Kenneth Murdoch

Trump illegally withheld $5.5 billion in SNAP funds, defying Congress & the courts.

He’d rather let 16 million kids go hungry than obey the law.

After threats & delays, the WH now says it will “comply" w/ a court order to fund SNAP.

This is chaos. No way to run the government.

Jeffries on a death threat made against him by a pardoned J6 criminal: "Not a single Republican has reached out to me since that incident occurred, and that's no surprise because they cannot defend the fact that Donald Trump pardoned hundreds of violent felons who brutally beat police officers."

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law.

These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

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Good morning with good news: "IRENA found that in 2024, the global average cost of electricity generated by solar PV was, on average, 41% lower than the least-cost new fossil fuel-fired power plant, as shown in the figure below."

Solar booms!
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You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.

A group of uniformed troops walk along the National Mall, with the Washington Monument and the Capitol in the background. A headline reads: "Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington." Photo by Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

Opinion: The insistence on absurd and public flattery for the leader is a hallmark of authoritarianism. on.ft.com/4mJy69K

If Angela Rayner lived in a cardboard box, the Telegraph would claim she nicked it.

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”

Just because you don’t spend time thinking about it, or you don’t understand it, or you actively try to ignore it, doesn’t mean it won’t rip apart your world & destroy everything you love.

It. Is. Only. Going. To. Get. Worse.

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington DC history took place on Jan 6 2021.

Trump watched on TV & issued no order for the National Guard to intervene — Mike Pence did — and later Trump pardoned the perpetrators.

Now with crime down 25% in DC Trump is sending in the National Guard.

The household analogy fallacy doing untold damage everywhere it is believed.

If you want to understand economics you should be following @richardjmurphy.bsky.social

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy The truth about the £40 billion gap

People say Rachel Reeves has a £40 billion black hole in her October budget. In this video, I show how £15 billion could be saved instantly simply by stopping unnecessary interest payments to commercial banks from the Bank of England. youtu.be/pwvWw7IQmS0?...

Today, we remember Hiroshima & on Saturday, Nagasaki. These are days to reflect on the horrors of nuclear weapons and commit to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. These weapons bring devastation & it's time to eliminate them. #nuclearban #auspol #politas @nuclearban.bsky.social

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats

This is a demand for unconstitutional, arbitrary power. There is no offense against the United States here. The FBI has no role to assist the State of Texas in becoming an authoritarian enclave.

F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

I remember when this happened.

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

Jeffries: “Why haven't Republicans released the Epstein files to the American people? It's reasonable to conclude that Republicans are continuing to protect the lifestyles of the rich and shameless, even if that includes pedophiles.”

‘Man-made mass starvation’ in Gaza, WHO chief says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issues warning, as more than 100 aid groups urge Israel to ease blockade

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

let the horror of this sink in

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Difficult to conceive of a more ill-judged decision then the one the Home Office took here. It is an affront to free speech of a kind which is really indistinguishable from what you'd see in a police state.

ICYMI yesterday the son of an economic migrant from New Zealand captained the England cricket team to victory in the test match against India. An immigrant from the Caribbean took a couple of vital wickets and the final wicket was taken by a British Muslim.