You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

In case you missed it: British by descent: when the child of a British citizen is not themselves British | Colin Yeo

The radical right in Britain increasingly claims to represent "Christian values" & "Christian civilisation" - though its leaders rarely go to church or pretend to believe anything. It's especially important that Christian leaders speak out against this, as it's their tradition that's being claimed.

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

oh absolutely fuck these moral fucking cowards

Clearly remember Ian Blair giving a statement to the media that Jean Charles de Menezes was acting suspiciously, wearing a bulky coat, jumped over the tube barrier, and received a warning before the armed police opened fire. It led the News At Ten. All lies www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not. A. Clue. (But that also goes for Canadians who get all of their news from American sources, because our civics education sucks in this country).

On the 30th anniversary of Srebrenica, let me just say: Death to Spiked/Living Marxism

At our foodbank we have some users who have been regulars since we started in 2012. Their lives are chaotic. Routinely in prison, mental institutions, hospital or homeless. I do not know the answer to the problem but the article by @joshhalliday.bsky.social is an important contribution.

I hate it! It's politics as sports punditry, in which all that matters on the welfare bill is what it means for the manager's authority or whether Morgan Mcwhatsisname gets the sack. It's such a nihilistic view, in which you govern to win elections, rather than winning elections in order to govern.

Every guy with a tragic backstory (in a movie):

We've heard this story before. Some of the same people who led us into Iraq are now enthusiastically trying to pull us into another war with Iran. This government must not blindly walk into another disaster.

my current favorite TikTok account is this guy who tries to replicate women fitness influencers

It is very very funny that one of the few genuine ways we have diverged from EU law since Brexit is VAT on private schools. Karmic punishment for Telegraph readers.

CA: Want to direct you to ICE's own photo, docket 39-1, and if this is not domestic law enforcement by military, I don't know what is. Judge: I will have an order out *very* soon. Hopeful that I can get it out today. (end)

I’ve seen it again today, so here goes: this chart, and the research note it comes from, is extremely silly and misleading. It purports to show a drop in electricity availability in Britain coinciding with the productivity slowdown. It shows nothing of the sort…

Ukrainian security service sources tell @financialtimes.com the agency is conducting "a large-scale special operation to destroy enemy bomber aircraft" deep inside Russia. "SBU drones are targeting aircraft that bomb Ukrainian cities every night." Claims 40 aircraft have been hit.

A must read

Yvette Cooper repeatedly refused to give a straight answer just now on Today to straight Q “Will councils get more money to pay care workers more?” She repeatedly committed to higher carer pay but wouldn’t commit to money so councils can fund it. Think that speaks volumes about the mess we are in.

This is exactly right on what the government is getting badly wrong on the politics and policy of immigration:

Their fundamental strategic error from which so much else flows was their 2024 tax pledge. They've trapped themselves for no good reason.

There's a line connecting Hunt's NI cuts and the electoral system for mayoral races and the BBC management and the EHRC. The Starmer/McSweeney theory of politics just isn't interested in naming, let alone undoing, Tory institutional capture

Kherson, as Putin’s “Easter ceasefire” gets underway. Don’t let your media outlets lie to you.

Russians used DOGE passwords to try to crack US cyber systems almost as soon as they were registered. Read the thread ⬇️

A new life awaits you in the below-ground colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunities and Black Lung

There was a discussion on here some months ago about sci fi writers who go "I hate people but I love humanity." I thought then, and still think now, that the best writers are the opposite: they hate humanity and love people.

One reason for this was that being a front line soldier was literally safer than going down the mine. Fatality/serious injury rates in industrial accidents for coal miners in the 40s were much higher than combat casualty rates. You were safer taking your chances with the Germans and Japanese.

ppl are quite reductive about him, in a way. he's more than a nice guy, he's very intelligent, thoughtful and committed to being of service as a progressive person. He doesn't just want us to 'all get along'. He wants us to do the work. and understand why we don't get along in the first place

Britain’s advantage: a large pool of easy to assimilate immigrants in a country with a flexible economy that’s good at accommodating Britain’s disadvantage: a political elite unable to defend the country’s advantages

The core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.

Zelenskyy says Chinese soldiers are fighting for Russia in eastern Ukraine. Six have been captured. He’s just posted a video.

Early Modern Brainstorming - existentialcomics.com/comic/597

my offer to america: we bring woke back

Trump's tarriffs are a get out of Brexit free card and Labour are too Reformy to use it

the emperor’s favorite concubine fired one of his top internal security officers while rumors abound that the household eunuch has lost the emperors favor

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

Oil is now cratering, down 6.6%today to its lowest price since August 2021. Going to hit Putin’s oil revenues.

10% slapped on Henry Kelly.

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

Arresting Quaker women for non-violent protest and breaking into a meeting house to do so. The first time anyone has been arrested in a meeting house in living memory. Despicable behaviour from a Labour government’s Home Office/the Met Police.

Terrific reporting by @nytimes.com. Shame the British media can’t expose this for themselves. Will only fuel suspicion that Farage and his Brexit gang are - and have always been - a Putinist front

23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do. Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF

Zuck said Meta is in a "partnership" with White House; Google is following suit. They are all that stand between you and Trump admin data grabs. Here's a resource collection of non-US services to replace email, search, docs, music, video, backups, and more: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson

So this is absolutely an attack on democracy, but I am struck by the sequencing, because it doesn't resemble - to me at least - the normal sequencing for an authoritarian takeover. But I think it makes sense given a conspiratorial and inaccurate view of where liberal support comes from. 1/

Woah. Chief Justice Roberts has issued a rare statement. "For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose." Quite a slap-down of Trump.

The “speed at which they’ve operated” is down to ignoring or actively destroying laws and institutions. This is real “say what you will about Mussolini, but he made the trains run on time” territory. Very concerning that a leadership figure would consider this an appropriate thing to say in public.