Just another knuckle-dragging racist there Owen. He's not been "radicalised". We've always had these creeps in our midst. They're emboldened by the politics of white ethno-nationalism, so the racism is more concentrated, less apologetic, and mask-off moments more common.
Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 3d agoThey are radicalising people into extremism.
She says she will fight and stand up to Trump but can't even face down her constituents and critics. Looks like the wheels are coming off her campaign.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d agoMICHIGAN: @waltermasterson.bsky.social turns @haleyformi.bsky.social cancelling events because she’s afraid of him (calling her out for taking AIPAC money) into a chance to tell @npr.org about her corruption, lies and deception.
Impressive investigative journalism - well worth a read just to see how murky and opaque special interest campaign financing has become and how it degrades the democratic process. All the unanswered questions alone ought to disqualify Haley Stevens.
Noah Lanard@nlanard.bsky.social · 6d agoA mysterious group called the Center for Democratic Priorities spent $6.5 million backing Haley Stevens. Its sole director is "John Jones," the same name as a person tied to an AIPAC-aligned super PAC. I found many clues about who Jones may actually be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
As if Fifa weren't corrupt enough! A corruptible organisation will garner for itself a man with corrupt appetites to helm it.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 5d agoGianni infantino abandons plans to sell World Cup to private equity and Kushner/Trump family after massive pushback. The plan would have increased his pay packet from £4.5m to £47m. Such people can't protect the game or supporters. Sack the FIFA board.
Gibbins was only surreptitiously re-admitted back into the party at the start of the month too! Given Nigel’s take on the Green’s t-shirt “incitement to murder” - we can surely expect Farage’s full throated denunciation of Gibbins and expulsion, right? Right???
Victoria Derbyshire@vicderbyshire.bsky.social · last wk.The Newcastle Chronicle is reporting that a Reform UK councillor has been charged after posting a grossly offensive comment on X referencing Nigerians Glenn Gibbins is due to appear before South Tyneside Magistrates next month having been charged with an offence under the Communications Act 2003
She captures the demotic so brilliantly and beautifully!
Gary Buckley@garybuckley.bsky.social · last wk.© Elena Wuest. 'The Tangerine Hour.' Oil on canvas, 2026. 80 × 60 cm.
An absolutely essential and clear-eyed skewering of Musk and the fascist ideology powering his toxic politics. Europe would do well to reassess its own hand in allowing such a repulsive man, with such repulsive politics, to flourish unchallenged.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
Surfer impresses with fine form and winning smile!
WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 2w agoThis is Chubbers. He is catching a wave. But more importantly, catching a vibe. 14/10 (IG: nataliepaigebentley)
So many journalists busy today presenting a revisionist view of Starmer's woeful premiership. Thankfully, not George Monbiot.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2w agoApart from Blair, I can't think of a Labour leader who has done more than Starmer to create division and polarisation. Pandering to Reform on immigration, complicity in genocide, attacks on the right to protest ... Now he presents himself as a great healer. His speech was not "moving" but sickening.
Israel killed 8 and injured 20 just two days ago from firing a rocket at a funeral in Gaza. Daily violations of the supposed ceasefire w/ field executions, capricious, random targeting of civilians. The shameful indifference of western governments will be an indelible moral stain of history.
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 3w agoIsraeli strikes in Gaza City on Saturday killed at least nine Palestinians, including three children, hospital officials said.
Good. High time these two predators were brought to account.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3w agoA news release from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew Tate, 39, had been charged with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for
And this is who we want in the UK to handle highly sensitive and confidential patient health records and data at a cost of £350 million to the Exchequer??
NPR@npr.org · 3w agoThe revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn
An aggressive temperament, a propensity for confrontation and insubordination (so a loose cannon), and of course the perennial history of domestic violence - just the typical profile of an ICE thug in the Trump era!
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 3w agoWow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.
Andy took a look the rubble-strewn hellscape of Gaza... and finally questioned whether Israeli mightn't have committed a few war crimes here and there!
Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is infuriating crap. He says: “There's increasing evidence that war crimes appear to have been committed.” He knows Israel has committed war crimes on an industrial scale. He’s refusing to say so because it would impose legal obligations on him to actually act.
The dangers posed by the mighty Count Binface - truly a titan of British politics - cannot be underestimated! Extra trousers at the ready for the Houdini of Clacton-on-Sea if you please!
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4w agoScoop from @joshhalliday.bsky.social Reform activists urged to divert from GM mayoral by-election to help Farage in Clacton. Leaked WhatsApp: “The message could not be more clear. We now need all of our fantastic activists to come and help us in Clacton.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Atrocious conduct in occupied East Jerusalem - having already shot and killed a teenager in the West Bank, and contributed to the death of a baby in Ramallah by refusing the parents crossing to board waiting ambulance. Israel should be sanctioned but nobody cares. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/06/w...
Israeli police officer throws stun grenade inside Palestinians’ car | CNN
Surveillance videos capture the moment an Israeli police officer threw a stun grenade at Palestinians inside a car in the Qalandiya refugee camp in East Jerusalem. Israeli police say they are investig...
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Dr Safiya is being held without charge for resisting the siege of Kamal Adwan hospital - a war crime no less. Punished for NOT abandoning his patients, as hospitals were being systematically destroyed in Gaza! Would be an atrocious and crying scandal if international law meant a thing.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · last mo.Director of a Gaza Hospital, Dr Hussain Abu Safiya is in horrific danger to his life. The Foreign Secretary must demand Israel provides urgent treatment and releases him. He's been detained by Israel without charge since 2024 and reported to have new life threatening injuries.
Glad the book is getting well deserved and additional recognition! Should be counted amongst the best of grief and bereavement literature - an uplifting study on imperishable love and strength of the family. Henry's precious and lasting legacy will no doubt help so many others.
Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · last mo.❤️🩹
Self-mythologising is a sad, pathetic look to most people. Not Starmer though. How very apt that he should end his dreadful leadership with the same pack of lies he came in with.
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · last mo.Keir Starmer, "Did I want it to end at this point in this way, no, I didn't. But I accept that with good grace" "As I look back I'm proud of the fact that I picked the Labour party up, turned it around, got rid of antisemitism in our party"
Nicols clearly hasn't digested the old adage of "better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt"
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · last mo.Literally extortion by a mobster in a projection racket.
Khan was cleared by independent UN panel. ICC executives then voted to obviate its findings. Khan is then charged with an allegation never made by the complainant, and procedural rules are hastily changed to facilitate his ouster - a kangaroo court would stack the odds less brazenly!
Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · last mo.Exclusive: ICC bureau changes rules to lower threshold for Khan's removal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-icc-bureau-moves-scrap-misconduct-vote-and-lower-threshold-khans-removal
What a shameless and brazen lie. He went into the election adamant that the 2-child benefit cap would NOT be removed. Labour MPs who voted for the removal were immediately suspended. Now, it is his "proudest moment"? No one with a shred of integrity would be so insultingly revisionist.
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2mo agoKeir Starmer says scrapping the 2 child benefit cap is his proudest moment as PM Starmer could have scrapped the cap on day one of becoming PM. Instead he suspended 7 Labour MPs for voting to scrap it & the govt had to be dragged kicking & screaming to do it over 20 months later
It's actually about toxic Labour factionalism. Candidate selection was cancelled under false allegations of fraud, then restarted for a councillor from Southend to appear the Croydon East shortlist. Appalling nepotism becomes "evidence" of a conspiratorial BBC in the minds of crazy Starmerites.
Not just that, but it proves that the organisers were lying blatantly in order to protect an event that was knowingly breaking international law. These people need to be sanctioned and prevented from profiting from an illegal enterprise.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere is now clear evidence that the Great Israeli Real Estate event had unlawful activity at it. I've written to the Mayor of London to ask what he intends to do about it. This needs to be escalated immediately.
#PrideMonth Prospect Cottage, Dungeness (2020) by British artist, Paul Evans (born in 1954). Ink and watercolour on paper 75 x 59 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Damning report by Aamna Mohdin. Police Service of Northern Ireland were warned a full 8 months in advance of addresses being circulated by far right groups inciting violence. PSNI took no action whatsoever. Their conduct should raise serious questions. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Police were warned for months about addresses targeted in Belfast riots
Exclusive: Monitoring group warned PSNI for eight months after far-right networks began circulating so-called hitlist of addresses
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@hannahalothman.bsky.social reports on the climate of fear as addresses are openly listed for attack and harassment. Her colleague Aamna Mohdin reports that "list" was known to police for a good 8 months with no action. The PSNI have serious questions to answer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘My kids are crying’: list of targeted addresses stokes fears across Belfast
People in city’s minority ethnic communities speak of alarm as violence casts light on racism in Northern Ireland
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The problem is having coloured folk in the midst of white people, daring to cause them anxiety. How could you blame "protestors" for trying to burn their intended victims alive in their homes when they were thus provoked????
Sir Almaviva@ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 2mo ago"The mob violence in Northern Ireland is appalling BUT..." Shocking stuff from the Times.
The Foreign Secretary might also spare a look at how illegally annexed and occupied West Bank land could be OPENLY sold at a London real estate event without question.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoCharities in England and Wales ‘donate millions to illegal Israeli settlements’
