This is civil war level shit and the fact states aren’t ceding from the union at this point is a level of sheer cowardice.

Hey if you ever want to listen to what sounds like a lost McCartney Beatles song, here’s you go. L

Nish Kumar, "What is the Green Party's vision for how we redraw the economy of this country?" Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership" "Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 MSF FORCED TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES IN GAZA CITY 🚨 Our clinics are now encircled by Israeli forces. There are continued airstrikes & tanks advancing closer & closer to our healthcare facilities. This is an intolerable level of risk for our @msf.ca staff. I am outraged, and you should be, too.

"Israel has closed the only crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and neighbouring Jordan, stopping more than two million Palestinians from accessing the outside world." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Our investigation uncovered that an elected MEP was taking payments to peddle narratives beneficial to Russian interests... This case goes to the heart of our democratic values.” — head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, Commander Dominic Murphy

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24" lol. LOL. LMAO. LMFAO. OMGWTFBBQ.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I recently got copies of all my medical records, and the wildest thing is my chest CT scan. It's my body from my shoulders down to the bottom of my ribs in full 3D, I can filter between everything. I can see my bones in great detail, arteries, heart, lungs, inside everything, inside my spine.

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

hahah okay this is a bit on the nose but one of the leaders of Reform UK turns out to actually, officially, provably be a Russian agent

The government seems to just fucking hate disabled people, there’s no other way to read their decisions.

Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit. Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth. Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk

Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Everyone: What's government doing about the cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, and the unfolding genocide in Gaza? Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards". This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.

It’s interesting that seemingly every other party (Reform, Tories, Lib Dem’s, Your Party) are against this. Like?!?!?!

I love losing my freedoms entirely due to made up xenophobic horseshit.

Wait sorry, in response to Texas gerrymandering a load of districts and disenfranchising thousands of people, California are... doing the same thing, but it’s good because they’re the good guys? Give me a fucking break.

"The Spanish government approves a “total” arms embargo on Israel, part of a package of measures aimed at halting what Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called “the genocide in Gaza.”" www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

I’m getting so constantly fucked off by the American propensity to oversimplify politics down into ‘leftists’ and ‘right-wingers’ like it’s fucking babies first politics - especially as it’s leached into British politics a lot more. Details and nuance matters.

I haven't had time to read up on the latest shooting, but I'm going to post my incredibly radical position that a shooting is bad no matter who did it and no matter who was shot. Stop trying to crack the code of a shooter's motives and focus on the one thing they all have in common -- the guns.

For someone trying to be a strongman, the entire narrative around Trump from his own sycophants is that he’s a delicate little pathetic baby. If you’re going to follow in the footsteps of Il Duce at least pretend to be strong, good lord. It’s pathetic.

It’s wild to me how much Labour seem to rely on the idea that certain tech is good because it’ll help “fix potholes”. AI WILL HELP FIX POTHOLES. DIGITAL ID CARDS WILL HELP FIX POTHOLES. MORE GAVISCON WILL HELP FIX POTHOLES.

What in the fu judiciary.house.gov/media/press-...

People constantly letting shit like this slide is why they keep pushing. They move inch by inch, and nobody stands up and says “No fuck you”

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

This video is very very very very worth watching.

1/ A quick note on this framing 👇 When people say “gender critical” vs “trans activist” it might sound balanced – but the language itself is doing heavy lifting, and not in a neutral way. 🧵

They’ve had no legal authority to do a lot of things, they don’t care, nobody is stopping them.

Farage famously repeats completely incorrect figures, most famously with the fucking brexit bus. Any journalists uncritically repeating his figures as facts are so plainly complicit in supporting him to the point that their journalistic integrity is basically nil.

Since I got diagnosed with ADHD I’ve been very unsure how to broach it. I don’t want to use it as an excuse or let it define me, but it is obviously a relevant part of how I operate and I’ve been finding it useful as a framing device above all else. Mostly I’ve just been angry at support failures.

I’m no fancy politics guy, but i’d say any country where you can’t put a man in prison for accepting a literal bag full of cash in exchange for favors from the government is not, in fact, a functioning state.

Obviously this piece is absurd, and mainly designed to exploit rifts between Hermer and the rest of the govt. But it’s also part of a deeply sinister attempt to delegitimise legal work on behalf of asylum seekers, in an environment where death threats & actual attacks have already occurred

Couldn’t make a crueler caricature if I tried

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

This has taken far too long, but is incredibly welcome news.

I am always at a pause on how to broach the propensity of over exaggerated or disingenuously reported claims that support what is true and what I agree with. It feels like splitting hairs, but it slowly erodes and weakens any supposed authority we have as truth tellers.

LMAO WUT

You know what, I don’t care anymore. The USA is a piece of shit authoritarian dictatorship and it’s allowed itself to become that over decades and even the politicians who supposedly are against this did fuck all to stop this shit. Let it burn, fuck it. Let’s get the UN out of there.

History rhymes a bit too well sometimes.

The world is a hellscape right now where even those claiming to be left or centre are prepared to throw marginalised groups, such as migrants, trans and non-binary individuals and the disabled, under the bus for a quiet time. Not got an optimistic take at this point, sorry, just stating what it is.

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person? Tomorrow from Ezra Klein