As far as the techbros are concerned, much of the population will be surplus to requirements. The main requirement being the concentration of all wealth & power into their hands. (I'm not exaggerating. Some of these people talk in private of "culling" surplus population.)

One thing I wish I'd added is that in Trump's first term, the Democrats should have impeached Trump for abuse of the pardon power. It was one of his most dangerous offenses, and they ignored it, which created a terrible precedent. They could impeach him for abuse of the pardon power now.

I often wonder (and have asked) what the anti-trans lobby think they will achieve if they succeed Here are 4 things that are likely to happen in that scenario that I genuinely think they do not realise 1. Trans men will have to use women only spaces. And there will be no legal way to stop them

I don't blame the people who claimed cancel culture on college campuses was the biggest threat to democracy and now want to denaturalize people over tweets. They're moral monster hypocrites who can't help operating in bad faith. I blame the credulous media who uncritically ran their endless op-eds.

Amid Trump's display of psychopathic idiocy with Netanyahu yesterday, his admission that US forces have attacked a port in Venezuela has attracted only minor mention. Steve Bannon's "flood the zone with shit" strategy used to announce an unauthorized act of war.

This "caricature" of Zack Polanski very clearly draws on a long history of antisemitic tropes, to the extent that it ceases to resemble Zack Polanski. Even the dimmest editor would recognise this, so one can only assume the Daily Mail approves the gross antisemitism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereot...

Lovely piece exploring our 'snowballing' movement. At Lewes District Council, we've been busy sharing what we've learned on our journey, and busier putting it into practice. Nature is not a resource to be bought and sold, ignored, trashed, or exploited. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'On Monday, US sanctioned former EU Digital Commissioner Thierry Breton and four European leaders of online privacy movements, barring them from entry to US simply because they want to protect Europeans from American big tech' More evidence that US is: Dominated by tech oligarchs Hostile to Europe

Citizenship stripping has become a political tool for authoritarians to signal their credentials. No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged. Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today

Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.

First as tragedy, then as farce. Or in the case of Trump, a grotesque & imbecilic combination of the two.

Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.

Americans lined the bridge to Mar-a-Lago waving Ukrainian flags in a show of support for Ukraine and President Zelensky, who is heading there for talks with Trump.

This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.

Chatted to my great uncle yesterday – a northern, working-class guy, not that political. I told him my job involved exposing Farage. His first question was: “who funds him?” Investigations into Farage’s donors can have a major impact on Reform’s support – as this research has already shown 👇

When he found Jesus in prison, did he beat him up for being a refugee?

Be in no doubt that a Reform government would do exactly the same to science in the UK. Farage & his followers actively despise science. Ignorance is an essential precondition for what they aim to accomplish.

That Chloë Deakin's 1981 letter to the head of Dulwich College about Farage's vile racist bullying was ignored prefigured the later (at best) complacency of the British establishment in the face of the rise of the racist far right. Prefect? PM? Why not? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Crucial point. Keir Starmer's government is paving the way for fascism in more ways than one.

Courage, esprit de corps and resilience once defined models of masculinity and national identity . Modern warfare : missiles, drones, destruction of infrastructure , ecological damage, genocide and deliberate brutalisation of civilians hastens extinction. Fascism is a machismo vanity cult.

We need just over 500 signatures to get our @climatemajority.bsky.social petition, calling for the Government to fund a National Climate Resilience Plan, to the 10k target. Can you help get us over the line? Please sign and then share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Green Party's @zackpolanski.bsky.social's Christmas Day message: Replace the expensive cruelty of Britain's refugee policy with more kindness. Many people are losing their minds over this. Donate here @calaisappeal.bsky.social www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog... www.youtube.com/watch?v=lopM...

"Man was created for war" is a belief central to every variety of fascism. Putinism is old poison in a new bottle, not unlike the novichok used in Salisbury in 2018.

Into the void: how Trump killed international law. Keir Starmer built his reputation as an upholder of law. His attempts to ingratiate himself with Trump are a complete betrayal of everything he once purported to stand for. www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...

Lunatic spouts kindness

Fully automated, hyper-efficient sadism. This was also the goal of Adolf Eichmann & other architects of the Final Solution.

Nothing says "peace & goodwill to all mankind" quite like arresting a peaceful protester against genocide. Happy Christmas Keir Starmer & David Lammy.

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

Really interesting by @polphilpod.bsky.social. One of the central points is that those who saw the danger of Trump first (often women, queer people or of colour) are often embedded in conservative-dominated communities and have insight into bigotry via their own experiences of being marginalised.

NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners. It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Vicki gave so much to Green politics. Our sincere condolences to Vicki's family, friends and loved ones.

OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062

Oh GB News. Have a day off and enjoy a mince pie. How dare I talk positively about migration & refugee rights at this time of year that should be about *checks notes* good tidings and warm wishes. Tune in at 3pm to watch and judge for yourself. Merry Christmas everyone!

And these champions of "free speech" are now demanding that visitors to the US submit their social media accounts so that officials can scour them for evidence of wrongthink. And redacting any evidence of Trump's crminality from the Epstein files.

Russell Brand is now seeking political asylum in the US, claiming to be a victim of the Deep State & Sadiq Khan's tyrannical system of shariah law. Just joking, but absolutely wouldn't rule it out.

A year in polling of UK politics

#Venezuela has vast reserves of oil & gas. #Greenland likely does too, as well as rare earth minerals. Putin's emissary Kirill Dmitriev is now hailing the prospect of joint US/Russian exploitation of the Arctic. The Trump-Putin Axis is fossil fuel kleptocracy on steroids.

Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev is a director of Gazprombank (which channels payments for Russian oil & gas) & Transneft (giant oil & gas pipeline company). "Work with the US in the Arctic" = destroy the world's climate system to enrich Russian & US fossil fuel kleptocrats.

Enjoyed writing this version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen & singing it with #Cornwall Green Party friends at our festive social in Truro today.

Deck the halls and lock him up. Written by Rikki Beadle-Blair Performed at Soho Theatre, Walhamstow for charity fundraiser "Comedians Do Carols."

At some stage (and it can't come too soon) the US is going to need detrumpification.

The UK leaving Erasmus was always a misunderstanding. British students soon rejoining EU universities is more than a policy shift - it’s a generation reconnecting. Welcome home. 🇪🇺🎓

More Labour broken promises! Leeds is the biggest city without a mass transit system We were promised trams Lot's of money has already gone into planning at the last minute funding is pulled I'm sure it'll be repeated in time for mayor Brabin's next election www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Matt Goodwin is lying (again). Luke Yarwood wasn't jailed for "anti-immigration tweets". He was jailed for tweets "designed to stir up racial hatred & incite violence" in the words of the judge. Goodwin clearly knows this. He twists the truth very deliberately to enrage his audience.

The rise of @greenparty.org.uk in Wales is quite remarkable and a huge testimony to @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social's work over recent years > Greens now just 1 point behind Labour and ahead of Tories in Wales www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...

Arctic #climate - 95 % thick sea ice melted, water temperatures warmed and gotten saltier, air temps increasing www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Putin railing against European "swine" and vowing to conquer ("liberate") "Russia's historic lands". The language of old-school fascism. What Victor Klemperer called "Lingua Tertii Imperii". Trump is also fluent in this brutal tongue. www.ft.com/content/52c0...

Prisoner 4 Palestine Qesser Zuhrah is at imminent risk of death! I've contacted people at HMP Bronzefield They have 2 doctors with them trying to get an ambulance in to take her to hospital The prison has refused to transfer her Justice Secretary David Lammy you must step in. Show humanity

I think Labour is finally going to learn something important at the next Senedd elections: Not being one of the two main parties in a two-party system can lead to total wipeout This is something their Westminster strategists still do not appreciate

Difficult to imagine how the BBC's edit of Trump's incendiary speech on January 6 could possibly damage his reputation more than Trump's own post about the murder of Rob and Michele Reiner. Trump's reputation as a malevolent psychopath has been created by Trump himself, and is richly deserved.