“Politics is about delivering for ordinary people - that’s what we want to see” ✊👏 Usdaw General Secretary Joanne Thomas on today’s #BBCLauraK

"Meta spent tens of billions of dollars on building the future of the internet, and all it has to show for it is a handful of bored children in the parking lot of an offbrand drive-thru restaurant." I visited the restaurant at the end of the Metaverse.

"Speaker Johnson, you’re obsessing about losing the House but don’t seem to realize it’s because you have no program for the country other than illegal disastrous tariffs, illegal disastrous war and humiliating invertebrate submission to your unraveling cult master." - Rep. Jamie Raskin

🔥 ICYMI — SCARBOROUGH: “No, this is not Mamdani’s fault. If you want to blame anybody, blame Netanyahu. 4 years of maximalist aims. There’s always blowback in the Middle East… Bibi is the reason Israel’s standing across 🇺🇸 is lower than it has been since 1948.”

Trump's reversals on Iran are so extreme, the outcomes so ludicrous, that if it were a TV show, no sensible screenwriter would attempt to sell any of this as a coherent story. But it's a lot more dangerous than fiction. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

No Farage statement about ‘cold rage’ concerning the Edinburgh incident? He must be on holiday.

Well said, Billy 👏🏼 #BookSky

Reform’s problem, and it is a very significant one, is that women vote open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

GOOD MORNING. Andy Burnham has triumphed in Makerfield. Nigel Farage has been brutally humiliated. The sun is shining and the world is a beautiful place iandunt.substack.com/p/triumph-in...

For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result. How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project

Nigel Farage is publishing pictures of himself wearing an England football shirt. But he wants to deport more than half the squad.

Makerfield residents, use your voice and vote for Andy Burnham in today's by-election! 🗳️🗣️ 🕙 Polling closes at 10pm ✅ Don't forget your ID Vote Andy, Vote Hope ✊ #VoteHope #AndyForUs

18 June 1934 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Sarika Kertesz, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- ▶ WEBINAR: Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

Deregulation means fewer rights, less protections, more risk dumped on the houlders of working people: we reject it completely ✊ @estherlynch.bsky.social at Rally for Quality Jobs, Social Justice, Peace and Against Deregulation and Austerity in Madrid

Just insane own goals. Generational errors. Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/c...

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

#OtD 17 Jun 1926 Eve’s Hangout, a New York radical lesbian cafe run by Eve Adams, was raided by police, who destroyed texts. Adams was convicted of obscenity and deported. Being Jewish, she was later murdered in Auschwitz. Learn more in our book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/be-...

17 June 1930 | Dutch Jewish girl, Gretha Dresden, was born in Amstertdam. In October 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

Source: The Guardian share.google/oumFRCbRW2sT...

Remember that brief period where Kemi Badenoch wanted us to start our own parallel war with Iran?

It was a conspiracy shared by a handful of social media accounts and ultimately ended up in Russian state media 🔴 Lizzie Dearden Read more: trib.al/emIaB4Q

#OtD 14 Jun 1381 during the peasants’ revolt in England, Wat Tyler’s rebel army of some 50,000 to 100,000 people captured London Bridge and the Tower of London, killing the English Chancellor and Treasurer stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8582...

14 June 1903 | A French Jewish woman, Zahri Drai (nee Biton), was born in Oran (then French colony, today in Algeria). On 2 September 1943 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/3O8z0jF 🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/3ZokyXc

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

Regular reminder that no wealth tax is going to stop this racist oligarch from destroying America. We must put Musk in prison for the crimes he has committed that are public knowledge—or others that have so far been hidden. The DOGE violations of federal law will be sufficient.

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

Possibly the pettiest loser government in the world. The US has withdrawn Iran’s allocation of World Cup tickets for supporters days before the tournament starts, Iran’s football federation said.

Fans from all over the world, eh?

Badenoch: "As it happens, the Equality Act does not protect class, so you would not be able to use it to for white working-class boys" Interviewer: "Labour [the govt] want to extend it so that it does cover class: Badenoch: "This is just going to complicate things further"

BBC most-visited news website in the world in any language: Press Gazette’s new ranking of the world’s top online newsbrands Most news sites lost traffic year on year in May 2026, with 37 recording declines in visits pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

Let us have a rapid global campaign to have the Somalian referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan referee at least one match in Canada or Mexico. FIFA should facilitate, not impede, that. The Canadian/Mexican government should pursue it too

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak on Kemi Badenoch's pledge to scrap the Public Sector Equality Duty: "Kemi Badenoch wants to legalise discrimination. “This proposal would give a future Tory government a free hand to harm your life chances if you’re a woman, gay, black, disabled, or working class."

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Being a musician is precarious enough as it is without taking on more financial risk in the form of unpaid fees and unpaid professional work 🧵

9 June 1877 | Dutch Jewish woman, Rebecca Roosnek (nee Dreese), was born in Amsterdam. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 15 January 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

When Clinton had a sexual affair with a White House intern inside the building, the White House press corps took it as a personal insult. Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly defiled the White House and Washington in much uglier ways and attacked journalists directly and they can't stop kissing his ass.

Madonna in glory, baby J happily tormenting a bird. From c. 1355, by Taddeo Gaddi. It's his day today.

FIFA President Infantino gave Mexican President Sheinbaum ticket number 00001 to the World Cup opening match. Sheinbaum gave it to Yolett Cuaquehua, a 21-year-old Indigenous woman from Veracruz. Sheinbaum will watch the game in the Zocalo, the public central square in Mexico City, with the people.

Speaking in Madrid yesterday, Pope Leo XIV stated: "I encourage you to nurture the process of the European Union, which is not merely a counterweight to other powers, but a gift to humanity."

Next year, music hubs will come under the new National Centre for Arts and Music Education It’s a perfect opportunity to launch a new funding settlement – and introduce long overdue improvements in pay and conditions for music teachers

The US is run by our enemies.

DfE pupil data is out today and shows that the number of private school pupils has dropped 5.6% since VAT was introduced. Not 25% like the independent schools council predicted. Or the 50% we saw in some right-wing papers. 5.6%.

I hope you listen to the post-credit bit, which exposes Farage condemning the Sarah Everard vigil as anti-police, saying exactly the opposite to what he is saying today, since you were up until 3AM trying to find the 2021 source. Oh, no, wait. That was me. bsky.app/profile/quie...

X is currently full of posts falsely naming Christi Hill and another officer as having arrested Henry Nowak. One names and pictures the other PC, saying, "Wanted: dead or alive". It gives his address. What more exactly will it take to get UK MPs, ministers and departments off that hellsite?

Stephen Lawrence was killed by six men. It took 19 years for two of them to face justice. Four never did. Henry Nowak's killer has been convicted and jailed within six months of his death. The two cases *are not the same*. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...