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submitted 3 days ago • 367 comments

"Every baby in Gaza is an enemy" "Every child in Gaza is an enemy" "We need to occupy Gaza and settle it so that not a single Gazan child remains there" - Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin

submitted 13 hours ago • 38 comments

I’m just checking for Chris Mason’s many pieces about it being unfair for the Tories to blame the last Labour government from 2011-2024 but all I can find is him blowing their ego about how great that was www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Many falsehoods here from this Brexit advocate: the e gates are not only for business travellers; Erasmus is not just for "top graduates"; and the last election was won by...a party that promised a reset in relations with the EU.

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

If they did it to any other UK university, however, the media elite wouldn’t even notice.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

That's not the British way. They prefer to starve them of funds while capping fees. It's much more genteel

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Darshna Soni, "Look what happened after Brexit" "This line shows the new points based system introduced under Boris Johnson, and net migration soared to more than 900,000" #C4News casually calling out Boris Johnson's Brexit lie that he would bring migration down

submitted 12 hours ago • 12 comments

International Criminal Court prosecutors have urged judges to reject a request by Israel to scrap arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister while the court reconsiders its jurisdiction over Gaza and the West Bank.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Two thoughts on this 1. Harvard is being targetted because it resisted. Which also shows, conversely, that resisting is effective - so long as critical mass resist 2. This is both chaotic and a defined part of an authoritarian playbook. Project 2025 was, and is, real. Always was

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Universities are always one of the first targets for fascist regimes, so - alarming and depressing as it may be - this escalation against Harvard, which has very publicly stood up to the regime, should come as no surprise.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Slovenia's President, Nataša Pirc Musar, "We are witnessing a genocide" "We are witnessing it, watching it, and we remain quiet" very long clap followed by a standing ovation "The inhumane treatment of civilians is something the international community should not look away from"

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

Totally making up nonsense, completely ahistorical reasons to exclude the Fed. Wizards in Robes doing authoritarian alchemy. Other, more serious countries have actual constitutional courts, so they get to live under the rule of law & be actual democracies.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

If only there were someone in a senior position of power in this relationship

submitted 11 hours ago • 64 comments

Where's the NYT think piece on the President's cognitive decline?

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!

submitted 10 hours ago • 164 comments

Policymakers at the Home Office continue to ignore research produced by... er, the Home Office.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to fire two Biden-appointed members of U.S. labor boards even though federal law bars the president from dismissing the officials for political reasons.

submitted 10 hours ago • 35 comments

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court’s conservatives allow Trump’s firing of members of multi-member boards to remain in effect during litigation, effectively overruling a 90-year-old precedent. The liberal justices, in an opinion by Kagan, dissents. More to come: www.lawdork.com

submitted 11 hours ago • 53 comments

Man in yellow, "Is it good for fisherman? No" "But I think the Tory on the panel is using the fishing industry to exaggerate it's point" "Fishing contributes less than 0.5% GDP to this country" "Stop being disingenuous" #BBCQT

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

Zanny Minton Beddoes, "The UK-EU reset is a sensible deal that modestly reduces some of the worst frictions of Brexit" "It doesn't change anything very dramatically" #BBCQT "If I was a Brexiter I would be pretty happy with this because this is entrenching a relatively hard Brexit"

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

Tell me: if these dudes show up with guns in an unmarked van to grab someone, why don’t the Second Amendment fans think they should be shot?

submitted 9 hours ago • 581 comments

Things you won't read about in The Times. Or hear broadcast from Her Majesty's yacht. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

Always a highlight of the year - thank you to @bluemoonpodcast.com for supporting us once again!

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

For the past 30 years, DOJ has enforced the statute passed by Congress that prohibits unconstitutional police practices. Trump Administration has announced it will no longer fulfill this duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

U.S. Medicaid slashed & burned. $535bn cuts to be ripped from Medicare. Not even mentioned in the bill. Now look at what Kendall, Reeves & Streeting are doing! They announce 'protections' but actually restrict, remove, & directly deliver cuts in assistance to rents, living costs, H&SC. Starmerism

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Federal courts have the power to jail or fine Trump officials that are held in contempt when ignoring court rulings. Trump's bill, if passed, prevents courts from being able to enforce contempt citations by removing funds to do so. King Trump? robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Good Morning to everyone who knows the Felon’s Congress passed his budget bill, adding 3.8Trillion to the budget. Cuts to safety net programs like Medicaid and Snap. Congress does what Trump demands. Feed the rich, starve the poor. Want better? Vote better! #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

The truth of why tRump is so antsy to get the 'beautiful' budget passed ...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Republicans in the House passed “the big, beautiful bill.” MAGA can’t blame Democrats when everything goes sideways. They can blame this guy: Donald Trump.

submitted 19 hours ago • 46 comments

@clairecmc.bsky.social If the Senate passes this, Trump will finally be a strong leader like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

There's a hidden provision in that big ugly bill that makes Trump king www.alternet.org/trump-bill-k...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Of one thing I am absolutely Certain. Musk is NOT chummy with Dopey Donald Trump because he 1. Likes him 2. Respects him 3. Agrees with him. Like everyone around Trump, they use Trump’s Vanity and Ignorance to get him to do things they want. Eg Musk’s Fantasy about White Genocide in STH Africa

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King. Don't let this happen Robert Reich As U.C. Berkeley School of Law Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky notes, this provision would eliminate any restraint on Trump... robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I've highlighted economist Paul Krugman's commentary on the dishonesty of the GOP (hello 1 a.m. ET negotiations!) regarding the big beautiful bill. But the kicker here is this: "Low-information voters may be fooled for a little while, but bond markets won’t."

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Robert Reich noted this in the new budget bill. If passed the courts cannot enforce contempt citations. Trump can do what he wants and the courts have no way to stop it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump is lying. Independent analysts say 14 MILLION PEOPLE will lose their health insurance under the "big, beautiful bill"—all to subsidize Jeff Bezos' next $500 million yacht.

"Every baby in Gaza is an enemy" "Every child in Gaza is an enemy" "We need to occupy Gaza and settle it so that not a single Gazan child remains there" - Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin

I’m just checking for Chris Mason’s many pieces about it being unfair for the Tories to blame the last Labour government from 2011-2024 but all I can find is him blowing their ego about how great that was www.bbc.com/news/article...

Many falsehoods here from this Brexit advocate: the e gates are not only for business travellers; Erasmus is not just for "top graduates"; and the last election was won by...a party that promised a reset in relations with the EU.

If they did it to any other UK university, however, the media elite wouldn’t even notice.

That's not the British way. They prefer to starve them of funds while capping fees. It's much more genteel

Darshna Soni, "Look what happened after Brexit" "This line shows the new points based system introduced under Boris Johnson, and net migration soared to more than 900,000" #C4News casually calling out Boris Johnson's Brexit lie that he would bring migration down

International Criminal Court prosecutors have urged judges to reject a request by Israel to scrap arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister while the court reconsiders its jurisdiction over Gaza and the West Bank.

Two thoughts on this 1. Harvard is being targetted because it resisted. Which also shows, conversely, that resisting is effective - so long as critical mass resist 2. This is both chaotic and a defined part of an authoritarian playbook. Project 2025 was, and is, real. Always was

Universities are always one of the first targets for fascist regimes, so - alarming and depressing as it may be - this escalation against Harvard, which has very publicly stood up to the regime, should come as no surprise.

Slovenia's President, Nataša Pirc Musar, "We are witnessing a genocide" "We are witnessing it, watching it, and we remain quiet" very long clap followed by a standing ovation "The inhumane treatment of civilians is something the international community should not look away from"

Totally making up nonsense, completely ahistorical reasons to exclude the Fed. Wizards in Robes doing authoritarian alchemy. Other, more serious countries have actual constitutional courts, so they get to live under the rule of law & be actual democracies.

If only there were someone in a senior position of power in this relationship

Where's the NYT think piece on the President's cognitive decline?

This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!

Policymakers at the Home Office continue to ignore research produced by... er, the Home Office.

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to fire two Biden-appointed members of U.S. labor boards even though federal law bars the president from dismissing the officials for political reasons.

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth

BREAKING: The Supreme Court’s conservatives allow Trump’s firing of members of multi-member boards to remain in effect during litigation, effectively overruling a 90-year-old precedent. The liberal justices, in an opinion by Kagan, dissents. More to come: www.lawdork.com

Man in yellow, "Is it good for fisherman? No" "But I think the Tory on the panel is using the fishing industry to exaggerate it's point" "Fishing contributes less than 0.5% GDP to this country" "Stop being disingenuous" #BBCQT

Zanny Minton Beddoes, "The UK-EU reset is a sensible deal that modestly reduces some of the worst frictions of Brexit" "It doesn't change anything very dramatically" #BBCQT "If I was a Brexiter I would be pretty happy with this because this is entrenching a relatively hard Brexit"

Tell me: if these dudes show up with guns in an unmarked van to grab someone, why don’t the Second Amendment fans think they should be shot?

Things you won't read about in The Times. Or hear broadcast from Her Majesty's yacht. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Always a highlight of the year - thank you to @bluemoonpodcast.com for supporting us once again!

For the past 30 years, DOJ has enforced the statute passed by Congress that prohibits unconstitutional police practices. Trump Administration has announced it will no longer fulfill this duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

U.S. Medicaid slashed & burned. $535bn cuts to be ripped from Medicare. Not even mentioned in the bill. Now look at what Kendall, Reeves & Streeting are doing! They announce 'protections' but actually restrict, remove, & directly deliver cuts in assistance to rents, living costs, H&SC. Starmerism

Federal courts have the power to jail or fine Trump officials that are held in contempt when ignoring court rulings. Trump's bill, if passed, prevents courts from being able to enforce contempt citations by removing funds to do so. King Trump? robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

Good Morning to everyone who knows the Felon’s Congress passed his budget bill, adding 3.8Trillion to the budget. Cuts to safety net programs like Medicaid and Snap. Congress does what Trump demands. Feed the rich, starve the poor. Want better? Vote better! #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1

The truth of why tRump is so antsy to get the 'beautiful' budget passed ...

Republicans in the House passed “the big, beautiful bill.” MAGA can’t blame Democrats when everything goes sideways. They can blame this guy: Donald Trump.

@clairecmc.bsky.social If the Senate passes this, Trump will finally be a strong leader like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin.

There's a hidden provision in that big ugly bill that makes Trump king www.alternet.org/trump-bill-k...

Of one thing I am absolutely Certain. Musk is NOT chummy with Dopey Donald Trump because he 1. Likes him 2. Respects him 3. Agrees with him. Like everyone around Trump, they use Trump’s Vanity and Ignorance to get him to do things they want. Eg Musk’s Fantasy about White Genocide in STH Africa

The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King. Don't let this happen Robert Reich As U.C. Berkeley School of Law Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky notes, this provision would eliminate any restraint on Trump... robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

I've highlighted economist Paul Krugman's commentary on the dishonesty of the GOP (hello 1 a.m. ET negotiations!) regarding the big beautiful bill. But the kicker here is this: "Low-information voters may be fooled for a little while, but bond markets won’t."

Robert Reich noted this in the new budget bill. If passed the courts cannot enforce contempt citations. Trump can do what he wants and the courts have no way to stop it.

Donald Trump is lying. Independent analysts say 14 MILLION PEOPLE will lose their health insurance under the "big, beautiful bill"—all to subsidize Jeff Bezos' next $500 million yacht.

Will be interesting to see if the Liberal Democrats overtake Labour

remember when Labour were polling at 50% lmao