Michael Sheldon 🌎

Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.

"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
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US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Northampton Reform UK councillors resign from the party One of the two women says there have been "misogynistic undertones" in her treatment.

❌ Blythe said that after reflection, she could no longer continue under the current leadership and had concerns about "what I perceive to be misogynistic undertones in the treatment I have received".

Is anyone surprised?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0zy878vy7o

Okay so it’s clear we need a UK Green Party post on this otherwise non UK Green Party trending feed….
UK Green Party won an historic parliamentary by election last week & now have over 200k members. Old duopoly is dead.
US citizens please take note and get your shit together.
Rest of World looks 2u

Thinking I might join a Spanish class...

Greens overtake Starmer’s Labour in new UK poll The left-wing environmentalists are just two points behind poll-topping Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in a new YouGov survey.

Wow!
It’s at this point Labour NEC soon start screaming for Proportional Representation.

www.politico.eu/article/gree...

Across social media and the Al industry, people immediately began to challenge Altman's claim. Why, they asked, would the Pentagon suddenly agree to the red lines that it had said — in no uncertain terms — that it would never do so? The answer, sources told The Verge, is that the Pentagon didn't budge. OpenAl agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, while insisting they protect its red lines. One source familiar with the Pentagon's negotiations with Al companies confirmed that OpenAl's deal is much softer than the one Anthropic was pushing for, thanks largely to three words: "any lawful use." In negotiations, the person said, the Pentagon wouldn't back down on its desire to collect and analyze bulk data on Americans. If you look line-by-line at the OpenAl terms, the source said, every aspect of it boils down to: If it's technically legal, then the US military can use OpenAl's technology to carry it out. And over the past decades, the US government has stretched the definition of "technically legal" to cover sweeping mass surveillance programs - and more.

Sam Altman got played and spun it like a win - @haydenfield.bsky.social has the scoop from a weekend’s worth of reporting from inside the Pentagon AI negotiations. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.

Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.

How Labour megadonor won Israeli medal of honour Exclusive: Documents expose how Sir Trevor Chinn, who has funded Keir Starmer and Labour Together, was awarded Israel’s highest civilian honour

👉NEW -- How Labour megadonor won Israeli medal of honour

by John McEvoy and Alex Morris

Exclusive: Documents expose how Sir Trevor Chinn, who has funded Keir Starmer and Labour Together, was awarded Israel’s highest civilian honour
www.declassifieduk.org/how-labour-m...

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

To my friends in the US. Please take note & take heart.
Manchester, UK has just said a resounding 'no' to divisive, hateful, conniving politics.
This is seismic! It is our Mamdani moment.

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

The coordinated hit job 'a la' Corbyn on Zack Polanski & The Green Party has begun in earnest this morning. Expect it to grow exponentially as we head towards May elections & beyond. Orders received, 'anti-semitism', 'sectarianism', 'breast enlargement hypnotherapist' talking points being polished.

'I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician, I'm a plumber'

The green Party's Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton, with Reform in second and Labour finished third

What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

“In a battle between hope and hate, hope has won.”
Congratulations to new MP Hannah Spencer!
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

YouTube video by I've Had It IHIP News: 🚨 Hakeem Jeffries CAUGHT Funneling SECRET AIPAC Money to HELP Trump?! New Leaders NOW!

Corporate Dems = Controlled Opposition
Hakeem Jeffries caught funnelling money from AIPAC on the sly and DCCC taking millions from Palantir.

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Reform's Plans to Import Trump’s Authoritarian 'Project 2025' Blueprint to the UK Far from defending British independence, Reform and its by-election candidate Matt Goodwin are taking blueprints - and cash - from a global network of American hardliners

Reform’s Plans to Import Trump’s Authoritarian ‘Project 2025’ Blueprint to the UK

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture Alarming news about teens kept in Dilley, TX Concentration Camp

from @parkroseperma.bsky.social
Share & call your your reps.
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They Named the Girls' Wing at Dilley Detention Center "Blue Butterfly." The unit is named for the butterfly genus classified by the man who wrote Lolita. Young teenage girls are vanishing inside Blue Butterfly.

Deeply concerning. The unit is named for the butterfly genus classified by the man who wrote Lolita. Young teenage girls are vanishing inside Blue Butterfly zone in Dilley Detention facility.
Captors are free do as they please with absolutely no oversight.

wendy664.substack.com/p/they-named...

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

ICYMI: A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

(new piece)
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An Empire of Malign Influence: The Russian Rot at the Core of the Epstein Enterprise New DOJ files reveal Jeffrey Epstein's deep ties to Russian intelligence, Putin's inner circle, and a Belarusian heiress with no border record. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is the evidence.

Epstein didn't need Russia to be a monster. He was already one. But new DOJ files show the Kremlin recognised exactly what he'd built — and used it. The evidence, in full. #Epstein #Russia #Trump #EpsteinFiles #Putin #Russia #Power #Money #DOJ

www.plagueisland.com/p/an-empire-...

Deripaska is such a key figure in subversion of US 2016 election. And tight with half the British establishment. The files show how Mandelson tried to get his help with Russia visa for Epstein & much more. Tony Blair is also in the mix because: of course.
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I’ve been obsessed with this scandal for years. And have talked about with @professorshaw.bsky.social many times. It was the same year, Epstein was convicted. And what’s amazing is how it foreshadows what’s in the files.
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With ICE attacking protesters and snatching people off the streets, it’s clear: World Cup fans and players won’t be safe in Trump's US. Demand European countries to boycott the US World Cup matches - unless they are moved. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...

YouTube video by Status Coup News Trump DOJ Labeled Epstein Death MURDER, Placed GAG ORDER on “Investigation”

Please support @statuscoupnews.bsky.social
We cannot rely on traditional toeing the line legacy media any more.

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Reform UK Accused Of 'Declaring War On Workers' Over Plan To Scrap Employment Rights Deputy leader Richard Tice said the move would help tackle the cost of living.

If you want your Kids growing up breathing toxins & eating unregulated crap with zero Healthcare unless you go bankrupt to pay, just to become subservient for life to their ultra rich overlords whims with zero rights to fight back their abuses…then Reform is the party for you.

#Farage
#Reform

When did kindness become weakness in politics?

If our children know to be kind, how do our leaders not?

My #substack debut on how kindness is our most powerful tool to resist fascism in the UK today 👇

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