Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair. What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.

A lot of people outside the UK positing the name of Soldier F. They know his name because it is in Hansard. If you are in the UK, you best not utter it. Who the state protects tells you everything about that state & they have protected him from the minute he started shooting innocent people

If tax rate was actually all that the rich cared about the way they try to scaremonger the public into believing they'd all be living in the UAE, it's literally all just a longform con

Eeek. Not surprised but also clearly shouldn't need a foi request!

The whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

There are a few people you will make angry if you're doing it right and Piers Morgan is up there near the top. Great stuff.

To be fair, pissing off Piers Morgan as much as possible is a pretty good recruitment strategy!

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Accurate

the trans section of our society has been thrown under the fucking bus for political expediency and so as to not upset this vile, cancerous tumour of far-right adjacent 'GC' hate that is destroying this nation post-Brexit, while Starmer looks the other way and Streeting polishes his jack-boots. 5/5

this is the telling thing about all the billionaire hysteria they would literally rather set more money on fire propping up the most uncharismatic sex pest who ever lived than they’d pay in additional taxes these are not serious people

i like that we know the ICE fitness standards now because now we all know exactly how fast we need to be able to run to be just slightly faster than any given ICE agent. a useable training goal

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Oh and if you’re cis? Malicious compliance. Be awesome. Make people wonder if you might be trans with badges, pride gear etc. Explain loudly how creepy it is to be asked for your birth certificate and how clearly discriminatory it is on the grounds of perception. Complain. Write up reviews…

"nearly half..." ??? it's an open book test. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Exclusive: Two of Nathan Gill's fellow Ukip/Brexit Party MEPs used the same pro-Russia talking points in European Parliament, after joining him on a paid-for trip to Kyiv observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Everyone knew this would happen, particularly the biggest creeps in creepdom, the only audience for this creep item. Enjoy your golden age while it lasts creeps!

MPs are rightly concerned about the economic impact of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Businesses up and down the country have made clear that it's unworkable. It's time for the Minister to send it back 🚮 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We’re challenging that interim guidance in court in three weeks’ time 👇 goodlaw.social/uo8o

Deliberate starvation is a war crime. Ecocide is genocide. Please stop coming into my mentions telling me how how every subatomic particle in Gaza is Hamas. It's tired, it's evil, and it's pointless. I'm not going to argue with you. You're just wrong.

"island of strangers" Starmer "can't tell how much he disagrees with her".... 🙄

that "valen mierrrrda hijos de su perrra madrrrre" gave me 10 years extra <3

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

There's no better way to convince people you aren't fascists than by arresting people who suggest that you're fascists.

Been back to my childhood village in Essex for a funeral. High Street is littered with tatty flags attached to every lamp post and telegraph pole, and by God, it looks awful. Everyone I spoke to hates them. So intimidating. Apparently- "Epping Forest council is scared of offending the nasties."

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer

The bleakly funny thing about this story is that visibly *this morning* the Conservative leadership had not absorbed just how crackers the policy they had signed up to was.

It takes 30 days to grow a radish. Also 2/3 of the country is already in or entering winter.

Sabrina Carpenter to donate portion of Short n’ Sweet tour profit to Transgender Law Center https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/20/sabrina-carpenter-fund-transgender-law-center-short-n-sweet/?utm_content=1761081600&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Blue Labour and punching down against immigrants, trans folk and the disabled, plus supporting genocide and restricting protest were not on the ballot paper. People voted for a change not a continuation of the culture wars rubbish & corporate pandering.

Right now, The Greens are the only progressive voice to be heard in the UK. And the only party actually providing an opposition.

#BookSky Do your thing.

Victoria Derbyshire, "You want to spend a lot of public services and welfare, is the wealth tax a panacea? Zack Polanski, "I don't present it as a panacea. It's not close to a panacea, it's just the start of the things we need to do" "We need to bring Capital Gains Tax in line with Income Tax"

brianna wasn't killed by social media. she was murdered by transphobic class mates. that's a problem that @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is making worse by reintroducing section 28.

I am so angry and upset. Have you seen/signed the NION women letter? notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

She was murdered by transphobic thugs who echoed the sentiments of other transphobic thugs like Graham Linehan and Joanne Rowling who had their "concerns" amplified by media, currently echoed by your own party, it had absolutely nothing to do with phones or social media in school. This is disgusting

15-year-olds are not born with such hate. It festers in an environment of bigotry and dehumanization fed by well-funded hatemongers with the willful complicity of government and the corporate media.

in what sense are labour politically aligned with the lib dems or us greens? labour are literally our enemy.

NNSA is out of money. Only about 400 essential staff working, without pay. Next up: the national labs and NNSA contractor sites? Details still murky federalnewsnetwork.com/government-s...

Might want to bring this up during your chat, Albo.

Very useful tip!

I love when racists are like "i have access to information you don't!" and the information they have access to is racism.

This isn’t a focus in the Discourse because the loudest voices with the biggest platforms are people who have never worried about their next meal. I’ve needed SNAP; I’ve used SNAP; I’ve lost it when it mattered. This is going to be a wave of mass starvation beyond living memory in this country.

Federal Judge Jeffrey Cummings has found that ICE agents violated the terms of a consent decree by detaining people without proper warrants. He ruled that as of this week ICE must wear body cams at all times and can face arrest and contempt proceedings if they conduct unlawful, warrantless arrests.

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Holy shit. Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs. The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds. What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.

Remind me what usually happens when a right-wing populist builds an extrajudicial, unconstitutional private army