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Politics latest: Streeting sets up Burnham battle with call for Labour to debate ‘ideas not personalities’

‘Mega-Bloodbath’: Trump Officials Hate His Plan to Seize Iran’s Uranium ‘We might actually be stupid enough to try it,’ one Trump administration official tells Zeteo. Read here, by @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/trump-iran...

"Be careful, Tim. You're gonna hurt his feelings by noticing what he's doing." "I will not be lectured by the anti-antis or the MAGA folks about anything...'cause they canceled votes in my state." Tim Miller, JVL and Sarah Longwell on the timing of the SCOTUS Callais decision.

Either these white South Africans are returning to a genocidal country, or there is no "white genocide."

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🚨 HOT MIC: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was caught asking staff during questioning of Trump judicial nominees: “What would be wrong if they said Biden won?” Multiple people in the room heard it. GOP staffers were reportedly panicking, according to sources familiar.

A leading American neo-nazi, banned from the UK for his extremist views, has been allowed to join Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/bann...

A teenage Reform UK councillor who tried to legitimise the disruption of council meetings in Kent by racist activists, has defected to Restore UK. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/new-...

"I don't think there is any upside for me to go over to the Capitol and sit down with the president's personal representative in the United States House. That's what the Speaker has become." @captmarkkelly.bsky.social talks Mike Johnson and more with @samsteindc.bsky.social:

Jim Ratcliffe says the UK has been “colonised by immigrants”. Well, (1) it hasn’t; (2) he’s an immigrant (to Monaco) himself; & (3) 30,000 of Monaco’s 38,000 residents are immigrants like him who have thereby, yes, colonised that Principality. He needs better comms/PR advice!

Called it.

Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms. Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

NHS expands access to prostate cancer drug in England to save thousands of lives

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

For an admin that claims to care so much about drug addiction that they're blowing up boats, it's strange that they're cutting $2 BILLION in funding for substance abuse and mental health services… Read @citizencohn.bsky.social's Breakdown only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-take...

It’s not ‘fantasy’: I know Nigel Farage abused people for their nationality – because I was one of them | Rickard Berg

Greenwashing, illegality and false claims: 13 climate litigation wins in 2025

vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans

Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.

A British newspaper (The Mirror) reacts to Trump’s speech.

🧵A week ago, these words were spoken at the HB city council meeting by local Proud Boy Luke Dennis. Along with accusations towards @chriswarcraft.bsky.social and OVSD Trustee Clayton-Tarvin, his suggestion that he thinks that Kanan is capable of 💀 is an incredibly dangerous one.

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority? ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles /

Elites and institutions have not “collapsed.” They have not “changed their tunes.” They have not “failed.” They are not “cowards.” They were and are simply been focused only on their own self-preservation and profit. Nothing has changed. They simply made a cost benefit analysis, and fascism wins.

Maybe gonna do a “Trump Corruption Tier List” here’s what I have so far. Trying to focus on things that are pretty cut and dried “using the power of the presidency for personal enrichment.” What am I missing?

Starmer and Reeves should consider wealth tax, says former shadow chancellor

This is just a sampling of the vast armada of fossil-fuel front groups and captured lobbyists they have out defending the $700+ billion annual subsidy we provide these polluters, by tolerating their pollute-for-free business model. Epic corruption.

🚨 NEW - Star Trek: #StrangeNewWorlds Season 3 - "A Space Adventure Hour" Review! A Holodeck episode in #StarTrek? Sounds crazy, right? Well, Strange New Worlds has gone there in the latest episode! 🖖 Our review: trekcentral.net/star-trek-st...

In addition to seeking to cut short environmental reviews, the executive order would open the door for the federal government to rescind sections of the federal rule that seeks to keep the public safe during rocket launches and reentries. By @heathervogell.bsky.social & @tophersanders.bsky.social

There's a ton of great stuff in @lioneltrolling.bsky.social 's 'When The Clock Broke' deserving of a fuller review ...but this tidbit about "new class theory" feels particularly relevant to how Trump uses populism to shield (favored) corporate elites from scrutiny.

Israeli strikes kill at least 38 in Gaza as ceasefire talks reach critical point

"Don't speak ill of the dead" is gaslighting by people who won't behave while alive.

the Star Tribune just called me and told me they would not be publishing the obituary I wrote for my father as it is “unfair to him” and “in poor taste” so here it is and fuck the strib ✌🏻

In a world where AI answers blindly regurgitate sponsored product reviews and manufacturer’s marketing materials, it’s important to know what to look for and what to ignore. Here are our 10 tips for choosing an air purifier you won’t regret buying 🧵

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

@theguardian.com Brian Wilson was a musical genius. Are there any left? Erm, has your writer ever heard of Calvin Harris? Hes only gone and had the most UK number 1s in the 2010s. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The first law in England banning homosexuality was created in 1533, during the reign of Henry VIII. It only became legal again in England in 1967. That's why we have #PrideMonth Come and find us at #PompeyPride today, on Southsea Common!

McGovern: "Now of course you don't want anybody to know what you're doing here. It's because you know this bill betrays the people who voted for you...you are intentionally hiding what you are doing...that's what you guys think is big and beautiful: greed, corruption, & tax breaks for billionaires."

Boyle: "This is really the breaking news ... because of the size of the deficits, because of the paygo act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."

@luluclemons.bsky.social @eavoss.bsky.social seen this #Marvel YouTube Short about the #Daredevil bank episode? The director says the DD horn on set was yellow & changed to red in post. Suggesting the #SheHulk suit was in play during the original version of the show. youtube.com/shorts/EhBjb...

NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

I think this is a brilliant framing of this issue. If the government can send people to a third world country to a lifetime of involuntary servitude, that is slavery. Query whether this meets the “jurisdiction” requirement of the 13th Amendment (the officials sending them are!)

Trump told America he had a deal with far-right El Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele to temporary hold U.S. deportees for a fee. Now we know that was a lie. Trump told Bukele he'd _sell_ him bodies to _own_—to be housed in his massive prison (CECOT) until death. America is back in the slave trade.

Trump calls attacks on Teslas "terrorism" but privately law enforcement just calls it vandalism, according to intelligence reports obtained under FOIA www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tesla-terr...

76 year old congressman John Larson suffered a freezing incident during a press conference today. This was his second incident after freezing during a speech on the floor of Congress in February.

Ah, he never disappoints.

Again, if you are looking to speak out against what’s going on, I cannot recommend attending a #TeslaTakedown enough. Find one in your area, show up and hang out with cool people who also care, and it’s a great way to make connections to get further involved in your local community.

Crockett: This is not what we should be doing. I don’t even know why we’re fighting with Greenland. We’re fighting with Greenland, Canada, and Mexico—yet we’re in love with Putin?!

Let this sink in.