I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

"Sweden just changed the way they salt winter roads, and it's saving thousands of birds every single year. When engineers discovered that traditional rock salt was poisoning wildlife during the harshest months, they did something incredible." via Daniel Peliculas ifeg.info/2025/11/10/s...

'As pressure mounts globally on the humanities, Africa’s leading writers and scholars used this week’s Nobel Symposium in Literature, held in South Africa, to argue that the arts are still vital to the world’s intellectual and moral life.'

Brexit "benefits" summed up in one graph. This effect is palpable every day! But, hey, let's talk about the lead instigator of this disaster potentially becoming the next PM...😵‍💫

I am an atheist, but I like this Pope!

This is how much money the Royal family will receive £132.1 million for 2025-26. Apparently we give them 12% of the profits Westminster makes on their lands! Which if the maths are right means Westminster makes £1.1billion from the "royal" land. It should be used to end child poverty

Damning

She’s right!

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

It’s complete nonsense. We should be ashamed

TRUTH Blows my fucking mind tbf we have let them amass more wealth than sovereign countries...and all the problems that will bring...as we have seen already all over the globe tbf, russia, america, england money men subverting entire nations and democracies...

I predict we are going to see a massive weaponising of health with increasing attacks on those with disabilities and long term conditions. The increase started with Covid and being accelerated by technocrats and their political puppets who only see value where they can make personal profit.

😹😹😹😹 #caturday This is social media in a nutshell

Rosalind Franklin went to the same school - St Paul‘s in Brook Green, West London - as Cecilia Payne, who wrote the most important astrophysics PhD of the 20th century and discovered what the Universe is made of. Payne’s name is largely unknown, though she became the 1st woman professor at Harvard.

Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier. No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

David Lammy is the third senior Labour Gov figure to call the Scottish Government a national security risk this week Given this government isn't prepared to say this about China .... this is pretty dreadful. What happened to the "family of nations"? www.thenational.scot/news/2559871...

Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. 👩‍🔬 🧪 Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent. Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive

Investigation by Sky News showing that from the moment you join, Musk's X feeds you right-wing propaganda. The whole point of the place is to radicalise users to the far right. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Peter Gabriel - Biko youtu.be/luVpsM3YAgw?... #FlashbackFriday #PeterGabriel

Watson’s death is a fantastic reminder that you can be intelligent without being a good person.

Of course we support “freedom of speech”…by the way, you are fired for asking an awkward question about genocide that we did not like! 🤦🏼‍♂️

The Merch Market Souvenir Ticket Generator They don’t make real tickets anymore so we thought we’d help out if you collect them - any show from the past, present or future Totally FREE get stuck right in here… www.merch-market.co.uk/ticket-gener...

A key part of our work is to fund and erect a statue of Mandela in Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow, once the site of the Consulate of apartheid S. Africa, and the focus of much AAM protest.This will serve as a visual aid for ongoing educational work, already begun.See bit.ly/NMSMF bit.ly/WhenMandela

Wonderful to see the shortlist designs of the Nelson Mandela statue, to be unveiled next year from @mandelasmf.bsky.social 💚 It'll be a symbol of Glasgow's solidarity in standing with those oppressed in the heart of the city✊️ Come along to the City chambers until Friday 14th to see the shortlist 💚

I've TWO of these beautiful 'Witch & Hare' original linocuts by my mum, Jo, to give away to my Bluesky followers. The print is from my recently republished book, Help The Witch. All you have to do to enter is repost this story from the book (maybe give it a read too?) www.tom-cox.com/robot-2/

The ultra-rich are so fucking thick and self-absorbed it’s dangerous. No one, NO ONE should ever be able to hoard so much wealth when so many are dying of hunger every day around the globe.

Wow! 😱 50% in UK support the death penalty!! Would you trust this Labour govt (who proscribed a direct action group)? What about a Tory or Reform govt? Come on!! It will be fine and won't affect me... Death penalty/capital punishment run counter to the ECHR...can you see what this is yet?

Brexit was pushed so the super wealthy and big corporations could avoid taxes by deregulation. Brexit was about creating an environment where only the corrupt and super wealthy profit. Standards and regulation are slashed to enable excessive greed. Instead we pay for all the damage and services.

Yes, we pay more tax in Scotland but at least much of it goes to things on this list (which benefit all of us) rather than all directly to shareholders! Of course Scotland has problems, but at least we are trying to help all, including those most in need (which increasingly includes the young!).

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

This story comes out the same day the architect of this monstrous policy gets approval for a near-trillion-dollar payout from his government-subsidized company. Utterly despicable.

A wonderful quote from British Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington: "To those who live in emotional poverty, other people's happiness can be perceived as a threat." Goes someway to explain the often toxic rhetoric on Twitter.

Seventy-five years ago, Britain helped write the European Convention on Human Rights to keep power in check and protect basic freedoms. That legacy is now under threat. Read our piece on why the ECHR still matters and why defending it means defending Britain’s own values.

On another note, I literally just passed a 7 blocks long queue to a food bank in NYC and they think we need weight loss drugs

I think it's fairly obvious that Labour, much like the Tories before them, are just doing all they can to make sure they have as many favours to call in from rich people as possible. Getting into power was just part of their career development plan.

A reminder of what the ECHR gives us. It also makes it very clear why Reform & the Tories want to leave. Do not believe their lies & propaganda. They are creating a bogeyman in order to take away our rights.

"The Reform-voting son of another resident said any move would “kill” his mother, and vowed to quit the party if the closures went ahead" The phrase 'be careful what you wish (vote) for' comes immediately to mind www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another strategy to make people return to work (i.e. their fault) rather than addressing (1) how can we make people more healthy and (2) are there better models such as Universal Basic Income (UBI)? PS UBI would address both health and work, so is the correct answer.

Dutch police told their British counterparts that over 200 Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans who wreaked havoc in Amsterdam in November 2024 were "linked to the Israel Defense Forces [IDF]", and that hundreds more were "experienced fighters", "highly organised" and "intent on causing serious violence"

100%. If your business can't survive while paying your workers a fair living wage, then your business model is flawed and deserves to fail.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

BEST THREAD ON BS EVER!

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

This is an incredible thread, featuring threats that the US government will seek personal revenge on family members of EU negotiators for holding to their government's position during talks.

There's no need for poverty to exist. #JamesBaldwin #SNAP #Pinks

All the ghouls who don't care about the victims but were hoping it was a terrorist attack are entirely beyond shame and redemption. They are, by far, the worst demographic in our country.