@peterloomemorial.bsky.social Given we're once again in "the times that try men's souls" this talk (with Peterloo Campaign chair) about one of the thinkers who inspired the Peterloo protesters might be of particular interest right now? humanists.uk/events/in-co...

To idiots advocating violent resistence... "OK give us a rough description of how this strategy of the MAGA opposition using violence will play out to a positive result. Include a very rough estimate of the casualties involved. Hard evidence majority of US population would back it also needed."

Gavin Newsom Is 💯% Correct.....

We need to stop describing this government as 'Trump'. It flatters him, and it's not accurate. It's a REGIME he merely fronts. He's their populist semi senile clown front, cautiously managed / handled by the regime, coz of his power to sack any one of them. But it's still an 'it', not one man.

I'm beginning to think the Trump regime is fucked. It know the mid-terms will neuter the regime. It's panicking and is trying (and failing) to use violence to provoke violence so it can cancel them. It's backfiring and making MAGA even more unpopular.

More like this!

This is a superb analysis- one that defies hysterical defeatist pessimism.

The more the MAGA/Trump regime behaves like this, the more likely they'll lose the mid-terms- really badly. But that also hugely increases their motivation to behave like this, so they can provoke people into giving them an excuse to cancel the mid-terms. This has momentum in only one direction...

May Paris, Fife-born Chartist activist in Greenwich, south London, was born #OnThisDay 25 January 1809. Hers is one of dozens of stories told in Chartist Lives www.amazon.co.uk/Chartist-Liv...

Two days ago, the official White House account (ignoring the fact penguins live in the Southern hemisphere) published this image ↙️. Someone has since ... how shall I say ... developed it. ↘️

What a tit that man is #Musk

This is much clearer. I cannot see any weapon in his hand, he was NOT a life threatening risk to them when they shot him.

Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see. Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him. It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.

AGAIN

Making shit up does NOT help. It reduces us to THEIR level. DON'T share this crap.

@cdelawalla.bsky.social Like what your org is doing- a lot! Happy to look into you using some of my cartoons, if appropriate? : ) Am a Phil of Sci grad, active STEM speaker etc. (UK) My contact page. (I can't DM here?) polyp.org.uk/about/

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'The women behind 18th century condom making' - wp.me/p3JTNy-6OJ

Fantastic sight. And for all the performative little psuedo-radical drama queens demanding these protests should 'kick off', here's a message to you direct from DONALD J TRUMP... "Thank you for being stupid enough to walk into my obvious trap."

This is repugnant: the pits. Utterly damning of the MAGA regime. BUT Just like we've all had to learn to keep our skeptical guard up re WRITTEN propaganda, deviously edited footage, etc... We're now gonna have to do the same for the actual photographs and videos themselves.

This really makes the point…

You know who, spreading dangerous anti-vaccination garbage like confetti at the wedding of Mr anti-science and Ms disease... From polyp.org.uk/books/the-co...

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social I hope you're as outraged as anyone about Trump's 'bone spur' hypocricy re his jibe about NATO / Afghanistan? With your record, you should raise hell about it!

It amazes me that more people aren't seriously ripping into Trump about his 'bone spurs' deviousness in relation to the outrageous statement he made re NATO and Afghanistan. I don't condemn pacifists / those who draft dodged Vietnam- I do condemn the utter 'brave warriors' hypocricy he's showing.

Today in the Freethinker, Kunwar Khuldune Shahid reflects on the worrying phenomenon of sharia patrols in the west, from Texas to Sweden. freethinker.co.uk/2026/01/shar...

Really looking forward to this! Paine needs to be bought back into popular history more than ever right now, as USA democracy slides into crisis... "These are the times that try men's souls."

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Did you know that in a democracy, in order to prevent someone getting elected, or to remove them from power if they are elected, you have to PERSUADE others not to vote for them? Sadly, democracy doesn't mean you magically always win, just because you're totally convinced you're in the right.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

@theitps.bsky.social This might be of interest, even though it is UK time based! humanists.uk/events/in-co...

I dismays me how many people here seem to be in denial that Trump is in power because 50% of the US voters put him there, twice, and rejected the Democrats, and / or those who are associated with the Democrats... twice. Until we confront and learn from that painful truth, nothing will change.

THESE ARE THE TIMES! This is one hell of a moment to be talking about Paine, with what feels like a new American Crisis looming... Did you know the Tea Party once tried to co-opt Tom, while seeming oblivious about his actual ideas? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hZV... humanists.uk/events/in-co...

@peterloomemorial.bsky.social Another Peterloo in Rock gig in Glossop... coming soon!

Lately there has been a lot of people on BlueSky demanding that Americans to go turn violent on ICE agents. I’m sure that some of them are genuinely just frightened and misguided. But some of them are actively trying to insight violence because that is what is called for in project 2025.

Woah! www.youtube.com/shorts/1TIaa...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

Today is a good day to remember that this man faced tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons and death threats, but remained peaceful and remained positive and remained compassionate. The torch of Liberty and Equality is in our hands now. Don't let it drop. #MLK youtu.be/tMPlF_Q8Pk8

It might help a bit if everyone used maps that show Greenland's real size! (BBC included.) The Mercator projection has always been a really misleading image of our world, impacting on our political concepts as well.

Does anyone else find themselves in the strange state of impatiently wishing time would pass way faster, just so you can get see how all this MAGA insanity is gonna play out, and see which predictions were the sound ones? It really is like waiting for new episodes of a disaster series...

This is pretty much the only post anyone should need to understand that Farage is a traitor, a conman and a populist simpleton who must *never* be given power.

Best visual analysis I've seen to date.

Vicious election campaigns based on lies and slurs are NOT new! Periods of civil, respectful behaviour or factual press coverage are the exception, not the rule. Look at how grossly Jefferson and Adams (former close friends) treated eachother in 1800... www.mentalfloss.com/article/1966...

After leaving Islam, our Nigerian colleague Mubarak Bala [pictured] was detained in a psychiatric hospital for atheism, and later spent four and half years years in prison for ‘blasphemy’. Nigeria is one of 12 countries that maintains the death penalty for blasphemy.🧵 humanists.uk/2026/01/15/m...

I've checked and this is real.

Trump’s plan has been clear: terrorize Americans, attack them, shoot them in the face, and create as much chaos as possible — whatever it takes. Then use the chaos he manufactured to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I've recently, for a graphic novel project, read the original letters sent to German Universities by the Nazis, demanding resignation letters from all Jewish faculty members... People are right to be disturbed and cautious about this, no matter what 'monitoring antisemitism' spin it gets.

Some recent cartoons c/o polyp.org.uk/cartoons/dog... These are quite tame ones, see the gallery for stuff that often gets me barred by hair-trigger 'community standards' AIs supervising the giant social media sites. Stuff that I'm not gonna risk posting here! (How free speech IS Bluesky?)