Oli Sharpe

The far right is corrupt to the core #Reform

Portland’s protests are getting ridiculous. That’s the point Protesters in cities like Portland, Oregon, are using humor to reveal the absurdity of MAGA’s claims about them—and it might be working.

"Portland’s protests are getting ridiculous.

That’s the point.

Protesters in cities like Portland, Oregon, are using humor to reveal the absurdity of MAGA’s claims about them, joining a rich history of clowning against authoritarianism."

www.fastcompany.com/91421423/por...

Tree by a bridge on a small stream in the woods

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #TreeClub #EastCoastKin 🌱🌳

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

Image of a Greater Anglia train with the text "Greater Anglia brought into public ownership".

Greater Anglia comes into public ownership today🎊🎉

Passengers are one step closer to a railway that is run in their interest, not the interest of shareholders from around the world.

Time for a railway that is run for us.

Food systems consume 15 percent of global fossil fuels. More than half of the world’s fertiliser production is fossil-fuelled.
www.ciel.org/reports/frac...

This is either clever or crazy or both: a UK company will install, in your home, a miniature data center, about the size of a heat pump, to serve as your home heating.

This guy…

Something’s stirring and the polls are showing it too

We were thrilled to chat with him in a way, let’s be honest, no other news and politics podcast would

We met the one and only @ZackPolanski on @TheTrawlPodcast

OUT TODAY wherever you get your podcasts!

Some trees in autumn colours.

I seem to have entered my 'helplessly taking pictures of trees' period of the year.

Tweet from Sky Marchini: “‘I’.” Below is Acyn’s tweet quoting Stephen Miller on CNN: “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice, sleepy southern town, is anyone going to riot?” Screenshot shows Miller speaking on the right and the interviewer on the left, with the headline: “Illinois & Chicago sue Trump over Natl Guard deployment.”

That’s quite a telling statement, Stephen Miller. I guess you’re calling all the shots now?

The Case for Fiscal Insurgency by Will Beaman A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, Ne…

"If democracy fails, it will not be because the public’s appetite was absent, but because we accepted private money’s 'no' at face value."

Welsh election: UKIP's Farage backs 'terrific' Gill UKIP leader Nigel Farage backs the party's Welsh leader Nathan Gill as

"I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long."
Nigel Farage
BBC News 2016

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

Tech-investor Peter Thiel, best known for sponsoring J.D. Vance and co-founding Palantir, goes theology:

“Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of 4 lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming.“

Proportional Representation is the radical idea that a party that gets 30% of the vote should never have 100% of the power.

In most stable democracies, this is already obvious. Why not here?

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

Reform can win the next election on around 30% of the vote. Starmer clearly hopes that most people will vote tactically to keep Reform out so that Labour wins on around 30% of the vote. Risky and cynical. We need #PR BEFORE the next election!

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

So, my understanding of your question is whether commenting on other people's channels helps the credibility of your own channel. Short answer: don't know 🤷🙁

But, it might do.

I have wondered whether particular users subscribing to your channel helps credibility. Again, don't know 🙁

Great 👍 I'll probably reply to at least some of them.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

The media have to start framing this accurately. The president is now functioning as a tyrant. The story is whether the other two branches of government will do anything to stop him.

Andy Burnham says it’s time for the UK to stop being in hock to the bond markets. The City is in uproar, but who really calls the shots in Britain—the government we elect, or unelected financiers? youtu.be/E1oOQ0EOPhY?...

Vaccines are one of the great public health success stories.

They’ve saved millions of lives around the world.

We cannot allow conspiracy theorists to undermine proven science.

So, what happens if the police stop you when you don't have your "papers" with you? Could you be detained? Do you get fined?

Nigel Farage on course to be next prime minister, mega poll projects The projection suggests 306 Reform gains, up from their current seat tally of five.

This projection is based on Reform getting just 27% of the popular vote. So with nearly three quarters not voting for Farage we could end up with him as PM. If this doesn’t convince everyone of the dangerous absurdity of our electoral system, what could? Wake up Starmer!
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Exactly. I'm fine with having an ID in a database that links some government databases together and is required/useful to undertake certain transactions.

But if I'm popping out for a walk on the beach, there should never be a requirement to carry my ID with me.

It's our govt and we're free people.