Alastair Smith

COME ON DOWN TO THE BLUESKY BALLS RACE!

PUT YOUR BETS DOWN NOW ON THE MOST AMAZING RACE OF 2025

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

According to the forecasting models, the current steep funding cuts— coupled with the potential dissolution of the agency—could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, averaging more than 2·4 million deaths per year. These deaths include 4·5 million among children younger than 5 years, or more than 700 000 deaths annually.

There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.

maybe instead of asking socialists whether billionaires should exist we should be asking billionaires whether poverty should exist

u know what
this *is* a really well done video
and worth watching

because it has to pass again in the house everyone PLZ call and writer your congresspeople AGAIN and tell them they MUST votes against it. The current Medicaid bill lasts til Jan 2026, then it will kick 20 Million people off Medicaid. 40% of all children are on Medicaid. 70mill Americans total.

If only there were a clinically proven, totally safe way to prevent diseases like measles…

Susan Hall is the GLA Conservative group leader. She has become the most senior Conservative to support Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain movement. One of Lowe's core goaıs is to shift the immigration debate to remigration: not how many people come but how many leave: mass deportations & net outflows

@goodlawproject.org can you lend a boost?

TRANS PEOPLE - If you've had your account on any social media site - but especially LinkedIn - censored, taken down, removed, etc, for using your chosen name - message me.

I'm working on a story about this happening as a broad phenomena, and the more people I talk to the better.

DMs open!

I’m not the first to say it, but today’s Senate vote sure feels like a punch in the face to the first day of Disability Pride Month.

A reminder that one source of pride is sheer survival.

The problem with hung parliaments is that important Bills end up having to be negotiated between ministers and backbenchers.

And that is why we need governments with large overall majorities, to avoid such embarrassing brokerage.

Oh.

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

This is a concentration camp.

Call it Alligator Auschwitz, because that's what it is.

This is America. Never forget and never forgive the people who allowed this to happen.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.

“Turdles” was right there

In all this Bob Vylan pearl clutching some are conveniently forgetting the IDF is committing genocide.

Genocide is a policy carried out by the hands of many, tolerated by many more.

bsky.app/profile/oluf...

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

A Police Stop Is Enough to Make Someone Less Likely to Vote - Bolts Florida Governor Ron DeSantis grabbed headlines throughout 2022 for practices that weakened democracy—from creating a police force to monitor voting to coordinating the arrests of people who allegedly...

A police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote, recent research has found. "Voting is a reflection of our belief that we’re part of the system, that our voice matters."

Many of those standing up for the people of Gaza would have been people who stood up for Jewish refugees in the 1930s because the reason they stand up is humanitarianism, religion and ethnicity play no part, it is the concept that EVERY child’s life has the same value

Christopher Taggart + Rhys MacDonald pled guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred: encouraging people to attack a hotel to get asylum seekers 'gone'

New Runcorn MP Sarah Pochin heard about the case yesterday + opposes the conviction as 'truly shocking'
x.com/SarahForRunc...

Jurassic park irl would only be a net good. the billionaires would lose their shirts cause the dinosaurs keep killing people. tickets will be so expensive that only the one percent will be able to afford to go, and thus get eaten. the rest of us get videos of live dinosaurs... eating rich people. A+

Just so everyone is on the same page: PIP is a top up benefit.

You can’t live on PIP, it’s there because being disabled is more expensive than not being disabled. PIP recipients *in work* may only be able to work because of PIP.

This government is just unnecessarily cruel.

Support Hanadi - help a mother and her family survive My name is Sunny and I am sponsoring this fundraiser on Hanadi's behalf.  Please see her story below and share this campaign.

Hanadi has social media in Gaza that predates the war (it reminded me so much of so many mom’s Facebook pages lovely pictures of her daughters) and also sent me a picture holding her Palestinian ID.

I have such a hard time sharing parents who lost their children because it’s so hard to even fathom.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hanadi. Hanadi is the mother of three little girls, unfortunately her youngest daughter Aya was killed in an air strike in December, the same air strike also caused her oldest daughter Jourie’s foot to be amputated and she needs a prosthetic.

That's about the same as all the people who have died in every war of the 21st Century, and includes millions of dead children. All blood on MAGA hands.