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The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No kidding.
We need these laws and Conventions more than ever! The international UN backed worldwide obligations and protections for Human Rights are being flouted by Dictatorships and the judges attacked by rogue govt’s. Authoritarianism is rising the law is our last respite!
Anyone who is familiar with Gilbert & Sullivan lyrics may be acquainted with the term.
Like he cares. He was told Brexit would undermine the GFA. He'll let someone else clean up the mess, eventually.
If only MSM would shut Farage up about leaving the ECHR. They need to lecture him on how difficult it is to leave the ECHR without breaching or re-negotiating the GFA. davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...
Hauling the Overton window rightwards.
The far right are a bunch of hypocrites, Ex-BNP Lee Twamly faces conviction for illegally smuggling migrants across the channel! Twamley is also part of the 'Raise the Flag' movement. These people don't have a leg to stand on, they are common racist criminals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvpg...
Refuk repeatedly argues for protection of free speech, of which the ECHR is the key protector. Its leaders backed Brexit, which meant leaving the Dublin convention, which has led to increased small boat crossings. They push against the very policies protecting them from things they most fear.
The ECHR alone provided redress to victims of crime failed by public inquiries, such as the Hillsborough disaster or John Worboys' victims (the black cab rpst). Our Government must defend our membership of the ECHR, loudly and proudly. Without it, we're all less safe.
The fact that Farage is going up in the polls after the evident failure of Brexit is on a par with Americans re-electing Trump after the evident mess of his first term. Are both the result of a segment of the population living in a disinformation bubble?
Just looking at who is pushing for ECHR withdrawal should be enough to confirm that we should fight to stay in
Is his job to make sure there is a suitable amount of anti-DEI/LGBTQ+ bias in their AI coding?
" This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on who will be helped politically by the president's action."
Carney less inclined to appease Putin, so there's that.
Putin. Trump. We have to support our Constitutional rights that the Roberts’Court is not. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Polanski shares Corbyn and Sultana's desire to get the UK out of NATO and to appease Putin by giving him Ukrainian territory, so at least there's some common, if poisoned, ground.
In a nutshell!
It's weird the way he's been pretty robust in standing up to Putin but so inclined to equivocate when it comes to Putin's domestic henchman, Farage.
Georgian democracy is being crushed. This is what happens when Russia's friends take power. Let us in the UK be warned. If Farage takes power, our only constitutional safeguard is that the House of Lords can delay legislation for one year, but the PM can pack the Lords with new loyalist peers.
That said, I've been around people who worked for Human Rights Watch in Chile during the Pinochet years and paid the price and war photographers who had just covered the Shatila massacre and boy, did they have jokes. Dark jokes, but good ones.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
" Bone-petite"? Like some weird hybrid of Bonaparte and apétit.
When these Elon supporters say foreigners not welcome, they don't mean white, English-speaking foreigners. Those are fine.
True. The day of the inauguration, I posted Life During Wartime and suggested this would be the soundtrack for the next few years. This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0DpBnUznd0
I have to say, I do feel Bluesky is a little short on jokes. That's primarily what I miss about the old Twitter.
And everyone whose sense of self needs reinforcement, like politicians.
That ship sailed a few years ago. Here he is in 2012. Even by 2016 he couldn't speak this coherently and his vocabularly had shrunk dramatically. soundcloud.com/iaindale/iai...
I was joking. The phrase is generally an ironic way of saying you're being unusually forthright.
Who does that? Well, Stephen Miller's favorite regime went in for it quite a bit...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
I think it is somewhat unhelpful to, instead of encouraging a step - however small - in the right direction, immediately respond with "but why haven't you done more"? Positive reinforcement changes behavior more than rebukes (which I'm sure you as a Mom know all too well).
US v. dependent on intelligence supplied by Mossad, hence pussyfooting.
CNN: “250+ news outlets from over 70 countries will simultaneously black out their front pages and website homepages, and interrupt their broadcasting to condemn the murder of journalists by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.” www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/m...
Keanu Reeves? Alex Winter? Perhaps you're too young.
This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. This Labor Day remember the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights we enjoy today. #UnionStrong #HappyLaborDay #NoGodsNoMasters
Priorities, people! There's a border fence that needs to be painted black!
I *loved* Phantom Thread and dozed off during Punch Drunk Love, but that may be because I have a low Sandler tolerance (15 minutes).
A very clear roundup of the corruption of the presidency as of June. It’s already much worse now, and there is no recourse since the Calvinball Court declared this president to be a king. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-maki...
I'm sure Zelensky completely agrees with you 🙄.
But tell us what you reallly think.
Not forgetting Bill and Ted fans.
See also Rupert Murdoch. And Peter Thiel. "No, not THAT kind of immigrant!"
Madness. Lie down and let the bulldozer run over you, why don't you?
NEW: Bluesky is becoming place to discuss scientific research - it gets more proper engagement & attention, new study finds. For all the talk of decline - borne out by several metrics - the science community seems to have adopted Bluesky more than others. Story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Musk on why he backs Tommy Robinson & Advance UK, seeing Farage as much too soft on proposing 600k deportations, rather than millions of legal migrants
Elon Musk is a radicalised extremist openly championing the most racist faction who would deport the Foreign Secretary, the Leader of the Opposition, the Justice Secretary and the last Prime Minister The govt silence about such a level of extremism is craven: infinite tolerance of racial hatred
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
You'd think a competent Director of Comms would be on top of this and engineer a migration.
I understand (though I do not accept) the government's case for remaining on X. What is totally indefensible is the *exclusive* presence of many MPs & departments on that site. They are handing a monopoly of key government communications to a site that's increasingly run by & for the radical right
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
10 followers. This may not be your spiritual home. Go back to Twitter indeed.
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Actively promoting a breakdown of law and order.
I think not. Once you make it paid for, you are really limiting the framework of discussion to people with a certain amount of disposable income.
"some sort of universal social media where we build our own connections independent of platforms" - ie, IRL
Having a bad day?? Here's a pick me up... 😊 #bluesky #nature #babygoats
Trump's claims of ending wars ( 6 to 10 he claims? ) are FALSE, according to recent media fact-checks. His specific claim regarding a 35-year war in Congo & Rwanda involving machetes is demonstrably false. India & Pakistan say Trump did NOTHING. Like always, Trump self-aggrandizes for a Nobel prize.
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.
Divide and conquer and distraction from who's really taking all the money, just like they planned it.
They've moved on from blaming everything on three-letter acronyms (WEF, WTO, DEI) to four-letter acronyms. I always like to remind them that none other than ur-English icon Churchill was a key force in drafting the ECHR.
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
Plus he is the world's most self-important blowhard. To see him is to want to pie him.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Imagine when the likes of Erdogan are occupying the moral high ground over the US. This is what Trump has brought us to.
I agree they should be more robust and forceful. The Mail etc are going to condemn them as raving Socialists anyway, so they might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. Also, I hope the left can bring itself to condemn Putin instead of the usual deafening silence. fullfact.org/government-t...
What a gurning malevolent cunt he turned out to be, really.
And similarly, the left of the Labour party would rather lose a GE than let the centrist wing keep power in the party again (as this whole thread amply demonstrates). Big winner: N. Farage.
Nigel Farage has been accused of skipping Parliament for two days to badmouth Britain and help Donald Trump meddle in UK politics www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Although the Kurds might justifiably think this is a case of a somewhat-less black pot calling the kettle black.
And people they considered "mentally deficient".
Yeah, European allies should really stop bombing Ukrainian civilians and demanding Ukraine hand over the Donbass without credible security guarantees /s
Yes, that's exactly what they want. The ruling class of 3rd World shitholes generally makes out like bandits, seizing control of the country's resources and not putting anything back in towards the general welfare (and using the profits to decorate their houses with ten tons of glitz).
As someone smarter than me said, a coup attempt that goes unpunished is just a rehearsal.
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And you can get he'll be getting a kickback from any contracts Eric Prince or some other warlord signs. Always, always about the grift.
And would be mystified by the phone. Why is it so big? Is that a phone or some sort of interplanetary transmission device?
Profiles in Pettiness.
For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?
It would be more surprising if he didn't do this.
Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives? Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
I have been posting along these lines all summer, just one lone voice so not much impact. All so reminiscent of the Brexit fear/disinformation campaign that got people to vote against their own best interests.
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
Via @jricole.bsky.social, grim look at for-profit prisons. Immigrant concentration camps with shareholders. www.juancole.com/2025/08/immi...
Journalists should see it, too. Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
Useful frame for understanding Trumpism from @aselrod.bsky.social: "It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists. Trump/MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Sourdough is the new smashed avocado. They really have it in for hipster breakfast ingredients.
The account from which Trump shared this QAnon image churns out an endless stream of material designed to drive race hate, antisemitism, fear & hatred of trans people, Muslims, etc. The message refers to "the Storm" of violence that QAnon cultists eagerly expect Trump to unleash.
I was on the Tube yesterday when it struck me that all the ads for upcoming theatrical productions, with the exception of James Graham's Punch, were for shows that were remakes or adaptations of existing IP projects 🙁
The far right's new poster boy 🤔 Their latest push online features Paddington!! Yes Paddington!! A fictional MIGRANT!! Bear from PERU!! An interesting choice for a poster boy. 🤷🤦🤣
Grift. All the way down. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Where did it all go wrong?
Not quite. The kindling is in place, just waiting for the match.
She was born under Russian fire. She died under Russian fire. Angelina came into this world in 2022 — during a Russian shelling. Yesterday, Russia killed her and her mother. They were among the dead in a missile strike on Kyiv. Another Ukrainian child who never knew peace.
