I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

For the first time, a British Sign Language rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone was performed at Anfield before Liverpool vs. West Ham ❤️

Tourette's making you shout really offensive things seems to have surprised people who have no idea what Tourette's actually is.

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Anyone who watched the full exchange as JD Vance handed Pope Leo the invitation to attend Trump’s celebration could see this outcome coming.

NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration. The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation. On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants.

The ornate facade of William Leiper's glorious 1889 Templeton Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowgreen #windows

Trump has been normalised by the legacy media who have given up doing the proper job of media. While a rancid, radicalised, politically uber-partisan media of the hard right lauds everything Trump does as proof he is the New Messiah. And conventional politicians are pulled up for nothing.

I think this regularly!

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This is an outstanding listen- thought provoking!

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Bad Bunny's message at the Super Bowl halftime show was "The only thing more powerful than hate is love" and "Together we are America". Donald Trump calls the show "disgusting" - that says it all.

If Starmer resigns, the lesson for future politicians is that if you admit mistakes and apologise, you'll lose your job. However, if you simply deny everything and laugh it off – like that wankstain Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson did, constantly – nothing happens.

Everyone should be following this thread. It's just like Twitter used to be. You know. Before the badness. Fun. You remember fun, right?

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Trump is a vile racist bully We should all condemn this without hesitation. But something tells me Farage will find a way to make excuses for his best mate Trump. I hope I’m wrong.

Farage is named in the Epstein files, Starmer isn't, but somehow the media seem determined to force Starmer out. I wonder why?

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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[explaining to a child why they are living in poverty] for every hundredth pint i drink i can get one free pint

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And it looks like about half the Melania tickets sold in the UK were bought by the @ledbydonkeys.org team to do this... 🤣

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Cops gave Kyle Rittenhouse a bottle of water after he shot 3 protesters.

kind of remarkable how the two high profile ICE killings this year have been alex pretti and renee good, two people about whom NO ONE has ANY unkind words to say. if they could dig up anyone who would willingly talk shit on either person they’d have done it

Quite glad that the big story in British politics is whether Andy Burnham will apply to stand in a by-election and not people being gunned down by state militias. Solidarity with Minnesotans resisting this barbarity.

Where's the outrage we saw when Angela Rayner, who paid the wrong amount of tax on a property for her disabled son, & followed poor advice? She had a single breach of code for an amount ~10% of what Farage has tried to tax dodge. When is he going to be made to resign due to media pressure?

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I still have a dream, a dream deeply rooted in the American dream – one day this nation will rise up and live up to its creed, "We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream ... —Martin Luther King Jr 1963

For the first time in history, the archbishop responsible for U.S. service members said officers may be morally obligated to disobey a sitting president’s orders. Broglio said a Trump-ordered invasion of Greenland would violate Catholic teaching and that Catholic troops could refuse to comply.

Starmer and all of our party leaders should be sending a message of support and solidarity to the Somali community tonight. Once again Trump repeated his racism and bigotry singling them out as criminal and mentally insane and claiming Somalia is not a country. Love to our Somali community tonight ❤️

I'm also old enough to remember all those who told us Trump would make the world more stable. One year in, he's threatening to destroy an eight decade security alliance, the pillar of Western stability, over not getting an award.

Love this little piece of street art in an old electrical box on University Avenue in Glasgow, turning it into what is potentially Glasgow's smallest art gallery. It was created by the ceramic artist Louise McVey. #glasgow #streetart #ceramics #universityavenue

When people talk about reasons to leave X, the fact that the owner is a mass murderer doesn't get mentioned enough. The Grok porn stuff is foul. The naked white nationalism is foul. This is worse.

Trump Nobel Prize thing has me thinking (again) about J L Austen and his Performative Utterances. The point is that words and objects only have meaning that's ascribed to them by people and that requires legitimacy. A kid saying to two others "I now pronounce you and and wife" doesn't marry them..

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Heard this week of someone tripping up and breaking their hip in Florida & the medical bills coming to $145,000. Also a 90+yr old up in court for stealing as she’d shoplifted her husband’s meds. They couldn’t afford insurance. We need to pay a little more tax to keep the huge benefits of the NHS.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

The National Catholic Reporter publicly labeled JD Vance a “moral stain” on the Roman Catholic faith. The blistering piece went on to point out Vance's “twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity” for inflaming tensions by maligning a woman killed by ICE rather than promoting healing.

Four years ago the Red Cross placed a refugee with us for emergency housing. He was a young Vietnamese man with nowhere to go, no shelter and no English. We had other people stay after him but he was lovely, would not take money and looked despairing and exhausted. One week end, a multicultural 1/4

Or as MrEST put it “only perverts are getting Grok to do this”.

Peace is not the absence of war; peace is not fear of repression; peace is not a balance of two powers based on terror. Peace is the fruit of justice; peace is the flower of love and justice in society —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Season 1978 #StOscarRomero

"Whatever messes can sometimes be thrown up in a world based on democratic self-determination, it is better, surely, than returning to the time when borders can be changed by force. If the world we’ve built since 1945 truly is passing, we will miss it when it’s gone." Feels relevant this morning.