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Wrong answer.

If you want to know why people feel completely alienated from government, look no further than this. We want our governments to represent the people that elected them, not the corporations that fill their pockets.

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Just two years - two years! - after winning the election with a thumping majority. I don’t think anyone else knows how we ended up here either.

Racist party + poor vetting + astonishingly negligent media = actual Nazis and Holocaust deniers holding elected office in the UK. Do better.

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.

It’s far from the worst thing about today, but listening to this insufferable bigot’s triumphant bragging over the next weeks is going to be close to unbearable. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer has insisted Labour will ‘stick to the plan’, even though no one knows what it is and it’s not working anyway.

Didn’t even need to get as far as SCOTUS.

It's time for all those privileged and apathetic Americans who thought that fascists won't come for them to wake up and learn from Black people who have had to resist oppression and suppression for centuries in this country.

A Muslim mayor and now multiple Green mayors and councils. This is going to make London even more popular with the far right.

We are watching in real time one party rule being embedded in the USA.

A potted history of UK politics: Towards the end of the 19th C. working people had had enough of being exploited by the wealthy and organised themselves around unions and a party to defend their interests. About 150 years later they got bored of that and handed it all back to the wealthy again.

A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?

If Labour react to this pattern by saying "we need to win back votes from Reform" they risk making a major misdiagnosis, one which could make their current troubles even worse.

Sherrilyn Ifill on the Daily Show. This was the most calm, lucid explanation of how this Supreme Court has, over many years, deliberately and single-mindedly sought to destroy the voting rights of African Americans that I have yet heard. However bad you think they are, they’re worse. Must watch.

This is insane. This is the government’s “independent” advisor on antisemitism. He sees four antisemitic cartoons targeting Zack Polanski. His response? To demand an end to the antisemitic targeting of Polanski? No. It’s to attack the Green Party.

Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules. Mentions per MP. LibDems: 645 Tories: 5,116 Greens: 7,763 Labour (the actual govt): 27,438 Reform: 70,732 Anyone surprised they're ahead? bebroadcast.co.uk/politics-who...

Reform have refused to comment.

You would think that even racists don’t appreciate into being threatened, bullied and blackmailed into voting a particular way.

In case anyone was still wondering what ‘Enshittification’ means. The relentless, baleful extraction of profit at the expense of human pleasure.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

The IHRA definition gives as an example of anti-semitism: "Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis". Either the former head of Mossad is an anti-semite or we stop using the IHRA definition to gag proper, necessary, criticism of the Israeli genocide.

Senator London Lamar on @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn and TN Republicans stealing representation from majority-Black Memphis:

“A very serious antisemitic own goal.”

You can look up tactical anti Reform voting here stopreformuk.vote

True, but those on the left, who are the constituency they most urgently need to win back, also want a govt that has a humane immigration policy, isn’t in the pocket of tech corporations and doesn’t target cuts on society’s most vulnerable. Until that changes, they won’t be winning any elections.

It’s very clear how we should all vote on Thursday. We vote for whichever candidate is best placed to keep these ugly, hate-filled sacks of racist filth out of power. It’s not too late.

Dogs’ reactions when you ask them if they want a walk.

If a political party is effectively bought and paid for by a single individual, perhaps it should be more open about what that individual’s own agenda is and what he expects for his money. Perhaps we might also question whether a non UK resident should have any influence on our politics at all.

It’s lovely to know the tech industry has a good friend in Downing Street but ordinary citizens would like to know their good friend is. Is there anyone there on our side? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s not difficult. If you can’t bring yourself to unreservedly condemn both antisemitic attacks and the killing of Palestinians, then you are not taking a moral position. You are taking a partisan one.

This has to be said: Seeking to ban public opposition to Arabs being slaughtered is racism. Arab life has the same worth as any other life. Believing that is not antisemitism. That's why thousands of Jews joined these marches.

Instead of banning legitimate protest, it be might worth considering whether it’s just possible that a society which increasingly tolerates open racism and bigotry based on religion, ethnicity and immigration status, is one where antisemitism is more likely to thrive.

Don’t look at the replies here, unless you suddenly want to develop a problem spelling a whole host of words that you never had any difficulty with before.

Well, what do you know? Turns out the whole flimsy basis for the right’s obsessive attack on trans rights was based on… lies and bullshit. english.elpais.com/health/2026-...

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.

This is happening in the middle of Tel Aviv 👏🏼👏🏼👇🏼💙

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

I don’t think the assassination attempt was fake, but there is something about the weirdly incongruent reactions of Trump and his officials after each of these incidents, the flood of misinformation that follows and then the strange silence after that that positively invites people to believe it is.

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

Seems like there’s scope for someone to reinvent actual social media - you know, where people can actually have a pleasant time communicating with their friends and followers, instead of sitting in front of a stream of mind rotting garbage, served up courtesy of Mark Zuckerberg.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Maybe not a good idea for the uk to open its doors to these same people.

Anyone who has ever had a relative or has themselves been looked after by care workers knows how grossly underpaid they are for the demanding, highly skilled work they do - always with patience, kindness and good humour

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