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reddit reviews of taylor’s new album are great

Apparently Israel’s genocidal acts are just “daft”.

'Important step forwards' as Housing Bill passes with plan for rent controls

NEW: Rent controls are set to be introduced in Scotland after the Government’s housing reform legislation passed at Holyrood

looking forward to sleeping properly for the first time in years :-) rent controls also lower cortisol :-)

anyway bill passed! scotland has rent controls! onwards comrades

watching the rent control vote by myself in a hotel at labour conference which is just such a depressing and also comically evil end to years of organising for this moment lmao

i just want to know how she got the heart into the wedding cake

Nick Sortor & @nicksortor • 16h * BREAKING: The Secret Service has launched an investigation into the escalator situation at the United Nations today, per Karoline Leavitt If someone did this intentionally, they should be CRIMINALLY charged. It put President Trump is a VERY compromising position. "If we find that these were UN staffers who were purposefully trying to trip up President Trump and FLOTUS well, there better be accountability for those people," Leavitt said

Steve Cortes @CortesSteve Follow S * Considering the recent trend of left wing violence, including Pres Trump taking a bullet to the head, crap stunts like this one cannot be tolerated. Get the UN the hell out of America!

it was his own staffer 💀

i may be dumb but i ain’t stupid

i’m not losing another fiver to the your party wars. you have fun though

from our final rally for rent controls last night. debate is today and the vote is tomorrow - then towards a future of permanent rent controls in scotland. up the might living rent 💚

also engenders a dangerous complacency where the mass civil society response that is required to actually push back on this stuff doesn‘t happen because people convince themselves “it won’t happen so why should they have to put their heads above water on it“

The New York Times What Will China's Green-Tech Ambitions Cost the World? 3 days ago

We are going to avoid worst case climate projections because of them…but at what cost?

have two hot leads only works when they have chemistry!!

big bold beautiful journey was terrible btw. farrell and robbie both being hot still doesn’t redeem it

one of the fash kept showing a pic of a cross on their phone to me and kat so every time he did we’d would roll our eyes back and act like we were going through an exorcism lmao

The New York Times has now published a document which sets out the government’s basis for the proscription. This is the “open” version of the MI5 assessment that has been placed before the courts in litigation challenging the proscription. The judges would also see a “closed” version with material not to be placed in the public domain. One hopes the “closed” version is a far more impressive document than the one published, which is a flimsy and unconvincing piece of work. The assessment even admits—twice—that most of the activity of Palestine Action cannot be called terrorism. The document overall reads as if it has been compiled backwards, intending to justify a conclusion that needed to be reached. If so, it will not be the first intelligence document to have been created in such a way. The assessment relies on the group having caused “serious” property damage, which is the relevant statutory test. The problem here is that the spraying of paint and graffiti by the group does not meet the threshold of seriousness. The document also relies on “open source” estimates of the cost of damage which, if one looks at the cited sources, trace back to a claim which the police themselves put to arrested protesters in interview. As such there is a certain circularity: the state is relying on the state claiming the damage is serious.

NEW

Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action?

A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

he is a campaigner not a leader!!!

your party changing its avatar to a black circle and doing a notes apology

jokes aside what a let down this all is! i won’t be going near YP now - i imagine a lot of people will be feeling the same

tbh it’s actually really on brand for the british left so fair play i guess

i’m getting the vibe legal action is going to be taken

take this offline for the love of god

bastani should retract his “snivelling little shit” statement. archie, although a pedant, is very insightful

In Britain, every time you...

— turn on a tap
— flip a light switch
— board a train or bus
— post a letter
— drop your child at nursery

... you take part in a system designed to extract wealth & concentrate power.

🧵 From cradle to grave, this is how a failed experiment has shaped your life.

#ImWithHer

Good explainer thread on this chaos from @archimbaldo.bsky.social

this is so so so embarrassing

corbyn actually needs to back off from this new party if there’s any hope of it being successful

The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism Over the past half century, housing systems have been reconfigured through processes variously labelled financialization, assetization and rentierization. Unevenly advanced by successive rounds of ...

We have some new online publications, great readings on home ownership, rentierism, and decarbonized living!

🔸 Susan Smith and Gavin Wood discusses the edges of owner occupation and rentier capitalism
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....