Thoughts and prayers with Scotland’s penalty spots at this difficult time

Senior London Labour figures charged after criminal investigation into alleged vote rigging

Croydon - the heart of Labour Together
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Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Is Pope Leo XIV the right person to lead the Catholic Church? We asked four evangelicals at a megachurch outside of Nashville.

America is full of churches where you can say Jesus loved guns, and wants you to be rich, and where you can pick fights with the pope! JD Vance was free to stick with any of those! But he *deliberately chose to convert to Catholicism*, a branch of Christianity in which none of those things are true!

This is what Times Square will look like when Congress or a cheeseburger finally does its job

Epstein files: VICTIMS or PERPETRATORS.
Melania: "I am not a victim"
The entire USA: "OK then, nice to know where you fit".

This is the post worth waiting for.

We are very lucky to have @ldfreedman.bsky.social commentating for us at this hour.

Before the war, Witkoff and Kushner were offered a deal that would have seen Iran handing over all its enriched uranium, international monitoring, and no interference in the Strait of Hormuz. They turned it down. Because the US was never serious about those negotiations Trump wanted a war.

Trump’s next move is being tested in Hungary I speak to Kim Lane Scheppele about Orbán, Trump and how MAGA is following the Hungarian playbook

“If irony didn’t die when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, then Donald Trump’s deputy travelling to Hungary to warn about electoral interference may have finished it off.”

New on Democracy for Sale ahead of tomorrow’s Hungarian vote

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Never forget that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Le Duc Tho as well: Vietnam's negotiator. He refused it as there was no peace. When I interviewed him in Hanoi in 1980, he dismissed Kissinger as "a liar".

Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

NYTPitchbot: Eric Swalwell can still become Governor, if he runs as a Republican.

Beyond the breaking point: Failures in mental health care Systemic lapses and failed checks at facilities like the Farndon Unit reveal a fatal breakdown in essential mental health care oversight

Beyond the breaking point: Failures in mental health care

Systemic lapses and failed checks at facilities like the Farndon Unit reveal a fatal breakdown in essential mental health care oversight | Christopher Boyd
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I mean that makes sense the jet is already set to “evil”

Between oil futures, prediction markets, and the new “joint venture” with Iran, someone needs to find out exactly how much money the Trump family might be making off of this war while American soldiers take casualties.

He's already lost those

He's not playing 10-dimensional chess.
He's not playing two-dimensional chess.

He's playing checkers...
...and even then, he's just slamming his checker onto the board and shouting "King me!"

The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon

Spain's Pedro Sanchez has called for suspension of the EU's Association Agreement with Israel which allows for Free Trade.

If it's time to santion Israel, LIKE.

my parents on the moon launch

mom: why are they going to the moon

dad: same reason we go to your brother in Australia- some people like going very far away to a place where you die if you go outside

Elizabeth de la Vega: "The unlikelihood that trump will be removed via the 25th Am is no reason to stop talking about it. We mustn't stop talking about what *should* happen merely because it's a longshot. Keep up the pressure, because giving up is exactly what trump and his corrupt cult want you to do."

'Benefits changes mean my son could lose out on £200 a month' Charities say families are facing financial worries as changes to disability benefits come into effect.

UK disability benefit cuts

New applicants for the health top-up to Universal Credit
to receive half of the current rate whilst cost of living rises. Loss of £200+ a month.

If you lose your benefit and reapply, you get the lower rate.

Thousands will be pushed into poverty.

Cruel.

While attacking several nations that aren't "helping us," Donald makes sure to heap praise upon the murderous dictator Kim Jong Un... who also isn't helping us.

I'm a jaded writer with no discernible mathing skills but screwing victims out of $1.3 billion feels like a lot even for Florida's notorious felon

When you become all that you hated.

You have to feel sorry for James Dyson. Imagine buying up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax, only for Labour to then close the loophole. We need more patriots like him, who drive up farmland prices and vote for Brexit then fuck off to Singapore.

The Prime Minister’s plan for immigration will keep people working in key industries like care in temporary status for a decade or more, it will keep people in insecure work, make them more easily exploitable, poorer and marginalised - when did that become the policy of a Labour government?

🚨More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on the government to drop its plan to restrict the right to trial by jury

It’s not too late for the government to change course. CONTACT YOUR MP NOW
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Seems like Hegseth is taking out more generals in the US than Iran.