🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

The boos here are deafening. Not sure where it is, but it reminds me very much of Ceaușescu's last speech before the Romanian army took him away. #MAGAmerica

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

Chief constable upsets Israel lobby by refusing to let violent, racist Israeli football hooligans prowl his city – out of a job. School cancels MP's visit after parents protest because he's a cheerleader for genocidal Israel – Ofsted announces it's inspecting the school. 🤔

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

Neil Coyle MP has written a brutal takedown letter to Nigel Farage for his breach of parliamentary protocol, because Farage visited Coyle's London constituency without notifying him. 10/10 no notes. (H/T @simonpegg.bsky.social)

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Renee Good tells ICE, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you" - then ICE agent shoots her and says "f*cking b*tch" America, how can you be ok with this?

Here is the list of the MPs who were officers and supporters of Labour Friends of Israel before it suddenly removed this page from its website.

Hannah Arendt was in Germany during the start of the Nazi terror in the 1920s and 30s. She knew it was just the start. We need to stand up now to ICE and to Fascism before its too late.

Now they need to enforce the ban in London

Wes Streeting, part of a govt that won't confirm it'd uphold an ICC arrest warrant, won't meet its obligations under the genocide convention, & won't condemn what the US has done in Venezuela, says he's concerned about the disintegration of the rules based international system

It is always a good idea to see who is funding the politicians.

You can't argue with the truth.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."

A page of the Epstein Files got left unredacted. Imagine what was in the rest.

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

"Some of them have been on hunger strike for 48 days" Well done to @adilray.bsky.social for covering the Palestine hunger strikers and reading out their names on #GMB.

As the government launches its new policy over violence against women and girls, we go to Nigel Farage for Reform’s response.

Force the government to meet with the Palestine Action hunger strikers NOW goodlaw.social/8f6640

Ritz Carlton: out of the Maasai Mara now action.eko.org/a/ritz-carlt...

“Let's make Together for Palestine's record this year's Christmas No 1.” Musician and activist Brian Eno explains why one song in particular matters this Christmas.

Slovenia, Spain, Ireland, The Netherlands and now Iceland are boycotting Eurovision. It's time everyone boycotted it.

So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Thanks to everyone who came to see me at Milton Keynes LitFest this evening. I had fun, and hope you did, despite a hefty dose of reality. The festival will send links soon, but here's the demographic video I mentioned youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk?...

Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat. Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in. Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate. Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

Volvo and Daimler: 100% electric trucks now action.eko.org/a/volvo-daim...

Israel blocking wells on Palestinian land with cement. Nothing to see here, just Genocidal Ethnic Cleansers doing what Genocidal Ethnic Cleansers do

A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one

Magnificent

I've had enough. The UK is a rich country, so why are our schools falling apart, our hospitals understaffed and millions struggling to get by? The 0.1% and corporations are robbing us blind. taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/budgetforthe99

Modern capitalism is not as different to slavery as we think.

Sarah Pochin has apologised for saying what she thinks. But not for thinking what she said.