Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault Brand was accused of raping women in a hotel room, in a bar toilet and at his London townhouse. He sexually assaulted women *in front of his entourage* at their workplaces, incl. a radio station & TV studio. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault

Judge says actor and comedian faces ‘significant custodial term’ after being convicted of raping a woman and assaulting three others

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Mahmood's anti-refugee policies are utterly abhorrent and indefensible. They fundamentally undermine the very principles of refugee protection, and place vulnerable individuals in even more precarious positions. They are a sickening example of Labour hostility. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Mahmood accused of hardening rules for 200,000 successful asylum applicants

People previously told they could apply for indefinite leave after five years now come under 30-year ‘earned settlement’ plan

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Can the @greenparty.org.uk please challenge Labour on why elderly people & the rest of us are still being given handwashing guidance for a virus we contract by breathing it in. The Covid inquiry stated the guidance was incorrect months ago. It’s long overdue!

The destruction of USAID by this monster has already resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands, most of them children. It will take many years to rebuild and all trust has been lost. He should be in jail.

NPR@npr.org · 16h ago

Democrats are likely to launch investigations into Musk's influence, including his leadership of DOGE and government contracts n.pr/4zkIQRz

They should build a statue of him stood on a massive pile of dead children, as a constant reminder of his arrogance and cruelty.

NPR@npr.org · 16h ago

Democrats are likely to launch investigations into Musk's influence, including his leadership of DOGE and government contracts n.pr/4zkIQRz

Reminder: @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social doesn’t support abolishing ice or Medicare for all (anymore). He also has been backed by AIPAC, takes private meetings with Kushner This is really @TheDemocrats best option for speaker?

So at Winter peaks we are looking at hospital DAILY admissions from COVID infections of being around 400 people in a single day. Imagine the strain this is causing and every time person who comes onto a ward isn’t now isolated and it’s airborne, so infecting staff and everyone else around.

Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 21h ago

Daily number of patients admitted to hospital with COVID. An ongoing burden due to lack of preventions.

Investigations & accountability? Yes. Structural reforms like growing the court & nuking the filibuster? Yes. Restoring federal scientific institutions & research? Yes. Building the shit out of clean energy? Yes. Taxing the rich? Yes. Do it all, at once, push on every front, always be pushing.

Today’s climate dashboard. Use the expletive or expletives of your choosing. #ClimateCrisisIsNow

That’s the thing. DOGE didn’t dot any i’s or cross any t’s. They ransacked the govt illegally, destroyed careers, got many people killed, then burned all the documents on the way out the door. Demanding criminal investigations — including of libertarian-god-king Elon — is the moderate position.

“The children in these households face severe deprivation, with long-term effects on their health and wellbeing” Mahmood and @andyburnham.bsky.social should read these letters and explain to us all why they intend to treat people in such a cruel and arbitrary way www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Why the UK settlement rule changes are unjust | Letters

Letters: Readers question the motives and fairness behind Shabana Mahmood’s new immigration proposals

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“Revealed: Britain's contracts with [Peter Thiel’s] Palantir hit £1bn *** Newly surfaced disclosures reveal the government has spent or agreed to spend at least £992m with Peter Thiel’s controversial AI company – as pressure mounts on Andy Burnham to block them. Max Colbert reports” 10/2/26 … 1/

Revealed: Britain's contracts with Palantir hit £1bn

Newly surfaced disclosures reveal the government has spent or agreed to spend at least £992m with Peter Thiel’s controversial AI company – as pressure mounts on Andy Burnham to block them. Max Colbert...

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If she loses to Scott Colom, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith will have helped set her own defeat in motion. He'd likely be a federal judge right now—not her opponent—if not for the fact that she blocked Biden's nomination of him over his support for trans rights. www.mississippifreepress.org/sen-cindy-hy...

Sen. Hyde-Smith Blocks Biden Judge Pick for Mississippi Over Trans Rights, Soros

U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is blocking Scott Colom’s nomination to serve as a federal judge, citing trans rights and George Soros.

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The FRAGILITY of these people. I just can’t help but laugh at how little it takes for them to fall completely apart. The reality is they are absolutely fucking terrified and desperately posting through it. It never occurred to them they might face consequences.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · 11h ago

Laura Loomer for the past 24 hours

As the Palestine Action appeal took place at the Supreme Court in London, pro-Palestine activists have blockaded the entrance to Leonardo's Edinburgh weapons factory over its links to Israel www.thenational.scot/news/2669757...

Pro-Palestine activists blockade major Scottish arms factory with links to Israel

Pro-Palestine activists have blockaded the entrance to a Scottish weapons factory with links to Israel

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Useless, smug and ready for replacement.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 18h ago

Sen. Chuck Schumer tells reporters that he believes he will be re-elected as Senate majority leader even though some newly elected Democrats have signaled they would not support his leadership.

RFK needs to be removed immediately. That lying, grifting weirdo should never have been given the job (i'm looking at you, Bill Cassidy). www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

Democratic doctors win big in 2026 midterm elections

A political action group says Congress now has a new mandate against Health Secretary RFK Jr.

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Also: IMPEACHMENTS ARE A CHANCE TO MAKE THE CASE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. You don't just try to impeach, say, RFK Jr to remove him. You also do to it to have a high-profile, nationally televised accounting of exactly how many people he's gotten killed.

Zander Furnas@alexanderfurnas.com · 22h ago

because impeachment hearings are still good politics!

This may sound crazy to some, but Trump has shown repeatedly that when something is popular he is afraid to push back. Democrats should go in with the assumption that popular policies like universal healthcare can not just be passed, but also not vetoed.

It's official. Judge Sarokin has dismissed the criminal case against Ksenia Petrova (frog embryo researcher) rather than hand over discovery ordered on her vindictive prosecution motion.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 2d ago

Petrova is a Russian dissident and Harvard researcher who was criminally charged with smuggling clawed frog embryo samples after she challenged her ICE detention. Earlier this month, the district judge granted discovery on Petrova’s selective or vindictive prosecution motion…now feds drop the case.

The day after winning election, Senator-elect Peggy Flanagan called for Chuck Schumer to be replaced as the Democrats’ leader in the U.S. Senate.

AOC crushed it

That time when Tommy Robinson went to a Muslim country which he claims he hates and got embarrassed by a Muslim boxer who he daren't punch because he'd get battered. So funny.

AOC would make an excellent Speaker of the House. The contrast with mealy-mouthed Mike Johnson would be breathtaking.

My lord no. Not a single soul in Canada will trust anything America has to say on any subject until every criminal politician is prosecuted, ICE is utterly destroyed and you put safeguards in place to prevent all of this happening again. And even then, it’s not a done deal.

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · yesterday

Hey Canada and the world and Ukraine, We’re back. Sorry about that. -America

Yesterday, voters made it very clear that they want a new generation of Democratic fighters. We need a leader in the Senate who is capable of leading that fight. It’s time for Senate Democrats to choose new leadership.

Number one priority on day one is to begin demolition of that bloody ballroom. Take Trump's name off of every single thing he's put it on. Release *every single one* of the Epstein files and fast-track that fucking orange sex pest into a prison cell where he belongs.

Lame Cuck President.

After wasting almost half a billion dollars supporting Republicans in the midterm elections, tech oligarch Elon Musk is having trouble digesting the Democratic landslide. https://mrf.lu/2Vkj_

Elon Musk Spirals Over His Failure to Buy Elections

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Donald Trump achieved something remarkable in the midterm elections: he united much of America in rebuking his presidency. These six charts explain how the Democrats won

The Democrats’ extraordinary triumph, explained

Six charts show how they came out on top

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