"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew." "Commentator of the Year"

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

Excellent as always from @julesboykoff.bsky.social, laying out the case for the expulsion of the Israel Football Association from FIFA and UEFA. A moral imperative, anchored in governance rules and principles www.theguardian.com/football/202...

It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool. www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/u...

This is the same Abu Dhabi govt that set up their own spyware-loaded version of Tik Tok (called ToTok) in 2019.

Starmer in Der Stürmer

Would be very funny of 'Brit cards' secured Scottish independence www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

The moral imperative for UEFA/FIFA to act is the genocide, but it is important to stress that each org has very clear rules - on issues that cannot be delinked from Gaza -that give them cause to suspend or expel the Israel Football Association. news.sky.com/story/high-l...

"Dubai presents the hard-right vision of utopia... where the super-rich and well-connected can simply do and consume as they please. A place where the poor are simply cleared out of sight." Excellent from @jonathanliew.bsky.social

Brady: "Under Gianni’s leadership football has reached farther and welcomed more people in. He’s championed inclusion and access, making sure the beautiful game belongs to everyone". Infantino: "Can we clap hands once more?"

Jay Matthews is a theatre nurse in Gaza & he explains after people have amputations the only pain relief available is paracetamol "how do children handle that kind of pain?" "Some don't.. they can't manage what they're going through. They'll be left with those scars for ever"

Eric has always been an ally. He said this immediately after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in 2015, when hatred of Muslims had spiked

🔴 Fans lodged official complaints with FIFA for exposure to dangerous heat at this summer's Club WC 👇 🔴 This threat was entirely predictable, yet FIFA appeared to do very little to safeguard fans and players 😬 🔴 Will FIFA take heat danger seriously at the big-oil sponsored World Cup next year? 🤔

In a sane media culture, this would be the end of him.

OMG!!

ILO session on the sidelines of UNGA. Qatar got thanked a dozen times. It remains remarkable and the Saudis will be taking notes.

British-Egyptian Alaa Abdel Fattah has been granted a presidential pardon. I have advocated for this, including by writing to the Chair of Egyptian Foreign Affairs Cttee This is welcome news, but now we must call for him to be allowed to travel to the UK to join family

UN experts call for suspension of Israel from international football amid unfolding genocide in occupied Palestine www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

A lotta hype during last night’s game about the NFL coming to Ireland on Sunday. Well, I just got back from Dublin and not everyone is thrilled to see the 2025 NFL plant a flag in their country www.thenation.com/article/soci...

UK 2024 Broadsheet Columnist of the Year everyone. Any left-bashing, transphobic, genocide-excusing old bollocks will do for The Times opinion pages these days, but this is really something.

Now’s a great time to pick up Alaa’s book, folks. It is perfectly titled: you have not yet been defeated Alaa was not defeated!

@andylewis.bsky.social @philippeauclair.bsky.social This is getting yet another play. So beautifully put together and so many memorable little flourishes. A gem.

The picture we've all been waiting for: #AlaaIsFree h/t: Mohamed Elbaqer

A wonderful day for a remarkable man and his amazing family fairsq.org/alaa-abd-el-...

We are wilfully being put in danger by our major news broadcasters.

Momentous news that will reverberate far beyond Egypt: A presidential pardon for Alaa Abd el-Fattah. His family worked for years for this moment: His mother went on a hunger strike that very nearly killed her to secure her son's freedom. His sister camped outside the British foreign office.

I hope @ottoenglish.bsky.social will forgive me for screenshotting his short thread. It is just perfect, so much so that I thought it should hit it one single blow, with no scrolling involved.

Reform love the UAE system because it's based on subjugation and racial domination. They're a bunch of sad, racist clowns who miss the Empire they never had.

“Bringing Britain into line with other countries such as the United Arab Emirates” is not a sentence I want to see.

The Reform right like the MAGA right are completely fact averse and know that they can bullshit their way to power because their followers simply don't care about truth. That's the threat this country faces, and it strikes me that our media are ill equipped to tackle it and failing us all.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

Green Party - Nationalise the water companies, tax the super rich, invest in our public services, stop the genocide, lower bills. The Telegraph - Greens are "hard left."

Bluesky is irrelevant and dying, so here I am, now posting on Bluesky. You should have stayed at the Nazi bar and had a more positive impact on public debate. Also, you were hysterical for thinking that American democracy faced existential threats.

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

Right-wingers are calling for my arrest. You know why? Because they know I’m the only candidate in my race who will actually stand up to ICE and Trump. And they’re right.

Kat is still out there fighting four hours after this. I'm just fucking livid.

🧵Norges idrettsforbund og Norges Fotballforbund fordømmer Israels brudd på folkeretten. Her henvises til at en rekke aktører, inkludert Amnesty International, har beskrevet dette som folkemord. Det oppfordres til våpenhvile og gjenoppbygging. Det er positivt. Men … ⬇️

Statement from the Norwegian Football Federation condemns Israel's disproportionate attacks against civilians in Gaza, but says "Israel is part of FIFA's and UEFA's competitions and we must deal with that." On"https://www.fotball.no/tema/nff-nyheter/2025/nff-stotter-opp-under-idrettens-fredsbudskap/

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

Heavy from Craig Corrie—the dad of young American Rachel, killed by Israeli soldiers in 2003 as she protested Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes: "People talk about this human rights champion…I just think of this…Strong woman, and a cute little girl, and all the stuff in between…I miss her."

New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA 291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...

Tory & Labour politicians are entitled to respond to Polanski in this way. So long as they're prepared to disavow everything they've said since 1945 about Britain's brave stand against fascism in WWII and the "liberal rules based order" it supposendly helped built and uphold during the Cold War.

More than 80% of the death toll in Gaza took place under President Biden, with his very active support. Under Trump, the genocide has taken a different shape: starvation, complete destruction of cities, and an explicit green light for annihilation. But without Biden we wouldn't be here.

The moral case for the Israel Football Association's suspension from football is horrifically self-evident, but important to stress there are very clear grounds for their exclusion in the UEFA and FIFA statutes. Joint letter to UEFA from Bohemians, Irish Sport for Palestine and FairSquare 👇

“Rules exist to protect fairness and ensure basic decency. UEFA can and should suspend the IFA with immediate effect. By not doing so they are not only doing a grave disservice to football, but also to the core principles of humanity itself” @bfcdublin.bsky.social fairsq.org/uefa-israel-...

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

In London, hate will never win.