Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home.

Beneath this stunt there is, of course, a serious point: A 2% wealth tax on assets over £10 million would raise up to £24 billion a year. And asked if millionaires with a wealth of more than $10 million should pay a 2% tax, 58% of more than 2,000 G20 millionaire survey participants said yes.

Whatever it takes to overturn that red card 🫡

Thank god for the establishment when it comes to his expenses & tax avoidance

Yes, I pay myself rent in order to avoid tax, but it is coincidentally £1 less than the level at which I would have to declare it under Parliament's transparency rules.

Unions fighting *against* taking big money out of British politics 🤯 Btw this is the same GMB that is vociferously anti net zero www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The current stack of charges against Farage and Reform. Just in case you’d lost count. Spoilt-brat richboy, Tice, calls it all “a politically motivated smear” rather than the frenziedly greedy and corrupt piss-taking that it is. “Reform and Farage have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing” (iPaper)

Was in #Barcona yesterday. Big Christopher Columbo monument on a pillar. Here you can see him pointing out “Just one more thing”

MSG Kept a List of Gay Celebrities An MSG database tracked hundreds of celebs, Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.” MSG also stored Mamdani's personal info. @noahshachtman.bsky.social @regret.bsky.social

Clacton residents on Nigel Farage calling a byelection, Man, "He's done nothing in Clacton so far, so I don't see the point" Lady, "He promised all these things and has gone back on his promise. He's in it for himself"

Worth remembering the Knights of St John still exist AND have a serving, modern military arm. The Pope could legit call in the crusaders on the weird Swiss schismatics if he wanted to go full Chicago Battle Pope.

great year for medievalists; first you’ve got a tyrant starting shit with the Pope and now we have a full blown schism

At the Delivering Vision Zero conference today. Richard Parker delivers the opening speech. He says: “We have made some progress but frankly not enough.” I agree. @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

Nigel Goldfinger here, enjoying his poverty-stricken life of public service again.

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

‼️ Bad Internet Bills, disguised as “kids safety” bills, are moving through Congress again ‼️ It's time to get those phones in Congress ringing off the hooks again w/ one simple message: we refuse any bill that age restricts, censors & surveils the Internet. : www.politico.com/live-updates...

I just want to put this "fun" blast from the past here--an article in late 2004 in which Democrats can be seen blaming gay marriage activists for losing John Kerry the election by bringing lawsuits to enforce marriage equality. This article was not the only one.

Because LOOK WHAT THEY DO. If abortion stops being an issue, what did they do? Immediately moved on to attack someone and something else. THEY NEVER STOP WITH THIS BULLSHIT.

And there it is in a nutshell.

Ossoff: On Wednesday of this last week he said the war was "Done." And then on Thursday another ship was struck. On Friday the president was bombing again. This is what happens when you send your son-in-law, Jared, to cosplay as a diplomat

The Vacant Above the Shop Grant could add thousands of apartments onto the rental market in the next five years, according to a lobby group

These are the guys responsible ⤵️

Florida insurance spikes by $1300 due to climate risks. Your wallet bleeds so Big Oil can keep buying politicians.

Trump suing the BBC for $10B for "ruining his reputation" is hilarious. The BBC pulling an ultimate Uno-reverse by demanding his Jan 6 phone records is even better. His lawyers are definitely sweating trying to explain how legal discovery works.

"The President has lied about being on Epstein's plane – and the unredacted files prove that." Rep. Madeleine Dean

Honestly, it does seem like the reflection pool is serving as a distraction from the Epstein files.

Trump just said, out loud, that he calls and orders federal prosecutors to investigate elections when he does not like how the vote is going. He bragged about it twice this week. He says he called a U.S. attorney in California, said "do me a favor," and look into a race his candidate might lose.

The consequences of ignoring public health don’t stay on paper. They show up in real life! Decisions about military readiness should be guided by evidence, not politics. Our service members deserve better! Evidence based decisions save lives. We owe our troops better! #SheShed #Vaccines

Pass this on. You never know who might need it and it could make a huge difference if someone is struggling for whatever reason

"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All" 30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:

A NY State Trooper was arrested in NJ after a night getting drunk at a strip club... while he was supposed to be on duty patrolling MTA bridges and tunnels. The cop was part of a rogue unit based in NYC that includes some of the state's highest-paid cops, reports @sammysussman.bsky.social:

Safe.

‘He has publicly praised the stablecoin Tether, attacked measures that could limit the growth of private stablecoins, and argued that the United Kingdom should become a global centre for cryptoasset activity.’ 1/ #NigelFarage #cryptocurrency

it’s because they can’t afford to and the actual solution here is effective, global government action on climate change, and all y’all blaming individuals instead of large corporations are not helping anything

Release the Unredacted files and hold ALL of those accountable! WAY past time to have justice for the victims! 🎯

Seems to be a lot of selective memory in UK's right-wing newspapers about schools not closing during the 1976 heatwave. I just checked and, yes, many schools did close early as well as allow parents to "keep their children at home if they wish". This clipping from London Evening News, 29 June 1976

If the hyperactive push for a working motorway network in the post war era had been replicated for rail instead of the disastrous Beeching cuts, we wouldn't have spent the last 20 years experiencing a managed decline of our economy.

Ffs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“One of the Socceroos in a green-and-gold jersey spotted my media accreditation lanyard, pulled me aside, grabbed my shoulders, and shouted, ‘This is phenomenal! Tell the world!’ before disappearing… this perfectly summed up the atmosphere of Vancouver’s downtown late in the afternoon.” #WorldCup

Four days later…. How will we ever know what damages these flex posts

It's crazy. Every single train crash involves a massive investigation followed by tangible improvements to safety. Road crash? Meh, what can we do?

Quick reminder the Suffragettes used bombs and arson attacks www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-...

Yet another ‘standard’ oversized SUV without speed-limiter being enabled to cause carnage and injury through distraction, infirmity or wilfull negligence. Why is this size ok for public residential roads? Regulated hire *scooters* have speed-limiters. Why not cars? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The progress that we've made can't be taken for granted. So when right-wing politicians attack equality laws remember what they really are – maternity rights, disability rights, policies we've fought for to drive progress in our society and defend working people.

Well, I gotta admit it was worth the wait for that curtain to be removed.

A small number of far right agitators were overwhelmingly surrounded and forced to flee Brighton today after thousands of antifascists assembled in the city.

well put: "cycling solves the train's convenience problem and the train solves cycling's range problem"

The world's first trillionaire did this

Recommended reading.

A decent rule or thumb is that when you happen upon really egregious misconduct, it’s unlikely that you just fortunately stumbled upon the first unique instance. More often it escalated to be that bad via a lot of lesser infractions for which there were no consequences.