What is remarkable is how the team around Starmer also buys into a myth around 1990s Labour that venerates performative hippy-punching rather than a more complicated reality where Blair and Brown also bought the party "hippies" off by giving them key wins in social, welfare and human rights policy

"A Change Is Gonna Come" is a seminal song by Sam Cooke, released in 1964. It is recognized as one of the 20th century's most important and influential songs, particularly as an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement

Donald Trump fell asleep during a Cabinet meeting, raising new questions about Joe Biden's health.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:

Even Israelis themselves are now admitting the horrors Israel is committing. When your own people can’t stay silent anymore, you know the truth is breaking through. 🇮🇱👇🏼

Day#312 #proudblue #pinks 🧵 1. GO☭ SS Pedo Protectors: prefer to ignore 1000 victims, w 1000 FBI agents review Epstein files, WH returned Tate'd seized items on sex crimes investigation, demands peace before offering protection to Ukraine, moved on from phrase quiet piggy bsky.app/profile/corb...

Alma Allen, un artiste inconnu pour représenter les Etats-Unis à la Biennale de Venise

Cher #IceWatch Vos clients veulent des produits associés à des valeurs positives. En choisissant #CNews pour diffuser vos pubs, ne risquez-vous pas de nuire à votre image de marque ?

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

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'We won’t take their wedding rings’…that’s it - I’m out.

“One experiment suggests the Danish social democrats did indeed win over voters from right wing parties with the anti-asylum crackdown – but lost just as many voters to their left by doing so. “The reason this allowed them to stay in power was Denmark’s proportional system.”

Do you want to see the best takedown of Megyn Kelly? Watch an actual 14 year old give an open message to Megyn about how horrible she is. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMTpjmpn/

This is now outside the paywall, please do read and share

Here's a brief clip from the programme yesterday, about why Keir Starmer's Labour Party is tanking in the polls. www.youtube.com/shorts/jcUXX...

Change in Headline

"The federal agencies that survived Elon Musk’s wrecking ball are now captured by the echo chamber of his social media platform, with cabinet secretaries staring furiously into a digital funhouse mirror to divine the will of the most internet-addled members of the MAGA base." — @lizdye.bsky.social

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This is accurate

I definitely think about it every time Trump drops bombs on a Venezuelan ship. He called it

BrooklynDad Defiant 😎 trump is having a temper tantrum, ending ALL trade negotiations with Canada. He's butthurt that they aired an ad of President Reagan that shows how dumb trump's tariffs are. It's VERY effective. Be a shame if it went viral. 🇺🇲🇨🇦

It’s getting where I have to check whether the awful stories about the far right advancing are coming from the US or the UK….

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. levernews.com/book

(*Yes I know leftist violence exists, but in the context of the US there's very little) There are entire towns Black people/poc still avoid today to avoid targeted racial violence. Theres no left equivalent of that.

Holy shit... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

If there are any founders of antifa left, they are pretty fucking old, right? God bless 'em!

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

Heart-wrenching words by the son of Mario Guevara. Lost amid headlines: ICE has failed to protect Mario in detention, resulting in his family being extorted for cash. He may be deported any moment. We may not stop it. But his story will continue. We must keep telling it. #FreeMario

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Pharmacists who recommend homeopathy should be willing to accept as payment envelopes that once contained money. - @davidjuurlink.bsky.social

If you know who these four are, you're probably wiping away a little tear now. Those were the days, my friend. "Get down, Shep!"

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

www.commondreams.org/opinion/what... How about this then? Marx, in this passage, was trying to understand how the French peasantry came to play their unlikely, but essential role in Bonaparte’s rise. It reads as an eerily prescient characterization of the MAGA movement as the

The Sinclair affiliate in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is CBS-21.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Responsible governments find their policy space very limited. Irresponsible governments seem to be able to do whatever they want.

Feeling the need to post this spot on @michaelhobbes.bsky.social idea again. Don’t even give them direction, just fund them.

Channel 4 telling the truth unlike US corporate media. Watch Trump v the Truth | Stream free on Channel 4 share.google/VDDj3AgnMq44...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Please assist, share, let Maya know who’s the best to fight for this man.

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Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...