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Labour’s contempt for young people is a boon for the Green Party. Many thanks to Andy Burnham for this inexplicable own goal

Vote for me and I will support policies to make you poorer, but I will listen to your voices while you cope with declining living standards, is an inspirational stance.

“I’m actually not terribly concerned about being prosecuted,” Lt Gov Deidre Henderson told me. “It gives me a little bit of hope when they start escalating like this. Because they’re getting a little desperate. Their attempts aren’t working.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

It is a dark stain on American voters and the Republican Party that despite a range of criminal convictions, plus successful civil actions for rape - let alone the Jan 6th insurrection he encourages that the Republican Party allows him to stand for a second term & American voters elected him.

Quick note on Israel’s election: Polls close Tuesday at 10pm Israel time / 4pm ET, when exit polls give us the first indication. The final tally is expected by Oct. 30. Official results are published Nov. 4.

JUST FILED: Big loss in court for Trump's attempt to intervene in California midterm elections High-level Jan 6 riot defendant seeks taxpayer-funded payout Maurene Comey's vindication.. .. & the frail new criminal case against James Comey DAY AHEAD: macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...

Excellent to see research (as well as health and community) fully integrated into UCU's "Education. It's Ours" campaign.

❌ Fit to stand trial ✅ Fit to be the president of the United States

This. He will NEVER stand trial. He is 100% unfit. But his enablers? They need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and receive the harshest sentence. Unfortunlately for them, treason carries a steep sentence.

House Dems Report: “A growing body of evidence demonstrates Trump was an active participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the 1990s. The DOJ & FBI are doing everything they can to keep the 🇺🇸 people in the dark about it.” The report: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Yesterday, I was barred from entering the West Bank by Israeli officials, as part of a @progintl.bsky.social delegation.

Sir. We’ve lost the guy who thinks Hitler was ‘fucking cool’

Groypers have turned on Trump

EU Commission proposes revised EU law on Frontex, the EU border controls agency ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

🔥An electrical substation is on fire in Alupka, Crimea

They're straight-up white supremacist claims meant to undermine El-Sayed's Senate bid on the grounds that he lacks the intellect for the job because of his ancestry.

Vote early if possible. Don’t be intimidated. Voting is your right.

Since 2020, President Trump and his allies have been hinting that they might send federal forces to “protect” polling places. If that happens, what can cities, states, and communities do to protect their citizens and fair elections?

Farage caught out in blatant lie He pretends to care about poor people while proposing our NHS replaced by US-style private healthcare where the super-rich get excellent care the well-off go bankrupt the poor left to die "Our NHS is not safe in Nigel Farage’s hands" www.youtube.com/shorts/Q9fnI...

The challenge for the UK and France will be using their veto to block this, because it will heighten the debate about whether either of them should still be UNSC members. By tradition, they almost never use their veto these days, and def not against the US, but Orban as UNSG is intolerable.

This is big news. Ending the puberty-blocker ban in New Zealand is massive. It puts Cass & the entirety of Labour’s flagship anti-trans policies in doubt. Yet no mainstream media platform has even mentioned it. Indeed most alternative media, like @bylinetimes.bsky.social have failed to mention it.

Gibb & McAndrew & their far right cabal should be forcibly removed.

New post: Today we have the second part of our very candid interview with Tony Radakin, who ran the UK armed forced 2021-2025. He talks about how we got into a mess over defence spending, why John Healey resigned, and how to fix military procurement. samf.substack.com/p/whitehall-...

“As someone who has spent a career studying strategic production and the relationship between the states and the companies that make military products, what we have seen over the last 21 months is unprecedented and, frankly, shocking.”

🔥 BEN MEISELAS ERUPTS: The Cheesecake Factory faux outrage exposes the propaganda machine. They brainwash Americans into fighting each other while oligarchs steal our healthcare, send our kids to endless wars, and buy more yachts. Divide the people. Enrich the oligarchs.

🔥 Over one year since the ceasefire agreement, more than 1,400 people have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, nearly two million still need shelter, not a single hospital is fully functioning, and 1.4 million face crisis-level hunger.

⚡️️️️️️️Russia's assault on Ukraine's energy grid is a war crime, UN says. Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, which weaponize winter to inflict suffering, amount to war crimes, a UN inquiry has found.

Not exactly charging on to the stage here. Looking somewhat embarrassed

Finally he admits Reform are incompetent.

Nigel Farage's excuses for no-one turning up: - "Staff incompetence" - Business people "too busy" to attend

No one should have to choose between the life they’ve built here in Australia and the parents they left behind. The Greens are fighting for a system that lets families have both. Because of a go-slow on processing by Govt a parent visa today means waiting 18 to up to 42 years.

Keep foreign money out of UK politics. 80 per cent of donations to Reform UK in the past 12 months have come from donors or companies based overseas. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Reform UK are replacing Staffordshire leader with Hayley Coles. Yes, the Deputy Leader who censored libraries in Staffordshire by dictating what types of display could be put up to educate people (ie banning Pride and Black History displays). *the image here has been edited for satirical purposes.

You do understand why Webb and his Reform/Tory mates want the ECHR scrapped? It's not about the ease of deporting people, it's about the right to employ indentured slave labour.

The BBC must show balance and be impartial Next week: is hanging, drawing and quartering fair punishment?

I would say this is unbelievable, but here we are. Bleak.

The cyclonic storm is set to make landfall on Wednesday, with 400,000 people in need of evacuation.

🏛️ TODAY: A federal judge will hear arguments over the Trump administration’s request to stop California from counting thousands of mail ballots. So why is the DOJ arguing that the judge no longer has authority to decide the request? Here’s how we got here ⬇️ https://demdock.com/3UP0K0n

🇺🇦🇪🇺 Zelensky is currently talking to the EU about contacts with Putin, - Lytvyn

French government announces measures to address student protests

One more piece in an endless string of evidence, for those still in doubt: Trump’s USA is on Russia’s side. They are strengthening the attack on Europe. They are complicit in war crimes.

Zelenskyy calls out monthlong wait for Hegseth to sign off on Patriot missiles

Trump is heckled for a third time at his speech in Mississippi: "SHOVE THAT BALLROOM UP YOUR FAT ASS!!"

This so much. This admin is a celebration of mediocrity whose misogyny and fascism cover for serious insecurity.