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That "more reasons to shop at Mo-rr-i-sons" jingle drives me nuts.

If for no other reason, vote against every damn Republican on the ballot because of this. Because of this disgrace, this shame. What happened to Alex Pretti should never happen in America.👇

Amazing how many Labour MPs do not understand this quite basic point.

I think this is becoming increasingly controversial in UK political circles where actually it is and will always be 2016 bsky.app/profile/colu...

🔥 HOLY HELL: 1000s of Israeli expats are flying home from Canada, the U.S., and Europe — spending thousands of their own money — to vote Netanyahu out.

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It is, today, not the 13th anniversary of the publication of Steven Morrissey’s autobiography (it had been out for ten days) but something much better: the 13th anniversary of the Sunday Times publishing A. A. Gill’s merciless mauling of it—a review which went on to win Hatchet Job of the Year

First Musk said he did not disable Starlink for Ukraine. Now he's confessing to disabling it but says he was justified in doing so. Congress, if you can hear me, we need hearings when Dems take over. www.cnn.com/2026/10/25/e...

Right-wing press gearing up for 'Gherkingate' I see. Pick the most ridiculous item from the list and use it to rubbish budget measures (see also 'the pasty tax'). No wonder we can't have a sensible conversation about tax/public expenditure.

Don't know about you, but I'm much more worried about voter IQ than voter ID.

Exactly right. It's why the idea of "UK PLC" was so grotesque - as if a nation was just a limited company, that could be wound up, taken over, merged or dissolved, with no roots in the past and no responsibility to the future.

#RestoreFOM #FreedomOfMovement

Look, the simple truth is that on November 3rd, the Republican Party needs to be punished. The Republican Party needs to be punished BIG TIME for continuing to embrace a sociopathic madman who is a traitor to, and an enemy of, America. VOTE.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Burnham is doing what Starmer should have done. He is making the case that Brexit hasn't worked, saying what his own view is, and explaining what the likely choices are, and where the ownership of decisions will rest. Ie proper grown up politics for the first time in years

I hope Natalie shows Trump this clip of Harry Enten comparing Obama's popularity with his unpopularity

In case facts still matter

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

I don’t know who’s dreaming up these skits but they really are rather clever.

Ah ok, here's one. And I think this is the only possible heart of a campaign that would win over both the UK and Brussels, as it would have to do. bsky.app/profile/iand...

@pimlicat.bsky.social isn’t ’I might lose my seat if we do this thing that is good for the country’ just the worst kind of politics? If that’s how you work you deserve to lose

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

Truth.

I have read dozens of outraged posts because the US special envoy Witkoff called Putin a "humanist." But no one is writing about the fact that the American negotiators are simply not doing their job. Let me explain.

Nobody under 35 is coming to save this election. Only 4 out of every 100 young California voters have returned a ballot. If you are under 35, you are the story. Complete your ballot and drop it in a drop box. 🗳️ #Vote

OBAMA: That just feels a little bit different… where people are so sick and tired of being sick and tired. After 2 years of chaos. and cruelty. and corruption. and incompetence—you get a chance to say enough's enough.

OBAMA: They can't hear your boos. They'll hear your vote

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The White House is claiming Melania brokered a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine. And I just taught my dog Spanish….

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

As calls for a governmental ‘X-odus’ grow, advocates of decentralised platforms like Bluesky argue they could give users more control over their online spaces @openrightsgroup.org citizensreunited.substack.com/p/calls-for-...

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

I’m glad Congress isn’t alive to see this.

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...

Thank you, Monica Alba (NBC) for asking this question and persisting. Thank you also for speaking plainly (i.e., "for raping his stepdaughter") – this is exactly the way the question should be asked and what people need to hear. This is what will trigger Trump. He's about to go full Colonel Jessup.

Yesssssss!

another failed business

The US government is now asking Elon Musk to restore the access they say was never removed, Elon says was shut down by the US government, and both briefly tried to pretend was down due to a technical glitch, in between darkly hinting Ukrainians deserve to die for being stubborn or ungrateful.

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Land of the free. Disgusting.

Welcome to 1938... BBC News - Streeting: Prepare for supply chain disruption from cyber or climate emergencies - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This para on a piece about Trump underestimating the BBC made me laugh www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...