Last April he wrote “It might seem counter-intuitive that the far right would carry out acts of terror under Trump”
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Last April he wrote “It might seem counter-intuitive that the far right would carry out acts of terror under Trump”
If you have 30 minutes, I recommend watching this video. I explain what Trump has in store for 2026 and how we can fight back. If you find it helpful, please share it with others. youtu.be/7PXQfDHr9Aw
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
“An act of political violence used to be met by a standard, reassuringly predictable response: the president would condemn it, grieve for the dead and their families, plead that there be no rush to judgment, and call for calm and for unity ……”
“After an act of violence, Democrats must be gracious, empathetic and call for calm on all sides, while Republicans can mock the victims, blame only one side and demand more violence.”
Unbelievable…..
My @cato.org colleague Alex Nowrasteh has great post on politically motivated violence in US, its (generally low) incidence, and who does it (9/11 dominates stats; otherwise right-wing violence much more common than left-wing & other since 1975): www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/politicall...
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
“Everything is ICE and all agencies are now just ICE hangers-on.”
You’d think the newspapers were there to give you facts and provide accurate information, but no, the opposite. It takes Emma Monk to do it.
Garage - “This Putin-loving, free speech imposter, and Trump sycophant”
Wow
Uncomfortable with a hotel in your street? Starmer: I get it Me: I wouldn’t mind. They are nice people and I feel sorry for them. What’s wrong with people!
When will BBC report this? Scientists have warned " Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. No longer low likelihood. Seems like a major story to me @bbcpaulmurphy.bsky.social
Distressing but important youtu.be/9pVbqwnmSuM?...
“It’s about interrupting our ability to have a fair and free election in 2026”
‘Programs for HIV prevention, overdose response, and smoking cessation are vanishing.’ ‘discontinuing routine tracking for pathogens such as Campylobacter, Listeria, and Shigella, which have long been associated with severe outbreaks.’
Stand Up to Racism groups do their best to represent the decent majority in Britain, but without local help it can be hard to muster the numbers to be everywhere You can help in many ways: in person, turn up locally + be counted (link) donate to help print leaflets share information directly
‘America’s trajectory feels more like Berlin circa 1933 than it does Budapest circa 2015.’ ‘exercising emergency powers in a moment where the only emergency is his own abuse of power.’ ‘masked men wrestle to the ground and abduct peoplewithout due process into unmarked vehicles, disappearing them‘
Hooray! This is what needs to happen everywhere - show them they’re a minority.
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
“The United States has the power to help, but that power must be consciously directed to the benefit of the side that is defending itself”
“armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages”
“Russians, including major figures in state media, routinely claim Alaska for Russia. As one of Putin's special envoys put it, Putin's journey to Alaska is a "domestic flight."”
Very distressing. I want an army to get them out like liberating the concentration camps in WWll
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a video of a Christian nationalist pastor who believes women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Trump and his inner circle want to replace democracy with a MAGA theocracy that would strip away our freedoms. Be warned. https://youtu.be/-XsORP-VuRI?feature=shared
📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.” Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:
Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...
Some people are so cruel. I’d like to hear more voices on MSM like the young woman from Barnsley “Immigrants make our society better” vm.tiktok.com/ZNdHG3645/
US Border Patrol Agents are vicious thugs. ‘grabbed the man by the neck in a chokehold’ “put your f*cking head down.” ‘the officers drop the man to the ground with a stun gun.’ Comparison with Emmet Till - not again, America, _please_
This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities."
A message from a New Yorker who was arrested while blockading ICE's headquarters.
“Trump’s secretary of education, professional wrestling promoter Linda McMahon” 😂
I was excited about the Borrow Box option but very disappointed at the limited book offerings
Daily life in Ukraine
MSM only reports the bad stuff. ‘Much of this would be broadly popular if widely reported’ ‘Much is boringly technical, and will only produce change in the medium to long term. And change is slow and difficult to see.‘
Omg, this is where it’s going…. “It is a politics, among other things, designed to draw businesses into a fascist order by normalizing dehumanization.”
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In the 21st century for heavens sake! This is is so backwards
Oh shit
Labour MP Olivia Blake, "Cutting people's benefits isn't going to stop the rise we're seeing" "What will help is rebuilding our mental health services, focusing on prevention, working with employers with being better at working with disabled people"
11 More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Wanted to Tell You About "While there are valid criticisms to make of this Government, it’s worth looking at many of the positive things they are doing too" bylinetimes.com/2025/07/01/1...
So much important information here. ‘of the approx 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult.’ ‘10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening.’
"What has the ECHR ever done for us?" 🤔 [SOUND ON 🔊]
‘Farage remains fundamentally incapable of building a team. That is why none of his past political ventures have endured.’ So many quotable facts in this piece…..
Ben Habib - gone Rupert Lowe - gone Zia Yusuf - gone If Nigel Farage can't even hold this tiny group together, imagine what a disaster he would be in government.
🚨🚨 #Russian armed forces have been “systematically” committing crimes against humanity by hunting civilians using remote-controlled drones, report by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on #Ukraine said today. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/russ...
Such stupidity
“Every authoritarian who successfully destroyed judicial independence did so because civil society failed to unite in time”. MAGA friends found guilty of fraud, bribery, tax crimes - pardoned! - but judges non-partisan and ruling against the administration 96%. It’s on a knife-edge.
An ex Israeli PM speaks. “What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination : indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal and criminal killing of civilians bsky.app/profile/oluf...
Conservatives and Reform would have us adopt the American insurance system of Health Care! Don’t let them!
The world must stand with Harvard. MAGA is trying to take over America's great universities. The Nazis did the same to Germany's world famous universities in the 1930s. #MAGAmerica
This is a good one. Lyndon Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ down the pan. America what have you done?
In case you missed it ... Here's proof that Brexit is directly responsible for the rise in net immigration. The simple truth is that we need foreign workers – and while EU workers generally came alone, workers from further afield need to bring their families with them. Otherwise, they won't come.
We need more people sharing the facts to counter all the fake news and othering from MSM and politicians. Well done @zoejardiniere.bsky.social
I did an update on who is seeking asylum in the UK 🧐 Are they all men? 🤔 What countries do they come from? 🤨 Why are only half of Afghans being recognised as refugees? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOc...
Another wonderfully succinct and helpful video from Zoe.
Can we see more of the compassion please (and less of the control)
So frustrating that Prasad gets away with it
Exactly! - “this debate has to take place on the basis of facts, or we risk dedicating huge amounts of energy and resources to fixing a non-existent (or barely-existent) problem.“
“And now, in 2025, the top health official in the United States, a man without degrees in either medicine or public health, appears to be rejecting germ theory and reshaping the nation’s medical system around his own dedication to a theory that was outdated well over a century ago.”
The whole picture is less alarming than media reporting would make you think
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Putting air filters in classrooms seems to reduce student sick days by more than 10 per cent.
Plus a nice restaurant, not a café, at La Piscine
I agree, take a bus, the gardens and grounds of the Abbaye Saint-André are beautiful and restful.
Patisserie Méert, chocolate to die for; Villa Cavrois, a tram ride away, glorious art deco restoration; La Piscine by train to Roubaix - superb.
1/ Here's a modest little project - a global campaign to eradicate tax havens. #PATH - People Against Tax Havens. If you like the idea, please repost and spread the news any way you can, and put #PATH in your name or profile.
“It is a prison where the only way out, in the words of El Salvador’s so-called justice minister, is a coffin.” “A prison where there is no education or remediation or recreation, because it is a prison that does not intend to release its inhabitants back out into the world.” Chilling.
“Americans who are summoned to kangaroo courts must understand the assignment: Do not be deferential. Do not cower. Whatever you turn over will be used against you, so fight accordingly—legally, as well as in the court of public opinion.”
'As I wrote a few weeks ago in the early stages of this crisis, “‘Disappearing’ people isn’t would-be-Orban-level abuse-of-power—this is Pinochet-in-Chile or Jorge Rafael Videla-in-Argentina-level abuse.” '
Exactly!
🚨 It’s official, Europe is the fastest warming content, confirmed by the new @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social report. ⚠️ 30% of rivers overflooding 🌪️ 413,000 people affected by floods & storms 🚒 42,000 by wildfires Now is not the time to backtrack. We need prevention & strong climate action.
Written by a man who knows “In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms, all of which were on display, incipiently, in the White House yesterday“
“When we have law, we are all stronger; when we lack law, everyone is weaker except for the very few who can direct the coercive power of the state against the rest of us.”
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
Please make it stop
Hideous and inhumane
No words…
90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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And that’s just one we know about, how many others
I changed to Vodafone last year via a switching site in order to NEVER have to speak to Virgin Media again. So many lost hours over the years negotiating contract fees down and them refusing to cancel tv
Fired Justice Department employee reveals that Trump officials tried to send armed officers to her home to intimidate her and her family: “I will not be bullied into concealing the ongoing corruption and abuse of power.”
I don’t believe he’s that good at golf
Last week, the President decided to go after the Smithsonian. His goal? To remove “anti-American ideology” from places like the National Museum of African American History. What he’s really trying to do is whitewash our history. This is why we march. This is why we fight. #HandsOff our museums!
Turns out you just have to SAY stuff and people believe you….
3 dead so far at Krome ICE detention center in Florida. Max capacity was 500, they have over 4,000 and not enough water and food. Reports say they get 1 cup of water per day. These are already death camps. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n... english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...
“A positive test for COVID-19 was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
What the heck happens next in USA? According to Chris Hedges, The Empire Self-Destructs. chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-empire...
He thinks money can buy him anything he wants. Please prove him wrong.
In the course of 26 years, Putin has broken 190 deals -military analyst Michael Clarke "The biggest one of all,I suppose,was 1994,the Budapest Memorandum,which is when Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons…, and Ukraine was the one country that could have used them," he said
‘Cohn was indicted four times from the mid-’60s to the early ’70s—for stock-swindling and obstructing justice and perjury and bribery and conspiracy and extortion and blackmail and filing false reports.’
Very interesting - what Trump owes to Roy Cohn ‘Cohn started representing the Trumps after the Department of Justice sued them for racist rental practices at the thousands of apartments they owned’