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In any other area, these 5 people declaring themselves Friends of Israel or taking money from Israel, would be ineligible to be on this committee, but these Rules nor the Nolan Principles seem to apply in politics

"The New York Times and The Washington Post knew about the raid before [..] Trump approved it on Friday night." "BBC has directed its reporters to avoid using the word 'kidnapped' when referring to the U.S.'s abduction of Maduro." #USA #Venezuela #Media #Military

If you want an example of right wing propaganda masquerading as feminism, this is it. Saying famous women aren’t allowed to dress the way they want or must act in a certain way so that all women cannot be sexualised is pushing purity culture rooted in religious fundamentalism.

Just checking with how Starmer's crusade to ban apps that produce deep fakes is going

🗣 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but it’s really clear where their loyalty really is. It’s Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful – no matter how heinous the crime. This is not patriotism. It’s subservience."

Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

"did you try to bribe the president of the united states by giving him your nobel peace prize so he will declare that you are in charge of venezuela after abducting its leader by military force" is just a thing that someone can be asked in an interview now and we all have to deal with that

Incredible, really. Talks about US forces killing Venezuelan soldiers “in self-defence”, while they were literally invading the country with no legal justification whatsoever. Does nobody have even a shred of self-respect left, at this point? abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

The killing of civilians in boats by the military was a test by the Trump administration to see if they could power over some of the oldest longstanding norms & laws of war: don't target civilians, render help to capsized sailors. Once the military double-tapped rather than render aid, die was cast.

So Trump has said he is going to go in and "run" Venezuela and that US companies will have the country's oil reserves divvied up between them. After he kidnapped their president and his wife. That's where we're at, and we're going to maintain normal diplomatic relations with this man?

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

All that ‘protect-our-sovereign -borders-against-people-with-no -guns-in-tiny-dinghies’ rings hollow in a world where our so-called allies kill or extract leaders extrajudicially and by invading sovereign territory. Borders are being breached illegally and violently & not by people seeking asylum

100 stories about what Israel thinks, none about how MUSLIMS WHO LIVE IN NYC think about having a Muslim Mayor. Nothing to see here.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

“A decent man” does not apologise for ripping off Enoch Powell, then rescind the apology and say that he meant it. And that’s before we get into criminalising protests against the genocide you are complicit in.

Mel - quoted in the manifesto of a fascist mass shooter who murdered seventy seven people, including a large number of teenagers he specifically targeted as children of socialists - says incitement to murder is disqualifying. Every day, these papers are rubbing everyone’s faces in their impunity.

In memory of: Yousef Mutaz Taysir Abu Warda / يوسف معتز تيسير ابو وردة Age: 17 We will not forget you.

I spent the bulk of Christmas Day teaching 14 year old who wants off the algo how to use their brand new CD player. I have never in my life felt more like the holder of sacred arcane knowledge.

The UK government back to blackmailing other countries, this time to be able to force people to return to objectively unsafe ones. Labour proving once more to be as bad, if not worse, than pretty much any previous government for decades in relation to immigration. news.sky.com/story/angola...

Alongside George W Bush, Biden is the worst US president of my lifetime, which is saying something. From his carceral policies to his anti-immigration policies to his full-throated support of a fully televised genocide to letting the pedos skate, his policies differ from Trump in degrees not kind.

something beautiful about reading this every year is that people seem more comfortable every year just admitting they stuck something up their ass for fun

This is a business and it has to be shut down. You aren’t going to end this through prosecutions.

the journalist who wrote this should be imprisoned actually, i mean this seriously

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.

Mohammed had one of the more sad answers I’ve had doing this- when I asked him what he wanted to do in the future.

“Flying the Palestinian flag would draw us into a deeply contested international conflict” is remarkable cynicism, when we pay taxes to military, political and diplomatic support and cover to Israel’s genocidal bloodbath, including the murder of 20,000 children. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The government is already making it worse for children being mis-aged as adults by trialling the use of AI over proper assessments by trained social workers. Now they want to do this. FFS, these are already traumatised children. They need to be treated better. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rolling Stone reviewed a screenshot of a chat where Zero Unit veterans shared information with a CIA representative about ongoing issues. Lakanwal posted messages asking for help. His last post went unanswered and was deleted by the chat’s administrator. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Richard Hughes resigns as head of the Office for Budget Responsibility, for an error he had nothing personally to do with, and which was in reality actually a net democratic positive for anyone wanting to understand and scrutinise the Budget

Ofcom refuses to investigate GB News over a call to shoot and starve disabled benefits claimants. The watchdog says the channel has a right to "freedom of expression" even if it means calling on air for disabled people to be killed bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

There is honestly very little that can shock me from the GC crowd these days, but this is truly appalling.

For non-Brits: this is the former anti-corruption minister, now resigned.

In memory of: Louay Amer Yousef Al-Khatib / لؤي عامر يوسف الخطيب Age: 46 We will not forget you.

I know this point has been made before, but it's *wild* that the sort of thing that 15 years ago would have been restricted to nazi internet forums and dodgy leaflets chucked around town centres is now just being printed in national newspapers. No idea how to fix this, but it definitely needs fixing

A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).

Labour isn't opening safe routes as Mahmood claims. Those laid out effectively already exist, and her proposals limit them more than they currently are. What Labour has done though is close and curtail what safe routes there actually are for refugees. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Just for absolute clarity, the government’s proscription of Palestine Action is a self-evident farce, deeply unethical and morally bankrupt. It is an unforgivable waste of time and resources, and makes them look both deeply unserious and as ideologically compromised as they clearly are.

"Nick, this is shocking to read isn't it" "Yes Sean, extraordinary evidence from this soldier known as N1466" #GMB reports on allegations of a cover up of war crimes in Afghanistan committed by UK special forces.

I guess when you're rich you can't comprehend people having no money, much feminism from Maya as usual. They are willing to see organisations that actually help people shut down if they don't follow their weird little ideology, but yeah, she's a "women's rights campaigner"

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦