"THIS IS AMERICA, YOU LIVE IN IT, YOU LET IT HAPPEN. LET IT UNFURL" Thomas Pynchon . The Crying of Lot 49 . 1966

The absurdity of the Shard at close quarters, seen from the courtyard of Guy's Hospital, Southwark

Alt text: YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT RACISM WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT WHITE SUPREMACY YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT WHITE SUPREMACY WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT CHRISTIANITY THEY'RE TIED. THEY'RE INTERWOVEN. AND IT'S THE ROOT OF RACISM. - Jeremiah Camara

“This isn’t a call to violence. It’s a call to play hardball, fill the streets, and embrace ambitious and aggressive reform. Anything less is to miss the moment. It’s to stand flat-footed as history happens to us.” 🎯🎯🎯

Fucking shithead. Polis should know no peace

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

this should end his career

Sorry for the plug but I feel obliged to reshare this. Farage told a podcast before running for election: “There’s no money in politics, there’s no money if you’re straight [i.e. not corrupt]." Around the time he got £5 million from a crypto billionaire before going on to back crypto deregulation.

What a clown. Jim Jordan literally does not acknowledge what he said just moments before.

Jaw on the floor because #PaulMerton admitted on #HIGNFY that he had never heard of the Great Bed of Ware Sir Tristram needs to invite him on a special tour of the British Galleries at the V&A

Christopher Harborne is a new entry on the Sunday Times rich list top ten - worth £18 billion. He bought Reform for 0.1% of his fortune...

Democracy in Kent is under attack from a Reform administration that is clearly terrified of scrutiny. They are moving to quiet the opposition while prioritising songs and prayers over policy discussion. It is a bizarre and anti-democratic shift for our county. 🧵 1/6

In 2016 Farage told us we would all be £40 a week better off if we voted to leave the EU...of course we're not, but Nige is 5 million quid better off.

The six genders

#MelonHusk helped the #MobsterPresident Donald J Felon steal the 2024 election

do i know any lawyers on here who might want to look at a trade libel lawsuit and tell me if it's BS or not? shoot me a dm or email me :) [email protected]

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

Around a quarter of private renters in the UK spend over 40% of disposable income on rents. This is among the highest rates across the world. Meanwhile new analysis for JRF finds being a private landlord has been one of the best investment options available to individuals.

“Of course he abused pupils”: former Dulwich College teacher Chloë Deakin speaks out about Nigel Farage’s racist behaviour.

She got the face she deserves

We're looking for a Lecturer in Global Medieval History (ongoing) to join us in the vibrant School of History @universityofleeds.bsky.social ! Deadline 1 June. Full details jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #jobfairy #medievalsky #history

Maximum monthly State Pension, guess which is unaffordable? Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK £997

How long has Labour been in power? What has changed about the water industry?

"I need the most on the nose statement of populism you have"

University of Reading is hiring a critical human geographer with experience teaching quantitative and/or mixed methods. £47,389-£54,893 salary. Apply by May 13. #urbanism #urbanplanning #HumanGeography #QuantitativeGeography #AcademicJobs

Outstanding.

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

The secret £5 million payment to Farage by an overseas billionaire is the most astonishing example of political corruption. Don’t let up.

Nigel Farage needs a ballroom, stat! It’s crazy that some Brits don’t associate him with Donald Trump. Same grift.

Release the #EpsteinFiles

An essential element of this story that journalists will largely deliberately omit.

Like his hero, the #MobsterPresident Donald J Felon, the #Grifter Farrige gets away with it scot-free

This is an appalling case and Germany deserves far greater international opprobrium over it and similar actions. It also shows why citizenship-on-probation, and other measures that create hierarchies of rights within the same society, must be resisted without compromise.

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Does this involve 'Racketeering' - my favourite American crime?

The #Trumpy family of crime: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Idly wondering how the purchase could have begun before the gift when Coutts closed his bank account in 2023 due to him not having the requisite £1 million.

#TrumpyPumpy stops oil.

Journalists abroad use obvious words that UK journalists don't dare to or which, thanks to exceptionalism, don't occur to them.

Trump said that repairs to the DC Reflecting pool would cost $1.8 Million. Now? The price tag is $13.1 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract for the project after previously working on pools at Trump's properties. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?

Wait, what? Mike "I didn't see that" Johnson was aware of something?

Thanks to vaccines, many of us have grown up without fear of contracting diseases like polio and diphtheria. But do we take them for granted? On #WorldVaccineDay, watch our video with #BBCIdeas on a world without vaccines: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi7g...

At some point anyone who falls for their cons again has only themselves to blame. Video: buff.ly/HTA4Ncn

To Guy's Hospital chapel for a talk about a few of London's many lost hospitals Here's a view of Guy's courtyard before the western range, containing the chapel, was built by the surveyor Richard Jupp in the last quarter of the C18

Project 2025 in action

What if the worst gangster in #America became president...? The #MobsterPresident Donald J Felon is stealing YOUR money from right under your noses The #NRA are supposed to rise up and prevent this sort of criminality, aren't they?

Hi! I’m coming to #York on 23rd May to do 2 x Roman Britain events at Yorkshire Museum 🏛️ 10.30am: I’m in discussion with curator Glynn Davis 2.30pm: my Roman Britain children’s book talk with funny visuals. Book signing after £7.50 tickets 🎫 www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

Streeting resignation letter in full (see below). New episode out NOW: linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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