YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump's America I no longer feel safe to speak or act freely in a country where people are being arbitrarily detained and killed and where the truth is becoming whatever Donald Trump says it is, reports Alexandra Hal...

This from former British diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social, who now is now based in the US, really hits home about the nightmare currently playing out in Trump's America

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How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. “Trump called me down to the Oval Office,” John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian. “He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland.” It was an extraordinary proposal. And it originated from a longtime friend of the president who would go on to acquire business interests in the Danish territory. Continue reading...

How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory

Who funds the Free Speech Union? Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.

While purporting to care deeply about the funding of other organisations and the importance of free speech, Lord Young's FSU won't reveal who funds the er ... Free Speech Union

Excellent work from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...

YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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Trump says US will keep or sell oil seized from Venezuela - BBC News The US president also says the US intends to keep the tankers it has intercepted off the coast of Venezuela.

There were plenty who said Bush didn't win a fair election.

What would America's response be if another nation had used that as an excuse to blatantly steal its ships and oil?

The man is an insane fascist. It's time global leaders started telling it how it is.

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The first chapter of Jayne Eyre depicts the 14 year old boy John Reed physically assaulting the 10 year old eponymous character. This was Britain in the 19th century, hardly a culture that was imported.

The Violence Isn’t Imported. It’s Domestic. Kemi Badenoch’s attempt to blame violence against women on migrants doesn’t just collapse under scrutiny - it actively distracts us from where the harm really happens, and who is actually responsible.

The idea of “imported” violence against women and girls is a deeply comforting fiction - one that allows people to avoid looking at where it actually happens: within our homes and behind closed doors.

Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit? Keir Starmer's decision to exclude Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in our elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo

🔴Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?

Keir Starmer’s decision to exclude Russian interference in the EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in UK elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
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Sign the letter: The BBC must not pay Trump a penny Stop Trump Coalition

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Die Reiter wissen genau wenn ein Pferd ‘muss’ - das wurde ganz absichtlich ‘erlaubt’😍

And the prize for the most corrupt and easily bought politicians goes to..... Reform UK!!!
With a further award for the most brazen lies and excessive promises.

I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far right, says writer Rohan Sathyamoorthy

I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy

Doctor uses Reform conference speech to link king’s cancer to Covid vaccine Aseem Malhotra claimed ‘eminent oncologist’ said jab was ‘significant factor in the cancer of members of royal family’

This is without any evidence or data to support it. Cancer existed before COVID vaccines. The rise in early onset cancers- going on for decades- is not linked to COVID vaccines. Follow scientists & medical researchers. Not ppl selling snake oil. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.

And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

Farage says Nadine Dorris brings experience of government to Reform. What did she actually bring to government ?

Farage has not got a clue

Petition: Keir Starmer – Oppose Trump’s war on Iran Stop Trump Coalition

Sign the petition to Keir Starmer: Oppose Trump's war on Iran
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Timothy Snyder über Donald Trump: Der schwache "starke Mann" der USA Die Zerstörung der Institutionen schwächt den US-Präsidenten. Seine Stärke besteht nur in der Unterwürfigkeit seines Publikums im eigenen Land. Russland und China wissen, dass die Zeit für sie spielt

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No it didn’t. Musk rigged the election. He’s all but said so himself today.

This seems to have now disappeared from the Express website but can still be read in the archive.
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⭐️ 50 YEARS AGO TODAY ⭐️

17.4 million people voted “Yes” to Europe…

…the single largest vote for any single proposition in the UK’s history.

This 17.4M was from a pop at the time of just 56M - and represented a massive 67% of all votes cast.

Let’s do it again. #RejoinEU

I decided to become a journalist aged fifteen after reading ‘1984’ and being appalled at the thought that governments could rewrite history. Orwell knew the USSR did it. Now China pretends the Tiananmen massacre didn’t happen. It did. I was there, and saw it for myself.

Yvette Cooper left to spin the unspinnable after Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech | John Crace Home secretary insists prime minister meant everything he said on immigration – except the stuff he didn’t mean to say

"A level of nastiness about immigrants that had previously only been the preserve of the hard right. Now it was open season. Want to give foreigners a good kicking? Then step this way."
John Crace calling out Labour's immigration out for 2nd time in 2 days.

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Letter: We are not strangers Letter to the editor

“I woke up with a sense of dread…”

A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.

Don’t miss this powerful open letter. 👇

Image: Instagram collaboration between Good Law Project and Ben and Jerry's stating: "The erosion of trans rights is the erosion of all of our rights."

Very pleased, over at Instagram, to be collaborating with Ben and Jerry's who are urging their followers to support our litigation to undo the Supreme Court decision.

Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

The right is not rising in the East Reform may have seized the Conservatives’ mantle in the local elections, but this is not a rise of the right in the East

🔥 Despite Reform’s surge, the overall swing in local elections in the East of England region was towards the broad left.

Don’t let the media noise fool you.

The right didn’t advance - it fragmented. Here’s how...