Thought for the day:
We pay taxes to fund armed services that protect the tax dodging fossil fuel Billionaire Oligarchs assets who sponsor politicians to start Middle Eastern wars that allow the fossil fuel Billionaire Oligarchs to reap the rewards of high fossil fuel prices during war, what a scam.
Canada: “No to Trump”
Hungary: “No to Trump”
Albania: “No to Trump”
Serbia: “No to Trump”
Brazil: “No to Trump”
Britain: “Yes to Trump.”
“Drill for gas. Yessir!
Drill for oil. Yessir!
Bomb Iran. Yessir!
Join the new Gulf war. Yessir!
Weapons to Israel. Yessir!
Copy MAGA transphobia. Yessir…!”
"It's time for this government to show some energy and some bravery and put the water companies into special administration - and then, of course, into public ownership".
💯@greenjennyjones.bsky.social. It's time to end the rip-off and take private water companies in England back into public hands.
Thought for the day:
"So as a Billionaire Oligarch AI how do I retain all my power & wealth as world suffers ever worsening extremes in weather due to climate change & increasing wealth inequality"
"There's only one way dictatorship & slaughtering impoverished citizens before they come for you"
56 individuals in the UK have as much wealth as the poorest 27 million (Oxfam), but they appear - for some reason - to be immune from government efforts to raise more cash
Monstrous and criminal
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Admidst their internal party politics, Labour have done nothing to redress how Cameron stuffed the BBC full of right-wing political bias.
They have done nothing to effect proper #MediaReform.
They have not instigated #Leveson2.
Shocking dereliction of duty.
Using Israel as an argument against proportional representation is misleading.
Its electoral system is unusual, with no local constituencies or vote for individual candidates.
PR isn’t one system. We can have fairer elections and strong local representation.
@electoralreform.bsky.social 👇
Satellites show some of the strongest evidence the AMOC is weakening
The crucial Atlantic current system that brings warmth to Europe has slowed 14 per cent in 30 years, according to an analysis of how much heat the ocean is releasing to the atmosphere
By @alecluhn.com (🔒 requires 3 month trial)
Six blue tits and two great tits were rushed to South Essex Wildlife Hospital after wooden dowels coated in glue had been left in trees and on the ground to trap birds. The birds were ripping out their feathers as they fought to escape. They are now recovering at the Wildlife Hospital.
Last week I called on the UK Government to mark Black History Month by acknowledging the inhumane crimes that Britain inflicted on African people for centuries, the ongoing impact of those crimes on the Global South, and the need for slavery reparations.
The wrong decisions on Rosebank, Heathrow expansion, heat pumps and EV targets would result in getting on for half a billion extra tonnes of CO2 being added to the atmosphere
Truly insane as drought, wildfire, storm and flood continue to hammer the UK
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine.
Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them.
My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social:
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
Just listen to this.
Then consider these polls:
76% of Jewish Israelis think there are no innocents in Gaza (Aug 2025)
82% support expelling Palestinians from Gaza (May 2025)
47% support killing all inhabitants of conquered enemy cities (May 2025)
This morning on BBC Breakfast, Nigel Farage said he had received “zero help from the state” with his security.
Yet reports say he had previously received publicly funded protection and was offered a taxpayer-funded package including a bodyguard, a secure car and a trained driver.
'Neil Young Sues Trump Committee for $10 Million Over Use of ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’
The fundraising committee played the anthem at a rally this month despite a prior settlement barring such use without permission from Young himself, the lawsuit claims'
RollingStone.
I like it.
NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report.
Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.
This is a strong statement from Andrea Egan, Gen Sec of Unison.
"those who've profited handsomely from neoliberalism will fight tooth & nail against any attempt to break with it... if the PM sticks with his historic ambition to remake Britain in the interests of the working class, it won’t be easy"
'I study glaciers for a living & I am a keen mountaineer. I have seen many examples of smaller-scale disasters across the European Alps, including major rockfalls on famous and popular climbing routes. Sadly these incidents are getting more common and much more deadly.'
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Believe it or not, this is the same party that built the NHS, the welfare state and a million council homes from the rumble of World War 2.
Embarrassing.
Jon Kay to Jonathan Reynolds: "You're planning to remove import taxes from products like chocolate, gherkins, marmalade. Your own figures say that will save the average household 40p a week. At a time when [bills] are going up, do you really think people are going to notice 40p a week?"
As is normal practice for mainstream media, they fabricate “news” which is not news but just something their oligarch owners would *like* to be true but isn’t.
Performative dishonesty.
Believe it or not, this is the same party that built the NHS, the welfare state and a million council homes from the rumble of World War 2.
Embarrassing.
This argument - that the State of Israel is something Jewish people have wanted for millenia - was also used by Rachel Cunliffe earlier this week and I'm sorry but that claim means Zionism and Judaism are the same thing.
That is not true, and saying it repeatedly won't make it true.
I would love to know why left Sensibles think siding with the Board of Deputies (who fully support what Israel is doing in Gaza) is a good idea.
Surely they have a better argument than "GPEW made them hit them" right? RIGHT?!
This girls casually says that Israel owns all the land (not just Gaza but also Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) and any "arab" already living there should be killed or forced to move.
So Andy Burnham, explain again how come it's so offensive to call Israel racist?
Especially for the people of Sheffield.
If Nigel Farage was being honest
the US-style privatised health service
he plans to replace a dismantled NHS
would look something like ...
memes via Barry James
Today, the army issued a closed military zone order on olive harvesting in the Hawara neighborhood of Nablus, after Rabbis for Human Rights activists arrived to help local residents with the harvest
I suspect many new Reform UK Councillors saw it as a way to get rich quick - but baulk at the prospect of actually having to do some work to benefit not just themselves
"Oldham's first Reform leader says he is leaving politics after shock resignation"
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Yesterday two MPs & two MSPs were detained & interrogated by the Israelis because they wanted to enter occupied West Bank.
The UN have accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" in occupied West Bank
Andy Burnham’s sanctions on illegal settlers won't happen for at least 5 months! 😤
The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a report containing testimony from 11 women regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.