the anti-trans bathroom ban is very bad—it's also a sign uk democracy is failing my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Might be worth reading this if you instantly dismiss people as cranks whenever they question whether certain events in the news are everything they appear to be. We no longer live in a world where the news can be taken at face value as there are bad actors involved both in making and reporting it.

Wow. Read this. No wonder he's building a bunker.

If you dont wanna feel the guilt dissociate yourself from the fascist machine dont just tell me how sad working at the fascism factory makes you but youre trying to make it better anyway vote labour next election please and donate to the guardian fuk you

"I'm really angry that this scifi writer whose work was stolen to train a probability machine that depletes water tables and raises electricity prices and is accelerating the transfer of wealth and capital toward men who actively hate other humans doesn't like 'AI," what a lack of vision they have"

other people have said this, but you aren't an "ally" if you are chummy with transphobes or are friendly with other journalists who work at the racism factories. expressing mild displeasure in a tweet does not absolve you.

what has happened instead, with immigrant rights here and trans rights in the UK, is centrists who have personally bigoted views are seizing on the opportunity of incipient fascism to advance their own agenda

Trans rights are human rights. Fuck the US and UK governments for their opposition to trans equality.

Gaslight by Fanny.

Labour's inability to condemn last years far right riots, and the Home Secretary endorsing the ludicrous flag campaign are probably two of the most shocking moments from a sitting government in my lifetime.

My favourite Bsky account doing favourite account things.

In attacking Greens over antisemitism, Labour drones have take to describing Polanski as a "self-hating Jew".

James Ball and the other Labour drones on this site are quite fucking something. Just awful people talking awful shite and pretending they're still somehow pRoGrEsSiVe.

The cost to me of Farage is unacceptable, the cost to UK of reformist agenda is unthinkable. The price of Brexit and of artificially conjured mistrust is too high. I believe it is shortening lives, it is certainly confiscating peace of mind universally. This is not the path to take.

Amnesty International's analysis of how the 'gender critical' hate movement spent millions promoting their prejudices - and furthering the goals of the Christian Right. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...

Starmer or Starmer light - not much of a choice for Labour members. Not much hope from the self styled “king in the North”, just a rinse and repeat of everything that has gone, and failed, before. Really, what is the point? Oh yeah, the markets (aka billionaires and press barons) will be appeased

Labour is lost. Mahmood is an extremist, and their new sensible centrist wannabe leader is totes fine with it.

[Inept middle-managers running around the office blaming each other]

"Democracies are now threatened by what might be called fossil fuel fascism – an extremist political movement that breaks laws, spreads lies and threatens violence in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain markets for oil, gas and coal that would otherwise be replaced by cheaper renewables."

Massive strategic error by the UK government in loosening sanctions on Russian oil, resulting in massive finger-pointing internally about who was responsible for the decision. The EU isn’t going to waive sanctions which has now caused a policy split.

If the popular Mayor of Greater Manchester can't fairly win a by-election in [checks notes], Greater Manchester...he may not be the Messiah after all. "Progessive alliance" means "keep voting for us while we call you antisemites who give heroine to children". Hard pass.

"The doctrine functions as a replacement for the Constitution rather than an interpretation of it, offered by a political movement that could not amend the document through Article V and decided to install its preferred version through judicial appointments instead."

This feels like a scene from a prequel to Alex Garland's Civil War.

this is a masterpiece

one thing that went wrong in our political media culture is that journalists so deeply internalized a backwards version of 'the cover-up is the crime' they assume that anything that's being done out in the open is just 'a thing that happened' that needs to be subjected to the 'objectivity' standard

Sometimes the poems I write aren’t the ones I intend to write.

This needs to become the standard societal reaction to these toxic viewpoints about deporting immigrants.

We’ve been doggedly reporting on Palantir’s contracts with UK state…& this latest one with Met police is both creepy & opaque. Met has used Palantir to spy on its own officers. If it can do this to its own employees…what about the rest of us? By @mc00.bsky.social & @luciaoc.bsky.social

Normalise political questions that start with: "you were chiefly responsible for [insert generational disaster here], why do you think you deserve a platform now?"

🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Democratic Socialist Economic: collectivist Social: progressive Sovereignty: leaning cosmopolitan Military: centrist Authority: libertarian Constitutional: reformist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

oh gr8 more months of politicians humming & hawing over whether Brexit has been disastrous for the UK rather than treating the public like adults and saying it’s been a disaster inflicted by Farage

Genocide is the new 'the dog ate my homework'.

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Dan helping Farage out here by conflating corruption with tax evasion. The tax angle isn't the story.

I contributed over half a million quid in tax through my working life. That buys me no more protection than anyone else. This entire article is utter fucking horseshit from beginning to end.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

If Burnham can't succeed in Wigan then he shouldn't be leading the Party anyway. And I say that as a Greater Manchester voter who has a favourable view of him. Labour told us to fuck off. Expel Mahmood, then we'll talk.

Our politicians and media outlets are not interested in good governance. They have been defensively stationed around the neoliberal revolution for about 18 years, all guns pointed outward at the public, opening fire on anyone who e.g. suggests our rivers shouldn’t be full of human shit.

The New American Gothic by Criselda Vasquez The man in the painting is the artist’s father. He was arrested by ICE a few weeks ago

The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

For @thenewworldmag.bsky.social, I took a look at how the right-wing papers present the public’s response to Farage as like Beatlemania with a ballot box www.thenewworld.co.uk/mic-wright-r...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

They’re getting ready to dust off the old Ed Miliband bacon sandwich picture again. I bet we’ll get the two kitchens story refreshed too.

Scotland just voted for Independence. My new substack. They're free and always will be. The SNP won again, for the fifth time. The media called it a decline story. Here's what actually happened, and why the independence question never went away. open.substack.com/pub/yesinpic...

"Our centrist columnist betters (and some academics who should know better) are so eager to see fascists as reasonable and rational, they ignore the plain reality in front of them and try to manifest economically progressive far-right parties that do not exist and have never existed."

Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.

Remember: left wing politicians should be investigated for every little thing because they are hypocrites if they have any money or property at all. Right wing politicians are expected to be financially well off so their corruption is just shrugged off. Anyone who disagrees is just jealous.