James Fendek

13 has had is phone back after a month of a device ban. I’ve upped the security on it, I wonder how long it will last before I have to take it back again?

Randomly emailed to say that my photo copiers are being collected at the end of them month, spent an hours frantically sorting out a new contract

Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."

Seems lots of folk are appreciating Zack Polanski's clear-headed takes and are joining the UK Greens to vote for him as leader.

The UK desperately needs a major party of the left, now that Labour has vacated the field.

An LGBTQ+ pride flag formatted in the layout of the SMPTE "color bars" test pattern used for broadcast television. The first set of columns use the colors of the gay pride flag, with the addition of the original SMPTE color on the final column. The second set of columns contains two pride flags - the pansexual flag horizontally, and the asexual flag flipped and horizontal. The final set of columns contains the three colors of the transgender flag and the two POC-inclusive colors, followed by the original bar gradient from the SMPTE ECR-1-1978 pattern.

since it's the last day of pride month I figured I'd at least make one thing for it...

i now unveil to you my greatest invention:
color bars pride flag

Politicians shouldn't be allowed air conditioning.

The fundamental problem for liberals, even left liberals, is that their worldview is dependent on obeying the correct rules in the correct way but we're more and more obviously in a situation where the rules don't matter and the powerful arbitarily change the rules for their own benefit.

The Supreme Court has ruled to allow parents to opt out of school curriculum that includes LGBTQ themes in a decision that ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio says casts queer and trans people and families as an "ideology" rather than a community.

🧵 Listen to the man and ideology behind Grinch Starmerism 👇

Kendall says Pip claimants who get reassessed after November 2026 will be reassessed under new rules, not current ones Vicky Foxcroft, who resigned as a Labour whip over the bill, asked if the Timms review would have the power to review the budget savings being achieved by these cuts. And she asked what would happen if someone requested a reassessment because of worsening health conditions. Would they be reassessed under the old criteria or the new one? Kendall said that the Timms review was not being driven by the need to save money. (That did not fully address the question. Foxcroft wanted to know if it would be able to recommend more spending.) And Kendall said people can request a reassessment. If that happens before November 2026, that will be under the old system. After that, it will be under the new system, she said.

NEW: Liz Kendall has told MPs that if a disabled person currently on PIP requests a reassessment after November 2026 because of worsening health, they will be assessed on the new tougher criteria.

This confirms The Guardian’s report that those with fluctuating conditions will not be protected.

Tomorrow MPs will vote on the govt's brutal UC & PIP cuts.

Let's be clear: slashing benefits won’t lift people into work—it will push more disabled people and unpaid carers to the brink. I won’t back a Bill that pushes vulnerable people deeper into poverty.

Senior IDF officers admit 'uncalculated' fire on Gaza aid seekers after Haaretz expose ***

New: senior IDF officers admit “uncalculated” fire on Gaza aid seekers, after Haaretz exposé .

On Friday, Haaretz published testimonies from IDF officers and soldiers who served in Gaza who received orders to fire at unarmed crowds approaching food collection points—even when they posed no threat.

Keir Starmer is racist, transphobic. Islamophobic and ableist. It’s okay to say it. He is the Prime Minister for bigots. No one else matters.

Bob Vylan: here’s Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine

The Daily Telegraph: here’s Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine

9 months later: We regret to inform you that Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine are political

RFK Jr. Admits That Banning Fluoridated Water Will Cause 'More Cavities'—But He's OK With That He couldn't be more unqualified.

I cannot believe how unqualified he is for this job.

And now, a golden oldie from Barry Manilow.

🎼🎶Oh Mandy
You came
& talked shit
For no reason
And they took you away... 🎶🎵🎶

They should have shouted DEATH TO TRANS PEOPLE. They'd have been put in the House of Lords.

I've been thinking recently that between Palestine and trans rights, public opinion is so vastly different to the media and government that it is getting close to radicalising people en masse.

It is maddening seeing people on television say things that just aren't true, more than ever before.

They know full well nothing remotely criminal is coming from this

This is just the state acting in conjunction with the media and utilising whatever resources they can to try to silence anyone else thinking of doing this

You’ll recall that the cancelled second phase of the Leveson Inquiry - cancelled by the government, because the press and the police both demanded it - was intended to examine overly chummy and probably corrupt relationships between government, press and police.