#OtD 22 Apr 1993 Stephen Lawrence, a Black British man, was murdered by racists in London. Public pressure following the failure to convict the killers led to revelations of institutional racism within the British Police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9445...
BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.
I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...
Well let's see how this strategy of telling "white liberals" to "fuck right off" works out in the local elections
Amazing that Americans have no way of experiencing the sheer political thrill of “the prime minister is probably going to have to resign and just hasn’t realised it yet”
Speaking in the Commons in the debate on Mandelson, @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social has just called for an independent inquiry into Labour Together over hiring lobbyists to investigate and smear journalists
Here's the original story we published in Feb democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Again, I'm not commenting on the scandal itself, because we're in a Pre-Election Period and I like my job, but I do note that the interviewer is sat next to the husband of the Foreign Secretary.
It seems very odd that everyone continues to pretend Ed Balls is just another interviewer/presenter.
You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
Well, at least the BBC is covering this.
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
“Most artists are concerned about how long they’ll be around. I’m concerned about how long my music will be around.”
- Prince
On this day 2016, Prince passed at 57. It's been a decade since the end of The Purple Reign. Stunning musician, Rock, R&B, Pop & Funk legend, beyond brilliant guitarist.
"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."
This is how you do a just transition.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Jerusalem Post: Despite a “ceasefire” the IDF is giving orders to open fire on everyone in Southern Lebanon trying to go home — “Even if the person is unarmed… based on the idea that there are no civilians left in Southern Lebanon.”
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov will have his book on Zionism and genocide translated into 9-10 languages, but not Hebrew. He even offered to translate it himself, but not a single Israeli publisher would go near it. Not even the ‘leftwing’ ones.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!
Prince passed away 10 years ago today.
RIP, your music lives on.
United Surveillance States of ICE
Olly Robbins has definitely come out on top. Robbins 2, Starmer 0 (two own goals). Sacking him has backfired on Starmer. Olly much more convincing. Starmer’s claim that he would have blocked Mandelson appointment if he had known about security vetting doubts is in shreds 1/
Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Karp’s book came out after @bentarnoff.com and I had already started writing ours. Reading it we were like “oh this is Muskism.” The interesting thing, as @lioneltrolling.bsky.social pointed out, is that it was written with the assumption of an incoming Harris administration.
We can joke about Dorries being in favour of T here, but this, too, is rubbing it in people's faces. Cis people can have all the hormonal gender affirming care they want.
Thing about consequences is they're never just about retribution or punishment for bad actors or people who've fucked up, they're a necessary part of maintaining standards and ideals that you intend others to abide by in the future. Feels like as a society we're losing sight of this basic principle.
Keir Starmer very much Chose not to know cause Knowing would make him responsible. Clever little lawyer man trick he thinks we’re all too stupid to see
How the Strokes ended their second Coachella set!
#TheStrokes #Coachella
Downing St had a "dismissive approach" to Mandelson's vetting, ex-chief Foreign Office official Olly Robbins has told MPs
Giving evidence after being sacked by Keir Starmer last week, Robbins said the Foreign Office faced "constant pressure" from No 10 private office to process the appointment ASAP
Many of the political “shifts” proclaimed in the media are mainly media adjustments to political reality — and usually only a short phase in the movement to another simplified generalization.
"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."
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