Important read on digital ID based on experience in India.

“Why would you have done in the 1930s?”
Guess I would have freaked out just as I do now seeing basically neighbours with a huge military dive into fascism

Tommy Robinson will be organising a mass protest any time now.
..just wait...
..here it comes...
..

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

If the enemy comes over the hill to attack me, I won't care if the soldiers defending me are male or female. I'll just be thankful they're there and call all of them heroes. Women soldiers have been defending Europe in Ukraine for years now. Hegseth can go to hell.

A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

"You should never overestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices."

– George Monbiot

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

Oh. Election denier and right winger Pizzagate TPUSA hack Jack Posobiec appears to have voted illegally - living in Maryland but voting in Pennsylvania. From Jacqueline Sweet at @slate.com and @marisakabas.bsky.social at The Handbasket: slate.com/news-and-pol...

The President gets no special new powers during a shutdown. He can't eliminate agencies. He can't use federal funds to punish his political opponents.

As Trump's illegality grows during the shutdown, Democrats' spines should stiffen to oppose his corruption.

Just trump & pistol pete posting their War Crimes on a Friday morning, another video of our military blowing up a "drug smuggling" boat in the Caribbean. Any proof it was moving drugs? Nope. Pete said he was just following orders...From a convicted felon

Unmasking Visegrád24: Tracing the People, Money, and Political Connections - VSquare.org Visegrád24 became famous for its anti-Muslim and anti-migration stance as well as waves of disinformation. A recent report by the Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) brings to light a p...

💥🔎 On X/Twitter, Visegrád24 became famous for its anti-Muslim and anti-migration stance as well as waves of disinformation. A recent report brings to light people, funding and political actors tied to their Central Europe-based but international network. @vsquare.bsky.social

"while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia"

Irony is dead.

#DaveChapelle #FreeSpeech #r4today

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

If Labour put 10% as much effort into calling out Brexit as they do punching down at immigrants we'd already be negotiating to rejoin the EU.

Brexit only lacks importance for most voters because of the conspiracy of silence across politics and the media to not connect Brexit-related problems to it.

So all the stuff the other day was just headline-grabbing bollocks.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the Department's operational status. Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

Presumably it can't be Nigel Farage, as he's boycotting the BBC

Why is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?

Charing Cross Station AGAIN.

So much for rooting out the bad ‘uns.

Oh I was wandering why she was back into the news whining about being a "scapegoat"

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

But if you dare to criticise me I'll ban you from my party conference bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

Weird how The Times had Farage's "shocked" reaction to Starmer's speech published before Starmer's speech.

I think there is a failure to recognize just the extent to which the politicization of government bureaucracy functions as a parallel arm of the propaganda machine.

When I was just out of college I spent a year in Ecuador where the president was a corrupt populist Abdala Bucaram, who called himself El Loco Que Ama, the madman who loves you. Put his name on everything. Discounted milk was sold as 'Abdalac.'

Anyhow, not quite sure why I'm telling you that...

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