What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

finally, we're living through precedented times

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

Tax breaks for foreign millionaires but mass deportations for the rest. Huge austerity and NHS cuts, replacing NHS with insurance model, scrapping NetZero, workers’ rights and online safety act. And a trade war with the EU. Reform: Corrupt. Ruinous. Racist. Moronic. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas!

A very important thread for your enjoyment.

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

But the good news is, by doing this, we defeated racism in the UK.

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal. Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Spoke to CNN about how far allegations about Nigel Farage's teenage racism might or might not have a political impact on Reform's electoral prospects edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/e...

Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat" "Today we have 46,000 a year" "And do you know why?" "Brexit" "Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage" *audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

This is not just John Birch Society stuff. It's worse than that and that kind of dangerous language should have absolutely no place in British politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"We will call the 12th month of the year 'December'... which means 'tenth month.'"

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

@profanity.accountant Okay, I'm game

Budget 2025: This is how you lose the world iandunt.substack.com/p/budget-202...

Populist Right: 'We're not racist, we just want immigrants to integrate & contribute.' Immigrant gains BA, MA, works for charities, marries a 'Brit', becomes Brexit-supporting, lockdown-sceptic Tory MP, then Deputy Speaker of HoC. Populist Right: 'People born abroad shouldn't be allowed to do this.'

I find it horrifying how many people support the two-child benefit cap, knowing that it forces children to live in poverty. Sometimes the voters are morally dreadful and you need to ignore them

Reform's policy is mass deportations - but they're moaning about a larger number of people leaving the country? Are they sad that they won't get to lock them up and thump them first? It's much cheaper if they leave voluntarily! (also the main factor here is the *bigger* drop in numbers *arriving*)

That is a huge drop. Huge. Starmer will now play the 'look-what-we-achieved' politics of this brilliantly, everyone will calm down, sensible immigration policies will emerge, and Farage will disappear. Narrator: 'Meanwhile on Planet Earth....'

If you have used a racist term and need somone with backward views to defend you, Nigel Farage is your man.

Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms. Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate. We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today

Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting. Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth? For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today

Farage came out with his worst shit 50 years ago, whereas Matt Goodwin is just getting going at age 43.

Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.

The ‘where are they now?’ chaser to Farage’s schoolboy racism.. “He inspired the country on a tide of xenophobia to leave the EU, a decision that most of the country regrets or outright hates, and.. went abroad to get a standing ovation from the German far right” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I mean it's not complicated. Twenty people who were there have confirmed that Nigel Farage said all of these things. He's the only one denying it, which means just one thing. He is a liar www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Austerity has a powerful impact on children’s mental health The legacy of British austerity can’t be understood without considering the effects on mental health, especially childhood trauma.

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be. It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Labour MP Olivia Blake tells Shabana Mahmood that her rhetoric about asylum seekers being handed a "golden ticket" is "deeply offensive" and "feeds division" "and will only strengthen Reform not beat them".

Looks like Mahmood and Starmer have decided cruelty wins votes. Not the votes you really want but I don't think they care. Also those votes will go to Reform anyway.

Today has been a massive victory for anti-migrant voices. Not only is Labour doing 90% of what they want, but they're also making it much easier for them to get the remaining 10% later

Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Labour MP for Stroud, Simon Opher, says his party should "stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel". "We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".

A few ways this could go: 1) They get it past parliament, it’s wildly successful and retired reactionaries go wild for red, white and blue Labour 2) They get it past parliament, retired reactionaries still hate them 3) It crashes in Parliament and they look like vicious clowns

Labour MP Olivia Blake, "This seems to be a desperate move, learning all the wrong lessons. It's also not the right thing to do morally" Gary Gibbon, "A desperate move by a desperate man?" Labour MP Olivia Blake, "It's been a difficult few weeks for him in politics"

John McDonnell on Labour's Shabana Mahmood's proposals, "I think these proposals are appalling, they have to be opposed"

Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"

Labour MP Nadia Whittome tells Shabana Mahmood that her plans "fly in the face of decency and compassion" and "will force children and spouses into the hands of the very people smugglers that the Home Secretary is seeking to smash"