cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt and bumbling incompetence are, like, *the* defining traits *and trifecta* of this entire stupid era

The Trump administration is asking states to hand over voters' private data in an effort to create a national voter database. We've already taken steps to stop them in: ✅ California ✅ Colorado ✅ Maine ✅ Maryland ✅ Minnesota ✅ Nevada ✅ New Mexico ✅ Oregon ✅ Pennsylvania ✅ Rhode Island

2025 has been a speed competition in normalising racism. And as Toni Morrison said, the serious function of racism is distraction. So 2025 has topped the charts in distraction from the real work to achieve societal progress. Wishing you a less distracted 2026. northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

It is great to see that someone is raising airborne protections for healthcare and schools in parliament. Thank you @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social !

“We release snuff films to titillate our supporters. We release nothing that might inform the general public.”

It's okay to have an abortion. Abortion has existed as long as pregnancy has, and we all know & love people who have had abortions.

This is good news, if you need some today

People have had enough of Labour. They can change leader but the problem is the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs. More and more people joining the Green Party every day! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Racism isn’t a social class thing. That’s why it’s wrong to equate it with poverty & ignorance. One can be rich & highly educated and racist at the same time. One may not display overt racism but actively use their resources to strengthen structurally racist systems. We don’t talk about this enough.

Just need to be clear that the US Air Force almost caused a major commercial flight catastrophe because they are flying over Venezuela with transponders off

Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.

In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture. On the back of the photograph she wrote: “‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says. ‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.” The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.

Q: Is an (ACA)extension with abortion restrictions better than no extension at all #AOC: “An extension with abortion restrictions kills women — I will not accept women & the lives of women as some political cost for them being able to extend these things — Reproductive care is health care — Period”

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Really a devastating blow to the #scicomm community that @robinince.bsky.social has felt pressured to resign from the BBC simply because he is passionate about his political principles, including a firm belief that trans lives are precious. 🧪 #scicomm

Why were the public NEVER told? NOT PROTECTIVE "Facoverings" Surgical masks ______ PROTECTIVE FFP2 masks (N95 / KN95) at least 95% FFP3 masks (N99 / KN99) at least 99%

This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time "Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?" Chair says "have English as a second language" Caption changes the meaning entirely "Don't speak fluent English"

This #UHCDay, we’re underscoring a simple truth: universal, equitable health care requires #SRH services. Fully meeting all SRH needs would cost $15.56 per person annually, and every $1 invested in contraception saves $2.48 in related care. Read more: https://gu.tt/4qVHXfc

The influence of Lisa Ritchie on national infection control continues to risk Clinically Vulnerable lives. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social she MUST go! #Flu #SackRitchie

YES YES YES thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 🙏 😩AT LAST someone rasiing the alarm about what Europe's plummeting brith rates really mean!! "In reality, without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it."⚠️ It's. that. simple.

As long as Spotify is taking money from ICE, they don’t need or deserve free advertising for Spotify Wrapped. Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

I dumped Facebook back in 2015. It was discovered that "META" provided Russia election rich data via Cambridge Analytics. Russians used that data to target voters and get Trump elected. Fancy Bear a Russian hacker group hacked the DNC emails in 2015. FCK FACEBOOK www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

Wise words from @philipncohen.com "...we should deny the entire framing of the natalism debate." newrepublic.com/article/2040... #demography #fertility

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

Of babies infected w/Hepatitis B, 90% develop chronic infection. Of those, 1 in 4 will DIE. They lose the ability to get rid of toxins & make important proteins. Their skin yellows, their abdomen swells, they’re uncomfortable. A fate no one deserves. One we can avoid w/ vaccination. .

Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration" "Migration is a positive thing for our country" "We need migration" "We need fair and managed migration" "And that's what will change this conversation" *huge clap* #BBCQT

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

One of the points Joshua Davis makes in *Police Against the Movement* is that COINTELPRO was started by the police and all the FBI did was federalize it. And SNCC and CORE did a ton of organizing around police brutality specifically. #BookSky

An MP in Zimbabwe has called for the repeal of the country's "backwards" 1977 abortion law. He argued that safe abortion should be available to a wider range of Zimbabwean women, as it is currently restricted to a privileged few. Each year, 60,000 women die due to unsafe abortion.

Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news. Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters Down by 140k isn't thought to be. Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.

ITV News, "Did you racially insult pupils at school? Nigel Farage, "I would never do it in a hurtful or insulting way.. Not with intent" ITV News, "I don't understand what you mean?" Nigel Farage, "You wouldn't do"

Hypothesis: Lockdown could have been avoided if there’d been an early mask mandate.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Solar capacity is expected to triple based on new projects in the pipeline. Total global solar capacity, including all projects in construction and planned, is expected to reach almost 3 terawatts, with 80% concentrated in just 15 countries. Data @globalenergymon.bsky.social

This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...

Stop the blatant migrant scapegoating for political gain.

Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.

The messages „We can burn the building more effectively than them!“ and „this is a nice building we should protect it from fire“ remain, unsurprisingly, incompatible.

The government seems to be trying to simultaneously claim it can deliver Reform’s agenda better than Reform, while also about once a month sending out someone to decry Reform’s racism. It’s genuinely sort of amazing that they still haven’t realised why that doesn’t work.

The current tragedy is that, while Reform's proposals are worse, the current government is currently enacting policies which leave people scared about their future, children at risk of losing a parent, all to "combat" Reform's policies to achieve the same goal. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This by Mahmood is frankly not only disgusting, but also massively disingenuous. It equates seeking asylum with illegality, there's nothing illegal about seeking asylum no matter the route. It ignores that Labour's policies penalise those in need of protection, and plays to hard right rhetoric.

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

Bingo

I figured something out. The large body of self-help work around gratitude is not without harms. It largely ignores the historical use of gratitude as a tool to silence, subjugate & chain self-actualisation in minorities & immigrants where feeling grateful is an expectation for peaceful existence.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today