PhoenixPyres (Nathan Paddick)

the cost of denying another's humanity is paid with one's own

In 1903, a progressive woman named Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie designed a board game she called The Landlord's Game. Her goal was to show the world the dangers of monopolies and unchecked wealth concentration.
#Monopoly #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #MarkZuckerberg

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.

Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

Sleep walking into fascism….

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...

"A new climate analysis — presented for the first time here — projects how humidity and heat will collide to form 'wet bulb' temperatures that will disrupt the norms of daily existence."

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!
it's incredible how much you rage & blow!
Incredible
The cataracts and hurricanes, spout
unbelievable, drenching our steeples, drowning the cocks!
We've got sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
so sulphorous. No one else has this much sulfur.

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this.

I don’t view it as a Me problem.

De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."

It's 2047.

I've been sentenced to death after forgetting I had acetominophen in my carry on while trying to enter the US

My crime? Aiding and abetting Autism, which has been declared a Foreign Terrorist Organization

Corbyn and Sultana: the needs of the left are greater than any of your differences | Owen Jones Millions of UK voters are desperate for radical change. For their sake, we must hope Your Party’s hotheads give way to calm strategists, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

There has never been better conditions for a force to Labour's left.

There has never been a bigger threat from fascism in Britain.

If 'Your Party' implodes, that will be tragic - and unforgivable.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'I have the impression that the person's directing policy of the Hitler Govt are not normal. Many of us indeed feel we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand'
Sir Horace Rumbold, UK Ambassador to Berlin to Foreign Office 30 June 1933.

"Please, use AI so we can extract more from you".

UK and St George’s flags should never be used to ‘intimidate and terrify’, says senior Lib Dem ‘How dare the nationalists steal our flags?’ asks Tim Farron at party conference in Bournemouth

“You cannot love your country if – as it seems – you hate everything about it and claim allegiance only to a Britain of some fantasy golden age that never existed. You do not love your country if you seek to intimidate and terrify people who are British through and through."

Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Wage Drug Trafficking War

A draft Authorization for Use of Military Force, circulating in exec branch & on the Hill, would grant Trump the power to kill people he deems narcoterrorists and to attack any nations he says are aiding/harboring them (e.g. a Venezuela regime change war). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

A better future's possible!

The term "Antifa"has a century of history in Europe. It originated in, and was always associated with, opposition to Nazism and other forms of fascism

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.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

They betray us at every turn. Cowards and bootlickers

"Europeans" covers 30 NATO countries of varying sizes, strengths and specialisms. Eastern European and Baltic states especially are ready and willing to face off against the aggressor on their doorstep. We are not a monolith, *Americans*

What’s driving the Pentagon’s decision to phase out security and defense funding to the Baltic states?

Listen here: warontherocks.com/ep...

Empty-handed EU left off list for UN climate bash Bloc misses Sept. 24 climate summit slot after failing on 2035 target, while China makes the list.

The EU has been left off a provisional lineup for world leaders to tout their new climate targets, after the bloc failed to agree to a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.

Seeing lots of people talking about canceling their Disney+ subscriptions. If you happen to have some extra money around that used to go to Mickey Mouse... small indie media sites like mine could always use some assistance.

Especially these days.

www.techdirt.com/support/

What does a $961bn defence budget get you these days? A lot, but not enough, it turns out

The Senate Armed Services Committee wants to top up the Pentagon’s defence budget with an extra $22bn. The House of Representatives would like more F-35s. Whether they will prevail is another matter

John Oliver is next, obviously

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

Aww yesterday, a time I was less exhausted than today.

Trump is mobilizing the Department of Justice against the imaginary monster that lives under his bed.

"The Gaza Strip is becoming a real estate bonanza," and the plan is "on President Trump's desk," Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said at the "Real Estate Center" conference. He said negotiations have begun with the U.S. regarding a business plan for Gaza.