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The level of drug abuse in this White House must be off the charts compared to previous administrations.

Political evil doesn't deeply surprise me, but the sheer level of stupidity and tackiness sometimes still does. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Rachel Reeves has urged Labour voters to keep the faith as she signalled further tax rises in the coming budget. In her speech to the Labour conference the chancellor warned that the UK was still facing “harsh global headwinds” and said she would not take “risks” with economic stability

🚨 DEVELOPING: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has reportedly approached several of his Democratic colleagues to gauge whether they would support a short term government funding bill in exchange for negotiations on extending health care subsidies.

Thread on the government's mixed messages , prior to its consultation on its settlement reforms bsky.app/profile/sund...

I expect both candidates in the deputy leadership election will be asked whether Labour's policy should include threatening to deport people here legally. The Prime Minister seemed to say that would be immoral. Home Secretary says government intends to let some stay & tell some they must leave.

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

29 September 1891 | A Polish Jew, Leon Lewinson, was born in Lublin. A dentist. In #Auschwitz from 16 July 1942. No. 47006 He perished in the camp on 7 August 1942. https://t.co/cMgoXaEdDk

This year nearly 8,000 students from the US applied to British universities, according to official Ucas figures — a record high and up by 14% on the previous year

Bizarrely whitewashing article on wretched landlord Fergus Wilson. Masses on pigeon breeding, barely a mention of the convictions, the dodgy letting practices, or the racism. www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

Labour to tackle care sector crisis in England with pay increase and new negotiating body

Rachel Reeves warns of harder choices to come as she hints at tax rises

Anyone who really knows migrants knows this. We know how hard it is to move to another country, and how much commitment and heartache it takes.

Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge. Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

that immaculate vetting process strikes again

So do I have to go to the US to assemble my flat packs now

Suggesting shadow actors and hidden motives, conspiracy theories — none of which are supported by any evidence — have bloomed in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's death, turbocharged by social media and America’s online influencer class.

But Mahmood says that Labour does have to face head-on the fact that people feel the country is out of control. Otherwise “our vision of a, tolerant, generous country will wither”. She argues - as she did to me in her first iv last week - that means securing borders.

NEW: Home Sec Shabana Mahmood hits out at far right. “In their view of this country I have no place. They are heirs to the skin heads and p*ki bashers of old”. “Patriotism - a force for good - is turning into something smaller which struggles to believe I can be truly English”.

My phizog, from Labour conference today youtube.com/shorts/_9gpq...

There is a key moral distinction between immigration policy on new arrivals, no matter how draconian, and on people who have already been granted status, on set conditions. It is about being a country that keeps its word. If we're not that, we might as well fucking give up now.

Any American telling any Brit that our free speech laws are crap should be met with a massive 'F*** Off'.

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

A small, bitter, petty, somewhat deranged person who thinks that being criticised for being the world’s most powerful anti-trans activist is an outrageous injustice

Ways populist brain leads to self-defeating policy: - make it harder to integrate - reinforce "dole-scrounger" views, when employment rates of recent migrants are high - penalise would-be parents when birth rates are low, and many immigrants are in their 20s and 30s - discourage skilled people

Also very little of this is new, though it is being aggressively pitched as such. It isn’t a response to Reform’s ILR announcement last week because nearly everything in this policy was announced months ago by Starmer and Mahmood’s predecessor Cooper when they published the immigration white paper.

Keir Starmer and Number 10 upended a previously low-profile digital ID policy last week, and made it the stuff of headlines – and mandatory. They have no idea of the size of the landmine they've stepped on by doing so. They've set up a new culture war. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

I think 'earn the right to settlement' is an incredibly corrosive and damaging thing to inject into the discourse. It's an earnings process than then gets lengthened and lengthened. After voluntary work, what is going to be added next when racist Reform voters refuse to shift over to Labour?

You’re right, Ms Mahmood - I don’t. Because the slippery slope we’ve been going down has been spine chilling. It started with “illegal migrants.” That was the “reasonable concern” Just the law, nothing more. Politicians said, “people aren’t anti-immigration, they just want the rules respected.”

"When Labour's been at its best and its brightest it's when we've got a broad coalition" says Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting tells Sky that he agrees with Andy Burnham that the Government needs more "space for pluralism and debate" and to be "open to challenge"

Labour messaging getting sharper across the board, including defending the decision to engage with Trump www.politico.eu/article/uk-g...

'We're going to fight back against the immoral and racist Nigel Farage by meeting him half way.' bsky.app/profile/paul...

Worried abt the Tesla brand?

Some of the key announcements in the Chancellor's speech today. Was going to do my own post on this, but the one below by @politicsintheuk.bsky.social covers most of it, so I'll just quote that!

The fact that modern Britons have to contrive arguments about regional cuisine in order to emphasise their supposed intractable cultural divisions is a clear indicator that they are so far away from "civil war" that they no idea what that would really be.

Steve Reed, the Minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government, taking time in his conference speech to thank Angela Rayner for all her work in the role before him. "Angela, you are a true working class hero."

No, we don't know what he means or how he'll do it, or indeed whether he's just rerunning old tariff announcements.

"It's genuinely hard to imagine today's Labour activists going to a northern fish and chip shop" is a really self-incriminating sentence. Yeah, when I sit down in The Scrap Box in York or, frankly, anywhere in Whitby, I think 'I can't imagine a middle class person eating here'.

Victims of foster carer abuse could get £1m payout

1/10 I just finished reading Sven Beckert's history of the development of the global cotton industry. It's a bit repetitive in its main theses, and sometimes a bit of a slog, but well worth reading for those interested in the history of trade and industrial policy.

Biking while brown is now illegal in Chicago.

Nick Stern was reporting on an anti-ICE protest in Los Angeles when he was shot in the leg, leaving him fighting for his life. He asks: is America still free?

As the Russian threat grows and the United States seems ever less reliable, politicians are discussing whether they need a Bomb of their own

The abortion pill is safe. But why should Trump let facts get in the way of his agenda? | Moira Donegan

One reason that so many Dems are frustrated with their leaders is that they simply lack much formal power. That is the reality. And so they look weak compared to the havoc Trump is engaging in. This makes the shutdown a big deal since it is one of their few veto points.

Never give up on your dream that one day, you will finally have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.