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The RSF having to retreat from a bunch of cities because they lost their funding from the UAE is such a good example of how all struggles are the same struggle.

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center

www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz...

What a world

Zionists have worked so hard to convince everyone that “Jewish = Zionist/Israel supporter“ and have done this while co-signing violence and as anti-Zionist Jews have long said, that propaganda makes Jews less safe on top of justifying the Israel’s violence against Palestinians and other Arabs

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat' while increasing the power of working-class men."

Remind me again why Labour is shoving vast public contracts down its throat?

My email is an endless stream of “upgrade to get access to—“

I don’t want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what you’re selling.

'Government’s latest proposals would accelerate this cruel trend' Disabled people are being pushed into poverty - we must stop this now, says York Citizens Advice

Disabled people being pushed into poverty.

People with disabilities need support, not benefit cuts.

Requirement to score 4 points for an activity leads to loss of PIP support.

Govts attack human welfare whilst promoting corporate welfare.

We are all one event away from needing disability support

Email the Home Secretary now I just wrote a @unitetheunion letter: TBC. Write one here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-home-secretary-shabana-mahmood-her-new-proposals-plunge-over-1-million-migrants-into-poverty-and-uncer...

The Home Secretary’s new “Earned Settlement” plan could plunge 1 million migrants, people who our economy and NHS depend on, into poverty and uncertainty.

This cruel political posturing has to stop. Make your voice heard: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan Lawyers including top barristers and retired judges urge the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials.

Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan.

Govt wants to restrict the right to jury trials to reduce backlog of court cases.

Backlog caused by Tory austerity and cuts.

Need investment, not cuts in human rights.

Lost rights are hard to recover.

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.

Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

motivated by offline events but maybe relevant for some: never stops boggling my mind how some are able to rationalize the toxic ways they navigate internal org disagreements - functionally punishing the urge some people have to step up to roles of responsibility in these orgs

RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

By taking a far-right approach to immigration policy, cracking down on rights and placing it high on the agenda, Labour has not just turned its own voters away

It has mainstreamed far-right politics and strengthened Reform, both politically and electorally

Them doubling down should be unforgivable

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

Does Starmer support Mahmood's determination to double down on a visibly failing strategy (politically *and* economically).

If so..

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).

Deaths of 22 children in Channel due to ‘catastrophic failure’ by UK and France, NGO says Project Play finds UK taxpayers are funding ‘record child fatalities’ and ‘repeated violence’ against children in northern France

Deaths of 22 children in Channel due to ‘catastrophic failure’ by UK and France, NGO says

China solar boom helps energy emissions fall slightly in 2025 Official statistics show 0.3% decline even as total power demand rises

China’s energy emissions fell 0.3% in 2025, despite a 3.5% rise in energy consumption. The drop was attributed to its massive renewables buildout, driven primarily by solar power.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand has entered the chat

Top Barclays executive to lead UK banking supervisor Katharine Braddick’s appointment to PRA comes as government seeks to reform regulation to boost growth

Top Barclays executive to lead UK banking supervisor.

She will also serve as one of the BoE’s deputy governors

Expect more deregulation.

Revolving doors and cognitive capture is now the norm in the regulatory structures.

A regulator can't promote industry and protect people from corporate abuses

From Ambition to Delivery: How the Next Scottish Government Can Transform Health Scotland can modernise its NHS with a national patient app and faster rollout of proven technology, shifting care toward a preventative model.

In case anyone was wondering what the Tony Blair Institute is up to, they’ve just published a paper advising Scotland what to do about the health service 🚨🚨🚨
(Many of Starmer’s ideas for the NHS are EXTREMELY similar to ideas published by Blair’s org…)

institute.global/insights/pub...

As an academic born and raised in Denmark who researches and writes about Danish politics, I can confidently say that Cowley has no idea what he’s talking about. The piece is full of factual errors and falsehoods

SEND help Everything you need to know about the government's special educational needs plans

New post just out:

"SEND help"

Everything you need to know about the government's special educational needs plans.

Covering: the problem the govt are trying to solve; key proposals; three big issues that will cause problems; and the politics.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America?

ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed

AYMAN: Where?

LUNA: Are you serious right now?

AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation

I keep thinking about the people for whom $400K is a small number and how they are the reason people for whom it is a very big number have to hustle like this

Please keep circulating this so that people who have $500 to spare see it

Vanderbilt Will Stop Providing Gender-Affirming Surgeries to Trans Adults The hospital cited “operational limitations” for the decision.

Horrifying and also as predicted. This is genocidal shit. The only hospital in Tennessee that offered this kind of care. www.them.us/story/vander...

We need to be really clear that this kind of incident is going to make it harder for communities to find missing children in legitimate scenarios

This puts kids in more danger than they were already in because of ICE

Two options for voters in Gorton & Denton.

Greens or Reform?

Generic white dude who programs @westbynoreaster Why then did you take down the “Einstein” chatbot? 1:22 AM · Feb 26, 2026 · 67 Views Advait Paliwal @advaitpaliwal · 16h Cease and desist Generic white dude who programs @westbynoreaster · 15h Really? Presumably from Canvas/Instructure, right? Advait Paliwal @advaitpaliwal · 7h Due to the name Einstein

In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website.
He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.

You mean to tell me that after a year and a half of being shat on by the Labour leadership, left wing voters decided to give someone else a go? Labour’s “it’s us or reform” message didn’t work because they’ve echoed Reform’s rhetoric since taking power?

Well I never. Who could have seen this coming