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Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon V...

The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported.

Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇

📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

A message from Virginia’s family:

“Today, an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage."

Virginia deserved better, and while she was still alive.

Release the Epstein Files.

Poll predicts Keir Starmer will LOSE his seat to the Green Party at next election Though there's still a few years left until our next General Election, the Green Party renaissance will give Sir Keir some food for thought.

Let's make this happen. Together.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/pol...

In Trump's America, we can find courage and refuge in poetry A new book honors the writing, activism and witness of the Black visionary June Jordan

anthology. 💜

P.S. Remember what June Jordan said about Reagan. (It’s not his country, it’s ours.)
www.salon.com/2025/10/30/i...

Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper writes that UK policy towards Russia in Ukraine is meant to:

“make clear that aggression will not pay; that force will be resisted; and to defend principles that matter for the whole world.”

Where is this principle in relation to Israel/Gaza?

Portrait of a person wearing an ornate white military-style jacket with gold and silver embellishments, resting their head on their hand.

New to Art UK – a rare 1821 portrait ✨

Acquired by National Army Museum, the sitter and artist were unknown.

Research now identifies him as Thomas James of 18th Light Dragoons. He wears a Waterloo Medal, one of nine awarded to Black soldiers.

👉 artuk.org/discover/art...

📷 National Army Museum

Did the US participate in Gaza massacre? Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians during a hostage rescue operation last year. Why was a US navy helicopter flying next to the hostage drop-off site shortly after the massacre?

Last year, Israeli forces killed 276 Palestinians in Gaza while rescuing four hostages.

The US said it "did not participate militarily in this operation”, but a US Blackhawk helicopter was flying close to the hostage drop-off site shortly afterwards👇
www.declassifieduk.org/did-the-us-p...

What ceasefire?

#ReadAndPlay
#MusicChallenge
Prompt below 👇

An incredibly powerful song with a lovely lyrical coda that are a core part of my genderqueer identity. 🥰🥰🥰

Colour photograph featuring a standing Black man in a cap and suit holding nine large balloons in different colours while on a street with windows from a building in the background

Vivian Maier, Chicago, IL, 1971 #WomensArt #Saturdsy

We’re being asked by half the media & politicians to swallow the idea that known racist football hooligans should be allowed to rampage through our cities for NO OTHER REASON than that they happen to be Israeli.

Fuck. That.

BREAKING: A far-right Israeli group, Tsav 9, is blocking trucks from carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza at the Karem Abu Salem crossing.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5gja2w

Breaking news: Nigel Farage and Reform have been secretly meeting with the extremists who helped BAN abortion in the USA.

Since cosying up to them, Farage has started talking about limiting abortion.

If Reform think they’re “taking back control” of women’s bodies, they can f*ck right off.

Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza's 'Peace' Deal Documents show Tony Blair’s Ellison-funded institute designed Gaza’s recovery plan on data-driven lines echoing Oracle-Palantir war systems.

🔴Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza’s ‘Peace’ Deal

The same digital technologies that helped the Israeli military target Gazans are now being embedded in its peacetime infrastructure, with Trump-supporting billionaires poised to benefit, reports @nafeez.bsky.social

The UK has trained Israeli soldiers in Britain throughout the genocide

Then it was forced to announce a "pause" in training

Now, the government appears eager to continue training as normal: it's keeping the "pause" "under review" and is "mindful" of a resolution to the conflict.

#DCUKparliament

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

Well, that's one way of handling global ecosystem collapse

Block publication of research that might raise awkward questions about whether UK govt is doing enough about it

Can't see any flaws in that approach....

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Everyone in academia should read this story. I don't know Mark personally but I know his work (wishing him and his family safe passage out of the US)! 👇

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says The government needs to

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Spain’s parliament formally approves Israel arms embargo The vote, which passes 178 votes to 169, enshrines into law an embargo that has been in effect since the war began.

The vote, which passes 178 votes to 169, enshrines into law an embargo that has been in effect since the war began.

Baby Sham’s Survival Campaign My friends, Mariam and Ibrahim have spent the past 20 months facing genocidal conditions at the hands of the occupation. Mariam is now 8 months pregnant, with only 5 weeks until her due date! Being di...

Baby Sham’s Survival Campaign chuffed.org/project/1362...

The Palestinian photojournalist who Israel killed an hour ago, Yahia Barzaq, was a newborn photographer.
I’m sharing here some of his photography.

"I have no regrets at all"

Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey sends a message from the Global Sumud Flotilla.

To Gaza with love.
Latest update from Global Sumud Flotilla.

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.

Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

When people say Labour is part of the fascist takeover by Jeffrey Epstein’s clients, this is what they mean:

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

Dear effing lord

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Massacres are currently unfolding in northern Gaza and in eastern neighborhoods of Gaza City, such as Zaytoun, Sabra, and Shuja’iyya, yet there are no journalists on the ground and no media coverage from these areas.