We have a real chance to elect Hannah Spencer as the Green Party’s 5th MP.
This by-election is clear: Green vs Reform. Graft vs grift. Hope vs division.
Join Hannah and @zackpolanski.bsky.social in Gorton and Denton this Saturday and help us make hope normal again ⤵️
Nice mix of #food tonight.
I put mint and dill in the guacamole. Bean salad, strawberry pineapple salsa, balsamic salad and the foods from packets were the chicken shawarma and corn wraps.
Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property
“great replacement” is a white supremacist conspiracy theory that has been cited in NUMEROUS mass shootings including buffalo topps and el paso walmart
furthermore, what we are seeing in MN is a direct result of that hateful racist rhetoric manufacturing consent and democrats should be saying that
"That's just not true, as you well know" -- Sen. Chris Coons is a bit taken aback after CNBC's Joe Kernen pushes the great replacement theory during an interview
ICE is not welcome here.
Want a sticker? Venmo [@]austinlouisray any amount of money and include your mailing address.
100% of the proceeds go to Minnesota mutual aid funds.
Let's do some good this week:
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Did some digging into a Carl Benjamin group and he and his many friends don’t hide their affiliations with international neo-Nazi groups (or even use basic coded language). Just open about it. Cool, cool, Birbalsingh and Benjamin, having fun together
Britain’s favourite head teacher here, a fixture on morning TV sofas and a regular for profiles, scare stories and opinion columns. She’s talking to who, now
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The BBC have responded to our letter with the usual talking points seen from them; they completely ignored the issues raised within our original letter. We have sent them a follow-up letter to push for a response to the important points we have raised.
We’ve sent a follow-up to the BBC Board over a month of silence on our formal complaint. It’s about a systemic pattern in BBC News reporting and the Board’s responsibility to address it, not deflect it.
💥 GOOD.
Because that £240 million contract gifted to Palantir, with no competition…
…after Starmer had an off-the-books meeting with Mandelson and Palantir…
…while Mandelson was officially LOBBYING FOR Palantir and so personally financially benefiting from such links and contracts…
Stinks.
In the wake of this, ICE and other murderous flag fucker news, would like to give a hearty FUCK nation states, and sincerely hope you join me in condemning nation states as an existential threat to our species.
Ordinary young people with ambitions and hopes. Imagine if they had been able to travel by plane, train or ferry as we take for granted. Cause of death: being prevented from travelling by normal means
Marketisation of public services in general is a disaster. The model just doesn't fit. It's fine if you're selling beer or shampoo, but not education, health, water or energy.
“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore
It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
Tomorrow's Premium: The Hater's Guide To Microsoft, a company experiencing the stagnation of all of its core products that's using OpenAI's billions in inference spend to cover up the collapse of Azure's growth.
Here's $10 off annual.
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Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe -
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
Bezos gets to choose on a whim to destroy the Washington Post, just as Thiel can destroy Gawker, Musk can ruin Twitter, Ellison can take over TikTok, etc. Millions of others' opposition counts for near nothing.
I realize this puts me in oft mocked MMT territory, but it seems to me the value of taxing the rich is not to fund government but to compress the wealth distribution, so as to ensure those up top are not so disproportionately wealthier than others as to be able to exercise vast undemocratic power.
The pattern goes like this: Public Figure A smears trans people, probably says horribly racist and/or antisemitic things, falls apart mentally, or some combination of all three. But transphobia is the gateway drug.
It is a well-trodden path from celebrity to nasty crank. trib.al/lfxm3qP
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs
1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--"
The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."
Trump's racist authoritarian government is brutalizing & torturing people including children & people with disabilities.
If you know any POC, care about or love anyone in a marginalized community, know they're at risk, citizens & non-citizens alike.
Speak out against #ICELawlessness
From Judge Blackwell: "If the Government undertakes an enforcement operation of this scale, one that results in the detention of large numbers of people, including individuals who are lawfully present in the United States, then the Government assumes a corresponding obligation to ensure that....
American economics and capitalism help create Jeff Bezos and Amazon. As a multi-billionaire, Bezos only cares about himself and his own wealth.
Bezos will happily watch our democracy and institutions burn to the ground while he joyfully plans his next penile implant, facelift and $50B yacht.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks#ProudBlue
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks#ProudBlue
I am waiting for those who wrap themselves in the blood of killed British soldiers to condemn this
Israeli forces have bulldozed part of a Gaza cemetery containing the war graves of British, Australian and other allied soldiers killed in the world wars
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
He‘s terrified he might get the same treatment Le Pen has received in France.
Sadly — and ironically — British institutions are far more cowardly when it comes to prosecuting politicians, than their French cousins.
Reasons to be cheerful: Palantir - founded & chaired by Peter Thiel and lobbied for by Peter Mandelson's Global Counsel - lost $40 billion in market value today.
Alabama has the worst maternal mortality in the United States at 60 deaths per 100K live births. For reference, California has 18 deaths per 100K live births.
But Dr. Oz thinks it’s “cool” that American citizens do not have access to good reproductive healthcare in the wealthiest nation in history.
Dr Oz: "Alabama has no OBGYNs in many of their counties, so they're doing something pretty cool. They're actually having robots do ultrasounds on these pregnant moms."
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We have 400 volunteers on the streets of Gorton and Denton today.
Labour are out of it. It's Greens vs Reform.
Lower bills, tax the rich, protect the NHS. We will win.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent.
Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.