Alister Perrott

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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

These companies are sociopathic. They are showing us who they are. Believe them.

Excellent argument for use against dangerous Reform UK Islamophobic illogic via Simon Mathews

Absolutely. 👇

TRUTH 👇.......

Cartoonist: Pat Bagley (2/17)

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

Rowling Watch: 0: number of times since 4/15 that Rowling has tweeted on X in support of women’s rights, to protest discrimination against women in the workplace, or to denounce the real-world threats to women’s safety 279: number of times she’s tweeted transphobic hate.

The roofs wont be enough, why we need solar farms to stop our children paying the bills for climate change. via @nathanley.com cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/the-roofs-...

Trump oligarch Mark Zuckerberg has suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the national day of action.

Wise words from @lordrickettsp.bsky.social on BBC R4 Today after Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine: UK gov’t has to start a conversation with the people about the threats from Russia & what it means for us. Europe can’t keep hoping that life will return to normal, as long as Trump & Putin are in power.

Musk is an enemy of Europe. There is no justification for continuing to use his products

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Me-ism. 'Whereas the above graph uses a definition of unfairness based on "people like me" the one below couches the same statement in the third person ("wealth and resources are not shared fairly"). Left populist voters become more exercised about unfairness, right populist voters become less so.'

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

You have to appreciate the fact that these idiots always make these comments and never realize the context and facts.

Wonderful (free to) read from JP McMahon. TL;DR: Jaffa Cakes are Palestinian! 1/2

Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

State of the USA: declining.

Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide at the Warsaw Security Forum: “It doesn't really make sense that people who are not paying much for supporting Ukraine are those who have the key role in negotiations. “We need a strong European voice.”

The moral depravity of people who whine about data centers and oil refineries when Russia is hitting apartment buildings and hospitals is impossible to overstate.

The Tories are accusing Burnham of being divisive by revealing Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. You bet it is! It divides politicians into those who've been lying and covering up for a decade, and those willing to face the truth. He should take it as a compliment.

EXACTLY 👇 THIS.......

Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.

Tower Hamlets refused the Brick Lane data centre unanimously. The govt approved it in Angela Rayner's name. Her partner, Sam Tarry, is senior adviser at NorthPoint Strategy, a lobby firm working in AI, crypto and energy, chaired by Tory peer Lord Wharton.🧵 europeanpowell.substack.com/p/free-zones...

Holy shit.

Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company

Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

For just a moment, the world saw their true nature. This is a real photo. F*cking chilling.

Definitely NOT a coincidence.

Holding up a piece of paper : TERRORIST Interfering with Border Force operations : legitimate concerns

This should be an ad for every D candidate everywhere:

There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.

EXCLUSIVE: In a 20-page order, the judge in my lawsuit for the Epstein Files just ordered Todd Blanche to produce to him, in chambers & by 9/24, the unredacted handwritten FBI notes implicating Donald Trump in the sexual & physical abuse of a 13-year-old girl: youtu.be/Yo1ZUGe_O4o?...

The people of Piddington have spoken. I say, grant them independence. Border controls. Visas to cross into the UK. Tariffs on goods. No GBP. No NHS. No benefits or pensions. Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE!

“Help! My children are drowning!” “Sorry, mate, you’re brown.” Who wants to live in a country where people don’t go to the rescue of men, women and children in danger of losing their lives? The racists do. Please support the wonderful RNLI rnli.org/support-us/g...

Does anyone recognise this old building that was photographed in Bristol, England in 1968? I'm guessing that it could have been a factory or warehouse and that it was demolished sometime after the photo was taken.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

How low have we sunk as a nation when people are being arrested for sitting quietly with a poster in front of them?

A pro-Palestine protester is arrested for holding a poster reading "l oppose genocide I support Palestine Action" Over 3,500 arrests have been made since Palestine Action was labeled a "terrorist organization" by the UK.

The difference between this and the Danny Dumbo Balaclava masked black-clad louts conduct is huge….yet the police are treating them very differently..

🧵1/ I worked in anti-corruption for years before becoming an MP. Nigel Farage has serious questions to answer following the undercover investigation into Reform UK's fundraising practices. This is now for the police and donations watchdog to resolve, but here is what I want to know: