now we've got deny, defend, depose

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Mr. Mandelson, sir, you are right to imagine you are being punished unfairly. Why should you be in trouble for things so many other people did too? You should name those people.

Yet the tremendous courage that people are displaying in the Twin Cities shows that their program to reduce humanity to ruthless self-interest is failing. People are taking greater risks out of love than the mercenaries would ever take for money. The human spirit is resilient.

I'd note a couple of things here. Driving a lot less dangerous than that was used to justify the execution of a young mother in the same city a week ago. And if the paramilitaries in that MRAP had gone through with their threat to ram the crowd, they'd have been dragged out.

I used to live square in the middle of Gorton. Loved it. The idea it could go to Reform because Labour has sabotaged its own best chance to win over internal politics is madness. If they say they don't want to do the job, listen to them! Have Labour stand down and leave it to those who will.

I’m a Manc. Anyone in the Gorton and Denton constituency, please do not vote Reform. Save our city from turning into a Minnesota because the closer Reform gets to Westminster, the closer we get to having our friends shot in the streets.

If you watch the video in full, this happened because he defended an unarmed woman from attack by a militia, who would go on to execute him in the street by shooting him in the back while he was being held down. If you want a comparison between cowardice and courage, this is it.

just unbelievable to watch the news in real time and see how hard it is for them to say “the video doesn’t match what the government is saying.” they’re literally shrugging their shoulders and scratching their heads

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

genuinely stunning image

See also Kashmir, and many others. And save this for when the protests against ice ramp up further and the states starts to pull the same shit.

There is something fucking great about watching the secret police of ICE being run out in video after video.

ICE goes after people based on skin colour, without warrants and with violent force. This isn't new under Trump, it's just more brazen. And then Sensible Moderates chirp in with "ermmmm deportation is necessary though, we can't have uncontrolled borders" fuck off fuck you

Yeah, the lady has a point. You should read this, the righteous anger is infectious.

oh fuck it, free to read www.patreon.com/posts/alrigh...

We go live to the Protect our girls crew, unsure what they are doing

There is no *credible* "soft left" road to recovery for Labour because it has driven out much of its left wing, they're gone. A move back to a po politics where Labour acted on its beliefs would be laughed out of town, because its leadership self evidently do not share those beliefs.

Just think how much more productive they could be in an industry making something we profoundly hope is never used. All that talent pissed away to build nothing of value.

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

So do I. Mostly of the "You built this, you bastard" variety. The first thing he should do is apologise to his niece, the second is to her wife, and the third is resign. I'd also say that having built this, he should keep our community out of his mouth except for those apologies.

We all need to support the trans and nonbinary communities with money, jobs, housing, medical care and legal protection. Sending love to our entire queer family today and every day. Also fuck terfs and jkr, who've caused irreparable harm. #tdor

the fantasy of an apocalypse wherein what was hidden will be revealed and justice finally rendered feels so quaint in a world where nothing was hidden to begin with and demons just thrive and thrive

Oh look. A tipping point. At this point, it's increasingly unavoidable that if you're going to the polls to stop Reform, labour are now no longer the best way to do that. Which makes the long standing need to vote for the lesser evil obsolete. And hey, for once, you don't have to vote for evil.

don't vote labour, you risk splitting the anti-reform vote!

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

Call them cunts and tell them they get nothing. Spit in their stupid faces. Put extra Asians in the Christmas adverts and explicitly say you're doing it to fuck them off. Tell them *no* for once Jesus actual Christ lads. Not "this is unworkable" or "this is expensive". Just no.

It's not confused and it's not hapless. They got what they wanted and got the center-right to establish it as the new common m normal. Then, consistent with the behaviour of all right wing racists for the last century, they refused to take yes for an answer and upped their demands.

Think he can be made to promise?

And if you don't believe the Tories could stoop so low, look at what their MPs and ex MPs are coming out with, now the restraints are off. Listen to Michael Gove, for example, Lee Anderson, or Katie Lam. The "decent Tories" were more than happy to share a party with them.

Whenever I hear about the decline in standards from the old days of Decent Conservatism this is the first image that comes to mind. The man who drew this was given an OBE.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Fair enough. If they want to join us in doing so, then welcome. They're welcome to compromise their values in doing so - or more likely not, if they actually oppose fascism already. All you're asking for is that I compromise mine for their convenience.

That's all it would take? Sounds good. Do that.

What does it mean, if the Sensible Moderates in government and media talk and behave like far right crackpots?

I support Green and Polanski, but...I also think we need to be wary of a cult like mentality, in the sense of centred on a charismatic leader. Our support needs to be broader, imv.

"The Greens could be on their way to replacing Labour as Britain’s major left-wing force come the next UK vote. Should that happen, then Labour and the Tories deserve to share the same gravestone." @zackpolanski.bsky.social

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.” This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US. But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

When ICE agents use excessive force and flout state laws, why are they not being arrested on the spot? Why are the state and cities not telling their troopers and police to watch what is happening and intervene when necessary to protect their citizens.

I again note that all the lobby hacks appear to have known McSweeney and Starmer were a Peter Mandelson production, and they seem to have known very well that the incoming Labour government would be a Tony Blair Institute enterprise. And it looks like they kept this largely to themselves.

One thing social media really is quite helpful for is tattooing politicians with the logos of the various corporate interests that they tacitly work for, and will openly work for after they leave politics.

Welcome to Starmer's Britain, where protesting genocide is terrorism and requires oppressive laws limting the right to demonstrate, but actual terrorism is not terrorism at all.

Olive branch

Fucks sake. If you, Lammy - correctly, IMO - are seeing Farage as at best adjacent to outright fascism, then why are you not doing everything in your power to build a wide and deep coalition to beat him like a drum, rather than conceding to his every whim, and this giving him what he wants?

The crankier Israeli ministers came right out instantly saying that the plan was to huge reduce the population the Gaza Strip then herd the remainder into a human zoo. And that’s what happened. This is among the worst war crimes, we established at Nuremberg you get hanged for participating in it.

Yes, yes we are In less than 24hrs, with no mass publicity campaign behind it unlike with the Brexit ones, and as best I can tell, just an outpouring of disgust.

Are we nearly there yet?