🇪🇺🏴🏴🏴🇬🇷🇨🇾🇨🇴🇪🇸🇿🇲 Proudly Woke AF! Unaligned aka Miguel Suárez Smiz, Hassan Abu Alawad, Mike Spiro, Stavvy @MiguelSmizSuarez@libretooth.gr
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@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…” Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform. Do we have to keep doing this?
'You can blame this government all you like for not handling this issue, but the issue became out of control under the Conservative
“This is not simply that Donald Trump has put only one Black person in his cabinet. It’s that Donald Trump has gone out of his way to find some of the most unqualified and ill-equipped people to put in those jobs as a way to actually avoid having to put Black people in his cabinet.”
Fatality.
🚨NOW 405 DAYS since our nuclear test veterans - national heroes in their eighties - requested a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss how he will honour the commitment Labour made to their campaign for justice and compensation in opposition youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...
"Spain’s economy is outpacing its European neighbours, with GDP expected to grow by 2.5% this year, far surpassing the economies of Italy, France and Germany, which are poised to expand 0.7%, 0.6% & 0% respectively." via @spottednewsoff.bsky.social
“Our study shows that scholarly posts on Bluesky are not only more original but also receive stronger engagement than on X, already making it a credible platform for science communication" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Labour are also REALLY shit at comms. Things like this are getting totally eclipsed by the flag nonsense and the phoney ECHR debate.
How did we ever survive, let alone become the strongest economy and military power in the world, before his tariffs?
Germany resumes resettlement of Afghans over legal pressure
Not in our name: the flag belongs to us all The far-right does not have an exclusive claim on our national flags.
ADAM Her name was Paige Chivers She was just 15 She was groomed, abused and kiIIed by a member of Tommy Robinson’s EDL party. Another member of Tommy’s party helped dispose of the body. There were no riots. No marches.‘Tommy’ was silent, he didn’t even ask for donations RIP Paige
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.
I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children. They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
The President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the orange felon a Russian asset in a live televised speech. Well done, this is how you do it. 👏
#joinaunion
They're both lying to you.
Oops! Well, this is awkward 😊 YouGov survey shows shift in attitudes to Brexit debate & suggests Nigel Farage’s continued hostility towards the EU is not even landing with his own partys supporters 55% of Reform UK voters want a permanent youth mobility scheme for young people in the UK and Europe
The absence of Canadians has been felt acutely in the United States, especially in cities like Seattle close to the northern border. And Canadians aren’t the only international travelers skipping the US. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/31/t...
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in many of the UK’s problems - it’s time UK news shows and Labour started pointing that out youtu.be/be3b8RkMqvs?...
Utter madness
#JoinAUnion
Kem Badenoch basically admitted that Better Together was a fecking lie, Westminster is incompetent & has mismanaged Scottish Oil by using the Norwegian comparison. She's also seems to be stealing #ScottishIndependence arguments to try and boost her crap party's popularity but substituting 🏴 for UK
- ¿Si eres comunista por qué tienes un iPhone? - Y tú ¿Si eres capitalista por qué tienes derechos laborales?
“What shall I tell Her Majesty her Secret Intelligence Service [SIS] is for?” he asked. “Please tell her”, replied Sir Gerry, “it is the last penumbra of her Empire.” And there's the problem in one. www.economist.com/britain/2025...
NEW: A federal judge ordered an Arkansas school district to take down Ten Commandments displays in its classrooms following our lawsuit.
The United States of America will be Trump's 7th bankruptcy.
Franse militair opperbaas legt het glashelder uit: Burkhard described a world defined by 4 political factors: 1. Use of force to resolve conflicts; 2. Push by countries including China, Russia, North Korea and Iran to challenge the West; 3. Power of information warfare; 4. Impact of climate change.
Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."
www.axios.com/2025/08/25/h...
The govt has denied this had influence on their decision to prescribe Palestine Action a terror group but it doesnt read well Arms lobby group urged the UK & Scottish Govs to crack down on Palestine Action more than a month before the group was proscribed, documents released to The Ferret reveal
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is. The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.
What this means in reality: there simply aren't enough people being born to take care of you when you're old. That's both physically caring for you (nursing etc) and financially (paying the tax that funds your pension). Mathematically, both will be impossible.
But still, they stay on X… Brexit prejudice and lies, the ‘legitimate concerns’ bullshit and allowing social media sites to become cesspits of radicalisation and conspiracy theory… have all led to this dismal place. A total failure of politics and journalism. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The Bull by Pablo Picasso
The 2nd bomb struck the same spot on the 4th floor as the 1st, after rescue crews had arrived. A video later showed a pile of bodies lying where the journalists & civil defence workers were standing at the moment of the strike. Double tap on a hospital & journos. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
Vance pretends to be ignorant about basic history ("all wars end in negotiation") and lies about things we all witnessed a week ago ("Ru made serious concessions") to promote Ukr surrender. One can hold his political position for wtv utilitarian reasons but pushing it w such lies is moral turpitude.
JD Vance, "Should Russia have started the war? Of course they haven't" Then dismisses Russia invading Ukraine 3.5 years ago
"What we've found are structures where dense sand has sunk into lighter sediments that floated to the top of the sand, effectively flipping the conventional layers we'd expect to see and creating huge mounds beneath the sea." www.sciencealert.com/giant-chunks...
Think curry is a post-war import? Think again. Victorians were simmering vegetable curries long before chicken tikka masala became Britain’s favourite dish. We tried one of their recipes from 1901 from the Audley End House kitchens and it tasted great! Here it is ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk
"I saw nothing but concrete and bars; today is my second birthday," said the former mayor of Kherson. Photo before and after Russian captivity where he spent 3 years.
This is a good article from @bearlypolitics.co.uk albeit surely uncomfortable reading for everyone on all sides in the UK. Firstly, we should all admire the directness and economy in his writing. 1
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement
Political exploitation of abuse survivors Survivors of childhood abuse have become a political and economic ‘growth industry’, but at zero benefit to themselves By Maria Rosewood @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
🚨 Doctors were not allowed to treat people being held in detention. Unacceptable.
Britain is grappling with its highest-ever number of asylum applications, official data showed Thursday, as a political storm brews over the temporary housing of thousands of migrants in hotels. u.afp.com/SQKE
Timothy Snyder's reflections on history in his book On Tyranny provide an excellent lens through which to view the dangers of modern tyranny @garygilligan.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
In case you missed it, this is fucked www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
The last two weeks have been a time-wasting pack of lies from both the US and Russia. Europe needs to move on, fast.
"see a lot of actors — based on this monetization of platforms like X — are using AI to produce content that just seeks to maximize attention. So misinformation, often highly polarized information — as AI models become more powerful, that content is going to take over." futurism.com/social-netwo...
Las empresas españolas empiezan a moderar sus márgenes de beneficios a medida que la subida de los precios se va frenando. Lo hacen tras varios años de inflación desbocada, en los que muchas compañías engordaron sus resultados hasta niveles récord social.elpais.com/10ihu5
From putting rare species at risk by ditching the habitats directive to failing to keep up with chemicals regulations that keep people and wildlife safe, here are some of the areas in which the UK has fallen behind. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
King’s College London team of scientists discovered that keratin produces a protective coating that mimics the structure and function of natural enamel when it comes into contact with minerals in saliva. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/toothpa...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe. ⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️ She was there before Little Richard, Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars.
Russia is developing an automated control system to support China's amphibious operations against Taiwan, leaked documents from the BlackMoon hacker group reveal. Russia's Rosoboronexport has signed a €4.284 million contract with China's CETC International Co Ltd. (Vanguard Intel)
Sally Rooney ha anunciado que utilizará sus ingresos por derechos de autor para financiar a Acción Palestina, declarada grupo terrorista por el Gobierno británico, y "toda acción directa contra el genocidio de cualquier modo que pueda"
The country is really against this president, by large and increasing numbers.
Russians flying both Russian and American flags in Ukraine
Beating even his Brexit success.
A murderous dictator has kompromat on the US President and is making him do his bidding. The Cold War never ended for Vladimir Putin. What is happening to America right now is his greatest triumph.
IEA: Renewables Will Be World’s Top Power Source "by 2026" - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/08/18/i...
Reform UK mayor saying she doesn't like Trade Unions. At least she's being honest! Reform UK are not for the workers, they are for the oligarchs.
A man who worked for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and his family could be eligible for asylum in Canada — but ICE won’t release them.
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I love this creativity and technology. A solar powered train. I’d love to have that here in the United States. A great step forward for Australia.
"They don't want us to succeed." Former Zelenskyy adviser Alexander Rodnyansky tells Matt Frei Russia's intentions are "extremely evil" when it comes to Ukraine, and it wants a peace deal that would cause chaos in the country. Read and watch here: www.channel4.com/news/lot-of-...
Refugees are a scapegoat. The real threat? Rising violence against women, and politicians eroding human rights
She has vowed to fund the world's only non-violent terror group x normalislandnews.substack.com/p/sally-roon...
Good to hear @eddavey.libdems.org.uk keep the door open to supporting some sort of digital ID. After working in social housing it would hugely benefit disadvantaged people who have difficulty proving their identity. Imagine if the Windrush generation had been given an ID proving their rights.
A record 383 aid workers were killed in 2024, the United Nations said Tuesday, branding the figures and lack of accountability a "shameful indictment" of international apathy – and warned this year's toll was equally disturbing. u.afp.com/SQ7x
I believe this is the only known use of Juan Guzman's famed Marina Ginestà photo during the Spanish Civil War itself, an image which has come this century to represent more than any other the revolutionary hopes of 1936. CP magazine Pasionaria, 23 October 1937. Via Gabriela Cladera, FB.
If I were an American yesterday and I watched 8 strong, intelligent European leaders and my President around a table I’d have gone to bed embarrassed and ashamed. I know that because I remember deeply my shame watching Johnson, Truss and Sunak belittle my country.
Farage previously said politics should be kept out of football, now he's doing the exact opposite leftfootforward.org/2025/08/nige...
Here's another one. This is the first study to reveal an asymmetry in the neural empathy response as a function of political ideology. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37217192/
Researchers found there was a significant, positive relationship between the two, concluding that highly sensitive people are more likely to experience depression and anxiety compared to those who are less sensitive. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Not quite on the scale of the Gigawatts China is installing, but still very impressive and much needed to help balance the grid. Fab news on his Tuesday morning, see, it's not all doom and gloom. www.nationalgrid.com/national-gri...
Some #goodnews to start the morning. With my #tea. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
The mainstreaming of British fascism.
Russian tanks are now flying the American flag. Disgraceful.
He's desperate for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Why does he keep saying he’s ended six wars? What the hell is he talking about?
What with Agent Krasnov bowing down to Putin & handing him Ukraine on a plate here's a timely reminder as to where our own Lord Haw Haw's allegiances lie. Do not be fooled by the #ReformSpivs who'd sell us out to US who in turn would sell us to Russia
Can any sharp Reform voter identify which boats these things entered the UK on?
🚨 Tim Hilton of Refugee Action: “There is no credible evidence that people seeking asylum commit more crimes, and any data suggesting that must be viewed in the context of systemic bias”. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/12/asylum-seekers-leaders-sexual-offences-women-girls
Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
The ugly face of racism.
“Concerned parent” or psychopathic weekend dad with a supervised visits order in place?
Rare bit of good news, there's hope. “People have come back to reading and buying books in bookshops as we have made a place which is an enjoyable and effective way to buy books,” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
2015: Marco Rubio says that Putin will try to divide the US from Europe 2025: Putin trying to divide the US from Europe
Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2014, when the world refused even to recognize russian aggression. Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2022, when the world expected us to fall in 72h. Ukrainians won't surrender in 2025, either. For us, freedom and sovereignty are not empty words.
This is what moral clarity looks like x www.normalisland.co.uk/p/police-con...