Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

“Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour” Stella Creasy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How does this result affect your previous take? Were you misled by Labour? Was Starmer misled? Or were they blindsided?

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean this…

itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b... This was meant to be about Labour's alternatives to Starmer but I just wrote & wrote about what a moral disgrace he is that I realised that was the column. Starmer is a bad man doing bad things for bad reasons. Quitting now is the only way to prove me wrong

chat is it a good thing when the US Attorney representing the DOJ is also afraid of getting disappeared by the same organizations they're representing

@greenpartyhan.bsky.social just donated. Used to door knock for Labour in Levenshulme. Good luck!

New Swingometer! The Gorton and Denton By-election: A tale of Two Manchesters open.substack.com/pub/swingome...

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

“Leave Greenland alone!” Heckler interrupts Star-Spangled Banner at NBA game in London, wins cheers from crowd. (Video via Reddit)

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Rep. Seth Moulton: "This is insane. What the hell are we doing? ... this is illegal."

"Welcome to Decline" -- still one of my favourite graphs from last year. In the late 1970s, Britain's economic fate very clearly split in two. How much you blame Thatcher will depend on your politics, but her leadership is useful to understand the timing. tomforth.co.uk/welcometodec...

Could it just be that he abandoned the people who supported him?

What happened next: the night Led By Donkeys projected Trump and Epstein on to Windsor Castle

Gramps here, lecturing leftists who say the Dems can't change that in 56 it was aligned with Southern segregationists (who got the VP noms), but by 64 with MLK, because of successful social movement organizing. Take the party over, leftists. Else you're not actually involved in US politics.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Train Dreams on Netflix. Beautiful film. Just completely wrecked me as a father of a toddler.

Utterly shameful. I used to campaign locally for Labour and struggle to imagine how anyone in the party right or left could support such a policy.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Peel Session discontinuednotes.com/2025/11/03/s...

Just before the judge arrives at immigration court, attorney Diana Mariscal prepares the dozen migrants for their hearings. She explains in Spanish that there’s a chance ICE will detain them today. But what comes next surprises them all. New longread from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell @sfstandard.com:

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

The kids are alright.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

First release of #KVMserver fast per-request isolation for Linux executables using #TinyKVM. In a React page rendering benchmark with #Deno we see overhead of just 10s of µs, far faster than existing alternatives using v8 isolates (ms) or JS in WebAssembly (10s of ms). github.com/libriscv/kvm...

"The last time anyone in the family saw Leon was June 20, when he went with his wife to a Philadelphia immigration office to have his lost green card replaced. There, the family says, he was handcuffed by two officers, who led him away without explanation." www.mcall.com/2025/07/18/l...

George Retes, an American citizen disabled US Army veteran who has been held in federal custody since Thursday, was released without charges this evening. 1/

I worry that escalating war with Iran will be used to whip up more fear and hate for non-white immigrants, particularly those of Arab descent, and be used for unjust deportations.

@davidallengreen.bsky.social Agree with your post but think us Brits underestimate how often troops have been deployed within the US. Last time the Marines were deployed to LA in '92 they fired double the bullets of Bloody Sunday in a single incident. www.americanprogress.org/article/dome...

"To the contrary, voters are on average more likely to defect to the radical right when mainstream parties adopt anti-immigration positions, a pattern that has been particularly pronounced for established RRPs."

Would definitely move back to Bake Off Britain. Less sure about Perma Brexit Britain.

Okay, it's taken me a full day to bring myself to post this comic from 2022, but here it is.