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Er…hard pass.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

They really are just so weird. Switching this nonsense off now.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Who is the audience for these little placards that some of the Dems are waving? If you mute the TV (which I recommend) it looks like they’re bidding at an auction.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I know it’s not the point and there’s no value reasoning with him but you can either (1) raise lots of money from tariffs because people keep importing despite the inflation or (2) create jobs at home because people stop importing and production shifts. The two are not possible at the same time.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve finally seen one of these in the wild and it is every bit as ridiculous/hideous as described.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

god it must be so easy to be a Dem consultant, just sitting around making $250k a year to say things like "actually voters don't want healthcare, they want you to go to gun shows and start using the word orientals again"

submitted 6 days ago • 171 comments

Even Germany's Greens hardened their rhetoric and lost votes as a result. The message is clear: the new government must offer hope, not hatred.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I know it’s complicated and there are layers of interdependence but you cannot continue to treat as ‘indispensable’ an empire whose strategic posture changes every four years based on whether 10,000 voters in Pennsylvania think drag queens should be allowed to have rights.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This is another example of the terrible coverage of the Trump administration by mainstream media. They are simply repeating the WH language. Obviously, Trump & Co. never supported military aid to Ukraine and just use this visit as an excuse to end it. #DemocracyDiesInWaPo

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Guys some of you haven’t lived through the complete breakdown of the west and it shows.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The cognitive dissonance required to simultaneously hold that (1) we are returning to a world of warring great powers, requiring rapid rearming and a generational shift in posture, and yet (2) we can’t find the £11bn to do it without tactical cuts because fiscal rules.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Guys I think basing our foreign policy expectations on whether or not someone else keeps a statue in a cupboard is … a bit of a reach?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I’m riding the bus in San Francisco, watching that Oval Office footage shaking my head and the lady next to me just leaned over and said: “It’s only been five weeks.” 😳

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Er…

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Struck (which is odd for me) by this line from @dianacariboni.bsky.social. The perfect rebuke to both the "things have always been terrible" pessimists and the "everything was fine before this" partisans: "Lawless cruelty isn’t new, but it can get worse." www.opendemocracy.net/en/guantanam...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The curvature of the earth is woke now, everyone.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Debate them on the beaches

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Did Musk fire hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees to increase "efficiency"? I don't think so. There is a better explanation: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 20 days ago • 55 comments

I guess sometimes it can be that bad.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

You can always do something. Make your voice heard on issues that matter to you. Download Praxis' guide to engaging your MP for migrant rights! act.praxis.org.uk/download-gui...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

🎧 New podcast episode! While many of us associate attacks on women’s bodily autonomy with ultra-religious groups, @sianushka.bsky.social argues that the stripping away of abortion rights is a political issue, rooted in fascistic ideas about women and men. Listen on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3WYMccs

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

So government are unhappy with a Palestinian family accessing a visa scheme set up for Ukrainians. The question we should be asking is why they set up a bespoke scheme for one single Nationality & left everyone else, including Palestinians & Sudanese, to people smugglers?

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Once again for everyone in the back. When you run away from your core values, your base stays at home/ votes differently and you do not pick up enough floaters/opposition voters to call it even. Voters can smell the cynicism and will vote for the real thing (Tories/Reform), not the tribute act.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This should be changed asap. If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

submitted 26 days ago • 194 comments

New Home Office guidance bars most ppl who entered illegally from citizenship (Existing legislation – IMA – did basically the same thing in a different way. This keeps same principle in place despite proposed repeal of much of IMA) Main group affected will be people with refugee status 🧵

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

This is not a policy request coming from the general public who in are largely in favour of citizenship and permanent residency for all categories of migrants. This was cooked up Thick of It style.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Labour have changed the rules on applying for British citizenship to prevent most refugees from ever getting it, if they arrived by small boat or entered using forged documents, for any reason, on the basis that it means they’re permanently not “of good character”.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Uh…

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something

submitted 32 days ago • 106 comments

I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

submitted 34 days ago • 213 comments

Prime example of how the right (with some success) continuously shifts the goalposts on what 'controlling immigration' looks like. There is no value, strategic or otherwise, in trying to chase them but progressive leadership requires a progressive vision.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

You cannot out-Reform Reform. Stop it.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

The week-long debrief that follows watching pretty much any Disney movie with the 3yo is basically just an exercise in trying to explain primogeniture in a way that doesn’t normalise autocratic monarchy.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is so goddamn funny

submitted 41 days ago • 112 comments

I think we need to put lobby journalists in a home

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

This isn’t the same Trump that won in 2016: it’s an altogether different beast From territory takeovers to far-right alliances — his return threatens peace, prosperity and the planet My long-read for @opendemocracy.net:

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever

submitted 48 days ago • 216 comments

You don't need to make an emergency podcast, folks.

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

I can’t believe I’m going to quote George W Bush, but: That was some weird shit, man.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Here we go again. Deep breath, everyone.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment