Look at their faces. [Shudders]

Mirror Politics@politics.mirror.co.uk · 1h ago

An Oxfordshire village which could house more than 1,000 asylum seekers has voted overwhelmingly to become independent from the UK in a symbolic “referendum”.

There ain't gonna be an early election.

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 20h ago

File under: not good. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Have you spit your coffee out yet this morning? www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Ploughshares are ineffective as an air defence system

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

The 654th consecutive day of protests in Georgia.

Today I learned that the actor who plays Reacher is called Alan. Is this the first popular Alan since Alan Rickman? (Hoping that my name might eventually become a cool name.)

This was also the point at which I (in the UK) stopped thinking about USA's right wing extremist phase as a temporary aberration of a single leader and started thinking that democratic countries need to reorganise assuming the USA may be an opponent, if not outright enemy, to our democracies.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 3d ago

One thing I don’t think I realized fully at the time was what an impact Harris losing the popular vote would have, psychologically. I felt it even if I tried not to - the sense that America just wasn’t behind us, that it wasn’t worth fighting for things that Americans had rejected. Its bad…

🐦 In the birdsong game Dawn Chorus Quest we time travel to the solar punk era, when we've rewilded parts of our cities to welcome back the birds. "Not magic. Just gardening, at city scale, by people who care enough to try" says Pip bird-times.lovable.app #IndieDev #Gamedev #Rewilding #Birdsong

@alexwickham.bsky.social BREAKING: Reform UK have received £72 million in donations from crypto billionaires in 48 hours On Friday night Reform announced it had received a £36m donation from Ben Delo Now on Saturday they’ve announced a second £36m donation from Christopher Harborne

@joetidy.bsky.social I assume this account that followed me is a clone. Thought you'd want to know so as to report it. bsky.app/profile/offi... (Related: why don't big media orgs create their own servers so people would know @bbc.[whatever] are real accounts?)

An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich

I will miss Megan. Here's one of my favourite photos of her (far left, as always).

@leedsucu.bsky.social · 6d ago

We are devastated by the loss of our much-loved Megan Povey who died yesterday. She was stalwart member of Leeds UCU, and AUT before it, with decades of commitment to social justice, our union, and our wider movement. We opened this post to share memories of Megan: www.leedsucu.org.uk/megan-povey/

Fwiw, very much in a personal capacity, I don't agree with the TUC position. I think there needs to be a big increase in defence spending AND better public services, and I think ideally that should be paid for by wealth taxes. We're not living in peaceful times and the USA is adrift.

PoliticsHome@politicshome.bsky.social · 6d ago

The TUC gen sec has urged Burnham to “reject the right-wing argument” that he must choose between increasing defence spending and investing in public services @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social also called on Labour to reform the OBR, describing the watchdog as “a tool of austerity” and "a brake on growth"

Of course Kent police did nothing. Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses

This is brilliant! I wish I had thought of this when the UK government started banging on about British Values.

Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · last wk.

The urge became too strong.

Mischievously highlighting @emmaburnell.bsky.social's thoughtful @labourlist.bsky.social piece about disagreeing by persuasion rather than discipline. (Because very occasionally it feels like that.)

I’m not sure if it’s just poorly written up - I dearly hope so because this being the Home Office response is unspeakable - but this is indeed at the end of the Guardian article at present: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Far-right protesters descend on Portsmouth after small boat arrival

Influencer livestreams event calling for men to travel to port to block coaches carrying asylum seekers from leaving

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Declan Gaffney@greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · last wk.

Home Office response to Fascist thugs at Portsmouth, from Grdn.

Zia Yusuf reminds me of the guys who thought it was cool to hang around with the bullies at school.

Incredible war crimes, Incredible assassinations.

Dr. Michael MacKay@michaelmackay.bsky.social · 2w ago

Steve Witkoff addresses his true love, the war criminal Putin: "We were all talking about when we retire we'll have all these incredible stories and incredible memories and yours will be right at the top of it all."

Re. previous repost, obviously there's a genuine huge concern that age verification is trying to deal with. But showing your ID to tech companies is really not the way.

Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

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"Spontaneous protest" my ass.

Jonny Morris@jonnymorris.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is an open invitation for them to do this again - and elsewhere, and worse. It used to take Starmer a week to decide that, on balance, after a period of consultation, he was against far-right thuggery. I wonder if Burnham will be any quicker.

Childhood , when Russia is your neighbour . Kyiv , September 1 , 2026

Nadine Dorries interviewed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy on Channel 4 last night at Reform Party Conference. Nigel Farage is absolutely fine and actually laughing, not even worried, definitely. Original can be viewed here, it's quite a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Et3...

Our undercover reporter @scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal.

My general thought on this issue is people whose vote is motivated by racism, fear-driven cruelty and selfishness are way less concerned about the moral conduct of the people they elect than progressive and moderate voters are. Like highlighting a candidate's tax dodging doesn't bother tax dodgers.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm not sure if Farage is actually cooked or he is like Trump where these things that should ruin him can't because of his shamelessness propped up by incredible logroll of equally shameless capital.

Many of us on the left struggle with how the state should respond to right wing protests. They shouldn't soft pedal compared with how they treat progressive protests, but then we oppose how they treat progressive protests. If you oppose police involvement, is it for communities to police themselves?

Don't think of it as a protest, think of it as a "pre-riot"

“Legitimate Concerns”