Alexandra Stein

‘They say you have to buy blessings’: the London women who gave everything to a controversial church Regulator rules Universal Church of the Kingdom of God did not protect vulnerable donors, including woman who says she gave life savings

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The UK's permission for the US to use its bases in attacking Iran amounts to complicity in the crime of aggression. It drags us into what could be an endless war, without democratic or even parliamentary consent.

Allowing British bases to be used in an illegal war of aggression is a catastrophic and historic mistake.

Britain has been dragged into another war because our Prime Minister would rather appease Donald Trump than stand up for international law.

Whoever made this, it’s BRILLIANT.

Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

More thoughts: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-the-mounting-costs

“Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton”
Sadiq Khan

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Had is occurred to number 10 that racist immigration policies don’t gain them votes but lose them?

This is crazy. Surely by now the government must realise it will not achieve decency over division by trying to be Reform Lite?

Scientology and Jehovah's Witnesses among alleged high-control groups An analysis of submissions to Victoria's inquiry into cults and fringe groups shows many of the groups hold charity status.

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The amount of joy and positivity in the U.K. this morning is wonderful. People voted for community, for inclusion, for collectivism and togetherness. This election has been a complete rejection of division, othering and nasty politics

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

A New Era of Political Mobilization Is Dawning - Dissident Voice Born in South Africa just a few years after the end of World War II and reared by activists in the anti-apartheid movement, I witnessed my parents’ struggle against fascism and its accompanying racism...

I just wrote an op ed for Dissident Voice about the mobilizations in Minneapolis and how the experience with the Yellow Vests helps to understand them or future possible strategies.

Have you been watching Dirty Business on Channel 4? Sensational stuff. I hope there will be repercussions and serious action taken, including the abolitioon of the Environment Agency and its replacement by a fully-funded department including scientists and investigators with real legal powers.

End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

I don’t see how a democratic society can allow a political party to illegally pretend to be the official opposition and openly campaign on a platform of illegal ethnic cleansing

Time to proscribe Reform.

Matt Goodwin is running: the search for Reform’s elusive byelection candidate Nigel Farage’s man in Gorton and Denton has a huge public platform, and a taste for culture war. What happens when he concerns himself with bin collections?

Slightly buried in this excellent piece is the fact that Goodwin shares Stephen Miller’s love of the US 1924 Immigration Act - the one admired by Hitler and the reason why so many Jewish refugees (including Anne Frank’s family) were turned away

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An important reminder

They noticed!

Proper Tacos in nags head market. Excellent

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

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Reform UK suspends by-election campaign activist over ‘antisemitic and misogynistic’ posts EXCLUSIVE: Adam Mitula, Reform UK’s interim campaign manager in Tameside, has been assisting Matt Goodwin's Gorton and Denton by-election campaign

So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.”

When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?

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She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

"See you on the inside"

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

One in five children infected in the recent London measles outbreak were reportedly hospitalised.
Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”.
It isn’t.

This is really not good. Measles is so easily caught and so dangerous. If you haven't been vaccinated please ask at your GP surgery - to protect not just you but those around you.

Scrap hospital parking charges now! Need to visit the hospital? Patients, families and NHS staff are being met with rising fees just to park their cars. Join me and sign this petition from 38 Degrees to demand these unfair charges are s...

🚨When we go to hospital, it’s rarely for something easy. But patients and their families are being immediately met with fees just to park their cars. And these charges are going up!

I’ve just signed the petition to Scrap hospital parking charges now

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TOMORROW. 9pm French time (8pm UK / 3pm EST / 12pm PST). The moment we've all been waiting for!!!
Free to watch online with an account and a VPN. www.france.tv/france-5/dir...