Rob Connell

A screen grab of the ITYSL The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas sketch where Sam Richardson is saying "Oh crap. A bunch more bad stuff just happened."

Checking in on the Labour government every day like:

Sadly, not the UK.
As usual, we aspire to US levels of corruption and unaccountability.

Just like with Brazil arresting their insurrectionists rather than re-electing them, other countries are holding their Epstein-tied politicians accountable far better than we do. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Scottish Parliament passed our Scottish Budget at Stage 1.

It includes the best cost of living support package in the UK, while ensuring 55% of Scottish taxpayers pay less income tax than south of the border.

The SNP government is on your side.

And please, don't start the 'strip Ratcliffe of his knighthood' crap.
Ruthless, racist, bigoted, soulless, mercenary c*nts are exactly the sort of people we give honours to.
And who accept them.

FTR, Jim Ratcliffe didn't apologise for his racist comments.
He said "sorry that my choice of language has offended some people...but it is important to raise the issue".
i.e. "I didn't say anything offensive, it's a pity you found it offensive, and I was right anyway".
1/2

There is a mountain of evidence of the entrenched racism of the royal family, so yes. Aside from the many awful things they've said and a decades-long racist household policy, they actually got laws changed to exempt them from equalities legislation.
He seems very much the sort they would knight.

As usual the British Establishment choose
a totally independent and completely unbiased
set of jolly good chaps
to do the right thing ...

Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer and avoid strike action RESIDENT doctors have voted to accept a revised pay and contract reform offer and call off strike action

Well done SNP for working in partnership with doctors rather than calling them names like Wes Streeting does in England

www.thenational.scot/news/2584444...

BREAKING: Congressman Ted Lieu just exposed Pam Bondi for lying under oath. This is a federal crime. Wow.

Always fascinating that people who are awful in some ways are so often so awful in so many other ways.

Under Starmer, recognised refugees can no longer reunite with their children.

Recognised refugees.

Denied the right to reunite with their children.

It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied.

So yes, he’s hated.

"I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU, UNDERSTAND ME?"

Local PD in Indianapolis, IN assaulted, abducted and threatened to kill a group of teenagers returning from an anti ICE protest (2|9/26)

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Anas Sarwar should perhaps reflect that most of his campaign funds (& many activists) are sent by Labour head office in England.
The low numbers of Labour members in Scotland provide little, union money is only a small portion these days, & private/ corporate cash is tiny in Scotland compared to UK.

Anyone who thinks this is Anas Sarwar putting 'country before party' needs their damn head examining. This is Anas Sarwar putting his own ludicrous hopes of becoming Scotland's First Minister ahead of both his party and country

The London commentariat are frankly embarrassing on any Scottish issue.

With McSweeney gone, how will Starmer get his best ideas?

Some of his best hits includes appeasing the Far Right, selling everything to Palantir, repressing pro-Palestine protesters, demonising migrants, censoring a crucial climate report and being more transphobic than even some US republicans

To understand how much Alex Massie actually cares about women's safety: when I called out his transphobe-in-arms Nick Cohen for multiple acts of sexual misconduct against cis women, which eventually got him sacked, Massie went berserk at me.

Transphobia is a men's rights movement in drag.

"Should [Morgan McSweeney].. be standing down?"

Pat McFadden: "I don't think he should"

McFadden is a long time political ally of both Mandelson & McSweeney & all 3 worked together in wrecking, smearing & lying to regain control of Labour, & then purging to cement that control

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bs... • 3h One of the (maybe intended) devastating effects of all the sleaze coming out on the political stage is people disengaging even more thinking what's the point, they're all as bad as each other etc. But remember things can get worse and hope is about words & actions not a passive state of delusion.

This is true but we should recall that *the entire point of the McSweeney Labour project* was to restore public indifference to politics, and to fight a low-stakes, low-engagement, low-turnout election, specifically so that the lads could go back to agreeing policy with donors offscreen.

In The Heat of Lisbon By Numbers Deluxe All the data from the '67 European Cup Final brought up to date in the new stat pack format

xG Celtic 3.51 v Inter 0.28
www.huddlebreakdown.com/p/in-the-hea...

I had to check the date on this three times

‘At home with Peter Mandelson’ in Times magazine *today*

This is how we cover corruption in Britain? Seriously??

Mandelson, Palantir and the NHS What are the implications of the newest tranche of Epstein files for the NHS? Lucy Nichols examines Peter Mandelson’s close friendship with Jeffery Epstein has sparked a crisis in the heart of ...

Epstein 🤝 Palantir 🤝 Mandelson 🤝 Streeting.

Kick Palantir out of the NHS

keepournhspublic.com/mandelson-pa...

Reform have been on Question Time 14 times in the last year.

The Green Party 3 times.

They have the same number of MPs,

Our Media is a right wing propaganda fog horn

Trump is incredibly litigious, he sues people and organisations at the drop of a hat.
Countless people are publicly calling him a paedophile.
Not a peep.

Whether Starmer stays or goes, what will remain is the same broken Westminster system that fails to serve Scotland.

For the Scotland we want, we need independence.

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

It has been revealed that our chief reporter, @john-mcevoy.bsky.social, was among journalists investigated by a PR firm paid by Labour Together.

Labour Together was then managed by Josh Simons. Simons is now Cabinet Office minister.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

The depressing and obnoxious reality here is that many powerful and well-connected rich men see half of the population as meat rather than as people.That will not change in a hurry because the culture, the wealth and the connections persist

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This happened only hours before his racist post. Not a coincidence. A Black man had the temerity to ask trump to not be a terrible person.

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