Today @bradlander.bsky.social wrote an op-ed on Zohran Mamdani’s historic win — and the work ahead. “When Donald Trump sends troops here, it won’t be Trump vs. Mamdani. It’ll be Trump vs. New York City.”

Labour were broken a long time ago. Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires. A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them. Time to make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

fucking disgusting.

"Bad times are incredibly good for Palantir.”

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

I spit on the reputation of the U.S. Supreme Court, not that it can get much more degraded than it has already become by the repulsive actions of its disgusting GOP members. You can hear the transphobic sneer in these words.

JUST IN: Tesla shareholders officially green light a pay package for Elon Musk that could make him the world's first trillionaire.

Thread: "Raffi Berg, who joined the BBC in 2001 and has been Middle East editor for its news website for 12 years, is suing Jones over an article titled The BBC’s Civil War Over Gaza published on the Drop Site website in December last year."

Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."

Romy Schneider during the filming of L'important c'est d'aimer by Andrzej Zulawski in 1974. Photos by Jean Gaumy.

🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk – Part 2: The Limits of Free Speech & The Paradox of Tolerance: In which we look at the dark wizard’s takeover of the public forum and his emerging Stalinist tendencies compossible.blog/2025/11/06/e...

Rewatching Zohran's victory speech bit by bit and it's hard not to be emotional about it - it's an appeal to hope and courage but also to the fundamental idea of living in society, together. Feels like we've been starved, often deliberately, of that kind of thinking

1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville: “Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o... 🧵

This: "The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this".

'Shock as Orbán allies take ownership of Hungary’s most-read newspaper'

"I'm a progressive but I support Israel and think you're antisemitic unless you do too" just means you're a Republican. Netanyahu is a fascist. Gantz is a fascist. Yair Golan is a conservative. Israel Katz, Gideon Sa'ar, ben-Gvir, and Smotrich are fascists. SUPPORTING FASCISTS MAKES YOU A FASCIST.

Czech far-right leader Tomio Okamura has become the speaker of parliament. This is the first appointment of populist billionaire Andrej Babiš's newly formed coalition with fringe right-wing groups.

There will be a brain drain out of the US to Canada, Europe and other countries. And once we lose these top researchers we may never get them back. It‘s been a monumental mistake to attack science and higher education.

‘You’re gonna have to learn his f*cking name now.’ @mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams the billionaires who spent millions to keep Zohran Mamdani out of City Hall – all while being unable to pronounce his name.

In normal circumstances the attempt by the US to extort an allied country directly and via large companies would be a major political scandal. It isn't because the US is using such mob tactics on all other countries. We all lose out. www.politico.eu/article/us-p...

“We are memory machines, the caretakers of stories meant to be smelted, reminted, embellished, and passed on. As long as our stories keep being told, we are immortal.”

"What Mamdani has actually said about Jews and Israel"

Sophisticated attackers (including nation-state spies and cybercrime networks) are using Google's Gemini AI and other AI LLM tools to refine their attacks. It's an AI prompt arms race.

🧵Tommy Robinson case: Lennon was not convicted due to misuse of terrorism powers as: (i) the police did not ask questions to determine whether he may be involved in terrorism and (ii) he prosecution could not prove that his political beliefs did not have a significant influence on the decision

Great article: "China does not prioritise relations with Europe, but allows ties with European countries to fluctuate as a function of external variables. There is no sign of a grand plan to wrest Europe from the American orbit... Instead, Europe is treated as an extension of America." Quite right

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo... Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy?...Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer." (Samwise Gamgee)

People wanted leaders & change - instead they got villains. But nature abhors a vacuum & hark, lo! what's this..at its moment of great darkness Gotham (the city that nursed Trump and was ravished for its labours) has a hero and this one knows what free speech means - Pow! Zok! Bam! Wham! Zohran!

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

I live in London, and the mayoralty of New York City makes no practical difference to my life at all, but my goodness it’s been a while since I rooted for anyone as strongly as I’m rooting for Zohran Mamdani

#US accused of threatening #EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules by Karl Mathiesen, Gabriel Gavin, Louise Guillot, Nahal Toosi and Ben Lefebvre Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

"After the Soviet Union collapsed, things looked dicey in terms of keeping Americans all frothed up about foreign adversaries. Sure, 9/11 helped, but what we really craved was a rationale for endless war. "

Covered Bridge #Photography

Sinister secrecy over russia’s abduction, torture and imprisonment of Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska russia has held Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska incommunicado, without any charges being laid for well over two years. It is chillingly unclear why they appear to be hiding her

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

Former deputy head of Hungary’s foreign intelligence, Andras Telkes, shared that Orban government is now fully integrated with Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service

One of my favourite shots I have taken. A beautiful Great Grey Owl flying straight towards me. #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #photography

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

AOC, "Elon Musk is not a scientist, he is not an engineer. He is a billionaire conman with a lot of money" Can you imagine any Labour MP saying this?

"What binds Polanski and Mamdani is not only their left-wing credentials, but their rejection of political cynicism." Let's go! 🎉 www.europinion.uk/post/how-zac...

🧵Sudan War thread - The World's Gravest Disaster & Global Indifference

This wife talking about her husband becoming radicalised by Farage and those like him really is quite extraordinary in its heartbreaking understatement. "He absolutely wanted it to be [a terrorist attack]. The grin on his face. He wanted an I-told-you-so."

"How do we make sense of Musk’s seeming transition..to becoming the greatest supporter of a far right authoritarian regime led by Trump? ..in league with extraordinarily wealthy authoritarian climate deniers and funders of extremism, like.. the Atlas Network and the Heritage Foundation."

The nightmare I saw at Manhattan's ICE detention facility www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...