Sam Bacon

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

Someone go get Marcus Rashford

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Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

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On Ukraine, Europe must step into the void | Virgin

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

Appeasement at Munich World Wars, Past and Possible

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
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Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For more—and to sign— go to

saynotoethniccleansing.org

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The difficulty was we were always battling to get people to accept hypotheticals the other side waved away saying they’ll never happen. Ten years on and people are now poorer because of brexit, living in a more dangerous world with nation state war in Europe and old alliances ending. Different case.

Also; there’s a strong change putin does invade say, Estonia, and if so, that + the madness engulfing the USA, with the right political handling (*big* if!) there will be a strong case to be made that the UK needs closer ties somewhere. As the person who did press for lab’s eu campaign,

I’m with you on almost all but this. There isn’t enough widespread political support for brexit still to give reform the popular support in enough constituencies to win. They *might* increase their seats, but if labour undo it quickly and get growth and people feel better off they won’t care by 2029

🔥 @carladenyer.bsky.social:

"Until Labour are brave enough to deal with forces draining money out of us, people will look for someone to blame.

"The ultra-rich siphon off more & more, landlords hike the rent, & Farage will continue to sell the lie that migrants are the cause" t.co/oU9z5QdWYN

At this point I genuinely don't think it's hyperbole to say that Elon Musk is functionally in charge of the US government. Perhaps not in specific policy areas - two bills or one on the hill, policy in the mideast. But certainly functional control of the state apparatus.

Starmer summons UK defence chiefs in tussle over spending Trump is pushing European governments to commit much higher funding to armed forces

Labour should be using the need to increase defence spending as a off-ramp for their promises on tax, not letting their defence policy (like everything else) be constrained by their promises on tax.

UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’ Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’

We didn't vote for Reform lite. We don't want Reform lite.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s also a nightmare for gov that it’s been granted in the Lords. Less media profile for sure, but the level of expertise and knowledge will mean the easy political rhetoric the gov would have used in the commons to defend this simply won’t wash. Suspect they’ll get a good booting from peers

Urgh. Self inflicted u-turn coming. Not in answer to this obviously - the gov will double down today and force the lords spokex to take flak from learned experts on why this is in breach of law, act ignorant and say it’s not, to only then uturn this once it gets successfully challenged in court.

Google: What’s the quickest way to lose trust and the good will of our customer base?

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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month.

Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.

I just despair that it’s the workers and unions having to file this instead of Democratic leadership, or even god forbid a republican with a sense of duty

Is this a coup? Home of the Coup-o-meter Prevention is the best medicine: Get background on coups, how they happen in a democracy, and what we can do to stop one.

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@labourlewis.bsky.social hi Clive; we aren’t from the same wing of the party but just want to say thank you for your op ed in the Guardian today. I couldn’t agree more and it needed to be said; I’m desperately worried about the direction of our party (or lack thereof). So thank you

Out of interest what are you playing at the minute Stephen? Any recommendations?