The EU is fully awake, sadly Putin is being helped by the US
UK based mum, cat lover, software engineer, egalitarian and massive fan of being nice to each other. Lifelong Labour voter with dual US/UK nationality. Feeling the pain across the pond and came here from the 'other place' for solace.
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The EU is fully awake, sadly Putin is being helped by the US
✈️🇪🇺🇧🇬A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was forced to land in Bulgaria using paper maps after suspected Russian GPS jamming disrupted its navigation systems, the Financial Times reports.
Stop the cuts to Alzheimer care in Scotland www.alzscot.org/stopthecuts/
Some good news for the economy and for Scotland in particular www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just heard a General talking about this Norway deal. We beat a lot of other bidding countries. Our team did the best job. It means the North Atlantic is safer and will be the best served with state of the art sub detecting capability. Well done Labour
I did but kept seeing posts, so I have started blocking them now.
I can't stand Johnson but he was married at the time.
On #LaborDay, we recognize the workers who make so much of our everyday lives possible. And every day, we should have American workers' back by supporting their organized efforts to secure higher wages, good benefits, and safe & dignified workplaces.
3️⃣ Major Deal with Norway 📈 - Norway choosing British-made warships for its Armed Forces will bring billions into the economy and support around 4,000 jobs across the country for years to come.
2️⃣ Free Breakfast Clubs 🍎 - To make sure children are ready to learn, Labour is rolling out free breakfast clubs to all primary schools. Saving parents £450 a year on average.
🌹 Some Good News You Might Have Missed Last Week (Mon 25 to Sun 31 August 2025) ⬇️ 1️⃣ 30 Hours of Free Childcare 🌟 - Working parents in England are now entitled to 30 hours of government funded childcare. Saving families on average £7,500 per year.
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Attention, clicks and money probably
I have seen two almost identical posts today from big accounts saying starmer is not the man for the moment. Not only is it utter shite but seems to be a coordinated attack
Hey Jake Crapper @jaketapper.bsky.social anything to say?
That's shite pal
That's shite mate
🚨FAO: Working parents in Brent! 🚨 From today, the Labour government is providing 30 hours of government-funded childcare, saving local families £7,500 and giving children growing up in Brent the best start in life. Find out more: beststartinlife.gov.uk
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Hey Jake Crapper @jaketapper.bsky.social anything to say?
Leave it to Labour to deal with boats big and small August confirmed lowest small boat crossings for any August since 2021 ✅ Largest export deal of large boats in our history worth £10bn to Norway ✅ Tides are changing for Britain.
Where is the mainsteam media? Anyone out there? Can you hear me???
This is a fantastic choice, he's a real asset to Labour
This is a fascinating & wonderful move. Darren Jones, who I know many of you really like, has been appointed to the new role of Cheif Secretary to the PM. The sideways move from Cheif Secretary to the Treasury, will see Jones directly oversee work across Government and support the PM. 1/2
The changes being made by our current government will be vital in rebuilding after the mess made by to Tories.
Creating good jobs. Driving growth. Protecting national security. Labour's deal with Norway is delivering real benefits for people here in the UK. This is Labour's Plan for Change in action.
In the UK Rees Mogg wanted a return to workhouses. The privileged see the rest of us as only there to serve them
What they want when they say "Make America Great Again!"
🚨 NEW: Stanford University has "no record" to support Kemi Badenoch's claim that she was offered a scholarship to study medicine at 16.
Keir Starmer has slammed the 'scaremongering' tactics of Reform UK and the Tories and said he is rolling up his sleeves to make a genuine difference to families’ lives The PM said Farage and Badenoch’s parties “talk down the country at every turn” as he promised he was focused on real change.
Offshore windfarm with 96 turbines wins approval The Morgan Offshore Wind Project will see 96 turbines built more than 20 miles (32km) off the Fylde coast which developers said will produce 1500MW - enough electricity to power nearly 2m homes every year. This is Labour's plan to x4 offshore wind.
They could easily be Christians - it isn't some magical thing. All gods are fake, it is a made-up concept so it can be anything a person wants it to be and it can mean anything they individually want it to mean.
People are individually responsible for their own behaviour. If they say they behave in a way because of something in a book then it changes nothing, it is their own individual behaviour and nothing to do with their religion.
Not with sayings from the fictional book. He also said the 'pray' word recently. Johnson may well be a devout christian - religious people are like all people, good, bad, indifferent, etc.
Massive, unalloyed good news that threatens to be eclipsed by the flag wars and the small boats. Let's talk ships and not boats... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He's an asshole who hates Labour because he was ejected from the party.
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
They have been supporting that agenda for decades.
They hate women most of all, the amount of women who stated they wouldn't vote was terrifying. In their order of importance black women don't even make the list. That's Amurica
Where's the report from @jaketapper.bsky.social about how the trump administration is COVERING UP for his obvious health decline?
Hey Jake Crapper - doesn't Trump look old? @jaketapper.bsky.social
These are common colloquialisms in the UK and predated ant vaxxers. In Scotland we call them jags. www.oed.com/dictionary/j...
Since Labour came in to government, a lot of effort has been placed in to strengthening the relationship between the UK and Norway, especially in defence. Not only does that help protect both countries, but it leads to economic boosts - like this where Norway sign off on a warship partnership. 1/2
You're an idiot pal.
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Honored that Mark is now a Democracy Docket member.🙏 The force of democracy must be with us!!!🥳
I like Newsom generally but he needs to stop with the religious nonsense.
Excellent news for Scottish jobs. @thesnpmedia.bsky.social @snp.org will just hate it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The issue is that it is entirely possible they are christians - christians are a mix of good, bad and indifferent people just like everyone else. Following a doctrine doesn't change anything about a person.
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
WE'RE ABOUT TO PUT A MEMECOIN OUT 😂
www.mediaite.com/politics/tul... Fire The Bitch
That's the government website
Major boost for Scottish shipbuilding as Norway selects UK warships - GOV.UK share.google/4yzLXyqQ3UBr...
Can anyone point me to the media story about the largest ever warship export deal ever agreed by the UK that was announced this morning? It’s worth £10bn. It will protect 4000 jobs, provide growth for up to 400 small businesses. Where is our bloody media?
@skynewsrss.bsky.social Any chance you lot could stop wanking yourselves into a stupor about asylum seekers, pretending they’re all dangerous rapists, and report some news? I mean, you have the word “news” right there in your name. So it’s hardly a big ask lads.
Pleased to learn the UK has secured the largest shipbuilding export deal ever to Norway. Securing jobs and communities in Scotland. Impressive stuff. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
The racists at @skynewsrss.bsky.social need to read this. They won’t. Because they depend on winding up uneducated bigots for clicks Any semblance of journalism or honesty is long gone. (And the people managing the Sky social media will be far too cowardly to respond)
How would they know? Melania is all plastic
You are rude and argumentative. Muting you now.
I would want people elected solely on merit.
It's nothing like that. Companies recruit on merit, not birthright
They didn't get there on merit. This is a good start
It shouldn't exist in this form, any steps towards reform are welcime
It needs closed down in its current form, but the current bill is a good first step
This is utterly mad, to suggest those born into privilege who have a role because of that privilege are disadvantaged.
Oh
Lack of infrastructure and services is the fault of 14 years of Tory mismanagement and misrule not immigrants. If a new housing development is built without improving local infrastructure we don't blame the new residents, if new parents don't buy a pram or a cot we don't say send the baby back.
It isn't something beyond their control, they didn't earn the seats.
You can't please everyone, this option is the best available. They wouldn't have the seat if it weren't for their 'accident of birth' so how would they have it otherwise?
No it isn't. It is because of the right wing media and the really stupid electorate.
Why would I read something that is clearly tripe? You know what you are doing. You hope stupid people won't know that the only people who can change anything are republicans as they have all the power. This is a way for you to pretend to call it out while still ensuring the republicans stay in power
Why are you tagging the wrong people? The only people with power are republicans. People should learn how congress works.
What specifically would you have them do with no power?
Only one party can do anything. The electorate gave the republicans all the power. Say it as it is - Republicans in congress.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
🚨 NEW: The Government's statement after winning its appeal to keep asylum seekers in the Epping Bell Hotel "This Government will close all hotels by the end of this Parliament and we appealed this judgment so hotels like the Bell can be exited in a controlled and orderly way"
Please share with your local racist, crank, and idiotic “Starmer caused small boats hotels” morons.
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
I wonder if he is radicalised in some way. He is an intelligent person who seems just to be 100% reactionary now.
Garcia: “We finally heard from the Epstein estate. They’ve agreed to provide the actual Epstein book, along with other documents that haven’t been made public yet.”
After Trump’s reckless decision to remove fmr VP Harris’s Secret Service detail, sources in California say the state’s Highway Patrol will work as her protective detail—for now. It’s great to see immediate pushback against Trump’s retribution tour. More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/obama-call...
California is getting safer. Homicides down 20% Robberies down 19% All within this year. And we're deploying CHP officers to more regions across the state to keep this momentum going.
🚨 BREAKING: The Court of Appeal has overturned the High Court ruling requiring asylum seekers to be moved out of the Bell Hotel in Epping The Court of Appeal overturned the injunction because: - The HC judge put too much weight on local fears, not enough on the strain it puts on the asylum system
When they point a finger else where and not the actual source of gun control, I call BS!!!
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
It is only personal is done in your own home/head. Religion is the cause of so much death and suffering - that is fact - not prejudice. Peaceful it is not. This is not an opinion and I don't have to agree with threats to society. You are the one who is trying to force your opinion on me.
People are a mix of good, bad, indifferent and all other things. Religion doesn't make them somehow 'better'.
Can you explain why showing no prejudice and disavowing all religion is 'prejudiced'? It is the opposite of prejudice - it is treating them all exactly the same.
It is one category and if a person needs religion to tell them to be good then that is a fault in that person.
All religion is a monolithic category - every religion thinks their one is the 'right' one.
