I’m still confused that Streeting isn’t in trouble over *his* links to Mandelson.

Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks. Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?

We've lost the great Allan Massie. An absolute giant of Scottish literature and journalism, and an inspirational, kind and generous man, too. I think his son @alexmassie.bsky.social is only sporadically on Bluesky, but he has written a beautiful obituary. alexmassie.substack.com/p/allan-mass...

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Greetings from inside the economic blockade zones of Minneapolis and St Paul! Don’t look away, please. We need you. It’s been a month and they’re trying to destroy us.

BREAKING on ft website: Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans www.ft.com/content/fdf7...

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Oh, well, that’s fine then. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This contact was *after* Epstein's conviction for procuring a child into prostitution

hi, part of my job is being with grieving people and I want to say to you very gently DO NOT DO THIS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE THIS A THING

Talking to the dead is good. It is, so far as one can tell, bordering on normal. Having an AI pretending to be them talk back is just a recipe for never processing the loss.

absolutely fuck this sideways so hard a fucking kidney pops out

I assume there’ll be a crime scene tent outside Peter’s house presently with squads of coppers rifling through his stuff, all of it live on television. Because we already established that how we investigate political corruption in this country, isn’t it.

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

Epstein sent $75k to accounts linked to Mandelson www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The "coincidence" of Epstein's cash payments to Peter Mandelson's partner/husband in 2009/10 and the then industry secretary's lobbying within cabinet for a softer post-crash policy towards bankers looks on the face of it like outright corruption. Certainly demands police investigation.

Before Gorton and Denton today - an early morning start with the bin strikers in Birmingham on the picket line. Solidarity. ✊🏼

It baffles me that this doesn't get more coverage. Bin workers have been on strike in Birmingham for *A YEAR.* I don't understand why this hasn't been dealt with. They are one of the most essential services, and will be experiencing extreme poverty by now.

I could actually meet some of those. Which would enable me to destroy my own career for peanuts.

It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...

Hundreds of people are already out campaigning in Gorton & Denton. We vote on our candidate tonight. Tomorrow, the real work begins. An incredible time to be in the Green Party 💚 join.greenparty.org.uk

"as a Jewish man I have never felt safer than when there is a masked Gestapo in the street" "the only way we can fight anti-semitism is by aligning ourselves with white supremacists"

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

My social video feeds are full of videos *describing* an interview between Tom Hardy and Keir Starmer that… didn’t happen. Everyone loves that Tom stuck it to him! All that stuff about deepfakes being super realistic and it’s just an AI voice saying “Hardy delivered truth bombed”.

From the Chartists to the suffragettes, and from the civil rights movement to the anti-apartheid struggle, every great protest movement has found strength in song. There is extraordinary power in music. More than one injustice has fallen before a hail of ballads.

I’m assuming I’m not allowed to leave January until I’ve submitted my tax return?

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

Noem doesn’t want to fall on her sword. Wait, I don’t like that idiom for her. Lemme rephrase. Noem doesn’t want to be her dog getting shot in a ditch

Matt Goodwin's lies about his background have hopelessly confused Google AI 😉

Awful.

Children die in school shootings and it’s “not the guns”. Mass shootings claim lives multiple times a year and it’s “not the guns”. Kyle Rittenhouse shot 3 people during a protest and it’s “not the guns” ICE kills Alex Pretti, and suddenly it’s his fault because he “had a gun”

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara: "The video speaks for itself. We have identified this person - 37-year-old, white male, resident of the city. The only interaction that we are aware of with law enforcement has been for traffic tickets and we believe he is a lawfully gun owner with a permit to carry"

Nigel Farage attended Davos on a pass sponsored by the family office of Iranian billionaire Sasan Ghandehari, which told the World Economic Forum that the Reform UK leader had advised the company since 2018. ft.trib.al/V138xDu

This is them. Here is the phone number please call and tell them to go to hell.

Vote them out!! Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas Don Davis of North Carolina Laura Gillen of New York Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington Tom Suozzi of New York.

Labour's infatuation with so-called #AI - hugely expensive and damaging www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you aren't furious when you read this then, like Nick Clegg and George Osborne, you can't haven't understood it.

If this was anyone else I’d have the utmost sympathy as he looks as vulnerable & disoriented as my dad just before he died.

Shameful UK RW rogues gallery of Trump-suckers 🧵

That 'BBC boycott' in full

This is why there's a whole chapter in my book about the damage the grid has done to policy making.

The more info we get about this raid, the worse it becomes. ICE had NO valid warrant (administrative warrants do not authorize forceful entry into a home), the guy's sole prior conviction was a since-dismissed drug charge from 2008, AND he had checked in with ICE just days earlier.

Do not be surprised if in the first days of an incoming populist radical government there is an entire raft of statutory instruments and other measures prepared and ready to go, exploiting every gap in our constitutional arrangements.

So he should. This is an absurd story. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested an interview with Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) over his participation in a video last year reminding U.S. military and intelligence service members that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...