Davis, Gillen, Gonzalez, Gottheimer, Gray, Lee, and Suozzi are among the Democrats who just signed onto the "Promise to America" that glorifies capitalism & demonizes socialism. It says America "remains indispensable" in a "dangerous" world. Now, these signers are enabling Trump to bomb Lebanon:

POCAN: Do you know how much we've spent on the war on Iran so far? VOUGHT: We've spent about 30,000,000,000 P: People are saying it's more like $100b V: I'm just telling you what I heard from the Dept of War P: I'm just going to remember June 30, 2026, you're saying $30b is what we spent

Again, not one journalist willing to go “nah seems stupid to spend it on bombs” even just for the polemic

And on top of all this: it is not clear to me what America is holding over our leaders that has made all of them, their security apparatus and all of our most biddable media creatures unify on one single PR pitch.

What I do see is a fuckton of untrustworthy old guys who make a very good living in the arms industry demanding the public accept even more sharp and painful cuts to living standards, so that their government can give the business allies of America’s fascist government a zillion pounds.

I look at this and see “Fascist US government demands a zillion pounds, with menaces”; “government agrees secret plan to fuck public out of a zillion pounds, fails to deliver” and “Comediously unpopular gets horsed out of power” and it does not fill me with lots of joy about our 100% real democracy.

- British war hawks and arms industry creatures demand a zillion pounds to give to US arms company, to impress America’s crank fascist government - British government produces required cash, minus the money they tried and failed to scythe out of benefits - PM is said to have failed, is replaced

I’m not sure on the chronology here but - Labour government elected with secretly agreed plan to scythe benefits - Fails to scythe benefits because doing so is comically unpopular - US Vice President calls Europe weaklings, demands they buy a zillion dollars of US arms company whizzbang…

People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?

The replies to this are absolutely full of people asking for the Greens to take an explicit stance in aupport of migrants, trans people and disabled people. If they try and do some Labour-brained triangulation bullshit around these issues they're gonna get absolutely fucked.

Have you noticed that since you stopped talking about trans rights your polling numbers have dropped. Worth thinking about.

20 of the 53 merits decisions from #SCOTUS so far have divided the justices 6-3 or 5-4. In *19* of those 20, the three Democratic appointees have been on the same side—dissenting 12 times; in the majority 7 times. A Court that was less defined by politics would have far *more* cross-party splits.

Nothing says continuity PM more than using the same language, with the same ambition as the previous incumbent. Same management, same staff, same pretend fiscal rules. What's the point? #GreenParty 💚💚

This is journalistic malpractice. It's something I've written on before: deliberately choosing the largest possible figure, extrapolating out over infinite time, and then presenting without context.

So, unless he plans to sack Shabana Mahmood on day 1, and withdraw the asylum and immigration bill being introduced to parliament today, can we abandon this infantile pretence that Andy Burnham is any shade of progressive or decent? More of the same lukewarm centrist 'reasonable concerns' nonsense

Opinion | The United Nations' latest report into Israel's deliberate targeting of Palestinian children has barely registered in Australian media. For those who have read it, the only response is despair. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/29/i...

"The idea that people will be able to hold it together and deliver a term of teaching before they vanish off into the horizon, is bizarre, spiteful and naive as well.” The Times HE's punchy account of Exeter University's #BonfireOfTheHumanities & what one academic describes as "existential terror".

I think that the worst thing about the "refugee tax" is that the high accommodation costs are caused by the Home Office, and in particular their inability to make fast AND accurate decisions, leaving people rotting in those grim places. Refugees are effectively being fined for HO incompetence.

Thomas did social media posts at Stansted airport en route to Belfast but was STILL allowed to travel to the pogroms which he incited. He had a personal escort across Belfast during the evening of 9th June as paramilitaries controlled the streets. NI Fire Service couldn’t even move as freely. [2/2]

.. and where is the arrest warrants for British far-right who flooded Belfast and incited the violence? Danny ‘Tommo’ Thomas was pictured metres away from this incident with masked men. Thomas was involved in travelling to France to export far-right violence too. [1/2]

Andy Burnham's incoming chief of staff, James Purnell, ran a lobbying firm that organised a meeting between a Labour minister and its own corporate clients – without declaring any lobbying. Yet another story about Labour and the lobbying industry... 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/burnhams-c...

As financial support is only given to those who arrive destitute, this is a policy that will target the poorest and most vulnerable asylum seekers. I thought I couldn’t be more appalled at this government, but I was wrong.

Taxing vulnerable people for the crime of fleeing from war, torture and persecution. A new low from Shabana Mahmood

A Watergate every day www.cnbc.com/2026/06/29/t...

When will UK ‘mainstream’ media report that Britain has a military cooperation agreement with Israel… … which has been in place throughout the Gaza genocide, the mass bombing of Iran and the brutal strikes on Lebanon? www.declassifieduk.org/secret-uk-is...

Exeter claims that our financial situation is dire. Yet in 2023/4 the execs awarded themselves a 12% pay rise, because they couldn't get a bonuses since they hadn't met key performance indicators. I guess if you decimate the faculty, get AI to teach & destroy education, you deserve a raise.

41C in the UK? In 2015 the IPCC warned world leaders not to breach 1.5C as it would unleash “frequent & severe droughts, heatwaves & rainfall.” We’re now on track for 2C in years, 3C in decades & 4C in our children’s lifetimes. The most spectacular failure of leadership in history.

People who can barely afford food or rent are stuck paying a trillionaires bills. Fuck that.

Been waiting for this story. ICE deports people to Venezuela three times a week, there are likely many more recent deportees with valid asylum claims in the rubble. Hope that GlobalX crew loses some sleep knowing they flew a planeload of shackled men & women, plus seven children, to their deaths.

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

According to the Guardian, officials described it as being like the student loan scheme. There is something almost grotesque about comparing being a refugee - and then being charged for it - to the choice to go to university (whatever you think about tuition fees)

It is laughable that people believe this trite nonsense when Katz himself will boast in every interview he has on Israeli television that the Israeli army has successfully depopulated the south of Lebanon of any Shia. *Even if* the Israelis "withdraw", this is in of itself a territorial ambition.

The US has been poisoning its knowledge ecosystem for decades now: money = speech; Fox propaganda = news. And now generative AI = truth, and Large Language Models = god. It’s wild to be living through a society’s epistemological collapse.

But Israel IS committing genocide. I don’t understand what is so difficult about that statement.

The work was done with @martinmckee.bsky.social , two fab research assistants, @uclpolicylab.bsky.social and @unchecked-uk.bsky.social . Thank you also to @instituteforgovernment.org.uk for their input along the way! Substack on it is here: christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-new-guid... 7/7

SCOTUS operates as if there’s no Constitution at all and just picks their preferred result of every case

Sotomayor's dissent warns about this. The majority doesn't admit it now. But Slaughter may be the beginning of the end for a merit-based civil service. Do we want qualified people inspecting our food and making complex decisions about medical care, science, etc...? Or ppl who passed a loyalty test?

At least seven firms have collectively donated £485,000 to Reform UK while on the brink of being dissolved, struck off, or otherwise in apparent distress, @bylinetimes.bsky.social analysis has found bylinetimes.com/2026/06/29/t...

Vatican accuses EU of double standards on war. Is UK different? Royal banquet for Trump after initiating illegal wars; annexed Venezuela, threats to Canada, Greenland, Cuba, Panama, Gaza. Sanctions on Russia, none on the US. Silence on Tibet, Uyghurs. Govts pursue economic gains, not ethics.

Funny, isn't it, how everything not being completely fucking shit is perpetually ten years away. Just the right length of time that it becomes the public's fault if they get voted out, but far enough away that they don't really have to do anything.

Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

denying a visa to the man who imitates a statue of a man we assassinated

We’re back to the Sunday market manipulation loop, folks

"Uncivil, a consortium of scholars and researchers of which Moreton is a member, found that 20 out of the 23 foundations most active in the pluralism and depolarization space also fund conservative policy networks or pro-Israel organizations."

Amy Siskind coming over as a pretty awful person. Why be like this. How is it impossible to see genocide and only see antisemitism.

Meanwhile in Trinidad trinidadexpress.com/news/local/a...

Written in 1931, 95 years ago Relevant now More than ever

The real "major threat" is the President attacking Americans for their religious beliefs or lack thereof while trying to rewrite the Constitution, which doesn't require belief in God to be an American.