Tom Carter-Brookes

Nigel Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s bitcoin firm Reform UK leader strengthens ties with crypto sector with stake in former Tory chancellor’s company Stack BTC

Lol and this cabal are pitching to run the economy 😳

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"The Lebanese government says Israeli strikes have killed nearly 400 people over the past week. More than 500,000 people have been displaced"

Israel is a terrorist state.

Would it have been so much worse if it had been a nuke? Consider the fact that birth deficiencies and rates of leukemia and cancer in Iraq, post 2003- invasion, are worse than what was observed in Hiroshima. In Japan, rates of leukemia rose by 660% in the years following the bomb. In Falluja, it increased by 2,200%. The toxicity of war has never been greater, and we are in no way reckoning with the scope of the horror that's been unleashed.

The real damage comes years later, with elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issues.

This is chemical warfare, with delayed carnage. Worse than radiation sickness.

I am ashamed to be American today.

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Scum. Police letting it happen too. Massive questions to answer by GMP. @andyburnham.bsky.social why are you enabling this style of policing on the streets of Manchester?

Happy "International Men's Day is on November 19th" Day

Anti-trans extremists have just forced Hannah Spencer into a police car as she was making her way to a celebration event in Manchester. But of course, these people are all about keeping women safe aren't they? I'm sure that the irony of these actions on #internationalwomansday are lost on them

Plaid Cymru plans to share wind farm profits with local people – here’s how that idea has been tried elsewhere In Nepal, local shareholding in a hydropower project changed how communities regarded it.

In Nepal, local shareholding in a hydropower project changed how communities regarded it.

Jesus Christ, today there's seemingly credible reports coming out that he killed a hedgehog with a sledgehammer and at it raw?!?! WTAF!

Oh, just the business vehicle of Nigel Farage masquerading as a political party breaching its obligations at Companies House.

He was suspended a few years ago for transphobia....we are of course still all reeling from his decision to join Labour 🙃

That's such a verbose way way of saying 'I'm a bigoted transphobe'

C’mon, people. Look at your Kremlin style guide. The phrase is “special military operation.” Not all of you are getting this right.

It's absolutely wild isn't it, some hybrid nazi/Bond villain vibe. Why do they do these ridiculous photo ops?! Who on earth do they perceive as the target audience? It genuinely baffles me

I did not have Naomi Klein sharing a video of a white supremacist with an actual Nazi tattoo, and praising his political communication skills on my 2026 bingo card 😳 There are several Doppelganger jokes to be made here

Don't you love the BBC's sense of proportionality? Their very egalitarian approach?

Would love stuff like this to discover the UK that exists beyond the golden triangle

Lol.....yeah man properly damaging for the Greens, we're really feeling the fallout already, what with passing 200k members today. Like I say, you seem quite confused....I'll bid you good evening

Hahaha I'd forgot about this from earlier 😂 You're a bit confused Barry innit 😂

This.....I'm unsure why people struggle with this. Still seeing so many centrists doing the weird both sides of the arguement thing to defend the illegal actions of the US and Israel.

I fear that this is a real doom loop that we're heading towards.... geopolitical conflict will intensify due to climate change, this slowing actions to challenge it....

Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation

Geopolitical conflict isn’t just tragic. It slows climate action too.

A timely reminder as tensions rise in Iran…

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Hahaha it's bizarre seeing the penny drop for some of them. Even more bizarre listening to people who are still Labour diehards....like we must be fairly confident in stating that these people basically have a far-right adjacent politics now innit! ....and that's being fairly polite to lots of them!

There's not always two sides to every story..... that's just a weirdo liberal defence to justify illegality

Daily Heil called it pro Iran? As far as I can see, the protest was explicitly calling for the end of the illegal invasion of Iran?

Pro Iran, or anti illegal invasion of Iran?

Ah so two wrongs make a right?

He'd say that they were illegal. This is really not hard. I know there's this weird illusion that you have to 'act like a grown up' when I power, and that's it's weird centrist liberalism that is 'grown up' politics....but no....in power, Greens will still call out illegal acts such as this

Influencers in Dubai switching from “everybody should move here” to “this Is a crisis and the British government should get me out of here” without a single blink

Whiteness, populism and the racialisation of the working class in the United Kingdom and the United States The election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote were widely hailed as examples of (white) working class revolts. This article examines the populist racialisation of the working class as white and ...

The racialisation of the working class has always been core to reactionary politics

E.g. mainstream elites were quick to blame/praise the white WC for both Trump & Brexit despite data providing a different picture

@aaronwinter.bsky.social and I explored it here

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Reading is not just a pastime or a luxury, but a precondition of democracy"

Luckily for me, reading is amongst my favourite pastimes and a true luxury I'm very glad to be able to enjoy. Solid start to Sunday morning....I might brave a short bike ride later after a battle with illness too 🤙