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New in PN: Trump attempts a major step toward dictatorship "So far, nothing he's done has prompted a critical mass of Republicans to speak out about his abuses of power. And in his address to military brass, Trump signaled he intends to go much further."

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

This is horrendous. This is what ‘stop the boats’ and ‘raise the colours’ lead to: kids being violently attacked and threatened with death And the police: NFA against the perpetrator We need to make this stop before more people get hurt Is that enough of a ‘legitimate concern’, do you think? 😠

He’s calmly contemplating murder at scale

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

The major political parties, broadcasters, and institutions should all leave X. It's an extremely dangerous disinformation machine, and staying there only legitimises it and the chaotic agenda of the richest man in the world. Who is a raving fucking lunatic. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage is applying for a job. That job is Prime Minister. The only thing on his CV is Brexit. He campaigned for it for 27 years. So his only real track record is making everyone poorer & damaging the NHS. If you hire Nigel & Reform, you must want this company (UK) to fail.

Go on, get that account active @ed-miliband.bsky.social... (if it's the real deal!)

Who is telling the Labour Party that the way to blunt Reform's momentum is to fundamentally agree with them but propose alternate bureaucratically nightmarish forms of nativism?

Hey @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social,I asked Steve Bannon directly if he thinks Miller will now unleash the state on groups that describe ICE as "authoritarian," and he said: "Yes," adding that Miller is "in charge." cc @mcopelov.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2009...

I don’t really see how else you can reasonably characterise this. I mean we can quibble over whether this is the beginning or if it’s already well underway, but that’s not really the important point here.

Listen to someone who has been through it under Putin.

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

“What better way then to conjure up antifa than to try to bait Portland into the mother of all antifascist confrontations” Read @joelowndes.bsky.social on the history and significance of #Portland to Trump-MAGA-GOP.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

We really need Starmer to say this, but what's the point when, in announcing the ID card policy (whatever its general merits), he frames it solely in terms of, precisely, the populists' "lies" & “industrialised infrastructure of grievance” about "uncontrolled" migration & asylum seekers? 1/2

Anyone else sick of being lectured by the likes of liars and hypocrites like JD Vance?

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

“We have realised eight months in that the American cavalry isn’t coming to help us,” a security official told me. They went on to say that on climate and AI, America sees Europe as a competitor to be defeated My latest @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/luke-mcgee-e...

I fear that until we stop pretending that our aging population, and it's associated pension, health and care costs, aren't going to cost an increasing amount of money and that we already don't pay enough in tax to cover it, we're just tinkering around the edges.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Kind of amazing how UK news media still remains obsessed with the structurally limited impact in economic terms of small boats even as this potentially terminal havoc works its way through key UK industrial supply chains on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF

Just watch Starmer make the same mistake.

"The Palestinians have cages on their windows because they're under constant attack." From the new 'We're Not Kidding', Irish actor Denise Gough tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social what she witnessed during her recent trip to Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Watch: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

IMPORTANT 🧵 We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US. But it could happen in UK too. It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim. Read on! 1/11

Absolutely ga ga. He has no idea what's going on in London. He just knows the mayor here is Muslim and it clearly terrifies his racist propaganda-riddled mind.

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

bingo 🎯

The truth: under a third of American adults are Trump voters. He is much less popular than he wants you to think. Read this today: https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-powerful-people-just-dont

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

There is another country. Latest post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog discussing the thuggery, sanctimony and hypocrisy of the last fortnight, and how Starmer should lead in articulating an alternative version of patriotism to that of the far-right: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/ther...

@rvawonk.bsky.social, a key resistance leader during Trump1, is doing great work on Big Tech & MAGA's takeover of our info space for brainwashing & behavior mod - & how we can protect ourselves. See below & weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/silent-cou... weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

“We’ve just got to stop taking the right wing at its word on free speech. What they actually want is to be insulated from any criticism. This is a fundamentally political story that echoes what we’ve seen from Meta, X, Amazon, Tesla, etc. whose fortunes are tied up in their relationship with Trump.”

The same Cardinal who used church funds to pay off priests involved in child abuse to resign & not contest being defrocked for their behavior?The same in 2007 who moved $57m in church funds to shield them from victim lawsuits & then in 2025 sued their insurers for failure to pay victim compensation?

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

"Dark enlightenment" - the antithesis of The Enlightenment, the root of modern Democracy. We have allowed wealth inequality to enslave us and put enormous power into the hands of a few wannabe autocrats. They use the fascist playbook to harvest the greviance they sowed.

"By relentlessly painting refugees and migrants as a violent, existential threat, media outlets risk making racist attacks seem more acceptable, and fuelling far right terrorism.”

Reform's contempt for the rule of law is very obvious

"Libel firm Carter-Ruck used the threat of legal action to protect one of the world's largest financial frauds, OneCoin, which stole $4 billion from investors. "Carter-Ruck's client, Ruja Ignatova, is now one of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives." open.substack.com/pub/taxpolic...

Trump says he specifically requested that Sadiq Khan be excluded from the UK state banquet: "On immigration, he's a disaster." As mayor of London, Khan has no powers over immigration.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.