Imagine an EU-wide government shut down in its 6th week leading to serious disruption of air traffic. We would not hear the end of it in Anglophone media.

Zack Polanski wears a white poppy as he overlooks remembrance ceremony at the cenotaph

If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....

Greyhound Racing: Britain's Shame Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi

Wales has committed to ending greyhound racing. Scotland is considering it. So why is England still green-lighting greyhound deaths every weekend?

Don’t people know what shellfish eat?
They are natural filters. You want them from clean water if you intend to eat them.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Rep. Elise Stefanik launches run for New York governor Stefanik, a Republican congresswoman and staunch Trump ally, is challenging Gov. Kathy Hochul — a Democrat.

So Elise Stefanik is running for NY governor. She abandoned every principle she claimed to have in exchange for a seat on the Trump train. Here’s a thread about Stefanik, who is a serial liar, an ally of a Hitler admirer, and an opponent of sharing baby formula with migrant infants. 🧵 1/10

Rep. Mike Simpson R-ID ignores Democrats on the floor and adjourns the House until next Monday. Adelita Grijalva was elected on Sept. 23 and still has not been sworn into office.

According to the video, this woman was reporting sexual abuse in Riverside Court House & was accosted by ICE.

What if she were your daughter, sister, mother or wife?

How does this #ICELawlessness make us safer?

Share this video &
Call your Congressional rep at 202-224-3121
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Good luck with your public services Cramlington

@mrjamesob.bsky.social topical to the current discussion 👍🏻

Are these fukkas for real?

As a Muslim, at a time of division Mamdani has brought much of his city together. He spoke for Mexican abuelas & Ethiopian aunties. “No longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do”. It is shameful that not one of our UK leaders has been able to do the same.

Not the under inflated Trump version of the cost of eggs..... the real cost 😔

YouTube video by Quiet Majority Dorothy Thompson - Who Goes Nazi? (Her voice modelled on a genuine 1934 broadcast)

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You may have heard @mrjamesob.bsky.social recommending an article on his show yesterday.

"Who Goes Nazi?" by renowned American journalist Dorothy Thompson, is a wonderful piece of writing. ⬇️

#DorothyThompson

youtu.be/ouK3fzCqCMc?...

This doesn't quite fit with today's discussion @mrjamesob.bsky.social in that he may be a significant Trump enabler 😔

Another video showing the human side of our PM.

He really is a decent, normal human being, who knows how to actually talk to people.

Here he is talking about the expansion of the Warm Homes Discount to 6m people in total.

We need to see more of this authentic side of the PM!

For weeks, Trumpers have relied on Mike Johnson to "explain" why Republicans are using hungry children as political pawns, and that has not gone well, as I discuss in this piece. Because Americans are not buying the GOP's lies, Johnson is now taking to the podium to declare he has nothing to say.

He didn’t!

Trump played far more often in his first term (260+ in four years versus Obama’s 330+ over eight years) — and is playing *more often* this time around.

Term 1: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Term 2: www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

Mother of Marine detained at Camp Pendleton released from ICE custody. TikTok video by NBC San Diego

I will never get over how pure evil this administration is to detain and/or Marines, and/or their parents. They fought for our country. They sacrificed everything and the Trump administration is terrorizing them. Fuck Trump.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMq1ou1a/

Thousands of you shared heartbreaking and maddening stories with me about rising health care costs. But the fight is far from over.

If you're willing to record your story, we can make sure GOP lawmakers see and hear the direct impact of their policy failures: wintheera.myctbl.com/share-your-s...

I liked it better when stuff like this was the backbone of the Viz letters page rather than what we decided to replace politics with.

The people of Wales chose hope over hate and Reform got rejected. Britain is a nation of people at ease with itself - all races and religions, our Giga Poll showed that. There’s a lesson for Labour here…we don’t have to be Reform to beat Reform. The public wants better.

In the all-conquering media/politics ecosystem that brought you Brexit, Boris Johnson, austerity, Liz Truss & the recent revival of weapons grade racism, she really is the Newcomer of the Year. Hands down. And the Spectator is now owned by a man who basked in the ugliest depths of far right Twitter.

I do rather hope, likely in vain, that The Greens can do the same with Lib / Lab. Probably more chances with the former.

Highest @greenparty.org.uk national voting intention. Either we prepare for the future with Greens or wallow in the fossilised ideas of a fake past with Reform

1984, Idiocracy version Trump is like Big Brother if Big Brother were an incompetent buffoon.

"Instead of educating people about Reagan — the usual goal of a presidential foundation — the Reagan Foundation bent the knee and is trying to change truth and history in order to support the ideological whims of the current regime."

Stop ravaging the ocean! The oceans die, we all die. Leave sea life alone!

My Dad. 84, loving life and still active....... and Vegan 🌱🙏🏻🌱🥰

Students are asking for more plant-based options at school, but school districts face barriers in meeting that demand. The Plant Powered School Meals Pilot Act would change that. Take action: Text FUTURE to 30373

Council quit Ashford solar farm talks after climate policy shift The government is allowing a solar project to go ahead despite discussions breaking down.

Last week the Labour government approved plans for a major solar farm in Kent - the 14the major green energy project approved since coming to power.

But the Reform controlled council in Kent are trying to stop the plans!

Get behind our Labour government to support plans like these to stop Reform!