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I had to flee the US – as a foreign, Black, pro-Palestinian activist, I tick every box on Ice’s list | Amandla Thomas-Johnson I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson

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Terrifying.
Utterly terrifying.
This is absolutely why we can’t have digital ID cards. If the government/powers that be don’t like someone they could be shut out of healthcare, education, everything…
1984 - here we are 😭

Jane Goodall said she’d like to send off to another planet: Musk, Trump, Putin, Xi & Netanyahu. 🚀

Leaving the ECHR would hand Putin a huge victory.

Those who advocate doing so are colluding with an enemy of our country.

They are traitors.

The Tory strategy seems to be “let’s pretend we are even more unpleasant than Reform”.

Apart from that fact it won’t work, it’s pathetic to watch this insincere, hollow posturing.

Imagine living in that sort of head.

Reform will be beaten from the centre, or not at all.

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd

Badenoch: "Why couldn't we deport those foreign nationals who raped girls in communities across the UK? Why do we still allow them to remain in the very same town where their victims live?" Because, yet again, the bulk of them were UK nationals, many of them born here.

About 75% of Chris Philp's conference speech so far - and we are 10 minutes in – has been about crimes committed by migrants. You'd think that's all they ever did, rather than work in hospitals, care homes, merchant banks etc etc etc.

Americans are ‘deer in the headlights’ in face of Trump assault on free speech, Maria Ressa tells Jon Stewart Nobel prize winner says US institutions have collapsed much quicker than expected under the Trump administration

The Nobel prize winner Maria Ressa has said Americans are like “deer in the headlights” amid the collapse of US institutions and free speech under the Trump administration, particularly after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension.

Husband set table,
a beer and red wine for me
(Organic Cotes du Rhône).
We enjoyed dinner and a bit of conversation.
No stress with booking, dressing, driving at night, parking etc.
Just slipped the washing-up in the dishwasher and put our feet up for the rest of the night...

Fried peppers and garlic in olive oil, added pre-cooked onion and a dash of balsamic vinegar, spread over pizza's melted cheese.
Fried sliced potatoes in the same pan with more olive oil.
Potatoes ready, pizza ready.

2 garlic gloves
leftover fried 1/2 an onion
1 portion frozen grated mozarella,
grated cheddar
leftover cooked new potatoes

pre-cooked sliced mushrooms in microwave,
scattered over pizza base + the tuna,
smothered with grated cheeses and put in pre-heated oven.

Tonight's dinner felt like going to Pizza Express, but for less than 5£. Here's what we had, composed with leftovers in the fridge, cooked in less than 1/2 hour.

1 pizza base with pomodoro, frozen (crosta mollica)
4 chestnut mushrooms
frozen mixed peppers
a bit of no-drain tuna
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This is outrageous.

For so much of the world, including for many, many American Jews, Israel has completely and forever lost its credibility.

Not only does the genocide need to end, but Netanyahu and others need to face human rights prosecution and the apartheid must be abolished.

Exactly...

History repeats. That’s why in Europe we have the ECHR. 🇪🇺

UK Electricity price 2023 - Highest in the World
UK Electricity price 2024 - Highest in the World
UK Electricity price 2025 - Highest in the World

Energy is the most profitable Industry in the UK making £130bn, ahead of Banking on £82bn and Landlords on £80bn

You pay for it all

Amazingly, they're still selling the books at the conference.

Books that call:
Cameron: "A lightly glazed polyp"
May: "Vogon Poetry in Motion"
Johnson: "Darth Bagpuss"
Truss: "ITV4 made flesh"
Rishi Sunak: "A chatbot with the hair of a Lego Elvis"

... and list every fuck-up they committed

Sunday, 18 May 2014 Michael Rosen Fascism: I sometimes fear... I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... It doesn't walk in saying, "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution." https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html?m=1

This poem by Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social was written in 2014, but it fits the Trump MAGA American Fascism so clearly.

Make America Great Again

Drain The Swamp

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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The trump administrations created untruth. Remember when they called it alternative facts? They continued to double down on untruths, demanding their followers to do the same. If they wanted to be in their leader's orbit they are required to spread and hail the untruths evermore.
1984

Just a reminder of how this really works...

My #FBPE starter pack is up to 151 accounts. It's work in progress, and I'll be adding a lot more accounts.

Please share. Building networks is a vital and urgent task in the fight to defend democracy, freedom, and human rights.

I also have a RejoinEU list, which is longer.
go.bsky.app/PtsPYaW

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Only in Trump's fascist America . . .

... investigators who do their work are prosecuted and criminals and felons are pardoned.

🖕 the convicted felon Trump - and stand with Letitia James.
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Reform UK receives £100,000 donation from design firm that faced winding-up petition Exclusive: Interior Design Landscape, which faced closure by HMRC early this year, made donation in June

It just screams Scam. Reform, my arse...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Read.

Gaza: MSF condemns Israeli attack on MSF water distribution site This attack cannot be dismissed as an error. It was a deliberate attempt to sabotage water distribution to civilians who cannot leave the area, particularly the poorest, the sick, and the most vulnera...

Israeli Forces fired upon a clearly identified Médecins Sans Frontièreswater truck while it was distributing 10000L of drinking water in Gaza City. The vehicle’s route and schedule had been communicated in advance to the Israeli authorities, as MSF does on a daily basis.

msf.org.au/article/proj...

We all, including broadcasters and politicians must put an end to this racist “protecting our women” narrative about migrants. It’s bogus and does nothing to protect all women. How do you think it makes immigrants from those cultures feel? That includes my friends and family. What should they do?

Sarah Smith: Trump visit showed UK's warm relations - and limited influence The good-natured state visit demonstrated strong relations, but no ally is likely to change the US president's mind.

"I asked Wiles, the president's chief-of-staff, how much difference the visit will make to Britain's ability to influence US policy on trade, tariffs and international affairs. Her response was frank – none at all." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We must tackle rising tide of racism and homophobia claiming to be free speech, says Streeting — The Guardian Exclusive: Health secretary says Labour cannot afford to ignore far-right protests as Starmer under pressure

Wes Streeting has called it “laughable” that rising racism and homophobia is a sign of free speech in a strongly worded intervention suggesting Labour needed to step up its defence of minorities.

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Reminder that in the 9 years that Adolf Hitler was rising to power everyone appeased him and tried to work with him, because they thought "Actually he won't be that bad."

Guess what?

He was worse.