Very much looking forward to seeing in the morning who has been raptured. I have high hopes for all at the Heritage Foundation. Happy rapturing!

Thread. Read to the end for the excellent twist.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

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

While running for the leadership (with McSweeney) Starmer said he would never write for the Sun after the Hillsborough shame. He did. Labour said it planned to complete the second part of Leveson Inquiry. It dropped it. McSweeney (like Mandelson) seems to be Murdoch compliant

How Morgan McSweeney lobbied to get Murdoch invited to banquet They sat next to each other Very interesting given the airing of the first episode of The Hack on ITV this week mol.im/a/15118175?i...

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

I had ILR under the old privilege of the Commonwealth, and grandparents who were British. So they would have purged me. Ask them why they hate Empire and white people and watch their heads explode.

I will never forget how the fully fictional “concerns” of TERFs and billionaires about trans people have contributed to the rapid rise of fascism. There they are, egging it on, not listening to science, history, medicine, and individual experience, fiddling their own prejudices while society burns.

writesbright.substack.com/p/murdochs-r... Supping with the devils. Morgan McSweeney and Rupert Murdoch sat together at the Royal banquet for Trump is why Labour will never act to reform our desperately compromised press

For those of us who grew up in the long shadow of the Second World War and who saw its toll on our parents, the defeat of fascism feels not just possible but inevitable. Our fury - and our guilt - is that it could ever come to this again.

This petition ⬇️ calls for the Green Party to refuse to platform organisations that want to undermine trans rights at official Party events. Will you sign too? I’ve never attended a party conference before but I’m off to Bournemouth on the 3rd on my own. If I encounter any transphobia I’ll struggle.

This should have been a moment of profound national learning - about the corruption that serves our elite - but the Cabinet Office which ran the VIP Lane sought to close the discussion down and Labour unaccountably let them. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘It’s a slow-motion apocalypse’: over 1000 lifeline charities now closing in Scotland each year Charities step in to do the work govt can’t or won’t do. Without them society falls apart. They’re now calling on the govt to help In @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2548276...

www.bbc.com/news/article... Trans people are far more likely than most to be the victims of violence. These three women were murdered. Never believe the lies spread by the far right.

Imagine being so messed up that the best thing you can think of is siding with the same people who made you a mess to rail against the next group they decide isn't human enough?

Good grief

For all those people expressing concern about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel, including the (valid) complaints George Monbiot have about media censorship... you are starting to experience a fraction of what trans people have been getting for the last 10-15 years or so.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... All of this is true. But there's more. The favoured bedfellow of capital is not the quasi-authoritarianism of right-wing conservatism but fascism and its preoccupations with repression and genocidal murder. When journalism fails, that's where we are headed.

The world is a hellscape right now where even those claiming to be left or centre are prepared to throw marginalised groups, such as migrants, trans and non-binary individuals and the disabled, under the bus for a quiet time. Not got an optimistic take at this point, sorry, just stating what it is.

The left just played at cancel culture, the right are absolute pros The difference in leftwing and rightwing cancel culture is that the left did it ground up from the people, while the right is top down govt persecution My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

I’m 70. I was a member of the Labour Party for over 40 yrs until resigning earlier this year. I have never felt as angry, despairing and betrayed as I do today, for which I entirely blame Starmer. He has been a disaster from day 1, has squandered a massive opportunity and has harmed the UK.

We are in this mess because: Nixon was never prosecuted setting a dangerous precedent The fairness doctrine being trashed enabling weaponized media The 1996 telecommunications act allowing the consolidation of the press The repeal of Glass-Steagall enabling Wall St gamblin with depositor money

I'm going to NOT RENEW the Disney+ subscription that lapsed when my daughter's ex-boyfriend removed me from his friends and family list three months after they split.

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.

This is really really not good.

🚨When Reform UK took control of 10 councils in May, including Kent, Richard Tice said he’s “very confident we will do an outstanding job” in local government. But our undercover reporter at the party conference overheard how things are really going.⬇️

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s... Off-the-scale disgraceful, spineless behaviour from the UK govt.

"Do you remember that, darling? When I said I wanted to be a tampon?"

Lord Hatface, I salute you.

"Britain must burn more fossil fuels and bills must rise in order to power the robot that'll fire everyone. How else will I afford my next private island?"

"I've thought about this and it turns out I was right all along."

Welcome to many of the worst people in the world! Welcome, oh drivers of inequality, environmental vandals and funders of resurgent fascism. Come eat our tasty food! Everything is fine. This is a normal country.

Keir Starmer on the Epstein list

Required reading.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "Starmer’s one historic role is to stave off the hard right. He is not only failing, he is paving the way for Farage and his crew. The supposed “centrists” are ushering fringe politics into the mainstream and normalising the abhorrent."

This has worked so well for the Labour Party in the UK.

They're openly saying they want to sacrifice LGBTQ people and the planet to appease fascists. This is not only a losing strategy, this is morally repugnant. Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.

'We should, like Humboldt, pay a bit more attention to the data.' But also recognise that the data alone won't sway most minds. Stories too matter, and are richly available: eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...

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...

A damning picture for the history books. Knowing what's known about him, knowing what he's done, what he's accused of, what he's planning to do, historians will ask 'why?'. Why was he granted such an honour? Why didn't the government or monarchy care about his crimes? Why were they so out of touch?

NEW | On a masterclass in defending the indefensible… The Times reveals Peter Mandelson's real mistake with Epstein... just being too kind And what Mandelson's last job before becoming US ambassador? Times Radio podcaster. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-times-...

Britain is playing a disgusting role today on the world stage by validating Trump’s authoritarian regime with genuflection from our Prime Minister and all arms of the state from the monarchy to the military. It’s shameful and it’s wrong, and when the history books are written blame will be assigned.

What a humiliation for the RAF to have to fly for Trump. It's 85 years ago this month that the Royal Air Force and its multinational, multi-ethnic aircrew handed fascism its first and decisive major defeat. My dad served at RAF Kenley during the Battle of Britain. He would have been so angry.

New podcast: how the American Christian Right has invoked morality to drive neoliberal policies that built today’s unequal and unstable society—and how they continue to do this with the culture wars open.spotify.com/episode/2ApA...

My dog and his girlfriend are so in love that they sing to each other hundreds of yards before we get to her house. We when arrive they both go crazy with joy.

Big Pharma is throwing its toys out of the pram — and Wes Streeting is caught in the crossfire Wes Streeting is up to his neck in big pharma shenanigans and donations. My article is free to read on Substack, please subscribe and share! Thank you❤️ open.substack.com/pub/european...

Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.

Just for clarity: Wes Streeting is an bald-faced quisling, whose rights as a cis gay man wouldn't exist without the struggles and sacrifice of the trans and gender diverse people who came before him. If you believe him now I have a bridge to sell you.