The Greens have now overtaken both the Conservatives and Labour, according to the latest polling average
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WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Fox News that a military draft is on the table.
Save The Music Boutique! Check out the appeal video, what a lovely place. They need to raise £56,789 by Monday! Stick in a little and pass it on. Be great for this to go viral please! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-music-...
Save The Music Boutique -You Give We Give !
Our aim is to raise as much of the target figure as possible to resolve the pandemic related debt, to save our magical little music school.
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Salford's Shelagh Delaney outside Wyndham's Theatre, London, where her play 'A Taste of Honey' is running, in 1959. Photo by Howell Evans.
‘Summarising the Israeli government’s position, Citrinowicz said: “If we can have a coup, great. If we can have people on the streets, great. If we can have a civil war, great. Israel couldn’t care less about the future . . . [or] the stability of Iran.’ www.ft.com/content/dd07...
Israel expects weeks-long war against Iran
Officials and analysts say joint operation with US seeks to destroy key capabilities of Islamic regime
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Amazon’s MGM studios spent tens of millions, but the documentary is projected to make just $1M in its first week. This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
Melania Documentary Flops as Crew Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Chaos
The first lady’s documentary was a mess in production—and now it’s struggling at the box office.
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To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
Philip Glass leading by example, withdrawing a premiere from the Kennedy Center
Vote Labour or the racists will get… oh hold on. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour’s Gorton and Denton byelection campaign hit by fallout from ‘vile’ WhatsApp chat
Exclusive: Report on six Labour councillors comes just weeks before byelection triggered by Andrew Gwynne’s retirement
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So Reform has no problem with a candidate who doesn't think Rishi Sunak is English, and effectively endorsed the neo-Nazis of the AfD in the last German election.
Pippa Crerar@pippacrerar.bsky.social · 7mo agoNEW: Former academic Matt Goodwin has been announced as Reform UK's candidate for the Gorton & Denton byelection.
Whether intended or otherwise, the administration sure looks as if it's engineering a decline in the dollar:
I just want to point out that Bovino's response to Bill gives away the underlying worldview: Sympathizing with (black and brown) immigrants over (white) American citizens makes you a (race) traitor, which makes you a part of the "problem" (and thereby deserving of same treatment as the immigrants)
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7mo agoHonored that in his last days of fame and fortune at CBP the disgraced Gregory Bovino chose to attack, among others, me.
I have never ever seen anything like this. I have seen communities organize around natural disasters in a somewhat similar way but obv that wasn’t 80% SECRET.
I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
‘The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order. Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.’ - Alvin Toffler
remarkable that media coverage of Trump’s ambitions for Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is failing to mention that Indigenous Inuit people make up 89% of the population
‘“I think Delcy is going to dance the tango with Team Trump and then she’s going to be stabbed in the back by Diosdado and Padrino López, and then Trump will be back in a kinetic sense.”’ www.ft.com/content/4b87...
The woman with Donald Trump’s nod to lead Venezuela
Washington has built its transition plans around vice-president Delcy Rodríguez, a canny operator close to the oil industry
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‘"If you look at what the national socialist party did in Germany… community organising, talking to people about local issues, not as politicians… that is what paved the way for them skyrocketing to the elections from 1929 onwards," [the former teacher] said.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC investigation exposes 'far-right' group in secret filming
Undercover reporter infiltrated far-right group and exposed group's extreme views in secret filming.
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West Berliners wave to their relatives on the other side of the Berlin Wall, Christmas 1961.
‘The murder of a British Asian prisoner by a racist gang member, after they were put in the same cell… ‘Sundeep Ghuman died in February 2020 after he was violently assaulted with a table leg by a member of the so-called Racist Army of Woolwich at HMP Belmarsh.’ www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/b...
British Asian prisoner murdered in London jail after being put in same cell as racist
The Ministry of Justice has said it is ‘leaving no stone unturned’ to make British prisons safe following the ‘horrible act of violence’
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‘Four former senior British Army officers have called on the government to impose a full arms embargo on Israel and a ban on involvement with any Israeli-owned or Israeli-supported defence companies.’ www.thetimes.com/article/ebbc...
Stop arming Israel, ex-senior British Army officers tell Keir Starmer
Letter to the prime minister calls for a ban on involvement with Israeli-owned or Israeli-supported defence companies during the war in Gaza
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Cut arms ties with Israel, say ex top army leaders because of war tactics employed in Gaza bit.ly/4qndzcn and objected to MoD saying they were similar to our own
Stop arming Israel, ex-senior British Army officers tell Keir Starmer
Letter to the prime minister calls for a ban on involvement with Israeli-owned or Israeli-supported defence companies during the war in Gaza
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Stephen Miller wants everyone at 60 Minutes who “engaged in this revolt” (aka told the truth) fired
I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas. That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform council’s plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people’
Announcement after proposed sale falls through prompts backlash and union says more than 200 jobs at risk
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Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.