Britain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.
Cllr Eric Hanvey
@erichanvey.bsky.social
Independent Cllr for Lisnasharragh on Belfast City Council. Non-practicing economist. Social Democrat with the emphasis on the Social. he/him
Worth remembering how mind-bogglingly recent the Magdalene Laundries were. The last one closed down on 25th September 1996, which means the Magdalene system outlived Tupac by two weeks.
Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin@miseryvulture.bsky.social · 19h agoThe last Magdalene laundry closed in my lifetime. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland in my lifetime. Access to condoms without a prescription in Ireland only came in 1985. We repealed the 8th. There's a lot of ways in which Ireland is still bad, but it is an entirely different country.
Absolutely astonishing Samantha Jones is the top health official and she is DIRECTLY benefiting from NHS and local authority ££££ That is WRONG - she must resign, this is called corruption @chpithinktank.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ea8c...
Companies linked to top health official and husband received £2bn in public contracts
Samantha Jones or spouse held financial interests in G Square Capital private-equity business
ft.com
Trump on Venezuela: "They had the tragedy the other day with the problem, as you know. That was a terrible problem. The uhhh, earthquake I guess you would call it." (The quake was in June)
New reports by anti-LGBT abuse charity Galop and the C of E have found religious homophobia is fuelling so-called gay conversion therapy. Yet such religious homophobia continues to be enabled by our charity sector and education system👇 www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/08...
Reports: Religious homophobia fuelling conversion therapy
Survivors subjected to violent exorcisms and homosexuality described as "demonic", "a sin", and a condition to be 'cured' Read More »
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Multinational corporations dodge $500bn tax by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Stifle social development. Need a simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper. UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr. Must check corporate abuse.
Countries to gain $500bn more tax a year under UN ‘pay-where-you-play’ plan - Tax Justice Network
UN tax convention commitment to scrap 100-year-old corporate tax approach will unleash new economic era without increasing taxes, experts say Countries can collect US$500 billion more in corporate tax...
taxjustice.net
Lobbyists for weapons, oil, tech billionaires demand bigger defence budgets new wars started and old ones prolonged sheltered by a psychopathic lack of empathy not caring how many people die "BP doubles its money to £4.3bn as Iran war sends prices soaring" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bp-d...
BP doubles its money to £4.3bn as Iran war sends prices soaring
by Ceren SagirSocial affairs reporterBP profits have more than doubled as the Iran war sends prices soaring, seeing the world’s five leading oil “supermajors” rake in a total $48bn (£35.7bn) in the se...
morningstaronline.co.uk
How fucked in the head do you have to be to oppose AIPAC on principle, yet be perfectly fine with antisemitism? Being against AIPAC doesn’t require tolerating antisemitism.
Israeli forces block a road with earth mounds during a raid on Qalandia refugee camp.
The White House Reflecting Pool may sound like one of the least important stories of the Trump era. But the Justice Department's failed prosecution of supposed "vandals" reveals something far more troubling: how political narratives pushed by Trump and his allies can become criminal cases.
The Small Cases Tell a Bigger Story
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Al (not ai) GDad1x7@gdad1x7.bsky.social · 15h agoDefeat the rich
Good thing domestic violence prosecutors don’t shrug their cases off as “a family matter” like Republican politicians. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRAJU: Sen. Moreno is calling for Max Miller to resign. Do you side w/Moreno? THUNE: It's a family matter &, um, I don't have any observations beyond that Q: If a member of Congress is facing domestic abuse allegations, should they continue to serve? T: It's a House matter. It's a family issue too
Patients are refusing to be treated by non-white healthcare staff. The Overton window has shifted too far right & taken this Labour Party with it. 2 years of Labour & no pushback in sight.
Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism
Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."
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It's weird living in the "just because someone is a nazi doesn't mean they're antisemitic, maybe YOU'RE antisemitic for pointing it out" era.
Elon Musk said lots of antisemitic things and shared lots of antisemitic posts written by antisemites and then sprinkled on some sugar with two nazi salutes on telly and Jonathan Greenblatt said "no he's alright, he isn't one" and now has spent over a year painting Zohran Mamdani as Hitler Part II.
Not before the party leader completely embarrassed herself. "Former neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Conservative election candidate" share.google/JrvamA9XRR3P...
Badenoch gives former neo-Nazi advisory role after he withdraws as Tory candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who was convicted of harassing Jewish MP, says Badenoch has asked him to work with party’s culture and integration commission
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This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
Whoever advised Max Miller to go on to Jake Tapper’s show secretly hates him. What a catastrophic interview
The U.S. House Ethics Committee said it had opened an investigation into domestic abuse allegations against Republican Rep. Max Miller as the embattled Ohio congressman faced pressure from Trump and escalating criticism from his former father in law, Ohio Sen. Bernie Morenohttps://to.pbs.org/4yXblFB
House Ethics Committee opens investigation into domestic abuse allegations against Ohio Rep. Max Miller
Before the Ethics Committee issued its statement Tuesday, Miller said he was requesting an investigation into the allegations by his ex-wife "to clear my name."
pbs.org
President Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
bit.ly
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
This is a new view of the bulldozed White House complex. The criminal monstrosity subhuman filth won’t stop until he destroys everything, makes me sick to my stomach.
I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
theguardian.com
Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.
What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.
I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d agoBREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...