George Potter 🔶

Gonna need to pin this to my profile.

Americans might genuinely think the Cheesecake Factory is fancy, it’s possible, they think the “entree” is in the middle of a meal, very confusing country.

Is Liberalism alive? A response to Dr Roz Savage’s pamphlet Roz Savage's new Compass pamphlet is a step forward in spelling out a 21st century liberal vision for the UK. But her wariness of being seen as left wing means she hedges when more clarity is needed.

Torture, terror and extrajudicial executions: the Dirty War in Northern Ireland and my search for truth For decades I’ve investigated collusion between British military intelligence and terrorists One question has always remained: given the crimes committed how can Britain call itself a democracy?

The Lads clearly know who Turning Point UK are, and not just that but that they are "unabashedly racist" and have links to both Reform and the Conservatives. Reeeaaaaally feels worth commenting on the fact that this organisation was recently exposed as claiming to be able to contract assassinations

“1,431 people, including at least 300 children and 130 women, have been killed since the US-brokered ceasefire deal began in October 2025 and Israel is aiming to "destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinians in Gaza". news.sky.com/story/un-rep...

The full weight of the UK establishment - NHS, the Times, Baronesses of the House of Lords, all misrepresenting an actual full blown scandal of acute child harm. My research (with @sandraduffy.bsky.social) captures the real situation, centring patient voice journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Your daily reminder that Politico is owned by the Fox News of Germany, Axel Springer. Whose CEO made the US staff pray for Trump.

Lock 🔒 him up forever.

Just weeks after Professor Jason Arday was hounded to his death, Reform UK’s branch in Oxford has invited the racist academic who led the campaign, Nathan Cofnas, to speak. Tell the education secretary to protect students and academics from hate: https://goodlaw.social/u07r

I don’t know folks, it seems to me that the kids might have been right about their ruling class being full of deeply racist, misogynist sex offenders. Perhaps that whole Cancel Culture panic was badly wrong, and apologies are in order? Not least because it was obviously vexatious *at the time*.

It’s late October. People are voting right now. If you cannot deliver a convincing, full throated endorsement of the Democratic nominee in the potentially deciding race for the Senate, stay the fuck off television

I see no signs this is any more genuine than the big Outreach to the left and environmentalists stuff was. It looks like more jangling keys, to me.

Meanwhile the coverage of the Lib Dems, currently with 71 MPs, remains restricted to what stunt Ed Davey has recently done, and when the Lib Dems were polling over 20%, the BBC based their non-coverage on number of MPs.

The instinct here might be to view Burnham as uniquely successful and gifted, but we should all remember it is instead that Starmer was uniquely shit and incapable and but for Truss he would easily be the worst PM of my lifetime (And also that GPEW have spent 6 months devouring their own feet)

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

Called it. Lula did indeed beat Bolsonaro 52% to 48%.

Viscerally upset by the Beth Upton stuff. They won't be satisfied until they have hounded a woman – who the tribunal explicitly found had done nothing wrong – to her death. Btw the "incident" in Australia is that a patient worried she *might* be forced to be treated by her. She of course wasn't.

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

Yeah

The terrible human cost of externalisation.

I have at this point written literally hundreds of stories about Trump since 2015. I make it a point in the bulk of them to point out he was the lead proponent of the racist birther conspiracy. The mainstream media has all but disappeared this yet it is the main reason he became potus.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

well yes but not quite he did compromise a lot to corporations and kept celebrating austerity to the last second (superavit🙄 ) But most ppl (the ones who weren't fanatics) managed to flip votes by not deniying that reality but by showing others flavio would do it 10000 timea more

It wasnt an effort from lula's officials but from the grassroots the official lula campaign had done the total opposite in the 1st round, they didnt mobilize anyone at all, practically didnt campaig ..... Like i heard it described somewhere 'this is a victory of the people, not of lula'

spare a thought for a millennial about to move back in with his dad

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

I ain't reading all that, but happy for you tho, or sorry that happened

someone really wants to join his dad in jail and/or the hospital