In Salford, over 45 homes have been targets of racist vandalism.
Former deputy leader of the far right Britain First, Ashlea Simon, has ran a campaign of identifying and filming supposed HMOs on social media. Simon now runs her own group, All for England.
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/22/a...
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Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.”
Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.
Astonishing to hear people say they'd rather asylum seekers drowned than be saved by the RNLI. Next comes letting people die in burning hostels rather than be saved by the fire brigade and letting people get kicked to death in the street rather than be saved by the Police. Don't platform this hate.
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads.
There's your two-tier policing, folks
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
The Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and
commentary goes to @anntelnaes.bsky.social, for various works that appeared in The Washington Post.
This is her third Pulitzer recognition.
No British person should ever, a single day on god’s green earth, disparage anybody’s food. Literally ever. Never seen a seasoning you wouldn’t steal for but never use. Please sit down with your peas and mash and chew silently.
Tim Walz: "It's not a 'woke policy' to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch, and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true ... we got timid."
Haven’t watched Adolescence yet but I see we’re pretending that it’s only kids who are radicalised by their darn phones and not a sizeable portion of the adult population. Including journalists, politicians and your favourite content creators
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis.
This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Remember: The fundamental issue isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.”
It’s who our government is for.
Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires, including the richest person in the world — or for the rest of us?
First gig of the year, excellent show by @dublonde.bsky.social. fighting valiantly through sore throat. A great way to escape from the chaos of the world right now
Can you imagine the volcanic non stop rage Fox would be spewing if Harris had won and then handed the keys to the govt to George Soros who then went into federal buildings and took control of their computers?
YIKES! Duckworth asks Hegseth to name a country that's in ASEAN. He names three -- none of which are in ASEAN.
"I suggest you do a little homework," she says.
New post: For months, Senator Chuck Grassley publicized an FBI informant's explosive claims about the Bidens.
He's had nothing to say since that source pleaded guilty to making it all up.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/01/11/c...
Representative Kay Granger of Texas, who made history when she became the first Republican woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has been absent from Capitol Hill since the summer and has been living in a retirement home — an arrangement her office had not disclosed.
Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back?
Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
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Dems beat Trump by a lot more in 2020 than he beat us in 2024, and the GOP didn't hand-wring about the need to find common ground with us. They treated us like enemies of the entire country and a critical mass of voters were convinced. "We need to compromise and accommodate" is not the lesson here.
Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.
And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA
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