Big Brother HMRC cuts child benefit for 35000 families based on incomplete travel data. HMRC trawled through travel data, interpreted it incorrectly. Since 2016 it has powers, subject to conditions, to remove money directly from people's bank accounts. What could go wrong in surveillance society?

Pete Hegseth and other U.S. military planners think they are going to defeat China through ferocity in close combat, Phillips Payson O’Brien argues—but modern warfare depends more on production capacity and technological mastery:

Fascist does fascist things. Fight back time?

Donald Trump is aware that if he wants to serve a third term, the Constitution presents a problem, Richard Primus wrote in May. But for the president, Primus argued, the Constitution is not a repository of values that he must respect. It is an obstacle to be overcome.

Next, Trump will be "remodeling" Mount Rushmore.

The SCOTUS allowed a man to be executed by nitrogen suffocation in Alabama the other day. Alabama outlawed nitrogen suffocation as a means for putting down animals in 2018 because it was inhumane. The man's execution was the longest recorded.

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Farage: epic grifter

Autonomy Institute: "A new report calls for a ban on political donors being considered for public contracts after finding 373 companies made a total of over £60 billion following their donations." 29 firms donated £11m+ to the Tories & were then awarded contracts worth £2.3 billion from 2015-2024

The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit. (Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)

You know i often say that joining a party is better than posting because thats putting your frustrations into actual work but in this case no. Just post. Just post instead of joining this

Private equity decimated US hospitals, says Senate report; now targeting the NHS. PE practice, Cut staff/wages, high debt/price, asset-stripping tax abuse, poor service. PE makes millions in the UK from hip/knee/cataract surgery, GP surgeries, care homes, will run new NHS neighbourhood hubs.

At last the Impact of Brexit is being called out “When we left the European Union we left the Dublin Convention & that means where as before we could have returned people to the continent, back to the first safe country they arrived in, that doesn’t exist anymore” Wes Streeting

How do you trap Sarah Pochin in a maze? Have only left turns and black doors. She's never getting out.

Protest in MN at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building where Kristi Noem is currently holding a press conference and their plans for immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Thousand + have showed up to protest. #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #ResistTrump #TruthWarriors #StrongerTogether #Minnesota

Way more of this energy needed in Amerikkka right now. NOW.

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"Federal agents fired a pepper round that struck the pastor of the College Heights United Church of Christ. The impact caked his face in orange powder... “I’m in a lot of pain,” the pastor texted from the emergency room, “He clearly was aiming for the face.” www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

the shot, point blank!

Truly shameful for a #Labour 'government' We could and should be leading the world

Facts every American should know.

Nathan Gill will be sentenced in a month. Nigel Farage would like it to all go away, but it won’t. It happened on his watch. Just like the failing councils his party are in charge of. #ReformRussianBribes

Reform UK Councils Council Tax increases Durham: 4.9% Worcestershire: 5-10% Warwickshire: ~5% Leicestershire: 3% Kent: 5% Lincolnshire: 2%+ Staffordshire: ~5% West Northamptonshire: 5% Derbyshire: 4.9% North Northamptonshire: amount TBD Nottinghamshire: amount TBD Lancashire: amount TBD

The Pentagon accepted an anonymous $130 million donation to help pay troops' salaries. Fiscal policy experts are questioning the legality of the move.   "In general, you may not spend money that has been donated because the Constitution and the Anti-Deficiency Act say that you can't."

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

The loophole that Donald Trump is going to use to run for his 3rd, 4th, 5th term is that the ONLY people who can remove Donald Trump from an election are the Supreme Court. What do you think they will do? Absolutely nothing.

A viral video claiming “every single driver” entering central London will face a £100 charge from 1 October is false. While some vans and other vehicles that don’t meet emissions standards have to pay £100, this isn't new and doesn’t apply to all drivers.

It is not a temporary shutdown. Denial is our downfall. The reality is - the mad king forcibly took his plenary power and he will never give it up. We fight for freedom. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” - Frederick Douglass

Inflation has risen for six months in a row.

Nice try, Stephen, but no.

Baier — who is reportedly under consideration to take over CBS Evening News — spent part of the interview denouncing the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” of mainstream reporters.

A very worrying escalation of online harassment. Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves" x.com/EuropaIneffa...

'Vote Reform to die horribly in a sovereign Britain increasingly cut off from the world'. Old people need to start understanding that Farage's immigration approach would directly impact the health service upon which they rely.

Given a bloody nose by yesterdays disastrous Caerphilly result, Starmer sets out his tactic to win the people back with his next priority which currently enjoys a net support of * checks notes * minus fourteen with the public. Onwards to victory!

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

I told the council where they were and they needed to take them down - and got a lecture on how it is patriotic in reply. Salford council if you want me to name and shame. I was less than impressed.

Such a relief that Russia lost in Caerphilly.

This is sooooo important to realise in the UK - GET OUT AND VOTE!!!

DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system, then appeared to try and cover their tracks by turning off monitoring tools and deleting records. NLRB became concerned after detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia using the newly created DOGE credentials

Wow, and we think #UKPolitics is toxic?! What the fuckery is this?!

When will Americans stand up to and stand on Amerikkkans?

“TL;DR: The Council of Europe warned the UK about excluding trans people from public spaces this week, prompting two trans activist groups to ask Europe to reopen its monitoring of British gender recognition law.“

Ring CEO: "Let's build the Torment Nexus because I think it will end crime." archive.ph/Lmkse

"nearly half..." ??? it's an open book test. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...