Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

“…the facts do not justify the President's actions.”

Perfect distillation of American life in the time of Trump.

Who wants to tell her none of those “constituencies” can vote?

And what about Naomi Campbell? She is looking straight at Virginia in this picture - and she is clearly a very young looking 17, she looks about 12. What did Campbell think she was doing there?

“We know where your brother goes to school,” Epstein said. He let that sink in for a moment, then got to the point: “You must never tell a soul what goes on in this house.” His threat was clear. “And I own the Palm Beach police department,” he said, “so they won’t do anything about it.”

“Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein…took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care.”

Re EPSTEIN 👇🏼

Ceasefire not going well. Israel has killed at least 24 people since Friday. And the bodies sent back from Israel had signs of torture. “Almost all had been blindfolded, & had been bound up, and had gunshots between the eyes. Almost all of them had been executed.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.

But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.

Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.

Meanwhile, one of the people spied on is taking legal action to try to force the inquiry to let him give evidence. Dave Smith is the pre-eminent authority on how construction firms illegally kept thousands of people out of work with the help of #spycops.

www.hazards.org/blacklistblo...

Former #spycops boss takes legal action to avoid the public inquiry. Officer HN86 ran the secret unit when it spied on numerous racial justice campaigns including that of Stephen Lawrence's family, & faces allegations of making extremely racist statements. ...

GOP Speaker Johnson refusing to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva despite winning her election 2 weeks ago with 70% of the vote is a practice run for what GOP plans to do after 2026 election. They will not seat Democrats who won to keep control of the House. Dems need to fight hard this issue now!

TikTok is obsessed with "cheating" and this is the logical end result. A paid facial recognition tool that scans Tinder and pulls a bunch of info about a person

www.404media.co/viral-cheate...

Why do they call us Nazis?

Stop being fascists and Nazis and folks on the left will stop calling you fascists and Nazis.

What's the popularist answer to this point?

“His general demeanor was do not push things that upset Bukele — he is our No. 1 ally on migration,” a former U.S. official said about Johnson’s view of U.S. investigations into suspected Salvadoran corruption.

New in PN: Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social

Lots of coverage of the China spy issue but not how much China already owns key parts of British infrastructure, encouraged by the Tories.
China has big investments in energy, transport, privatised water and more. So, of course we're dependent on it.
#WATO
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If this piece of shit refuses to testify then his name should be released to the public. Let's see how far he was promoted, as were other #spycops - who continued as 'pillars of society' (& no doubt local Tory Associations) after they wrecked the lives of others. Disgraceful.

When Stephen was murdered and the police failed to investigate, Baroness Lawrence and her family made their criticism known to the public, police considered them to be the problem. #spycops (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

aAconsequence of the institutional racism identified by Sir William Macpherson, Baroness Lawrence and her family were not viewed and treated as victims. They were viewed and treated as the ‘other’, as ‘outsiders’ not deserving of justice and treated accordingly. #spycops ...

Worse than that! Peter Francis, a former undercover officer, testified that HN86 said, when referring to black justice campaigners, “the monkeys were being organised” and we had to stop it “before all the monkeys in London got out of their trees”. #spycops
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Baroness Lawrence asks if #spycops had been directed at racist gangs and far right groups could the murder of Stephen Lawrence, and other racist attacks, have been prevented? (@tombfowler.bsky.social)