If you want to sustain your carefully-cultivated fury at the stupid Panorama edit then don’t, whatever you do, read or listen to Trump’s speech in its entirety…

Oli Dugmore, "Most fair minded British people would accept the spirit of what Diane Abbott was trying to say"

"If you present as an ethnic minority you experience, visibly, you experience racism differently"

Disability benefits aren’t “extra” money. They’re the bare minimum to survive in a world that disables us—through poverty, inaccessibility, and neglect. Cutting them isn’t reform. It’s state-sanctioned harm. Please support us. #DisabilityBenefits #WelfareNotWorkfare

If you’re on #DisabilityBenefits, it’s ok to have hobbies, holidays, food deliveries, and so on. Benefits exist so disabled people can live safely, independently, with quality of life. Don’t let government rhetoric make you feel guilty for existing.

7 out of the 14 questions in Trump's press briefing today were given to Peter Doocy from Fox News. The room was packed with journalists.

All of Doocy's questions were clearly phrased & intended to allow Trump to talk about the topics he wanted.

MAGA propaganda facilitation cascading as journalism.

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?

He nails it.

Senate Confirms Election Denier Kash Patel to be FBI Director Read more here.

The Senate voted 51-49 to confirm Kash Patel as the next FBI director. Patel, a staunch Trump loyalist, is a known election denier and has made comments about exacting political revenge against his enemies.

Europe must treat MAGA ideological imperialism as seriously as Soviet attempts to spread communism to the West.

They are funding and promoting extremist European parties & trying to destabilise democratically elected govts.

We cannot permit a malign foreign power to usurp our democracies & values.

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

Basic, unsexy sh*t that’s been lost but would make a massive difference for us as patients:

- Day centres
- Volunteer work without DWP pressure
- Community rehabilitation teams
- Having the same careco for more than a year
- good supported accommodation

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IN CASE OF ICE: CONOCE TUS DERECHOS EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:

DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR. ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge. Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door. NO ABRAS TU PUERTA. ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.

ASK THEM TO LEAVE. If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission. 2 PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN. Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.

REMAIN SILENT. You have the right to remain silent. If the agents ask you questions, tell them, "I wish to remain silent." PERMANECE EN SILENCIO. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio. Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles: "Deseo permanecer en silencio".

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.

EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.

Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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Gulf of Distraction

As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community.

No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality.

Hate has no home here.

Project 2025 plan calls for demolition of NOAA and National Weather Service The call to dismantle the United States' vital weather department has raised the hackles of experts who say NOAA provides not only important free data but also life-saving information.

We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.

Robert F. Kenney got into Harvard by submitting an application that was a single page long and consisted entirely of his name. Here's why it's time to end DEI.

A reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found

- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire

43 years on, we await the first prosecution.

I have never seen anyone flip as quickly as Robert F. Kennedy did on the question of whether a woman has the right to control her own body.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Donald Trump LOSES IT, Starts CRYING About Greenland YouTube video by CLIFF'S EDGE

Donald Trump LOSES IT, Starts CRYING About Greenland! www.youtube.com/shorts/utU8A...

21-24% of Britons falsely believe that Axel Rudakubana is a Muslim, an immigrant to the UK, and was motivated by religious terrorism – and this figure has grown since the summer

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What a woman! To do this while he's sitting there is just the bravest thing. This is the speech of a true Christian 👏

Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.

I just spit out my tea.

Mornings with Zerlina. Every weekday morning, activist, author, and TV & radio host Zerlina Maxwell brings you the stories making headlines and focuses on the issues impacting your everyday lives. On 'Mornings With Zerlina...

I'll be talking with @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social about the role climate change is playing with the devastating California wildfires, tomorrow morning (Monday Jan 13) ~8:30am ET on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social #MorningsWithZerlina. Please tune in! mornings-with-zerlina.simplecast.com

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this