'They sent a 133-page indictment on me. A hundred and thirty-three pages … all those government lawyers working on this for months – I mean just how much public money have the government spent?” theguardian.com/environment/20…

Absolutely do not talk to Susanna Rustin. Make sure everyone you know avoids her interview requests.

The five people who died in the Channel this morning knew that there was a very real risk of death when they set sail in a small boat. At least, the adults did. Death was, to use a word in the news a lot this morning, a 'deterrent'. It didn't work.

We are devastated to see that the Rwanda bill was passed last night.
Everyone deserves safety, compassion & dignity. It is unthinkably cruel to send people seeking asylum a further 4000 miles away, where they will have no connections & can face even more bigotry and violence.

To truly understand 'the russian soul', look no further than the fact that a country with no roads or toilets, just sent a $10,000,000 missile to the Ukrainian city of Dnipro to destroy 10 apartments, the sleeping families in them and their pets.

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National Front protest against giving sanctuary to refugees, London, September 1979 by Jacob Sutton. Nobody would have believed at the time that eventually these people would be in government.
#RwandaBill

If you haven’t listened to this week’s Noncensored… we found out that Liz Truss was involved in the MP Mark Menzies scandal?! full ep:
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(with Susan Harrison⁩ ⁦Brendan Murphy⁩)

Will the Attorney General now apologise for her ugly and failed attempt to criminalise a 69 year old woman who did nothing more than point out an important limitation to the Government's power to imprison climate protestors? theguardian.com/environment/20…

The pro-Russian caucus was defeated. Now let's make sure Ukraine wins theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The pro-Russian caucus inside the GOP was defeated on Saturday, and with it Putin's dream of quickly occupying Ukraine. Now the US and Europe need to seize the moment to win, and end, the war

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Russia daily attacks port infrastructure in Odesa region, throws everything they have at Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia, using reconnaissance drones to target strikes, as Ukraine faces critical shortage in air defense. Every passing day becomes more crucial now.

'If only I'd read some different stories'. Our media deluges us with negative stories about (never by) trans people *every day*. How different would the lives of trans people in the UK be if c%s people were reading different stories? All the love in the world to Caroline [email protected] 🏳️‍⚧️

Sunday morning Face Cake.

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This is right-winger Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax MP. He also owns Charcombe Park and 15,000 acres in Dorset, largely derived from his ancestors' slavery-funded wealth. #reparations Heirs of Slavery ⁦plashmar⁩ theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Let's not go through this agony again. Time to take Russian frozen assets and use them to rebuild Ukraine:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

People with clinical depression don’t “feel depressed”, they ARE depressed. Literally. The condition originates in the brain but its symptoms are PHYSICAL.
Someone in the pits of a depression crash can no more “snap themselves out of it” than someone with two broken legs.

This is a lie. To say the FM is bringing up the culture war and not columnists doing two-page spreads against trans people or the reporters who ask the FM about trans lives more than anything else..
It's on my profession and professional grifters.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the sewage works…..

Prepare to be applauded and bloody furious. 🤬🤬🤬

Just in case you didn’t know, Liz Truss has a book out.