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🟨 Print Edition — Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’ The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling…

To expand the mountaineering analogy: Pu can't get to the top and claim victory (can't conquer Ukraine), can't keep trying forever (maintain the war), but he can't climb down fast either (end the war) because the mountaineering federation (regime) and the public will see him as a failure and end him

Republican Joins With Democrats on Constitutional Amendment to Give Congress Power to Reject Trump Pardons

A strange force is blighting landscapes across the Arctic: bright orange water visible from outer space. Why? ft.trib.al/neqZwol

"We will not defeat poisonous, exclusionary movements by ostracising their voters; we will defeat them by building a politics that listens, represents, and dilutes the incentives for hate." @elliechowns.bsky.social for @bestforbritain.org on how a fair voting system can help protect UK democracy 👇

CBS is obeying in advance again and cowering to the Trump FCC's censorship threats. Colbert does a masterful job of skewering "smug bowling pin" Brendan Carr, showing the actual partisanship here, and exposing the "purely financial" motivations of CBS brass. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7D...

The Republican race to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in the U.S. House is marked by jostling for Trump's favor and endorsement.

CBS is lost. Trump controls it.

Only MAGAts still fall for it.

All those people telling me Labour were doing nothing to support Port Talbot through the steel works rebuilding are all very quiet now. Here we have ANOTHER announcement, this time of a £11m Economic Growth and Investment Fund to support companies who offer skilled, well-paid jobs & help them grow.

The Trump regime’s pullback of federal immigration agents from Minneapolis is a major political retreat. But what does it mean? Here’s what I’m hearing about the real reasons for the pullback and the lessons to be drawn from it: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-what-does-the-regimes

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

And when it comes down to it, 96 cases in just a few weeks is *huge* when we know it can be zero or close to zero. There mustn’t be any shrugging of shoulders, or acceptance of these outbreaks. We know that outbreaks are avoidable because we did avoid them – for years, and not long ago. 7/8

🧵What is going on with Measles in England? UKHSA has reported 96 confirmed measles cases since 1 Jan 2026, concentrated in London (64% of cases) and the West Midlands (26% of cases). But what does this all mean? Is 96 a lot? Why is it happening? And what can we do about it? 1/8

President Macron called on India to support a moratorium on strikes against civilian targets in Russia’s war against Ukraine. "We must act to bring an end to Russia’s war of aggression and establish a just and lasting peace in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter.

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1. I would vote for anyone who could win a Democratic primary in 2028 2. I will vote for the most credible left candidate in the primary 3. The two-party system is bad and we should replace it with proportional representation 4. The presidency is bad and we should replace it with a Prime Minister

We are the laughing stock of the world.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

@nadinesmith.bsky.social Congratulations Nadine Now Executive Director Equality Florida Please follow this Awesome Woman DEMOCRATS MUST DO THIS and with this DEMS can win "Give them a reason to VOTE " "and giving them the HOPE that comes along with it" Thank you Nadine !

One day it will all be over.

Happy President's Day, President Obama Obama wants to see all of us be our better selves. Trump Is A Criminal Would-Be Dictator Impeach Convict Remove Trump and JD

Ah how I long for the pancake days of old. Not pancakes flavoured with cardamom, hot honey or miso. But good old fashioned ones made of eggs, coal & dust. And do you remember when a young Margaret Thatcher & a group of young Tories chased a French crêpe out of Kent? Happy days!🇬🇧

Understandably the terrible things coming to light from the Epstein files have our attention. People are asking how a man such as Trump could become president. This is the wrong question. Was Trump chosen to become president because of his Epstein activities? He’s the perfect puppet president!

And if you found today’s OGWN useful, this morning’s Bunker digs deeper into a related issue: Is the Russian military really as strong as Putin wants us to believe?

🔴Big Tech Helped Elon Musk Meet Jeffrey Epstein Four Times After Conviction Despite what they claim, Silicon Valley’s most powerful founders knew they were meeting, dining and emailing with a convicted sex offender and were told to keep quiet about it bylinetimes.com/2026/02/17/b...

A new documentary reminds us of what a consummate politician he was - and how much his achievements are tarnished by Iraq ✏️ @jamesrball.com

🔴‘Build That Wall’: Why Secretary Rubio Is No Jack Kennedy The Secretary of State’s address to European leaders showed how far American leadership has fallen under Donald Trump, argues @alexhh.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/17/b...

Dungeons and Dragons turning your kids gay and satanic is a moral panic, because everyone knows it only turns them bisexual and wican. A global child sex trafficking ring with dozens of victims and a huge paper trail is not.

Even in the Frank Miller fantasy, the story of 300 is about King Leonidas being so absurdly bad at politics and statecraft that he was left largely without allies and got maneuvered out of being able to deploy HIS OWN ARMY against an existential invasion threat.

📳 NEW EDITION 📳 Nobody wants a wider war in Europe, but we might get one anyway. How can we prepare our military and wider society to deter Putin – or maybe fight him? 📲 Ed Arnold of @rusi.bsky.social talks to @rostaylor.bsky.social & @rafaelbehr.bsky.social 📲 Listen: linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

Incredible piece of protest art. Watch and share.

🔴Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May Messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein, reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis

Everything is fucked. But only this frog faced traitorous wank stain can save us. Apparently.

Fernando Oliver, Esq. THIS IS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP AND HIS MAGA FOLLOWERS THAT I HAVE SEEN TO DATE

I now have a vote two sets of elections in May. I will be voting Labour in both and urge everyone to commit now to voting Labour in May. It will be a low turn out and every vote matters. It is the least you can do to stop Reform. It's our national duty to make a stand against hate.

The Guardian: Trump donor who criticized offshoring to close Ohio plant and move work to China www.theguardian.com/business/202...

According to The New York Times, Donald's building monuments to himself makes him "an inescapable force." No. It simply reminds the world what a pathetic, insecure loser we put in power. And it's humiliating.

The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration. Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net. This is what oligarchy looks like.

Today's Start Page background is pretty neat, if I may say so 🌅 (You can get daily images from Unsplash, by clicking on the settings icon on the top right corner, then selecting Background Image > Daily Image)

Power to the People!

This goddamn IDIOT.... I refuse to pay tariffs- I'll just sit back and wait till he dies or is replaced with someone with a functioning brain- cause this guy's brain doesn't.

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." — Abraham Lincoln (1862)

From Durham to Leicestershire, more local triumphs for Reform Nigel Farage's local councillors continue to embarrass themselves and their party www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

It beggars belief that people don’t see this man for what he is — a traitorous Putin puppet!

Hungary holds elections in 2 months. And the US Secretary of State is in Hungary campaigning for Viktor Orban. And as you can see, Russian state media loves it.