Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45

UK football teams' links to illegal and abusive betting operators, many linked to organised crime, is a scandal in plain sight. Credit to @philippeauclair.bsky.social @josimarfootball.bsky.social and others for continuing to expose the problem and the failures josimarfootball.com/2026/01/13/s...

Mark Ruffalo speaks out, courageously.

In light of FIFA's announcement that they will allow betting companies to live stream World Cup matches, re-upping this brilliant investigation from @stevemenary.bsky.social and @samindrakunti.bsky.social for @playthegame-org.bsky.social www.playthegame.org/news/fifa-li...

What are the odds? Betting companies will now be able to bid to live stream World Cup matches, FIFA announces. inside.fifa.com/tournament-o...

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte

a decade is a long time in politics

Wanda Sykes: Ricky Gervais couldn't be here, but he would like to thank god and the trans community.

New Post Will FIFA turn its back on the UN? The “Football Unites the World” initiative was created to support major UN organisations. The main host for the 2026 World Cup, is now withdrawing from all of them. Please Read / Comment / Share thepitchinspection.substack.com/p/will-fifa-...

A GoFundMe was/is up and running for the ICE Agent who murdered Reńee Good in her car. I refuse to share the link for obvious reasons. What a sick, immoral place the west has become.

Worth watching. 2 min (on reddit, sorry) of a religious man on Sunday, on his way to church, threatened by violent ICE goons. Just to share a bit of what friends are going through back home. Tbh it reminds me of a filtration video I saw from occupied Ukraine in 2017. Same sense of impunity. Awful

This is such an interesting idea. The “ridealong” is such an established genre binding journalism to law enforcement. Great to see @zeteo.com flip this on its head and bind journalism to mutual aid and community care, real “news you can use.”

On which note, if anyone does happen to know of any organisations with positions for an experienced policy, advocacy and comms person, across multiple sectors including migrants rights, LGBTQIA+, finance, and more, ideally around Reading/London area, please let me know. bsky.app/profile/dani...

Occasionally it is necessary to post one of these insane interventions, and to remind ourselves the shamefully long list of people who should have known better who vouched for this person just five years ago.

This is how it feels

Labour councillor thinks that the murder of a woman - with plans that political parties in the UK are specifically looking to emulate - shouldn't be political. Labour have no intention in every challenging the far right - which is why they'll be next to follow unless we stand up to them.

The departure of Rosenior from Strasbourg to Chelsea exposes multi club ownership for what it is: All of that once independent clubs are in service of the top one. They will lose talent at the click of a private equity investor’s finger. Governing bodies allowed this inevitability to happen.

Yep, The Times is going with 'The murder of Renee Nicole Good is the fault of immigrants'.

Oil execs have predictable doubts, but appalling that the story, and those quoted, sidestep the illegality of the U.S. attacking Venezuela and taking control of its oil. Trump says US will decide what companies are allowed to invest, & a US domestic oil leader says they shd just take the oil to US

Let's fight the spread of misinfo + disinfo by creating a Bluesky Culture of Context for imagery. Please make a good faith effort to name the SOURCE, even if you don't link to an evil media empire. For video and photos, CREDIT the creator. No exceptions! BONUS points: give Date | Time | Location

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That it's 60 percent and not 100 is just about the most profound indictment of humanity you can imagine in the circumstances

And Renee Good’s last words appear to be “We’re not mad at you.”

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Niamh Smyth also says Apple and Google should remove Grok and X from their stores while it is generating CSAM and nonconsensual intimate images of women. A much tougher government stance than we've heard from some colleagues in recent days.

My concern that if Musk does relent a little and has one new guardrail put on Grok and a suite of images taken down... ... UK politics and media will instantly return to business "as normal" where most of both spheres are having their brains cooked by a firehose of white supremacist filth daily.

Federal immigration agents in camo chase landscapers, students, and day laborers through U.S. cities in a deportation campaign, treating neighborhoods like war zones. Ashley Gilbertson for @hammerandhope.bsky.social documents the courage of communities who resist.

The U.S. is spending $37.5B on ICE this year—more than Canada’s entire military budget. That’s double the EPA, FDA, and OSHA combined. It costs every household $300/yr for ICE to terrorize their neighbors. Even if ICE meets its cruel goal of 1M deportations, that’s $37.5K per person. For what?

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

Make it viral.

If a website appeared overnight that gave hundreds of millions of users the opportunity to create CSAM you'd expect governments to shut it down quickly, so the question is why X gets a pass when it's done just that? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Today my pastor of several years was detained by ICE at the lawful demonstration where ICE officers murdered Renee Good. Three times they taunted and asked him if he's afraid yet. They let him go because he's white, saying, "Well you're white and it wouldn't be any fun." This is his story:

Commons women and equalities committee to stop using X amid AI-altered images row

Our first ad of 2026! Because politics stuck in 2006 won't meet the moment. It's time to stand up to ICE, white supremacists, and the billionaire oligarchy.

I want all of this to be admitted as evidence for the war crimes trial

"This is a clear and callous attempt to deprive Palestinians, including hundreds of boys and girls, of a facility that is of critical importance to their physical and mental welfare. ... It is a rare place of hope and joy for children who endure severe hardship" www.middleeasteye.net/news/fifa-ur...

This is an extraordinary human failure from a supposedly progressive government. Jaw dropping www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hard to believe that the government, led by a former DPP, doesn’t know this. Which would mean, if James is right, that the UK government is turning a blind eye to the production of child porn rather than risk upsetting Musk and the US government. And that would be an extraordinary scandal.

Once you’ve labelled someone a terrorist, it seems, you can do almost anything to them and get away with it. The silence on this issue across almost all the media is something to behold.

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Realpolitik

While the world’s attention may be elsewhere, Israel continues to attack Palestinian social and cultural life and further entrench its unlawful presence in Palestine.

According to people in Aida refugee camp this demolition could happen as soon as tomorrow. They wrote today to FIFA and the Swiss government urging them to call on Israel to desist from any demolition plans. The pitch is a lifeline for hundreds of Palestinian boys and girls.

One of my eternal frustrations will always be how often politicians claim to do 'realpolitik' when they are in fact just being cowards. They are not being 'realists' in appeasing the man who said he wants to annex Greenland. They're just hoping he won't do it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"Let me be absolutely a framework position of clear international transition before the law weekend and remain the substance of absolutely clear". www.instagram.com/reel/DTI8A1A...

Marina Corina Machado was just on Hannity's show effusively kissing up to Trump, including offering to share the Nobel Prize with him

Gianni Infantino: “We will help rebuild all football facilities in Gaza and Palestine. We will bring football back in every corner of the country.” Israel, meanwhile, is planning to demolish a pitch used by Palestinian children in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

News report from Middle East Eye. Israel is threatening to demolish a refugee camp’s popular youth football ground built on land owned by the Armenian church on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the shadow of the West Bank separation wall. 🧵2/5 continue on. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

🚨🚨🚨 Israel continues to destroy Palestinian football infrastructure unopposed by FIFA & UEFA. Please read and sign this important petition to help save the football pitch at the Aida refugee camp. More in 🧵 1/5. Read | Share 🙏 secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

John McDonnell slams Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper for refusing to call our Trump's breach of international law "I found it shameful that the Prime Minister and ministers today in the news rounds have refused to condemn this action" Yvette Cooper waffles like a coward