At what point do we stop saying this looks like authoritarianism and start saying this is authoritarianism?

Trump is deploying troops into DC, seizing its police, inventing a crime wave, all to pull your eyes from the Epstein files.

The dictator’s playbook always starts with a distraction.

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

Trump deploys National Guard to Washington DC as he pledges crime crackdown - live updates The US president is holding a news conference after pledging to tackle crime and homelessness in the nation's capital.

Trump will do anything to distract from the Epstein files, even go full Führer cosplay.

National Guard in the streets, seizing control of DC police, inventing a crime wave that doesn’t exist.

When the truth is dangerous, create a crisis.

When the walls close in, goose-step.

Last month, I warned that proscribing Palestine Action would result in the mass criminalisation of people who are not even members of the group.

Now more than 500 people have been arrested.

I voted against the proscription. We shouldn't be conflating protest with terrorism.

@anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social how did you vote Ms Dodds?

Placards in Dean reading "Fascists not welcome here" and "Vance stop funding genocide"

Placard in Dean reading "Vance you are not welcome"

Placard in Dean reading "Vance go home"

Residents of Dean have erected placards protesting against the arrival of American vice-president J.D. Vance in the tiny West Oxfordshire village. They say that they are “extremely angry”, but that the police presence which has sealed off the village has made a “proper protest” impossible.

The Stop Trump Coalition is planning a protest at 4pm on Tuesday at the Mill Field, Charlbury, close to the railway station. The group has already demonstrated at Chevening, where Foreign Secretary David Lammy hosted Vance.

I hope the fattest pigeon does a huge sticky shit on Vance’s head.

Palestine Action protest arrests rise to more than 500 Police say the majority of arrests were for displaying placards in support of the banned group.

Government has got this spectacularly wrong.

If an organisation is breaking the law, prosecute it.

But arresting people for holding up signs is a waste of police time, it's increasing support for the organisation &, above all, it's a flagrant violation of free speech.
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Israel executed them.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Trucks and Tuks: Decorated Vehicles of South Asia – in pictures Photographer Christopher Herwig has travelled 10,000km in his quest to record this overlooked art form. He has documented the characteristics of each region – from Pakistan in the north to Sri Lanka i...

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Is this ‘rebellion’? Or just revolting.
F*** me, this is depressing.

Sorry, great photo.

It’s a good photo, so I know I should ❤️ it, but 🙄….

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

Today, 9th August, Knitting For Olive is donating total sales from their website and ravelry to @unicef.org to aid their work in Gaza.

So, fellow yarn lovers, have a look and see if anything takes your fancy ☺️

(I wish I could knit, their patterns are gorgeous!)

knittingforolive.com

@anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social

And again 🤢🤢🤢

Actually, the ugliest recent building in Oxford. Tacky, hideous, urgh.
Saw it again this morning, even from that distance it made me 🤢

I am so sick and tired of seeing MPs and the media shit themselves over refugees arriving in small boats over the channel.

If your initial reaction to seeing these boats is anything other than “those poor bastards, I hope they make it across” then you have failed as a human being.

Rushanara Ali, who has spoken out against 'unreasonable rent increases', relisted her four-bedroom townhouse in east London for £4,000 a month.

@rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social has turned off replies. Wonder why 🙄

Why is Lindsay Hoyle allowed to police himself 🥴 ?

Did you know? Supermassive black holes give out no light yet are the brightest objects in the universe. I’m giving away 5 signed copies of my paperback A CRACK IN EVERYTHING to a UK person chosen at random from those re-posting this blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... @headofzeus.bsky.social

‘The Depravity of Gaza’s Aid Crisis Shows What Happens When Profit Comes Before Human Rights’ In just over a month, the UN reports that over 850 Gazans have been killed at, or within close proximity to aid distribution sites in Gaza

‘The Depravity of Gaza’s Aid Crisis Shows What Happens When Profit Comes Before Human Rights’

In just over a month, the UN reports that over 850 Gazans have been killed at, or within close proximity to aid distribution sites in Gaza

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

"What is happening may well come to define one of its [the world's] darkest eras. One that casts a stain on humanity which will endure for generations."

ITV News aerial footage of Gaza.

“Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it, but those who do will become well.” – Vernon Howard

This is Gaza.

This is why journalists are banned.

Once you see, you can't unsee.
Once you know, you're no longer innocent.

Twelve men have been charged with child sex offences. I’m sure all the ‘concerned parents’ will be out in force any time now. Unless there’s something… different about these perverts..?