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BBC happily interviews lots of Zionists saying they are offended and fearful about Green Party rehashing a 1975 UN motion saying Zionism is racism But not Palestinians living in apartheid Israel about discrimination they face in jobs, housing, education every day of their lives meme via Dave Toller

Lula Goes HARD

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

I’d say his greatest political trick was destroying most of the Gaza Strip while the world’s most stridently malicious liberals relentlessly screamed abuse at anyone who objected to it

Ranvir Singh this morning: "9 million people in the UK, I find it obscene, in 2026 are on the verge of or already using foodbanks" Meanwhile the richest 50 families have more wealth than half the population. The levels of inequality in this country are staggering.

"It feels like we are dodging the elephant in the room, which is about distribution of wealth.. we have severe inequality.. we are still in a moment where we're trying to tinker on the edges.. not meeting the structural crisis of the moment" @daliagebrial.bsky.social spot on (as usual)

Among Keir Starmer's worst deeds were his legislative and rhetorical attacks on nature protection. In those two wasted years, we spiralled backwards, even from the Tory legacy. At this week's biodiversity summit, the Burnham govt should pledge to turn that round. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think the calculation is that the ratchet only turns right and it’s held there by the nominally left party, it doesn’t turn left. We might get concessions to liberalism and egalitarianism but these don’t cost money, don’t concede significant power and as we’ve seen, can be revoked in short order.

What odds this apology doesn't get the same headline coverage as the lying smear ... "GB News presenter Alex Armstrong & commentator Bernadette Spofforth have been ordered to apologise & pay damages to MothinAli after suggesting he took part in the 2024 Leeds racist riots" via The Daily Politik

Winston Marshall also proposed building a mined ‘ floating wall” to stop small boat crossings on the Channel Mined with explosives so you can kill actual people . For the BBC this qualifies him as a voice worth listening to & not a complete psychopath.

I’ve seen this pattern many times. You write a nuanced thread about a complex issue. The first responses are thoughtful and interesting. Then someone on another forum extracts a sentence and deliberately misinterprets it. Then your timeline is flooded by trolls all saying exactly the same thing.

Adam Boulton: "she, in common with a lot of people in Ireland is taking a very strong pro Palestine & I have to say anti Israel & anti Jewish stance" Adam, can you provide evidence that Sally Rooney is taking an anti Jewish stance? Or are you, in fact, lying to smear critics of Israel?

Disgraceful easy ride just given to Badenoch this morning on BBC Radio 4, the presenter allowing her to frame the Conservatives as the party of high behavioural standards then segue into a hagiography of Jeffery Archer without challenge about his record. The BBC doesn’t even pretend to be balanced.

Disgraceful easy ride just given to Badenoch this morning on BBC Radio 4, the presenter allowing her to frame the Conservatives as the party of high behavioural standards then segue into a hagiography of Jeffery Archer without challenge about his record. The BBC doesn’t even pretend to be balanced.

Confessions of a genocidal Zionist ... via Khalid Zar

How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .

via The National www.thenational.scot/news/2656573...

The Harris Brothers - Summers Gone [USA, Folk, Country] (196-?): One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Who were the incredible Harris Brothers? Truly transcendent. https://redd.it/pph72g https://youtu.be/98lyaNSqPok

From a party that plans to *retrospectively* remove basic human rights from those already granted asylum and leave to remain *and* demands we flounce out of the ECHR to control immigration, this is some next level arseholery from Jenrick, Tice and Reform.

"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

While the police pussy-foot around far right thugs terrorising UK streets ... "Police raided the home of an 84-year-old priest following her arrest last week at a Just Stop Oil protest. Sue Parfitt had been arrested alongside other protes ...” www.facebook.com/novaramedia/... meme via Novara Media

THE REPORT THEY TRIED TO HIDE. Empty shelves. Water shortages. Food security at risk. The government cannot keep hiding the scale of the threat. It must release the report in full and act on it.

The Green's Baroness Bennett points out that Palantir did not have any experience in health data and only got NHS contracts after being introduced by the now disgraced Peter Mandelson Making the case that data ownership should be with the NHS, not with external parties

No sense of skepticism in this headline or social media post, unless you think quotation marks do the trick. I don't. Why are major media so lame in the face of the most blatant liar in American political history? It's either cowardice or complicity, or both.

Will the government be proscribing this lot of bell-ends as a terrorist organisation?

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Why oh why are workers sacked and then executives given huge rises for 'cost savings' ... meme via Taylor Hayes

"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." ~ James Baldwin

Olivia Rodrigo raised $20 million for women's well-being with a benefit show featuring a women-led lineup. Her show raised $10 million and Melinda French Gates pledged another $10 million. Rodrigo said the festival's artists and activists give her hope despite the “regression of women's rights."

I was a historian of the atomic bomb decision from 1989-95 and coauthored an 800+ page book on the politics behind the decision. I’ve seen a lot of documentaries, but this is new to me. There were 78 people who survived underneath the explosion. This is how some of them survived. One is still alive.

via Arrest Nigel Farage

The Economist personal hit pieces are surely just embarrassing for them. What is it about wealth taxes, rent controls and water nationalisation that they're so keen to stop progress? It's time to tackle the climate crisis & end Rip Off Britain.

Speaking from Britain, where our leadership class spent ten years on destroying the left and welcoming the racist far right into the heart of government and media: Insofar as this is true, it will be happen because people like Hillary will make damn sure that it is effective.

British children in Nijmegen to visit the graves of fathers killed during the war, #OTD 6 August 1955. Katrina Coombs, 10, of Redcar, Barbara Janik, 12, of Burnley, Georgina Price, 10, of Ludlow, James Smith, 13, of Kirkcudbright, & Geraldine Greenwood, 12, of Bradford. (Daily Mirror via Findmypast)

via Laura Pidcock

UK Govt contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules. Why does it have to be either, or? Job creation should not be a trade-off with protecting the environment Govt appeasing corporations whilst planet burns, crops fail, food prices rocket.

“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don’t get it? Why now?” — David Mamet

I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger

This isn't one of his own songs and is not even his best cover, but I often think of this performance whenever I think of what it means to not phone something in, to really show up for it. Here's Glen Hansard years ago with Markéta Irglová doing Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic."

Andy Burnham wants to fix social care. It’s personal for him and for a lot of us too

Just spotted this. It's misleading and unnecessary, who eats 5/6th of a bag?

Sorry America. You don't deserve friends.

"Led By Donkeys has received compensation after a giant banner reading "Yes It's A Genocide" was seized by Greater London Authority officials and destroyed. The banner, displayed in Parliament Square in Dec 2024, was taken by GLA reps and later destroyed by waste firm Veolia." via Truth Against Hate