Starmer: this is "incalculable damage"
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Starmer: this is "incalculable damage"
Those who are uncomfortable with this Labour immigration announcement, but think it's necessary to satisfy Reform voters, this is for you. You will not satisfy. You will never satisfy.
Enraging to have grown up around working class black people who came to the UK and broke themselves for it only to be told that their host nation still has “legitimate concerns” about them being there.
Appalling speech by Starmer. Dishonest, inhumane and most of all, cowardly.
Well so much for that “Brexit benefit”. Really didn’t last long.
Unimpressive that this is based on an overturned judgment - Blue Labour folks becoming Trumpian in their willingness to tell untruths about migration - rozenberg.substack.com/p/who-needs-it
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
It's interesting that Reform's councillor gains almost exactly equal Tory losses, and LibDem and Green gains almost exactly equal Labour losses.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says she will speak to Trump and the National Security team about whether the US can offer political asylum to British citizens fleeing UK free speech laws. Reality: UK law does not restrict free speech - only incitement to hate, violence and terror.
In the 1900s about 18% or nearly one in five American children died before their fifth birthday. Mostly from preventable infectious diseases. Today less than 1% of children die before the age of 5. If you think more kids dying is a moral good that's on you
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
Funny how the paperwork only matters when it’s a woman or minority voter.
"The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including legislation we inherited from the EU, which even the Tories promised to uphold." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
These cases will never survive federal courts overseen by federal judges...which means at some point I'm pretty sure they're going to resort to military tribunals or kangaroo courts in soccer stadiums
It's not even an exaggeration. The same guidance bans trans women from women's bathrooms and trans men from men's bathrooms. They then said trans women can be banned from men's bathrooms and trans men from women's bathrooms. Trans people literally cannot use any bathroom.
Maybe federal judges will realize it's time to stop dicking around and time to start throwing people in jail themselves.
They’re just joking, right? He has no plans to violate the constitution and try and stay in office, right? Right?
THE SOCIAL NETWORK was not harsh enough toward zuck
Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table Today, they are arresting judges Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress
"When an authoritarian tells you he’s going to do something, believe him. Each outlandish statement is a trial balloon, one step closer to action. And when people don’t push back...the boundaries...permanently shift." Vital piece:
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
Beyond parody headline in the NYT. Can't decide whether they're deliberately trolling us at this point, or whether they need to fire all their headline writers.
AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.
First they came for the innocent man deported to a Salvadoran gulag on an “administrative error” they falsely claim they’re powerless to reverse, flouting court orders even from the Supreme Court — and I spoke out, because I know how the damn poem ends.
The US and EU are both closing the loophole that allows substandard goods to be dumped without paying tax - harming consumers and local businesses. Why won't Labour? www.thetimes.com/article/f04d...
AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it
Not sure how these people sleep at night
Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.
He literally tweeted: This is a great time to BUY! Just hours ago. And then he paused tariffs. He’s literally committing crimes in front of the entire world. 😳
NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.
Karma-flavored ice cream is sooo delicious.
Tim Walz: "It's not a 'woke policy' to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch, and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true ... we got timid."
75%
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
You'll never guess which sector is the overwhelming funder of Wes Streeting...
“There is no reason why they’re being held,” the judge said. “If this was a criminal case. … I’d throw you out of my chambers.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Let me help: buy your own pint.
Fox News is now engaged in a 24 hour operation to convince Americans that invading Greenland is normal.
The kind of person that kills dogs.
He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com
In other words, kiss the military industrial complex goodbye. What allies in their right minds are going to buy THAT shit? I wonder how the military contractors & their congressional leeches feel about THIS.
AOC and Bernie are giving the Democratic Party a masterclass in leadership. They are willing to go to the people and hear them and speak to them. I don't understand Democrats who do not see the powerhouse in AOC. /1
Today on my LBC Sunday show I interviewed a former Trump adviser. She claimed that Putin wasn’t morally responsible for the war. I challenged her on that claim. She told me she didn’t like me and hung up. And they say the left are snowflakes. Watch the full interview here. youtu.be/tSsV7xyDyfY?...
Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand
AOC: We need to be taxing the rich on the floor of the Congress We need to be establishing guaranteed healthcare on the floor of the Congress We need to be passing a living wage on the floor of the Congress
It is costing you £20bn a year NOT to nationalise the water companies, and it is going to go up nearly 10% EVERY YEAR. All that money is stolen out of the UK to foreign tax havens. This is the cost that you cannot afford.
The world’s richest man had a trans child & decided to use all his power and wealth to wage a culture war to prosecute trans people and people who support trans people. He won’t succeed but he will cause a lot needless pain and suffering when he could just go to therapy and spare us all the trouble.
The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose: If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
That will be a short statement then
The wealth of the richest 1% is increasing by 10% (£250bn a year). Meanwhile everyone else is getting poorer. Why is taxing the rich the ONLY thing that isn't on the menu?
'We're cutting state support to push you into work and raising the taxes that reduce the number of jobs for you.' on.ft.com/4itGYyf
NONE of this is normal
It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
WOW! AOC and Bernie Sanders just held the Biggest political event in Denver since Obama 2008.
❤️BREAKING❤️ - Bernie Sanders before 20k People in Tucson: "They have the wealth. They have all the money in the world. They have the power. They have the media. But you know what they don’t have? We’ve got 20,000 people here in Tucson and we got 100's of millions of people all across this country."
This man is diagnosably, mentally ill.
It doesn't matter if it is Rwanda, or Balkans, it doesn't matter if it is classed as offshoring or outsourcing and it doesn't matter if it is Tories or Labour doing it, shipping people who were seeking safety to a random third country is inhumane, and potentially illegal. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan. No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.
Statistically most will be recognised as needing asylum and granted it. We continue to have an asylum system which defaults to disbelief, which leaves people seeking safety without protection, and a government which refuses to see those seeking asylum as people. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...
We’re out and about across the UK today to tell MPs and constituents that our country is missing out on £460m a week without a wealth tax. Rachel Reeves doesn’t need to make cuts, instead she can tax the richest people like us to build a better Britain. #TaxOurWealth
I mean.
“‘I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days.’”
Please Like Me
Come on Starmer! Wake up and tax those who can well afford it. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
One of the best photos I have seen in response to “why don’t you wear a suit”
being the richest person in the world and the president of the united states can’t even stop this guy from continuing to crash out
For all those people who think “the left got more radical,” this is what the evolution of the GOP has looked like over the past few years.
WWII Navajo Indian Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women and black pilots from WWII and a black Medal of Honor winner. The history of the US military is now white males only www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE! Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin Visit www.takedowntesla.com
People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!
An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
No lie detected…
This is so good.
after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
Question- why hasn't Michelle Mone been prosecuted for fraud yet? I thought Rachel Reeve was going after PPE fraudsters once Labour were in power, has she forgotten?
So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
NatWest wants to increase CEO pay from £5.4m to £7.7m, 43% increase. Govts tell workers wage rises are inflationary, but don't curb exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. Reckless risk-taking boosts executive pay and shareholder returns. People pick up the bailout tab.
Gangsters. The US government is no ally of Europe. We should fight Russia off ourselves and give the US nothing.
What an international embarrassment our government of frauds and grifters is.
Our new report: the world's most convincing fake company - and how it tried to seize a gold mine in Ukraine That leads to 60 fake companies, £300bn of fake gold & even a fake country. With backing from the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, Nadhim Zahawi and Baroness Mone. All fake.
It’s absurd that there is not a serious conversation about Universal Basic Income. The people “taking the mickey” are those like the water companies.
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.
Pushback against Trump Tariffs coming thick and fast. China is filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization and taking retaliatory measures. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a 25% tariff on $155 billion worth of goods from the US. 1/2
Lots of stupid in this rant. There is, however, one admission. The pain will be real. It's coming.
