10/02/1898: Birthday of #BertoltBrecht, Marxist poet of the Socialist Revolution.

Children need their families. Refugee children are no different. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This will not be a suprise to anyone who saw their campaign in Bristol Central. Its incredibly poor form to do this after Rob has requested they don't. I'm not sure what action the returning officer can take, but hope there is some real steps taken. Urgh

To be fair, do they even have food in Italy?

An excellent afternoon. Congratulations HWJ.

Ofc this is just one London borough. But it’s striking, to put it mildly! We need more planning policy experiments like this.

Not in the Epstein files.

La Vème République vue par un dessinateur belge (non identifié) qui a la frite...

Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.

I have an essay in it on the political pen of the socialist intellectual Beatrice Webb, which explores how elite women used writing to assert expertise - purposefully, artfully, and never without cost.

Backsliding in the US happening quicker than other 21st century cases. www.ft.com/content/b474...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.

SUNDAY…

ICE genuinely going with the "they hit their head on a cupboard door" excuse for violence against innocent people. Regular reminder this is the organisation Tories and Reform have explicitly said they want replicated in UK, and which Labour's policies emulate in many ways. apnews.com/article/immi...

UTAH auto body shop owner: “You guys broke the fucking window to get in here! Where is your warrant??” Trump’s ICE goons: “Yes we did… We don’t need one.” 🤔 Rights are gone under this regime. (From Somali Snaps: www.instagram.com/reel/DUKpzuS...)

Students walked out. Workers stayed home. Thousands filled the streets in hundreds of cities with one message: Get Trump's immigration agents out of our communities. This is for Renée Good, Alex Pretti, and 5-year-old Liam Ramos—sick in a Texas detention center.

A line from Sophie Gilbert's review of the new Melania movie. "Melania shows off her custom-made inauguration gown, stark white with black ribbons overlaying it, a dress that now looks unavoidably like the redacted Epstein files." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Ozymandias

Tom Morello welcomes Bruce Springsteen to the stage at the Defend Minnesota! benefit concert fundraising for the families of Alex Pretti and Renee Good at First Avenue in Minneapolis 🎸 🎥: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

The Boss!

Bruce Springsteen slams ‘King Trump’ and ‘federal thugs’ in Minneapolis protest song

The Boss has spoken.

Enjoyed the book ; look forward to the sequel.

In the years I've worked on the history of the Hotel Lux in the Comintern era, I never imagined I would ever speak with someone who remembered it. But last week I received an email from someone who is about to turn 100 - and he had a story to share. So excited to write up this encounter.

Thanks Ann, for all your hard work for Labour members.

🔥 Tennessee’s own sheryl crow bringing it

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

Being called hun, having some good pie and coffee would have done him good.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear Charles de Gaulle screaming I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO from some rural French cemetery.

...the invention of tradition...

Waking up to the latest from the US … there’s some line about things happening slowly until they happen very fast.

Well worth reading

I was raised Quaker but am agnostic at best. Still, it is time for Christians who are not monsters to reclaim their churches.

"I will not be f*cking gaslit by these people. I will not calm down the rhetoric and tone it down....Jonathan Ross murdered her." @timmiller.bsky.social on the new footage of the Renee Good shooting:

She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.

As I argued in August 2024. labourlist.org/2024/08/labo...

"Not one, not one, nor thousands must they slay. But one and all if they would dusk the day." (William Morris, A Death Song). In 1887, in London, Alfred Linnell died after an attack by mounted police at a demonstration of unemployed people. William Morris wrote this radical hymn for his funeral.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984

“Today we’re discussing if the threat from Russia is real” From the new Private Eye, out now.

Kent County Council's Reform Leader says "I would love to say I’ve found a magic way of not putting (Council Tax) up". But that's exactly what she said at the hustings last year. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

💯 “It’s so clear that we need a new system, fit for the 21st century, and the conversation amongst MPs is shifting from "if" to "when" and "how". As a first step the Government should set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform” 🌹 @alexsobel.co.uk #Labour4PR