BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.
The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm
So we’re taking legal action.
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Sometimes the callout blazes like a white hot sun.
Translation: If JD Vance (Peter Thiel) & MAGA are in control after 2028 they will try to *force* our children to serve in the military to implement their Manifest Destiny BS: “We should…seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force...” x.com/palantirtech...
No Left Field this summer, but you can recharge your activism at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival. It's a celebration of worker's power with music, talks, workshops and a whole weekend of radical solidarity. Get down to Dorset and get organised!
Tickets and details here: www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk
Sorry to hear that my old sparring partner Andy Kershaw has passed away. His eclectic taste in music and enthusiastic promotion of the artists he loved made him a brilliant broadcaster
Very grateful to Senator Bernie Sanders for bringing U.S. unions together to create a common front in the face of the threat AI poses to workers and much else.
Sometimes it takes an 84-year-old to do the high tech stuff!
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The #StopTheGame campaign has been launched to cancel Ireland’s Nations League matches against Israel scheduled for 27th September and 4th October.
Irish soccer fans don’t want their team to take the field against Israel and are calling for a boycott
A historic number of Senators voted to stop the transfer of bulldozers and bombs to the Israeli military tonight. And we will continue to grow and get louder until we have stopped arming Israel. Fund people, not bombs. Stop arming Israel.
"Orbán’s Hungary has been the model for the global fascist assault on democracy. Maybe it can also serve as a model for its defeat."
Important piece from Jason Stanley for Zeteo on the big story of the day:
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So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.
That's true. His ashes were scatted from a tower on the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle. His parents had met while students in the Scottish capital. I visited the spot once with his daughter Meegan
In memory of Phil Ochs - singer-songwriter, anti-war activist, father, true patriot - who took his life fifty years ago today
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Hegseth must go.
Great that the space race isn’t over after all, but I’m surprised that after 54 years communications from Artemis II still sound as brittle and crackly as the did back in the day.
This is appalling: “Case counts [of measles] in 2026 are more than double what they were the same period of 2025 and more than ten times what they were in 2024.” 4/1/26 … 1/ www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Extract List of Jews From Penn The decision to allow the government to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus could allow the government to pursue similar tactics elsewhere. • Listen • 3:32 min < 1 TODAY
As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.
That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
And your point is....?
During a new interview with anti-Muslim figure Amy Mekelburg (known online as "Amy Mek" www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-m...), far-right figure Tommy Robinson said he would be meeting with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). (Mekelburg also said that she & far-right figure Laura Loomer "work together.")
Massive turn out for the Together Alliance march in London at the weekend. The vibe was reminiscent of the big Rock Against Racism marches of the late 70s
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Quiet. Part. Loud.
What brilliant news! Congratulations Avi
Sure we’ve had our own neo-nazis - those bastards are everywhere. But we’ve never had - nor do we want - anyone like Trump.
The big red one with the £360m for the NHS lie?
If sufficient numbers turn up, it will confirm that, following the defeat of Reform at Gorton, the wind is not blowing toward the far right
While our American cousins take to the streets to protest against Tяump's authoritarianism on No Kings Day, we're marching in London to prevent his divisive politics being imported to the UK. I'll be playing a few songs in Whitehall around 2:30pm
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NEWS: Trump-backed effort to repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law FAILS after grassroots campaign removes enough signatures to block it from the ballot.
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The military attacked another boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean.
At least 163 people have so far been killed in US boat bombings.
Remember: No judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it.
This is a danger to us all.
The White House sending out proof that Trump was indeed talking to Iranian officials these past few days, despite Iran's denials of such talks.
