Mike Jones

> [Labour Party] Complaints Policy covers allegations including: • Discrimination based on protected characteristics • Homophobic, sexist, or transphobic behaviour [Trans status remains a protected characteristic under human rights law] labour.org.uk/resources/co... labour.org.uk/wp-content/u...

> What is your stance on pressuring the Israeli government to end its occupation of Palestine? Is this Palestine ’from the river to the sea’, or is another definition intended in this context? If the goal is the former, I‘m not sure ‘pressure on the Israeli government’ is going to suffice.

Good.

Language matters... these are pogroms and terrorists:

State owned media is unnecessary when private media can be bribed or coerced into self-censorship. Hoorah for the First Amendment. Every US citizen has the right to self-publish a rival to the NYT, & they won’t be subject to politically motivated prosecution (unless it starts getting traction).

In hindsight people talk about the huge valuation for no actual tech as exceptional. She built a very conventional lab-testing company, with plenty of revenue, whose valuation was inflated 10x by promises of tech vaporware. That’s Tesla! That’s WeWork! It’s a common startup business model.

You can argue the distinctions don’t matter, but it seems relevant that Larry Page was an actually-smart grad student who turned real research into a trillion-dollar company, while Musk was a middling student who couldn’t cut grad school and made a career of stealing credit from actual researchers.

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

I think Garland perceived his job as being the responsible adult in the room whose role was to resist pressure to lock Trump up. But when Trump was guilty of multifarious offenses ranging from treason to fraud to child predation, this turned Garland into Trump’s de facto protector.

Now their descendants refuse to believe their beloved family members could really be racist enough to immiserate the country, the entire planet, just to hurt black people worse. No, it's just rich people brainwashing, no way gutter bigotry is grandma's bedrock politics bsky.app/profile/mc-h...

Do not underestimate the possibility that this turns out to be a brilliant political manoeuvre that helps Republicans turn the electoral tide and win power in the liberal stronghold that is {checks notes} Texas

caring about other countries politics is good actually: fascism is an international threat, the response must be too

I had a private conversation with another rapid responder in late January where we both confessed to having been listening to Battle Hymn of the Republic late at night a bunch

This is *the* piece to read on how Brexit became “mouldy bread from the back of the cupboard” and how Rejoin can win hearts as well as heads. Free to read with email sign-up. www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

Look, I'm an evolutionary physiologist, ok? I believe in biology, not this sentimental feminist claptrap. Women are biologically optimized to be nurturers. They run households, they don't fight lions. That's why they're the only ones we can trust to govern our complex, industrialized civilization.

Of course a win for non-authoritarian leaders or movements does not automatically mean all problems are solved or that authoritarian forces can't come back in future. But it is worth maintaining hope and optimism, because if people succumb to nihilism and apathy then democracy cannot survive.

Seven highlights from the House Judiciary Committee's jaw-dropping new report on Trump's sexual depredations, including a very detailed account of a new rape Trump committed in the Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City.

Ten years on, the Brexiters plan to leave the EU and cosy up with the US looks even more disastrous. That their Brexit was boosted by Putin makes it even more historically catastrophic. We mustn’t forget the people who did this or let them near power again bylinetimes.com/2026/06/23/w...

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

As @guitarmoog.bsky.social and others have repeatedly explained, an accession negotiation is not like other negotiations. The applicant gets to negotiate the when and how but not the what and why. mu.social/profile/guit...

A further thought on this, because it's been in my head all day, what's quite striking is that nothing in the film is novel? The allegations have been reported before, they're not even that unique to the IDF, but it's the presentation, the perpetrators coming to terms with it, that makes it work.

“And this week, in our popular ‘correlation is not causation’ segment…”

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

So much in common, this could be the start of a beautiful relationship

Getting out and voting makes the difference. Let that be a lesson to us all. Not voting is not neutral or non political. bsky.app/profile/tani...

Ohio’s biggest newspaper broke its own rules to endorse Amy Acton, calling Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad disqualifying. “Using childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it crosses a line Ohioans should defend, whatever their party.” thedailybeast.com/trumps-maga-...

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

A bit of a turning point. Creators of all types of media are no longer allowed to criticize America's wealthiest people.

Addendum: Multiple people have pointed out, correctly, that Lula ran with a non-fascist right-wing politician as his VP, and therefore compromised politically in a lot of ways to try to win. Where I was coming from was that Lula was uncompromising with *fascism*, but the full context is important.

He's the first presidential candidate ever to come from behind in the first round to win the second round, so there's a lot, lot more to his victory than I'm qualified to speak to. But it seems pretty clear that if he'd simply run on preserving the status quo then he'd have lost, and heavily.

When the people want it badly enough, corruption won’t save dictators.

Only the cordon sanitaire can defeat fascism.

In case anyone is stupid enough to actually believe that Trump is only selling out Ukraine so he can focus on confronting China.

What Jason Crow says. Indeed, isn't it obvious? How can a self-respecting country cede control over vital military systems in the middle of a war to a foreign drug addict? And how could this not be a defining issue in the midterm election? Yet US corporate media want to simply look the other way.

What an absolutely wonderful and deserved victory. May this be the long last start of the youth revolution in Europe. ✊

Musk does not have a right to his customers but our government is pretending he does.

Right. But the thing is, in the Second World War, the British government specifically told the British people not to stockpile food, and ruptured water mains were overcome with water bowsers for drinking and EWS for the fire service, not individual stores. There was a municipal and state response.

Another right-winger who doesn’t understand the world of repeated games makes unforced errors in the mistaken belief that they’re showing how tough they are. Another failed challenge to Rapoport, Axelrod & tit-for-tat.

Even when a dictatorial regime sets out to outright steal an election, there is a limit to how much influence they can apply. And the cruder and more brutal the tactics they use, the more they undermine any apparent victory they can secure. Know hope. And do not mistake weakness for strength.

What Trump wants out of judges: "By then, Donoso Stevens said, another supervisor had already ordered her to reverse four rulings at the direction of unidentified 'higher-ups,' a violation of judicial authority she once considered inconceivable. The interference, she said, had only escalated since."

Vucic concedes defeat! Political earthquake in the Balkans!