Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
This is a positive big development that should have dominated the UK news. What on earth has happened to Labour Comms?
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
Thank you on this labor day!!
Fabulous!
It’s time to teach Susan Collins a lesson.
Presidents Xi, Putin and PM Modi would never be palling around today if it wasn’t for the extraordinary foolishness shown by the president of the United States.
India wanted to be a strong ally & trading partner - Trump fucked it up. China wanted good relations - Trump fucked it up. Putin would like nothing more than to destroy the US - Trump embraced him instead and Putin quickly double-crossed him. Now they’re all teaming up.
🔥 On Labor Day in Portland, Bernie Sanders stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Maine’s Troy Jackson and Susan Collins’ new challenger, Graham Platner — declaring America is living under an oligarchy and vowing to fight back for working families. ✊
A quarter of England state secondary schools have no dedicated physics teacher. Shortages in other subjects too Govts don't plan long-term, quick to cut real wages of public sector workers. University fees and student debt are a disincentive. Migrant labour can't solve all systemic failures,
Something that has been missing from the Trump administration’s review of the Epstein case: considering the survivors. This week, they speak out, and we should all be listening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
This is pure love. We should all aspire to have this love for each other.
What does Netanyahu not want American Senators to see? What could he possibly be hiding? 🤔 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
🚨This OK lawmaker was found guilty of running a vehicle with his daughter and an adult relative off of the road and INTO a ditch, causing injuries — and he is STILL in office?!? Of course, he has a history of both domestic violence and law enforcement.
🚨Priest uses his body to attempt to stop ICE vehicles in Broadview, Illinois outside of a detention facility that has refused entry to members of Congress.
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
RFK Jr must be fired. He’s too deranged and full of himself to leave voluntarily. So it’s vital to convince Trump that keeping Kennedy around drains his own political power and thus his personal wealth by so visibly endangering the health of everyone in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
P&O Ferries boss who illegally sacked 800 staff quits. He told a parliament Committee that the company knowingly broke the law, faced no action from Tory govt. Workers replaced with £4.87 an hour agency staff. Now he probably walks away with golden goodbye and pension pot.
Jones: “This administration shows more outrage over a Cracker Barrel logo change than over the policies letting our kids be gunned down in school.”
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians “The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...
“'ILLEGALS' my ass.” Rami Othmane has a green card and is married to Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, a hospital chief of staff. Despite having legal residency, ICE detained him for 13 days after grabbing him during a grocery run. This injustice cuts deeper than words.
Mark Cuban to other billionaires: Be a patriot, pay your taxes.
Trump’s targeting of Fed. Gov. Lisa Cook is a “chilling message,” writes fmr. Fed. Chair & Biden Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. “Express disagreement with the president’s views and you are next.” Yellen joins me @ 12pET on the economic consequences of Trump’s bids to bend the Fed. to his political will
In a national poll, 9 out of 10 American flags prefer Governor Gavin Christopher Newsom.
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
"President Trump’s decision to issue a Labor Day proclamation shortly after stripping union rights from thousands of civil servants, a third of whom are veterans, should show American workers what he really thinks about them." What AFGE President Everett Kelley said.
SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!" RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
Remove RFK Jr for dereliction of duties. Immediately.
Wait! I thought Trump was supposed to be “ending homelessness.” HUD just announced a nationwide audit of Section 8 “citizen status.” Mixed-status families could lose rental assistance, even when kids are U.S. citizens. Families including children could be thrown into eviction & face homelessness.
Drax inquiry will raise fresh questions about its billions in subsidies. Drax burns wood pellets to produce electricity. The most expensive electricity Claims of using sustainable sources are suspect. Biggest emitter of carbon. Despite being highly profitable receives billions in subsidies.
A Texas Republican lawmaker who last week blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander made disturbing comments at a 2022 legislative hearing — suggesting a way to deal with immigrants might be: “shoot, shovel and shut up.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Maybe Red state governors are sending their national guard to DC because they’d be safer there picking up trash than patrolling their own murder capitals.
Dr. Daskalakis didn’t quit public health—he quit Trump’s public hell. Enough really is enough.
Thief warns of 'embarrassment' if burglary ruled illegal
www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r...
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
The Bondi family business. Charges dropped…for those with the right connections.
Petty AF! Trump just stripped Kamala Harris of her Secret Service protection, a detail that Biden quietly extended for her safety. He’s punishing political enemies and sending a message. No matter how you feel about Harris, canceling her protection is reckless, dangerous, and beneath the office.
National Guardner? National Park Service workers laid off, and now the National Guard is doing landscaping in DC. Felon Trump really turned soldiers into gardeners.
Zack Polanski, "I reject all of Nigel Farage's politics" Ellie Chowns, "We both stand opposed to what Nigel Farage stands for" Zack Polanski, "People are poorer than they have ever been before. Rich people are richer than they have ever been before. And we've got to redistribute that wealth"
Zack Polanski criticises Keir Starmer for not condemning outrageous statements made by Nigel Farage
Zack Polanski, "I want to lower people's bills, I want to nationalise water companies" - Why isn't every party calling for this?
Me, watching all the militias and 2A wingnuts sworn to defend against a tyrannical government.
(6,6) No, the issue is not gun free zones and the answer is not adding more guns. We have gone down that path for many years now and the result this week was more dead kids and more parents planning funerals.
The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.
Donald Trump and his corrupt, criminal regime are all hypocrisy and projection all the time. It's truly so exhausting, pathetic, and transparent. #ResistTrump
I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “If a Democratic president were doing any of these things you would be losing your mind.” 🎯
On September 8, Andrew Bailey, the pencil pusher-turned-culture warrior and MAGA attack dog, will board a plane to DC, accepting Trump's appointment to be co-deputy director at the FBI. “If Andrew Bailey can do this much damage in Missouri, imagine what he’ll do with federal power.”
she said that “black” with a hard r
Appalling.
ICE kidnapping a mother as her child begs the officers not to take her. Heartbreaking 💔 😢
Oh, this is heartbreaking. How can they do this?
🔥 @airborne1970.bsky.social : “When you get rid of SNAP benefits— what’s a poor family gonna do? The middle class has carried this country since Reagan said ‘trickle-down economics’. Time for the billionaires to carry this country. That’s how 🇺🇸 will get great. But not under this regime.”
Don’t look away
Trump's trying to help those targeting Kamala Harris. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
He is pathetic. And dangerous.
This painting is classic Lost Cause revisionism; it was commissioned after Truman ordered desegregation of the military. Army Secretary Gordon Gray was a nepobaby (daddy was chair of RJ Reynolds) who led the dubious "Gray Board" that yanked Oppenheimer's clearance. Real piece of work all around.
It's disgusting, but must be so painful to many.
We were warned by Washington, Lincoln and others. Now we must oppose this authoritarian regime, firmly voice our commitment to the Constitution and rule of law—and assert what it means to be American. www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...
Noone gives this take the other way round, do they? No one advises conservatives that calling their enemies communists, extremists, anti-semites, Britain haters etc. "doesn't work" Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform
“I truly believe we CAN build a system represents working people.” ICYMI — @grahamformaine.bsky.social Platner is a marine and oyster farmer running to replace @SenatorCollins, who should be “concerned” His site: www.grahamforsenate.com
“Make America Healthy Again” is off to a terrible start.
I really need people in this country to move away from "but that's illegal!" or "but that's not allowed!" as their default response. Laws do not enforce themselves and life has no umpire. Stop waiting for magical referee in the sky to fix everything.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
THIS IS AMERICA 🇺🇸 A mom runs to find her child after a school shooting because Republicans ran to protect the NRA.
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.
From your lips...
BREAKING: Russian attack on Kyiv overnight killed at least 17 people, including 3 children, and wounded dozens. Trump’s weakness only emboldens Putin.
I'm not taking health advice from someone who looks like a gas station hot dog.
“FEMA’s termination of this bipartisan program defies both law and logic.”' They survived Katrina and started to rebuild. Now, Trump’s cuts may flood them out again.
Saying you need an AR-15 to hunt is like saying you need dynamite to fish. Stop the nonsense.
I guess the grand jury thought it was funny
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
"Air Force Christian Nationalists Honor Domestic Terrorist." thehill.com/policy/defen...
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
Anything but calling for an assault weapons ban. I can’t with this man.
Incredible! What a disgrace he is.
⚡️ Update: 18 killed in Russian mass attack on Kyiv. The death toll of a Russian mass attack against Kyiv on Aug. 28 has risen to 18, Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko said.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
70 years ago today, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. When you see “MAGA,” realize THAT was the America Trumpers are saying was “great.” I want a GREATER America than that. We all should.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook sued Trump on Thursday over his attempt to remove her from the Board of Governors, asking a judge to block it. Cook is asking the court to declare Trump's firing order "unlawful and void" and affirm that she remains a board member www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/t...
It’s a little bit funny that so many people with influential platforms remain committed to the idea that Trumpism, as a political project, is mysterious and hard to pin down – while Trump himself constantly goes “Gotta protect the white real Americans from the black and brown hordes.”
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
Landlords say they can’t afford a rent freeze, but have $2.5M to give to Cuomo. Reminds me of corporations that spend millions to bust unions instead of just raising wages and offering benefits. Doing the right thing is always cheaper than the cost to block it.
I have a dream… That one day people will care about children the way they care about embryos.