FFS, retire! This is ridiculous.

It's strange how so many sensible pundits will say, "a reform win would be bad, the Greens should step down," and not "a reform win would be bad, our colleagues should stop relentlessly advocating for their policies."

Hate this brand of 'politics is really ruddy stressful right now' takes from wealthblib commentators. You are invested in politics as a lucrative hobby. Others are invested in politics because their lives depend on it. You can just leave. Disengage. Bow out. Get a special interest column.

Burnham breaks any promise made. It's either a straight break, or if possible a watering down to the point of nothingness. So labour supporters can say the promise was kept. The green party will not ask for anything that the labour party wants because the labour party wants the status quo.

The Greens are specifically shooting for the moon and targeting the replacement of the Labour Party, a worthwhile goal as Labour are utterly fucked thanks to the Mandelson faction's death grip. They don't need to save Labour from shit.

The British Establishment, who incessantly declare anti-genocide protests to be monstrous acts of hate are now calling for Enoch "Rivers of Blood" Powell to be rehabilitated. There is no correct ~optics~ to defeat this.

Too right. I want to see the Greens have faith in their own politics and their ability to win. What's the point of being a progressive party if you stand aside for a less progressive one?

It just occurred to me that they’re all literally trying to make THIS happen, except they‘re trying for the robot army. (Link: www.angryflower.com/349.html)

144 House Democrats joined 203 Republicans to vote for this bill which gives DHS and ICE new powers to collect personal information of both migrants and American citizens

Conversely why set the precedent that Greens should unilaterally step aside when Labour are "more likely" to win? Because if they do that hoo boy will there be so many tactical voting websites popping up to tell us the Greens need to step aside for Labour in every single seat.

Our new Health Secretary, the same as the old Health Secretary. James Murray championing trans segregation. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

yesssss good for them www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you think Andy Burnham will pass some form of PR in exchange for some deal the Greens make I have a bridge to sell you.

Imagine believing that the persecution of Dreyfus on the flimsiest evidence imaginable was equivalent to the extremely extensive paper trail demonstrating that the IDF likes to rape and sexual assault people.

To make it worse - the BMA's take is that despite Wes aggressively kicking people off wait lists - they're not decreasing any faster than they already were. Haven't updated my analysis, but last I checked it had slowed down. Or put another way - it's like taking credit for the rain.

One reason I push back sometimes on fellow left wing campaigners leaning into the "Glasgow is a bomb site" stuff - there's a whole "[CITY] has fallen" industry out there and it is very reactionary. We have to be able to talk about the good government can do.

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This is an extraordinary essay which really ought to have been published in a mainstream outlet. But please, share the hell out of it.

elitism keeps reverting back to god-kings because it requires a single controlling mind to sit at the top of the hierarchy and groups of people always contain multiple different minds no matter how hard they try to standardise them and deny that

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. One in five children is growing up in poverty, public services are crumbling - and the 10 richest families and individuals have grown £11bn richer in just one year. Enough is enough. Tax wealth, not work.

I'm willing to test this theory

"we've got something better than a legally enforceable ruling, we've got Elon Musk's word as a gentleman"

This is why I spent the last decade beating my head off my desk, trying to convince people that there is no way to please unpleasable right wing reactionaries. They don’t want to fix anything, they *don’t want to be happy*. They want to be very angry at people they hate and wish harm upon.

The Greens can and should run against Burnham if that happens - go for Labour's throat.

Wes Streeting origin story

moose are strong ocean swimmers! they may even feed on some types of aquatic plants. and naturally, this puts them in the path of orcas: www.sciencenorway.no/animal-world...

the crimes of this era are nigh innumerable but what the united states has done to the global south will live forever in infamy

Pretty sad when a Comic Book that came out over 40 years ago is STILL relevant today…Not hard to see the current references…

i don't think bluesky is that bad

Zack Polanski has the chance to do the funniest thing of all time

Whenever I check back on my dormant Twitter account the algorithm hands me nothing but MJ wars, and the pro-MJ side has managed to both hijack Community Notes to make incorrect corrections, and also devolved into outright anti-Semitism

speaking of

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.

Read or listen to this! Gift link.

I forgot they called a game Pegged, more innocent times before the Web really got going.

[Robocop voice] 2017 manifesto detected

Lol PFI for roads. Sure. Why not? The country isn't technically totally fucked already. I'm sure we can make it worse.

Who would have thought that several years of "viruses don't really matter, back to normal, learn to live with it, eat out to help out etc" would leave people with the impression that viruses don't really matter and quarantine isn't real.

Spotted on Tumblr…

womp womp you bald fuck

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

I’m still a bit confused about how details of her personal financial arrangements could have made it into the newspapers without money changing hands, but maybe it’s like that video of Matt Hancock necking his mistress in his private office: just one of those things that happens sometimes.

Obviously not correct, because there were at least some people that actually liked and wanted Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson

The thing we are all "learning" about bigotry is that it doesn't just go away by itself. If you don't keep your foot on its neck, it'll be back, again & again. Millions of Americans WILL vote to restore Jim Crow, if everyone else lets them. Antiabortionists WILL ban it, everywhere, if they can.

The article very politely avoids mentioning this was an Israel rally in all but name and well, the kind of Jewish people who'd turn up to a pro-Israel rally to which Farage was invited are unlikely to be nice moderates.

Israels relationship with Europes far right is both transactional and ideological.