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Some good news (from the National Crime Survey, h/t frasernelson.substack.com/p/lawless-br...)

How rightwing papers including the Telegraph and Mail manufactured a narrative about a millionaire exodus. It started with misleading and/or fabricated reports from Henley & Partners and Saltus Wealth Management (of Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy fame) www.linkedin.com/posts/ianfra...

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Pretty clear that Trump/Hegseth are doing everything they can to force Ukraine to surrender to Putin by withholding all US assistance while actively helping fund the Russian war machine to kill as many civilians as possible including kids. What a dark, evil chapter in US history.

Cloudflare Data Explorer shows the amount of russian bot traffic has dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a yandex data center.

This is how you write a headline.

I found this a most useful explainer... people out there with more knowledge pls correct me if I'm wrong... www.nytimes.com/video/techno...

Nailed it. 🔨

"Some of us are are trying to work out real solutions to real problems rather than resorting to brain farts" writes Mr North of his plan to ban Ed Miliband, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Zia Yusuf (& even the children of Burnham + Farage + Jenrick) from parliament using the 1700 act of settlement

Trump announces deal to import Russian diesel. Yet he imposed tariffs on China and India for importing fuel from Russia. 3 weeks ago signed law threatening 500% tariffs on India and China. Now facing midterm election defeat ... and Utter bankruptcy of Trump foreign, economic and other policies.

Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.

NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org

History is repeating itself. Under Trump, the US has fallen from a Republic to an imperium in which the masses are kept entertained. Like the circuses of Ancient Rome, Trump provided carnival entertanment with his rallies. Now they are progressing to public executions as entertainment.

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1. Is this true ie where is the research to support this 2. The graph talks about annual human-caused bird deaths and then represents cats incl feral ones which, by definition, humans don't own. 3. The difference in the lower and higher estimates for cats is almost 7x... how is that measured?

Hahaha... should add in racists

This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Looks like Trump’s new “steel plant” in IA, announced to shore up support in midterms from people his policies have crushed, where he said construction has already begun, is nowhere close to happening and contingent on Iowans giving tax breaks & incentives to a company in India.

Some v negative responses to posts about Burnham. I understand the cynicism. What I don’t understand is the refusal to wait and see and to look for the positives. Politics cannot be about perfection. It’s compromise. It’s effective communication… and persuasion. Why not be prepared to be persuaded?

Trump’s weakness after his defeat in the Iran War is evident in how the Iranians feel comfortable ramping up their demands. Today an IRGC spokesperson said the US “must admit defeat” and withdraw from the region.

JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wait, a man who drove his wife to suicide by proving how popular he is with the ladies stole money from black kids for their health to fund an entourage to prove how important he is? It's *almost* as if RFK, Jr. is a truly horrible, insecure person!

🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Number crunching: AI safety From the new Private Eye, out now.

It's preposterous that the US doesn't use metric. I consider it patronising to the population that it would be to difficult for them to change...although I recently spent time with an American who told me Fahrenheit was better because 0⁰ represented frozen... she was ivy league university educated.

This is dream territory for Labour surely - Reform and the Tories splitting the right vote between them. For the last few months, Labour needed two things: a poll boost, and a modest Tory resurgence. Seems like it's getting them both.

The Coming Food Crisis “According to early September reports, the summer of 2026 saw Britain’s lowest cereal harvest since 1984. In continental Europe, France’s 2026 cereal harvest is set to drop by almost 8 megatonnes v 2025; Germany’s by c.4 megatonnes“ arthursnell.substack.com/p/the-coming...

A beautiful poem.

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

US sanctions on the entire ICC in the Hague are the actions of a Rogue State, the Trump-regime believes it has the right to commit War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity without accountability just like Putin and Netanyahu. The ICC has no Statue of Limitations, they usually get their guy in the end.

The Trump administration is preparing to sanction the ICC as a whole and cut it off from everyday financial transactions, insurance providers and IT services and products, which would leave the court unable to operate, Reuters reports.

Active duty soldiers posted photos to CBS showing destroyed US bases across the Middle East, with nearly 60 aircraft lost and $3.7Bn in equipment damaged – the whistleblowers say defenses simply aren't working. Human collateral damage must be a part of this.

🚨 Can we all agree to totally ignore and destroy the “PolitlcsUK”* account everyone gets their news from now? It’s run by a REFORM COUNCILLOR, and trickles bias and fabricated nonsense in under a neutral guise. Share this. Drop it under friends reposts. 👀 Evidence in next post…. /1

A minor detail is missing from the headline.

The administration went to war against the "Deep State" and lost the war with Iran. Pentagon leaders mass-emailed staff for ideas on how to break the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz. If only they had a Council. To discuss National Security.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

If Miliband's comparatively mild, caveated, and strictly targeted criticism of Israeli settler actions are enough to endanger the UK Jewish community & unleash pogroms then: a) We've passed some point of no return. b) Successive UK governments have utterly failed in addressing antisemitism.

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Another compilation video from yesterday's fascist paramilitary 'storm' action in #Dover town and at the Port of Dover. #FarRight Some national security-related observations below.

1/ Researchers on populism have a tendency to replicate populist narratives of “a decent if misunderstood ordinary folk” ignored by “arrogant elites”. But what if the motivations of some of these folks are fundamentally indecent?

Let’s call it what it is: a cabal of grifters, conspiracy theorists, and corporate lackeys united only by loyalty to a dictator. This isn’t a political party; it’s a hostile takeover of American democracy. Wake up before they finish selling everything we own. Vote Blue.