Why does she still think it is a good idea to run?

Because racism makes people:

1) stupid AF
2) easy to track
3) easy to target
4) easy to monetize
5) easy to weaponize

#FRPol #politics #AdTech #democracy

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/7/8/marine-le-pen-to-run-for-french-presidency-despite-criminal-conviction

#SupremeCourt allows #Texas to require #AgeVerification for mobile apps

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/politics/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-require-age-verification-for-mobile-apps

#privacy #SCOTUS #politics

#ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

https://www.wired.com/story/ices-internal-watchdog-is-now-investigating-online-critics/

#privacy #surveillance #FreeSpeech #politics #DHS

RE: https://sfba.social/@skykiss/116875322836570865

That has been true for years. It never stopped him before.

#uspol #politics #trump

Donald Trump mentioned #MakeAmericaHealthyAgain but after "tobacco companies gave millions of dollars to political organizations related to the Trump administration," federal workers who "worked with states on smoking cessation measures" were fired and an anti-smoking ad campaign was eliminated:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/trump-anti-smoking-cuts.html
#corruption #extremism #RFKjr #politics #health

Pegasus spyware infected former MEP Stelios Kouloglou while he served on the European Parliament committee probing spyware abuse, Citizen Lab found. 🕵️‍♂️
EU civil society groups now urge stronger spyware rules, independent investigations, and safeguards for oversight, privacy, and accountability. 🛡️

🔗 https://edri.org/our-work/joint-statement-pegasus-in-the-european-parliament-the-eu-must-act-now/

#TechNews #Pegasus #Spyware #EU #Europe #European #Parliament #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Surveillance #OpenSource #InfoSec #Technology #HumanRights #Politics #Government

Associated Press: Trump administration’s $46 billion ‘smart wall’ races ahead on the US-Mexico border. “The wall is under heavy scrutiny for the billions of dollars being dedicated to it when border crossings are at their lowest in decades. Critics say the U.S. is militarizing the border as it increasingly deploys sophisticated surveillance technology to the area, impacting local communities.”

This content is a NotebookLM summary of a YouTube video comparing Colombia and the USA. I don't add anything to the content, but I thought the summary was worth sharing.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/10aXf3Ul0ey61sRETEDvRs?si=le63_1oqTdqyVZ3_u0yHYQ
#philosophy #history #law #politics #culture #society #salience #podcast #video #perspective

I like to think about this question sometimes; it helps me feel better about the future.

How can we make the world better after we're free of capitalism and the oligarchs?

Some of my answers:

• Eliminate fossil fuel cars. Replace them with bicycles, adult tricycles, electric cars, expanded inter-city light rail, and massively expanded public transportation.

• Massive reforestation efforts worldwide.

• Eliminate or at least ENORMOUSLY reduce the fossil fuel industry, reserving fossil fuels for area in which replacing them would be difficult or impossible: precursor chemicals or lubrication, at a guess.

• Massive decarbonization of the world economy.

• Free education for all, including adults.

• Adoption of the "four freedoms".

I have more, but I'll stop there for now. What are some of YOUR ideas?

#Politics #Solarpunk #Future #Hope #Postcapitalism #Postoligarchy

The ongoing crisis in the universities (high levels of actual & potential job losses) have engendered relatively little public outcry.

For years, I argued that universities (including my own) should do a much better job of civic engagement (bridging the 'town and gown' divide, as it were);

this failing has left universities with fewer friends to argue their case nationally than other sectors - from health to steel manufacturing.

Universities have been too aloof.

#politics #universities

Today, in lieu of scheduled celebrations of a US that is held hostage by forces bent on dismantling democracy, I am re-posting an essay I wrote in September 2024, prior to the last election, about the considerable repair work that American democracy needs to protect itself from tyrants.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/09/repairing-democracy.html

#politics #USPolitics #4th #july4th #FourthOfJuly #US250 #US250th #Democracy #Freedom #Constitution #SCOTUS #ElectoralCollege #Gerrymandering #voting #impeachment #CitizensUnited #Rights #Corporations #Marriage #Abortion #Pardons #DEI #Religion

It's the #4thOfJuly

i'm not going to say "happy #FourthOfJuly"

i'm going to say "release the #EpsteinFiles"

so this rotten country can only just begin to claw its way back from plutocrat corruption, gleeful bigotry, and prideful ignorance

#USA #politics

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picture of the LA skyline with an american flag and a poster in the foreground: "Impeach the pedophile"

#Politics #Memes #NationalHealthCare

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We don't need “Medicare for All some day". We need Universal Health Care NOW. #GeneralStrike

Slovenia’s new coalition under Janez Janša is accelerating measures that critics say weaken civil society, media, and democratic oversight. 🇸🇮⚖️
Janša’s government also faces warnings over expanded surveillance powers, privacy risks, and digital rights impacts in Slovenia and the EU. 🔒

🔗 https://edri.org/our-work/slovenias-democracy-under-siege-an-urgent-update/

#TechNews #Slovenia #JanezJansa #DigitalRights #Privacy #Surveillance #Democracy #CivilSociety #HumanRights #OpenGovernment #Transparency #EU #Europe #CyberPolicy #FOSS #Politics

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

One of the worst features of the old spoils system was the ruthless cruelty and brutality it so often bred in the treatment of faithful public servants without political influence. Life is hard enough and cruel enough at best, and this is as true of public service as of private service. Under no system will it be possible to do away with all favoritism and brutality and meanness and malice. But at least we can try to minimize the exhibition of these qualities.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #civilservice #cruelty #favoritism #goodgovernment #influence #politicalinfluence #politics #spoils #spoilssystem

The #KIDSAct has passed the house

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/the-kids-act-has-passed-the-house/38918

#politics #privacy #AgeVerification

Like the satire lol

This Anti-Hate Message Has Millions Talking ❤️🔥 #Kindness #Politics #Shorts
https://youtube.com/shorts/KsTkHFrXqlk?is=3Px_Y_22WHk5jxQU

I have clarified any and all confusions you may have had about ancient Chinese political thought in one convenient chart.

#history #politics #classicalchinese #philosophy

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A hand-drawn flow chart in cute colors: "Ancient Chinese Political Schools" Confucianism: If everyone would just be POLITE and show their rulers some RESPECT then we wouldn't even NEED any laws Daoism: Bro, stop trying to fix everything, you're making it worse. The best ruler is one who sits back and doesn't rule a thing Legalism: There is no problem so small it can't be solved by beheading ten thousand men about it Confucianism says to Daoism: "You lazy oafs" Daoism says to Confucianism: "You pompous dicks" Daoism says to Legalism: "you're REALLY throwing off my groove" Legalism says to Daoism: "your 'groove' isn't in the budget" Legalism says to Confucianism: "you NAIVE motherfuckers" Confucianism says to Legalism: "Sir, I can excuse the slavery, human sacrifice, sexism etc etc, but I draw the line at coarse language" In the center, with all schools pointing toward the same outcome: "The rivers flood, the crops fail, millions die."

Humans will always blame The Other rather than self critique. It's tiresome and lets the Rich off from their part in it all.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/30/they-will-attack-me-if-i-stay-immigrants-in-south-africa-flee-for-safety-amid-violence-and-anti-foreigner-protests

#Immigration #Politics #SouthAfrica

The way the Global Press portrays ANY anti-Immigrant pogrom as 'a protest'

A elderly vicar holding a sign protesting Genocide is 'Terrorism'
The seeds of a genocide being formed by an angry mob is "Protest"

Fuck this trend.

#FourthEstate #Fascism #Immgration #Politics #SouthAfrica

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As the crowd moved past dilapidated apartment blocks, some protesters pointed at families watching from windows, calling out for them to leave the country and making throat-slitting gestures. “I can smell the foreigners,” said aman carrying a shield.

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Duty to Obey – 30 June 2026

MOVIE IN THEATERS TODAY

Nick Kupper is a 20-year U.S. Air Force veteran and Arizona State Representative for District 25. He nearly lost his military career and his family’s medical benefits after refusing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Kupper is featured in the new documentary *Duty to Disobey*, which explores the consequences faced by service members who challenged orders they believed were unlawful.

The film opens in theaters nationwide on June 30.

https://dutytodisobeyfilm.com/

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A quotation from John Adams

Your “ἄρiςτοi” [aristocrats] are the most difficult Animals to manage, of any thing in the whole Theory and practice of Government. They will not Suffer themselves to be governed. They not only exert all their own Subtilty Industry and courage, but they employ the Commonalty, to knock to pieces every Plan and Model that the most honest Architects in Legislation can invent to keep them within bounds.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1813-07-09) to Thomas Jefferson

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Q. would a state-owned housing developer be the answer to the UK's crisis in housing & specifically the need to build more social housing?

Interestingly, the funding of such a project *should* be covered by Rachel Reeves' new fiscal rules which allow for special treatment of public debt taken on for social investment...

As always the devil would be in the detili, but its by no means a stupid idea. Might Andy Burnham leap on this?

#housing #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/27/uk-minister-plans-for-state-owned-housing-developer-exclusive

Deep into the second series of the fabulous HBO Max medical drama, The Pitt, this line popped out from a character & I wanted to share it for its wisdom & poignancy:

'While every old person knows what it is like to be young, no young person can know what it is like to be old...'

That is not only a truism, but its a really instructive way of understanding the trouble that society often has with ensuring our older members have the best life they can....

#OldAge #politics #society

Trump is adding his obnoxious image to US passports. So it is absolutely the duty of every other country to make some sort of passport stamp that makes him look like a clown or more of an idiot or something. I'm sure Denmark is probably up to this task, but it'd be great if loads of countries did this. Someone spread this idea to those consulants that can make this happen.

#politics #trump #passport

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Proposed new page for US passports featuring a creepy pedophile asshole.

Mariana Mazzucato's judgement on the Labour Govt. she once advised is withering:

'Fine, come in, say the Tories were shit, but once you’ve said it, move on!... You’ve got five years, so what’s your plan? What’s the positive narrative? It was always half baked … [now] it’s half assed'.

I've alway thought Mazzucato had the right ideas & approach, and was glad when Keir Starmer seemed to agree... but actions are more important than words...

#politics #economics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/make-people-dream-build-economy-common-good-mariana-mazzucato

Any Europeans that were in any doubt that the Tangerine Tyrant cannot be trusted in any deal-making, should now be clear.

He has said he will place 100% tariffs on imports from any country that (perfectly legally) imposes a digital services tax on any US corporations, explicitly *overriding* any existing trade deals.

Of course, the cost of this will be paid by US consumers, but will also dampen exports to the US from Europe.

Another reason to pivot away from the US market!

#politics
h/t FT

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As so often what once happened in a Philip K Dick book (in this case Minority Report) has now come to pass... here are Liberty's investigative journalist team on the worrying & expanding experience of predictive policing, and how it produces a large number of false positives when trying to predict criminality.

Once that has been compounded through police prejudice & bad culture, this looks not just unwelcome but positively dangerous!

#police #politics #AI #technology

https://www.wired.com/story/british-police-built-a-sprawling-crime-prediction-machine-some-results-couldnt-be-trusted/

We hear a lot about carbon capture from the supporters of fossil fuel exploitation, so here's Ben Jennings (Guardian) with a suggestion many of us here would endorse....

Let's do some real carbon capture....

#CarbonCapture #environment #politics #humour #inequality

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Cartoon: Carbon Capture Ideas... shows reinforced wire fence with airplanes clustered behind it and a sign that reads: 'Private Jet, Impound Lot'

Gizmodo: Danish Privacy Activist Arrested for Posting Prime Minister’s Phone Number. “Danish right-wing privacy activist Lars Kragh Andersen posted a video Friday of his arrest by police in Denmark—a video that has now racked up over 8 million views on X. Andersen says he was arrested for posting his two favorite numbers, the social security number of Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette […]

Where every major LLM stands politically

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#HackerNews #LLM #politics #AI #bias #tech #trends

Ron Wright: "Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the United Nations replied saying $6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end famine for the year, Musk never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for $44 Billion. You struggle and suffer because of people like him, not because your neighbor is an immigrant."
#hunger #poverty #greed #politics

Andy Burnham has appointed James Purnell as his chief of staff (in line with his expected coronation as head of the Labour Party, and by extension PM).

For those who suspect that Burnham will be a (modified?) Blairite, this will confirm their suspicions; for those who worry that he might do something 'radica'l, this will reassure them... Purnell is comfortable with the Blue Labour cabal.

For many on the Left it will confirm the Green Party of England & Wales as the best Left bet.

#politics

So let's put the suggestion that the UK is a highly taxed country to rest.... those who argue the UK's tax burden is too much and needs to be reduced to promote economic revival, need to reckon with all the countries in the OECD who are taxing more that the UK's share of GDP but have yet to have seemingly descended into economic decline....

Rather we might want to argue that a better funded public sector might actually aid the escape from the UK's economic doldrums.

#politics #taxation

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Chart: Tax Revenues as a share of GDP - OECD countries Shows Denmark at top with 45.2% UK almost exactly the OECD average at 34.4% for full lists see: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-tax-revenue-as-a-share-of-gdp-by-country/

The New York Times is basically “Fox News for the Democrat Party,” and every bit as reliable as Fox News (as in they are reliably, constantly lying to you.)

I wonder if you count how many articles they have published that try to make Iranians look like barbaric womanizers, who are perhaps somehow worse than your average “kill any woman who gets an abortion” Republican voter, and subtract that number by how many articles they have which have of any of the barbaric things that Itmar Ben Gvir has said in the past 3 years as a direct quote in one of their headlines, what would the difference be? That should tell you the nature of the bais we see from the New York Times.

The fact that Mamdani got elected shows just how badly detached from the realities of the average New Yorker that the New York Times reporting really is.

And by the way, that first article title should read: “Israel violates Trump ceasefire, Iran moves to close Hormuz.” That would be a far less biased way of reporting the facts of the situation.

#USPol #politics #NewYorkTimes #MediaBias #Islamophobia #Racism

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A bot account called "World News Feeds" sharing two New York Times articles in a row: 1. "Iran makes moves to assert control over Straight of Hormuz." and 2. "Iranian singer sentenced to 74 lashes for performing without hijab."

I’ve been reading Žižek and Heidegger lately. Žižek labels himself a Communist (politics), Lacanian (method), and Heideggerian (ontology), so I asked Claude and ChatGPT how I fared.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/who-am-i?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=masto

#politics #philosphy #ontology #method #zizek #blog #video #podcast #substack #introspection #extrospection #Wittgenstein #pluralism #perspective #biography #rovelli #being #relata #relationships #philosopher

@millardjk
Probably it is better that Christians stay out of #politics. All the governments of this world serve God's adversary. Their mark of the beast is ready.

When #Jesus was in Jerusalem, the Jews wanted to make him the king of their corrupt government. But he already is the King of all creation. He came to give his life as a ransom for all mankind, so they may enter his kingdom.

"I don’t care what the intention was..."
It looks like you suffer from a lack of empathy.

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“Thiel's secret society, 20 years of silence, cracked open because someone left the member directory in a webpage's source code. The panopticon-builders can't run a firewall.

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"Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicine. The health divide emerged over the last decade and has widened since 2020, according to research that links ideology to outcomes from heart disease, cancer, stroke, and other internal causes":
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As the data party surrounding the tenth anniversary of the Brexit vote continues, the Guardian has some interesting figures suggesting Leave voting areas have both seen:

a relative economic decline, and;

a rise in the proportion of non-UK workers.

No wonder they don't feel that Brexit is working for them; not that it would ever have had, of course

#Brexit #workers #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/20/leave-voting-areas-foreign-workers-decade-since-brexit-referendum

UK’s Failed Age Verification Law is Becoming A Political Scandal

The UK's failed age verification law is becoming the latest sign of political failure with the UK prime minister.

https://www.freezenet.ca/uks-failed-age-verification-law-is-becoming-a-political-scandal/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #KierStarmer #politics #UK #VPN

Today's owner class would 100% reinstate slavery if they could, and the neoliberals and fascists currently occupying our government buildings would help them do it.

Happy #Juneteenth.

#politics #USPol #CanPol

While Heathrow claims adding a third runway would add 0.5% to GDP annually, the Govt.'s own calculation it would likely be a tenth of that (at 0.05%).

As both figures are within the normal margin of error for estimates of GDP, we can safely say that the authorities at Heathrow are taking a punt on any likely contribution....

More likely is that it will actually just allow more transfers with little economic benefit to anyone other than the airport & airlines.

#Heathrow #politics
h/t FT

Was Hobbes Right in Leviathan? Only partially.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/hobbes-was-right?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #blog #history #reading #substack #monarchy #democracy #history #books #politics #governance #empire #nature #foundation #anarchy #Leviathan #Hobbes #violence

Follow the money!

Patrick Glynn is the developer behind Oireachtas Explorer, a website an app helping you to keep Irish politicians accountable. The platform tracks historical records of every active politician, from voting records to lobbying receipts

https://oireachtas-explorer.ie/

#mastodaoine #corruption #IrishPol #politics #politicians #BrownEnvelope

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screen grab of the home page: Ireland's Paliamnet, OPEN TO ALL, green background

A quotation from Andrew Oliver

Politics is the most hazardous of all professions. There is not another in which a man can hope to do so much good to his fellow creatures; neither is there any in which by a mere loss of nerve he may do such widespread harm. Nor is there another in which he may so easily lose his own soul; nor is there another in which a positive and strict veracity is so difficult. But danger is the inseparable companion of honor. With all the temptations and degradations that beset it, politics is still the noblest career any man can choose.

Andrew Oliver (1706-1774) American Colonial merchant, politician, government official
Speech (1774?)

More about this quote: wist.info/oliver-andrew/84550/

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Those two things alone, combined with Carney & Solomon's "#AI for All" nonsense should confirm who this government is actually working for, and terrify everyone.

The right has snuck into power via the centre, and preventing debate & scurrying away as soon as they pass bills like this should tell you exactly who is running our country, and what is at stake if we don't defeat them & undo this damage to our privacy & freedom while that is still possible.

2/2

#BillC22 #CdnPoli #politics

Anyone here vote for the Law & Order party? 🤔

In addition to the encryption back doors in #BillC22 - law enforcement can now do a lot of things that would've been unheard of just a few short years ago like:

- Use any & all publicly available info on any Canadian without a general production order or court oversight
- Use any info provided voluntarily by any third party against any Canadian without a general production order or court oversight

1/2

#CdnPoli #politics

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7240293

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Sometimes humour hits the nail right on the head... so here's something from Private Eye that sums up the UK's pensions problem more concisely than any reasoned analysis might manage!

#pensions #humour #politics

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Mock up newspaper headline: Those five reasons more people are not saving enough for a pension in full: 1. No-one has any money 2.-5. see 1.

This sounds wrong on so many levels.

Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire missiles at Iran, official says
#AI #Politics #Iran
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-grok-ai-iran-missiles-pentagon-b2997321.html

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Ettingermentum: "The Trump administration sends this great message of strength to the world:
'if you negotiate with us for 40 years we’ll just bomb you anyways, but if you fight back for a month we’ll give you everything you want'."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #politics

You Can’t Have Both Democracy and Billionaires

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cant-have-both-democracy-and-billionaires

#politics #democracy #classwar #culture #wealth

When your view on what "left-wing" is came from the "right-wing-propaganda" and you were sold on that view enough to join the "left", just to discover that unfortunately the real "left" is not as gay, or as fabulous, or as tolerant, or as weird as you were lead to believe. What a bummer.

#politics

In a parallel universe somewhere, all of the non-fascist-led Western nations conspired together behind the scenes to use the push for age verification as a way to free their citizens from all US platforms, and migrate them to the fediverse and FOSS en massé in a well conceived & perfectly executed stunning maneuver.

#politics #privacy #democracy

The first official portrait of President Barack Obama & Michelle Obama, by Njideka Akunyilil Crosby has been unveiled at the Obama Presidential Centre in Chicago.

I think Crosby is one the greatest visual artists working anywhere in the world right now & its great to see this being recognised by such a prestigious commission....

(beats wrestling at the Whitehouse for a political moment, doesn't it).

#Art #painting #politics

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Njideka Akunyilil Crosby, The Obamas: Springing Forth, 2026; shows the Obamas with President Obama sitting on a desk behind Michelle Obama in an upholstery chair, all rendered in Crosby's signature style that uses collage to represent specific colours in the composition...

From Gaige Davila: "Food is rotten in Dilley. ... I guess the only other way to put it is worm-filled, because it’s often filled with worms. It’s not child-appropriate. Remember, when you have #children who are as old as 16 months, 18 months, they have very specific food needs." https://www.texasobserver.org/dilley-family-detention-immigration-habeas-corpus-sb-4/

#ICE #immigration #HumanRights #fascism #Texas #law #politics #USpol #news

RIP Roy Hattersly.... who once famously said (and I'm paraphrasing):

'Without changing my views I seem to have moved from the right wing of the party to the left wing'....

One of the first to articulate the rightwards shifting of the Labour Party that has become increasingly clear since he said that many years ago, and despite also being part of the modernising, post-Micheal Foot grouping; which of course makes his observation even more notable.

#LabourParty #politics

While the Govt. is lengthening the period before immigrants can gain indefinite leave to remain, it's also about to offer an 'invite only' programme by which leave to remain can be gained after only three years (two years less than current arrangements that stand, for now, at five years).

How do you get invited to go down that route? You need to invest a minimum of £5m in the UK (in a way acceptable to the Govt.).

Just to be clear:
we are selling UK residency rights to the rich.

#politics

From May to August last year, Corpus Christi's #Bitcoin mine consumed 11,563,000 gallons of water, according to utility records that the Observer previously obtained via a local resident’s public information request.

Now the city is refusing to share the latest data. https://www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-cryptomine-water-usage-secret/

#cryptocurrency #tech #water #CorpusChristi #politics #USpol #Texas #GulfCoast #drought #news

Four Palestine Action activists have been sentenced not on the basis of the convictions for criminal damage (through a jury trial) but on the basis their crime *really* was terrorism (a subsequent decision by the presiding judge).

This not only violates the sanctity of jury trials (the jury was not informed of this possibility), it also is a retrospective legal decision, essentially violating the Rule of Law.

Its a direct attack on civil liberties!

#politics #protest
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce950111xk7o

An excellent riff on Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire" work in this #cartoon by the excellent Martin Rowson commenting on the pathetic, endlessly ruderless Starmer

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jun/12/martin-rowson-on-the-resignation-of-john-healey-cartoon

#politics #comics #BandeDessinee #MartinRowson

Devotional – “Is God Judging America Today?” – 05/1/26

COMMENT

I think we can all agree that we all want ‘our best life now’. The issue is whether we obtain it via a True Biblical manner or a watered-down version of the word. I am both discouraged and encouraged by this.

2 Timothy 4:3

says (AMP)

For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,

I am discouraged because I see so many being led astray by those preaching this itchy ear bible nonsense. I am also encouraged because I am seeing more and more of the younger generation turning to solid doctrine and Bible-preaching churches.

I have long agreed with the late Dr. John MacArthur that God had lifted His hand of providence from America. However, I struggled to clarify what I meant by that statement. Did it mean God was letting go (forsaking America) and letting us run wild? Was He passing some form of Judgement, designed to draw people in? Remember the surge after 9/11, Katrina, and other such calamities.

The following is from Capitol Ministries, although written to political leaders, it does a very good job of breaking down God’s Judgement and what I believe the Spiritual state of the Union is now.

April 25, 2026, by 

Capitol Ministries

Some leading Evangelicals have believed and taught that America is experiencing God’s judgment. As a public servant who is sacrificing so much in your attempt to turn our nation around, if those Evangelical leaders are correct, you might conclude you are wasting your time. Are you laboring against a foregone conclusion? May it never be. But allow this qualification: America is not experiencing the forsaking wrath of God, but yes, America is experiencing the consequential wrath of God. 

The goal of this study is to give you a working knowledge of these italicized theological terms and a sense of hope in this work God has called you to. 

CONTINUED @

SOURCE

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!"

(Henry David Thoreau)

#nature #Environment #woods #forest #capitalism #Politics

I need a journalist or member of the opposition to get Prime Minister Elbows to explain how social media is a threat to young Canadians, but not every other Canadian.

The "adults can make their own choices" doesn't fly when we know that many older folks are the least sophisticated consumers of digital content coming from companies whose business models require covert & invasive tracking & manipulation in order to maximize profit.

#CdnPoli #politics #AdTech #privacy

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-harms-social-media-ban-youth-teens-9.7228651