors “talked out” the move. Opposition councillors failed to end the ban last week after Reform councillors voted against allowing time for it to be debated

Nothing to see here; just after Tucker Carlson compared Charlie Kirk's murder to Jesus', he invoked the oldest blood libel that has been used for nearly 2,000 years to persecute the Jewish people. Tucker Carlson is one of the most hateful, bigoted people on earth.

They literally have done this because kids were seeing Palestinians posting the truth direct from Gaza and also Israeli soldiers posting their war crimes

The utter bleak cynicism of this is that when they were caught, they said they were keeping it secret to protect some of their donors, who were Jewish. A kind of noble anti-racist hilarious corruption and shenanigans, if you will.

"The actual state of Palestine" [Observer front page]

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Christo-fascist evangelicals. It’s always them. Trans people are merely their first stepping stone. In fact, we’re trivial next to what they plan for women and LGB people. You *MUST* read this - how these bastards are building power & influence. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

We need more politicians like @abiralsahlani.bsky.social vocally standing up to the right-wing 👍

this particular document is hidden in a cache of 33,000 documents released by a Washington committee on September 2

Lord Peter Mandelson did not disclose in the House of Commons register two flights he took at Jeffrey Epstein’s expense in 2003 worth a total of $7,486, raising further questions about their relationship. www.ft.com/content/4cf6...

I wonder how many of these 'data' points were Black women.

Can I get a definition of who is and is not “we”, here

How is someone from The Sun on a serious news programme, complaining about a comedian's opinion not being factual, not laughed straight off the fkn set?

Suffolk Cllr Philip Faircloth-Mutton has defected from the Tories to Reform Ltd, although his name suggests that he is really a member of the Monty Python Lives Party www.eadt.co.uk/news/2547811...

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Israel has closed off the main Salah al-Din Road for southbound travel, with al-Rashid Street the only escape route to the south of Gaza. Thousands are still trying to flee the IDF onslaught. They are setting up a bloodbath. #Israel #Gaza #Genocide www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

So last night in Belfast, pregnant women had to plan alternative ways to access maternity services in Belfast because the far-right unlawfully closed roads and left people without public transport. PSNI said it was 'peaceful', but the same organisers were involved in a mobilisation .. [1/n]

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

Standing against fascism is now domestic terrorism—by presidential decree. Anyone committed to fighting fascism can now be deemed an enemy of the state, arrested, and held—possibly without full due process—on the claim that they're a "terrorist." Just like that, we lost America.

US Senator Bernie Sanders calls Israel's war on Gaza a genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-senator-bernie-sanders-says-israel-war-gaza-genocide

Still absolutely nothing from Badenoch or the so-called 'Free Speech Union' about the police arresting entirely peaceful anti-Trump protesters

Trump when asked if he felt sorry for Mandelson, ‘I don’t know him’ Literally taking the piss now. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

This is misinformation, pure and simple, from Shabana Mahmood. To grant the injunction the judge had to decide whether the claim was vexatious and he decided that it wasn't. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"The ongoing forced evacuation orders, the leaflets are dropped warning people to evacuate before their area is attacked. People heed these evacuation orders, try to leave their areas, they are bombed on the way..." Hani Mahmoud reporting a few minutes ago.

A new exhibition has opened at the National Library of Wales to mark sixty years since the flooding of the Tryweryn valley to create a reservoir for Liverpool

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Is sharing this image a crime?

You can watch the big ‘Together for Palestine’ concert here in Wembley Arena, London, at 7pm UK time/2pm ET. Some big names speaking and performing from Benedict Cumberbatch to Florence Pugh to Damon Albarn to Mos Def to Riz Ahmed to Guy Pearce. (And me.) www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...

The Being Intersex In The EU report.. '1 in 7 intersex respondents (15%) say that they had been physically or sexually attacked in the 12 months before the survey.' What is the rate in the UK? What steps has UK Gov taken to ensure intersex people's safety post-Supreme Court decision? Does it care?

Free speech latest

Wait a minute, where is Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage to defend our free speech?

Join me in condemning this kind of statement and this kind of hate.

Via 'Everyone Hates Elon' campaign today: An advertising van displaying a photo of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been "confiscated by police after travelling around Windsor as the President stays with the King at Windsor Castle." (Latter pics are video stills - vid was too big)

Just discovered it's Pythagorean Theorem day. 16+9=25, 4^2+3^2=5^2. 🧪

"Outlets like FOX News have essentially pulled the entire media landscape to the right, telling these incredibly skewed stories so fast and so furiously." -- Robert Redford in *2003*

#OtD 16 Sep 1973 Chilean communist folk singer and musician Victor Jara was murdered by Pinochet's troops following his US-backed coup a few days before. He was brutally tortured and shot over 40 times in the Chile Stadium stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8846...

The Trans Agenda - UK media desperate to tie Charlie Kirk killer to trans people www.patreon.com/posts/uk-med...

One of the greats has passed. Robert Redford was a celebrated actor, director, and someone who held a mirror up to America. His work will live on, but we Ordinary People will feel The Sting of his loss for years. Rest among the stars now, and when you see heaven, may a River Run Through It.