Nobody thinks she's "not allowed" to say dreadful things and promote dreadful policies. We just disagree with her saying and implementing them. More brutality cloaked in victimhood.

He wasn't curious because he thought Mandelson's familiarity with Trump's kleptocratic swamp too valuable to let the security/ethical risks get in the way. Starmer will always be vulnerable to scandal while his policy remains to try to charm the obviously venal and corrupt Trump. It's his own fault.

Does he actually think the world is what he says it is? The banks of Maryland were not emptied of cash at any stage. Who are "the bankers there" who agree implicitly with the President's assessment of the JCPOA? Does anyone care that he clearly has no idea whatsoever how to use quotation marks?

He has no power base because he and his advisers seem to actively despise the actual Labour Party and its voters, and imagine themselves delivering the agenda of what they think a Labour voter ought to be.

The myth of British exceptionalism has to be confronted head on if the country is ever to position itself rationally in security, trade, diplomacy. British exceptionalism is our original sin.

Obviously this Government doesn't have one, and has always railed furiously against any suggestion that one was necessary. They are tacit enablers of a status quo that voters are furious with. They don't get to say it's the system's fault after repeatedly defending the system.

If a Government wants to argue that Britain is essentially ungovernable, that the terms of the social contract are now so misunderstood that Government abilities and public demands are fundamentally misaligned, then it ought to have a comprehensive theory of an alternative political economy

Dave Matthews Band: “Stop the Genocide. Stop Killing Children”

How is permission obtained pre-arrival?

Banner day for the old Faith

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants.

“And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

We should be learning from other countries...

'There Is Only One Majority in This Country, That's the Working Class,' Says Mamdani | Common Dreams "It's time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what it is that we're pursuing and not as part of the appendix."

Mamdani: Democratic socialism viable anywhere. “...this is a politics that can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country – that’s the working class, and it’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of [public policy]..." www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...

I feel like people focus a little too much on Bruce Springsteen having a slightly cringey stage persona singing boomer music and not enough on that boomer music being pretty fuckin good and him genuinely caring about stuff

Many thanks to the people of Shetland for their warm welcome.

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"If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the f**k alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records." - Kurt Cobain The Advocate, 1995

Mood, every single day.

While it helps, you can't build a join movement on regrets about losing access to Spain.

A positive case for 🇪🇺 has to be built, including reciprocity and wanting to be European philosophically

And that case has to include the need for an administration and common rules

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Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand

A song for the moment

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

Get it right up him. The fat fascist fuck. And his lickspittle wee scumbag cunt friend.

Orban is not conceding because he's honourable. He's conceding because his defeat is so comprehensive even he can't pretend he won.

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥

Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

Typically a poker player who is convinced his opponent has no cards and is bluffing will announce this publicly. You just don't get it @iandunt.bsky.social

This is a crucial report, shining a spotlight on the funding links between Russia, Hungary and the British mainstream right

Nothing left to say

Billions feel this way

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Evolution of right wing politics since the 70s, from an original position that any notion of shared interests as a society is a fraud designed to steal from and oppress the superior individual (then) to “you should have fun watching space marine armour police making sport of inferior people” (now).

All of Us Should Be Able To Agree With This…..

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

This is the most horrifying, psychotic, grotesque message Trump has ever posted—openly threatening to commit genocide. This is beyond reckless. It’s dangerous, dehumanizing, and utterly unfit for any leader.

Why are they called settlers instead of terrorists? Settlers is too benign. They're murderous religious fanatics and should be described as such.