Marx dreamed of a world where you wouldn't be pigeonholed by your job. As he put it, a man could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and critique ideas at dinner without ever being a hunter, fisherman, or critic.

Under a mechanism known as the Dublin Convention, the British government could previously ask fellow EU nations to take people back if they had passed through safe countries en route to the UK -that ended with Brexit & no alternative was agreed making it far more difficult to return any new arrivals

Immigration make Britain brilliant

I guess Kevin Sorbo, that dumb angry peanut, forgot about the time Helen of Troy was also played by a woman of color. Back in the 90s on XENA (by the late Galyn Görg). Oh and they hinted she & Xena had a "history" before the War #Xena #Television #TheOdyssey #90s #Nostalgia #GreekMythology

"The moment you begin to censor the writer- and history bears this out in the ugliest of fashions -so begins a process of decay in the body politic that ultimately leads to disaster." ~Rod Serling Speech, Library of Congress (1968)

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Sobering stuff from David Blunkett in the @financialtimes.com

The monetisation of online hate speech has created an industrial sized grievance machine on many sm platforms. It is making some people quite unwell. There also seems to be no teeth for de-escalation ie law enforcement or targeted government regulation re monetisation.

I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.

BBC News now reporting as breaking news Nigel Farage being investigated over that £5m 'gift'. Gives 2 statements in defence of Farage, one from Farage, one from Reform. Nothing on who the donor is.

This needs to happen. Otherwise it will become a forgotten blip among the other ridiculous things he says.

Ben Habib alleges that Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson were paid £1m each by Christopher Harborne to essentially rig the election in favour of Johnson.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

First, Trump’s district is repped by a Democrat, and now JK Rowling is repped by a trans person? Fabulous!! 💙💕🎊🏳️‍⚧️

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Any Labour politician who doesn’t constantly link inflation with Farage for his Brexit and his Trumphilia is lacking basic competence

Don't forget: my old Yale Law classmate Clarence Thomas refused to recuse from Jan. 6 cases despite his wife's involvement in the plot. And he's taken at least 100 gifts worth over $2 million while serving, including from GOP donor Harlan Crow. He's a disgrace to the Court.

In the 90s, Harrison Ford was the right age to play the president in movies. In 2026, Harrison Ford is the right age to play the president in movies.

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

If American history was taught correctly.

Follow the money. #TrumpCorruption

In 1994, a man crashed his small plane into the White House. Clinton did not build a ballroom because of it. In fact he barely mentioned it. And he definitely did not say that no one can criticize him anymore.

He never had the money to pay for the ballroom. It was always a scam. We were always going to have to pay for it. They were just waiting for the right moment to hit us with the bill. This is now the time.

Wag the Dog (1997) is a political satire film directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, about a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer who fabricate a war in Albania to distract the public from a presidential sex scandal just before an election. We saw it for real.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

What are the options for House of Lords reform? As part of a new set of explainers published this week, we explore the history of Lords reform, both incremental and radical proposals, and why it has historically been so difficult. Read our brand new explainer 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates. Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them. The system is rigged.

The Mamdani effect has broken containment!!!

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

Just like #MAGA. They're not "patriots". They're fucking idiots. #Reform #ReformUK #UK #UKpolitics

Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2025, despite making $5.7 billion. This Tax Day, remember that you have paid more in taxes than a multi-billion dollar company—all thanks to corporate tax breaks from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.

Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs. Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026. This is what corporate greed looks like.

It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

Life comes at you fast

While people at home are dreading the next energy bill landing in their inbox, fossil fuel bosses are filling their coffers We need a permanent, tightened windfall tax to claw back every penny of excess profit being made on this crisis and put it towards supporting households

Victor Orbán’s removal sends a timely signal. Corrupt kleptocratic Christian nationalism was on the ballot in Hungary today — just as it will be on the ballots that Americans will cast in November. It was repudiated abroad — may it be repudiated here in November (and beyond).

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Well put:

We elected you to Congress to be a check on executive power, not a spectator. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution, not to protect a man who threatens democracy, threatens war, and threatens the future. Stop hiding behind voters. Stop punting responsibility. DO YOUR JOBS.👇

Austerity cannot help us now youtu.be/36sSE2SuA0Q?... We are living through a wartime economic crisis. And our government is choosing not to act. Not because it can't, but because it won't.

Ok. Who made this? 🤭😅🤣🤣

This ceasefire doesn’t cancel out the fact that Donald Trump threatened a genocide of 93 million people in Iran. Republicans need to abandon their blind loyalty to the President and work with us to hold him accountable – whether it’s through impeachment or the 25th Amendment.

BREAKING: Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf says the U.S. has already violated key clauses of Iran’s 10-point framework before negotiations even begin — citing Lebanon ceasefire breaches, a drone incursion, and denial of enrichment rights. He calls talks “unreasonable” under current conditions. 1/

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.