Two articles I found interesting and thought-provoking. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc... & lawandsocietymagazine.com/the-six-prin...

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Trump's regime IS the enemy within

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Surely the fact that Trump has to say he knows more about just about anything than anyone else is evidence of his profound ignorance. He is the Dunning-Kruger effect in the flesh

The more I read, watch and 'learn', the more I realise how little I know.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Trump wants to define reality for the people of the USA. It’s what Narcissists do. Live in a world defined by them or you face revenge.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I’m an atheist, but I reckon the Trump regime is demonic. Satan’s got the reins on Trump and his buddies.

Wow. Not at all surprising, but wow. Blatant corruption is perfectly fine (encouraged, even) in this administration.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

I am not religious, as I'm an atheist. However, I find this article refreshing and agree with what the writer says. Well worth reading. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

James Madison, President of the USA

I don't think anyone should ever glorify power whether it be secular or religious or both. They require submission, surrender, giving up one's autonomy, freedom of thought, one's being in order to serve what?

"Solange wir gehorchen, wird alles gut. Das ist Freiheit. Das ist Amerika." Starke Anti-Trump-Kampagne.

Checks menu at Wetherspoons this morning before the match , think I’ll have the Shrimp BLT Shrimp Soup Shrimp soufflé Shrimp Surprise ( it’s just shrimp) Shrimp Crumble All washed down with a Shrimp Sauvignon Blanc because shrimp clearly only goes with white

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...

"“The whole concept of the Antichrist fosters a crisis mentality. With the crisis mentality, now we put aside all other differences. There’s a tribal cohesion, a tribal unity, and it justifies even immoral acts because, to defeat an evil enemy, you must do whatever is necessary.”

A vote for Reform UK is a vote for incompetence - hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/18/r...

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

What Trump and his band of degenerates and despoilers are doing to the people of the USA is EVIL, pure and simple.

Two black men lynched in Mississippi. What next. I find it horrifying and despair for the welfare of black people in the USA. Are they going to be subjected to the vile racism of the past that slaughtered so many? As Frank Zappa said, "I'm not black but there are a lot of times

Kristi Noem joined ICE in a Chicago raid this morning. Agents blew the doors off a U.S. citizen’s house, handcuffed him, and put him in a propaganda video even after realizing it was a mistake. This is America under Trump. No one is safe.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

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If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.

With the #AssistedDyingBill soon to be debated in the House of Lords, I just wrote to peers asking them to back choice, dignity, and compassion – you should too! #HumanistsUK humanists.uk/action/ask-t...

Jamie Lee Curtis disagreed with everything Charlie Kirk said but cried at his death as she says he was "a man of faith"!!!!! Why does being a "person of faith" get someone off the hook of being a person with vile views?

The UK is subject to a tremendous and revolting stink which has arrived from the USA. The biggest and foulest fart ever has arrived here. One can only hope we get a strong wind to blow away the stench. (In some parts of the UK a fart is called a trump)

That's where all the money goes. To shareholders - what about the rest of us? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The butchery grinds on www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Say goodbye to free speech in the USA, unless you are bowing to the great god Trump. www.axios.com/2025/09/16/c...

UNACCEPTABLE Palantir among arms giants snapping up ex-Tory defence ministers substack.com/@lucasamin/n...

So much for the love of free speech! apnews.com/article/char...

A new law could give millions of us better rights at work, but corporate lobbyists & politicians are trying to gut it. Tell the Government: protect workers, not profits! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/uk...