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It's just so pitiful.

And who is the 'we' in this little fever dream scenario? Jesus wept. If you 'trust Brazil to govern itself', they just told you to get stuffed.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.

This week on his TV show, Nigel Farage laughed at a clip of a woman in tears because of the racism she’d experienced. “I can’t stop laughing,” he said. When people tell you who they are, believe them. And then don’t vote Reform.

How they engender apathy - between trying to cope with the utter nonsense and obvious lies plus the terrifying implications of real horrors, they want everyone to sit out elections, be content with scraps and stop thinking about it all. Not just in America. Rather hoping they get rage instead.

“Life is crap, vote for us” is a losing message. The first half is not true and, even if it were, the second does not follow. Farage…used to know all this.” But now he just lines his pockets while he moans and exudes hatred and disloyalty. We’re very bored of it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible

£72million can’t fix this. Nothing can fix this. This is Reform. A bunch of raging liabilities who shouldn’t ever be anywhere near public office. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

This US far-right infiltration of Britain should be of more concern to us all, but particularly the British government than it is. It is an obvious reason why we shouldn't be using Palantir for anything at all. They're as much a threat to our National Security as China or Russia.

Honest to God who are these people and where are they? Can we drag them out from under their rocks and prize their remotes stuck on GB News or whatever other insanity they're glued to? This is the most pernicious load of utter twaddle.

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A Philadelphia nun named Sister Rose Kuhn drives to a Texas immigration court weekly to sit next to unaccompanied children as young as 4 who are facing deportation hearings alone without relatives or an attorney so that they won’t have to face the judge by themselves. Heartbreaking and horrific.

Needed saying.

Perspective.

Rhina Espaillat, for your labor day weekend

I've been posting a daily poem for just over a year In celebration I'm sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months 6th – has echos of Niemöller’s poem ‘First They Came’ The 1st houses are already ashes. Many still think the wind is blowing in the opposite direction #poetry #poemofday

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?

Hurrah and huzzah!! Wish my mother were around to see it.

Carbon emissions from just two planned datacentres in England will exceed all of ExxonMobil’s UK fossil fuel emissions. Bad for health, environment. Huge pressure on energy/water supplies Few long-term jobs generated Local people, not ministers, must decide if they want datacentres.

Every 'tech bro' should read this.

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.

REMEMBER: They all knew.

I see Fraser Nelson makes the same point I did yesterday frasernelson.substack.com/p/six-flaws-...

Reform are furious about LGBT books invading Warwick libraries. Reform leader George Finch said he was acting on “a number” of complaints from local people. So Labour MP Rachel Taylor asked the council for the actual figures. There have been zero complaints. via Reform Are Not Your Friends

The Reform plan to slash Benefits leads the BBC News bulletin. Give me friggin' strength.

My new response when anyone asks me to do anything

If we haven't been reminding you enough, vote because your life depends upon it.

curious how I haven't see a paint blistering media freakout about Trump STARVING THE TROOPS anywhere close to comparable as when Biden ripped off the bandaid in Afghanistan www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Reform UK tells its activists "don't drink and Tweet" because "the biggest threat to Reform is the people in it". “If this was sat on the desk of an anti-Reform journalist, what are they going to do with it?” the internal training course, leaked to Byline Times, warns

Number crunching: Compensation Fujitsu has so far paid to victims of the Post Office scandal vs value of contract for police network software awarded to Fujitsu by the Home Office. From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Last week Zack Polanski and the Green Party held a press conference with Chris Packham, the BBC did not play full clips of it This morning, Nigel Farage and Reform UK held a press conference, since, the BBC have continued to play full clips from it

Haven't done this in a while but #PoemsAbout #ThriftStore and #CharityShop reminded me of this little anecdote. Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the chance to revisit.

The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Perfect cover art by @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social to express our frustration at just how superficial coverage of the Ceuta 'crisis' was and how it leaned into disinformation used by far right figures, in Europe and beyond. Have a listen for an explainer of what really happened and share the episode.

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

Wouldn't it be nice, in a Pollyannish way, if the banks said 'Yep, we've got money, plenty actually, certainly some we can spare and we do want the country to work properly and people to get what they need on services, and investment to be real and lasting, so how can we help?'

#booksky #poetry #poetrysky With all the buzz about The Odyssey, this one is very relevant

Good grief, this hits home.

A grant?? They're granting US taxpayers' money to UK right wing groups to undermine our democracy as they have theirs? Um, no.

If only a dedicated group of scientists had warned us about the record heat, torrential flooding, continental scale wildfires, and apocalyptic orange skies