Local Indian casually roasting my dinner choice.

A federal judge in Rhode Island has said the Trump administration must fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. https://cnn.it/47KumOX

Me too. My adult son is Type 1 (as were my father and brother). The situation in the USA makes me so sad and angry.

Private Healthcare

#OtD 6 Nov 1915 Spanish anarchist, and member of the Mujeres Libres, María Bruguera Pérez, was born. She fought fascists during the Spanish Civil War, was jailed for life in 1937 but released in 1945, and then joined the underground resistance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...

Typhoon Kalmaegi left a trail of death and devastation as it tore through the central Philippines this week, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble and displacing tens of thousands of people. https://cnn.it/47FIZD5

Blatant disgusting corruption, Reform will do it better than anyone else.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

6 November 1901 | A Pole, Stanisław Adamczyk, was born in Poznań. A paramedic.

In #Auschwitz from 6 April 1941.
No. 14095
He perished in the camp on 13 February 1943.
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Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.

Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps Proposition MM’s passage means Colorado will fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students

Coloradans voted Tuesday to increase taxes on wealthy households to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school kids and bolster the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps. The Associated Press projected that Proposition MM would pass at 8:25 p.m. when 57% of the votes counted were in support of the measure and 43% were opposed. The increased taxes on households earning at least $300,000 will shore up funding for free school meals for all public school children, provide raises for school meal staff, and support school district efforts to buy locally-sourced food. Any leftover funding will go toward new state costs for administering the SNAP program as a result of cuts enacted by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress earlier this year. The passage of Proposition MM marks the second time Coloradans have voted to tax themselves to provide meals for public school kids in recent years. Democrats in the state legislature referred Proposition MM to the ballot this year when funding for the state’s free school meals program began to wane.

School lunches get a bad rap, but they're healthier than the average packed lunch. And making them free for all amplifies academic and health benefits for low-income kids by removing stigma/shame.

So I'm glad Colorado voted to raise taxes on high-income households to make school meals free for all.

Far-right cases referred to Prevent programme double those for Islamist extremism A record 8,778 people were referred to the government’s anti-extremism scheme in the year to March 2025

Prevent stats published today www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Royal British Legion urges activists not to hijack Remembrance Day parade Royal British Legion bosses are urging political activists not to hijack Remembrance Sunday this weekend.

The Royal British Legion is having to ask far right activists not to tarnish the remembrance of people who fought against fascism with flags symbolising a fascistic hostility to immigrants.

www.kentonline.co.uk/faversham/ne...

’Journalists failed to condemn a piece about Sadiq Khan accompanied by a photo of a terrorist atrocity.’

James O’Brien is reminded of a certain Mail article after Zohran Mamdani’s historic win in NYC.

I don’t always wear a poppy. However, I do visit [Commonwealth] war graves at home (most cemeteries have them) and abroad - last year Rome, this year Istanbul - and pay my respects. Remembrance Day is important but Poppy-wearing is not compulsory and we can remember the fallen in more than one way.

Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.

#OtD 5 Nov 1916 at least five members of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union were massacred by police and bosses' thugs in Everett, WA, after a ship carrying union members from Seattle was fired on. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...

#OtD 5 Nov 1921 German Jewish communist resistance fighter and nurse Marianne Prager-Joachim was born. A slave labourer for Siemens, she and others at the plant formed the Baum resistance group. She was executed in 1943 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...

I hear you!

Make that 9 days….

No boat crossings at all in the last 7 days.

The BBC hasn’t sent this to our phones as breaking news.

I am a Jew supporting the Maccabi ban: There must be no foul play in local democracy The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending the Aston Villa game

Keir Starmer owes a profound apology to:

▪️Birmingham Safety Advisory Group
▪️West Midlands Police
▪️Residents of Birmingham
▪️The local MP
▪️The UK Football Policing Unit (UKFPU)
▪️Europe-wide intelligence-sharing networks
▪️ Amsterdam police

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

5 November 1921 | Slovenian Franc Razpotnik was born in Trbovlje.

In #Auschwitz from 10 August 1942.
No. 57852
He perished in the camp on 3 October 1942.
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A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

@cateccles.bsky.social makes an excellent case for why the ECHR is fundamental to our rights. "Stand up and fight for the convention and our place. Let's be bold."

Susan B. Anthony, a founder of the International Council of Women. MPI/Stringer/Getty Images

153 years ago, on the 5th of November 1872, Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other women voted in the American presidential election. Anthony was later fined 100 dollars and responded :"I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty." She never did. #otd #history🗃️

Charity Commission: IEA must change to address political bias | Good Law Project After a formal complaint from Good Law Project, the charities regulator has told a radical rightwing think-tank to act on transparency and balance.

Remarkably complacent about the inclination of the Leopards of 55 Tufton Street to change their spots, is the Charity Commission. But we're pleased it has recognized the IEA has not been adhering to Charity law. And we're not going to let the matter rest here. goodlaw.social/npit

Good one...

Stop making childbirth all about women, demands Rupert Lowe The former Reform MP is fed up with women getting all the attention during childbirth and wants camp beds and hot pasta for the dads

The former Reform MP is fed up with women getting all the attention during childbirth and wants camp beds and hot pasta for the dads

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants