Check it out! Lumpen 16 - Class and Care is now available. Class Work Project ( @classworkproject.bsky.social) have put together a banger and makes for some important (occasionally difficult) reading! Issue 16: seditionist.uk/distro/reada... Solidarity bundle: seditionist.uk/distro/reada...

⏰ It's time for change on immigration policy - We all agree on that much! Labour so far have got it all wrong, chasing hostile headlines that will only make our system crueller, society more divided & immigrants easier to exploit. BUT THERE IS ANOTHER WAY!! My 9-point plan for a system that works👇

I'm glad everything went so brilliantly today, and to everyone's satisfaction. Jolly good.

Copying Denmark’s hardline asylum policy a ‘terrible idea’, Danes say Helene Brydensholt of the The Alternative party has urged the UK Government to think again, explaining it’s been a disaster for integration and led to more racism www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Sometimes when you stand up to the far right you have earned a little Schadenfreude.

The cruelty is its purpose.

I don't think Labour are enabling reform. I think Reform are enabling Blue Labour.

If a Prime Minister is brought down by being too cruel on asylum policy - which is not the most likely option but feels plausible right now, which is new - what does that do the debate? Is it too much to hope that draws some kind of line?

Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful. They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.

Leonard and Hungry Paul is a wonderful book, and now the BBC has turned it into a wonderful six part series. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

Siegfried Sassoon

The current mood in Sheffield.

Considering how many column inches are being devoted to prisons at the moment I'm surprised [1] there's so little talk about how much of it is privatised, the need for rehabilitation and the sheer dehumanisation that takes place inside. [1] no I'm not.

What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rachel Reeves says everyone 'must do their bit' - on a PR level how different is this from Osborne's 'we're all in this together'?

Conservatives call for 'stop & search' at train stations Completely impractical And yesterday's alleged perpetrator was unknown to the police apparently, so facial recognition would not have been of any help What did help? Was having a guard on the train. A very brave man.

@seditionist.bsky.social thanks for the book, love the pro-postie sticker.

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.' We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them. Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse. Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A 2024 Coast Guard report found 27 percent of drug boat searches came back empty-handed.

The Green Party's proposal for a wealth tax on 1% of assets above £10m and 2% on assets above £1bn comes top of our list of tax reforms that Britons would support, with 75% giving it their backing yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...

You can pick up white rememberance poppies from the PPU, your local Quaker meeting house will usually have them or perhaps a neighbourhood lefty bookshop. www.ppu.org.uk/remembrance-...

🇺🇦 Ukrainians, determined and resolute, are well placed to rebuild Despite the huge problem landmines and unexploded ordnance pose, Ukraine – with our help – has plans to thrive when Russia’s war ends By Natalie Bennett @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social

The desire to protect people fleeing atrocities & to live in a society of equality and respect are, I’m pleased to inform you, STILL VERY MAINSTREAM VIEWS.

great joke from @zaltzcricket.bsky.social on the news quiz this week: “statistics are like comedians at the riyadh comedy festival: treat them right and they can be made to say whatever you want them to say”

Freedom or Death, translated here from the original Polish for the first time, shares the thoughts and experiences of Anarchists involved in the civil defence of #Ukraine against the invasion of the Russian occupation forces. £2 P/C or free to download. seditionist.uk/distro/reada...

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

Well, this is lovely.

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman." This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women." RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Upon his release from an Israeli prison, Naseem al-Radee tried to call his wife, only to find her phone out of service. He then learned that his wife & all but one of his children had been killed in Gaza during his detention. Radee was never charged with a crime www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

stop thinking right now

Plumes of smoke from Israeli attacks were seen rising over Gaza hours after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire plan, brokered by Donald Trump.

If you had written this as a fake news headline a year ago, you would be called hysterical. Reuters today. Fascism.

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

🚀🚀🚀 This is an exceptional pay deal, which was only won by workers standing firmly together in the face of their very profitable employer. It is proof once again that being a member of Unite pays for itself. We will always support every member in their fight for better pay – and we deliver.

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.

The Island of Strangers guy hates racism this week. I wonder what his team will have him believe next week?

Tony Harrison's V. Still gives me chills. RIP to Leeds' finest poet. youtu.be/FA3AL14d05k?...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

I don't sign petitions very often but I like the idea of this one getting to a million pretty much as the policy is announced. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955. Look what happened next.