Aannd -- cue GoFundMe page

Voilà

Making "untruthful statements". a.k.a lies. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Welcome to the Plutocracy

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A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.

Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system. AOC is right.

You might think that the inhumane conditions at America's concentration camps is because of this administration's usual lazy incompetence, but, no, it's because of this administration's usual vicious cruelty.

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Jeffrey Epstein's December 20, 2016 email to Bill Gates: "come to visit the island. new administration people visiting." What was the upcoming administration in December2016? Oh!

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Living in Minnesota right now is wondering if your patient is late because they got caught in traffic, because they got arrested, or because they got detained and all of these are perfectly plausible and equally likely.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Walz: "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here. There's going to be accountability on things that happened, but one of them is the incredible and immense cost borne by the people of this state. The federal government needs to be responsible."

"Offshoring" and "outsourcing" of asylum systems isn't new. We have plenty of data to show how incredibly harmful it is, including increasing human trafficking. Basically, it leaves be stranded in countries where they have no links, and often don't speak the language www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

The Premier League is a perfect example of how diversity and immigration can make us stronger. We are disappointed to see unfounded, and untrue, statements like this being repeated. Rather than spreading misinformation about migrants we should all stand united.

Also noticeable in this guidance is how it reinforces gender stereotypes, you know exactly the type of messaging used, as in US, but obviously elsewhere, to attack women's rights. This may seem minor, but why is girls playing with trucks treated as something to "grow out of" bsky.app/profile/lous...

Draft guidance (up for consultation) is here

So, it looks like the new DfE guidance on trans students in schools incorporates recommendations from the Cass report. Suffice to say that is an *incredibly awful* decision. Here's a thread with my analysis of Cass on social transition from back in 2024.

This draft guidance reproduces Cass insisting that clinicians must be involved in decisions about *social transition* which actually should be none of their damn business They take the line that this "non-directive" intervention should force things to be "keeping options open and flexible"...

If you were trying to come up with more harmful guidance towards trans and non-binary young people you would be hard pressed to find it. The fact it is backed by Cass shows how wrong it is. We are already seeing an increase in suicide rates among trans young people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The sad reality is, as Labour enacts ever more harmful and hostile anti-asylum measures, this is liable to become the norm again. Policies like the "one in one out" policy don't stop people coming to UK, they just make it harder, so they have to use alternate routes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gotta disagree with this. This government has gone further in practice on anti-immigration, anti-trans/non-binary, anti-disabled policies than any in last three decades+. This isn't a bogof where you get a free bigotry with every vaguely humane policy you enact. 1/5 www.ft.com/content/c9a2...

That is what Labour's whole policy and communications statement is though: "it will be worse under Reform". It's saying to marginalised communities that they have to accept being treated like crap for some "greater good". Labour are only "left wing" if you accept minorities as sacrificial lambs. 5/5

There's no patriot like a Monaco-based patriot.

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

Enough with the outrage theatre. If Reform stands for ordinary working people, why did all their MPs vote against the Workers’ Rights Bill? You can’t wedge immigration into that one. It’s just the record. #VoteGreen

In just a few moments, I will vote against the so-called SAVE America Act and I am a strong no. That's because this bill would place unnecessary burdens on millions of women and eligible citizens to register to vote and make their voices heard. It is un-American & undermines our democracy.

If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? 🤨

More of this please

Chris Mason failing to point out that Ratcliffe's immigration numbers were untruthful

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Nigel Farage said in 2022 that MPs defecting to another party and then refusing to call a by-election was “no go, it’s not right, it is dishonorable” So where are the by-elections for all those MPs who have now joined Reform?

Kristi Noem has to go. Gregory Bovino has to go. Stephen Miller has to go.

Just a reminder ... Starmer supporters once told us we had no choice but to swallow Brexit and his silly red lines because otherwise it would "upset the right wing press". ... Well, seeing as they're upset now anyway, why don't we just forget them and apply to rejoin at least the Single Market? 🇬🇧🇪🇺

While the Prince of Wales visits Saudi Arabia to boost ties, King Charles is supporting a police probe into claims that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaked files to Jeffrey Epstein.

“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.” Works for me.

Surprise surprise. None of the Reform MP's turned up for the debate in the HoC about Russian interference in UK politics.

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

The Ratcliffe comments may become a feature of the by-election campaign: will Matthew Goodwin say he agrees Britain has been colonised by immigration? (as Rupert Lowe has). We can expect Labour and the Greens to challenge the language and sentiment about immigration

We don’t have a functioning democracy when the people who lied to our faces to ‘get Brexit done’ are never held to account for the damage they’ve caused… and, worse still, are rewarded for life, for cynically or moronically selling our country out. They deserve nothing but our contempt. Forever.

Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood. Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.

This is pretty menacing. Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students." When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.

The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one. Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.

8. Perhaps above all, it’s the way policy is decided. There seem to be two main determinants. A. Will this stick it to the Labour left? The whole country must suffer for Starmer’s factional war. Good, progressive policies are blocked or delayed because they would look like a concession.

7. The failure to change our disastrous electoral system, which might gift the UK to Reform on a small share of the vote, can, I feel, be understood as a matter of putting party over country and faction over party. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

5. For me, a massive frustration has been the government’s war on nature: falsely pitching wildlife against human welfare, tearing down essential protections for the tiny scraps of ecosystem that remain here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...