can governments just stop being evil, please?

Sci-fi & fantasy, superheroes, Spurs and specific strangeness: what more do you need? Gradually growing more insane...

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Of course, billionaires will use that power to influence the November 3 ballot.

They are preparing to spend without limit while predicting every imaginable catastrophe should the 5% tax be adopted, backed by dubious studies and every kind of threat they can muster.

But democratic forces are more prepared than ever to take them on.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

This is the concentration of wealth we must confront.

Because extreme wealth always brings with it extreme power: the power to crush competition, manipulate public debate, shape public policy, and buy elections.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

I have some tremendous news to share: we've just won a decisive victory against Mark Zuckerberg and the Silicon Valley billionaires 🧵

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Should we listen to scientists, or should we listen to fossil fuel interests?

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

From Jeremy Corbyn’s new interview with Katie Halper:

I’ve never heard Jeremy say this before.

“There were lots of very wealthy people who had loaned the party money under Tony Blair, and the day I became leader they all asked for it back immediately.”

Badge of honour.👍

[Dr Myriam François @MyriamFrancoisC]

Say these three words in Britain today—and you could face up to 14 years in prison.
The words are: "I support Palestine Action." 
Following the group's proscription under UK terrorism law, expressing support can now constitute a serious criminal offence.
This week on The Tea, we're joined by Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori to examine one of the most controversial political decisions in modern Britain. Why has Palestine Action been placed in the same legal category as ISIS and neo-Nazi organisations? And what does that mean for democracy, civil liberties and the future of political protest?

https://t.co/hmrAqJht73

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Labour MPs took tens of thousands of pounds in donations from oil and gas lobbyists during Starmer's first year in power.

https://t.co/d3axyDp0wV

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

"The impacts of the climate and nature crisis are well and truly with us. A strong economy must be a resilient economy, a sustainable economy and a future-proofed economy."

Zack Polanski speaking at the British Chambers of Commerce Global Annual Conference 2026: Delivering Growth.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Even in death, these children can’t be named.

This is the evil our governments are facilitating.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A surgeon who had to fight to bring a stethoscope to Gaza blamed the mainstream media for sparse updates on the ongoing genocide.

“You don’t see very much on Gaza in the mainstream media these days,” Nizam Mamode told the BBC.

He cited the latest UN report, which documents overwhelming evidence for Israel’s systematic targeting of children in Palestine, with over 20,000 dead.

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

An incredible story. Polish supplies of TNT have been discovered to be central to filling the bombs that have destroyed Gaza. And now there is a push for proper criminal charges. This is what real investigative journalism does: expose the powerful & make them accountable. So proud of my colleagues at SWI.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

For three days in a row the heat record for June has been broken in the UK.

The same story right across Europe.

Any attempts at this key moment to slow climate action is utterly indefensible. We need day one action to accelerate our climate ambition from Andy Burnham.

[IslamophobiaUK @uk_islamophobia]

Two Muslim men pulled an elderly couple and their grandson from a burning house in Leeds last Friday.

You probably didn’t hear about it.

Mohsin Qayyum. 22.
Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal. 20.

Both from Bradford.

They drove past the garden. They saw the fire. They ran straight in.

Sheila Robinson, the grandmother who was trapped inside, posted on social media:

"My family and I will be forever grateful to these young men."

Her granddaughter Kayla wrote:

"Drove past the garden, seen it, and ran straight in and made sure everyone was okay without a second thought."

Everyone got out. The house can be replaced. The family is alive.

Every outlet that covered it called them heroes.

They deserved every word.

But not one headline told you they were Muslim men.

We have seen this before.

Two weeks ago, a teacher was stabbed in the neck protecting his pupils from a knife in his Manchester classroom.

Maysum Abdullah. 27. Science teacher.

LBC named him a hero. So did the Independent, the Manchester Evening News, the Mirror, the Sun.

He ran towards the blade.

A hero in every paper. A Muslim man in none of them.

This is the pattern.

When a Muslim name appears in a crime, the faith leads the headline.

When a Muslim name appears in a rescue, it vanishes from the page.

Now look at who that erasure clears the path for.

Bradford, the same district these men come from, is now led by Reform as its largest party.

One of their candidates, Daniel Devaney, topped the poll in his ward after writing on Facebook that Muslims were "pure scum" and that he wanted to "blast [them] off the face of the earth."

He was not deselected. He was not suspended. He was elected.

They are loud about our religion when they want to call it a threat.

They are silent when that same religion sends two young men running into a fire.

The book they want to criticise is the same book that commands us to save a life.

"Whoever saves one life, it is as if he had saved all of mankind."
— Qur'an 5:32

Qayyum and Iqbal lived that verse on a Friday in Leeds.

Abdullah lived it in a Manchester classroom.

And the headlines recorded the act, but erased the faith that drove it.

When we are the suspect, our religion is the whole story.

When we are the rescuer, it is not worth a line.

Their names are Maysum Abdullah, Mohsin Qayyum, and Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal.

Muslim men.

Say both.

Sources first comment.

Report: https://t.co/D9amGp2yxO
Keep us alive: https://t.co/Z8H0Flg44Y
Substack: https://t.co/9x6sqmwMge
IG: @islamophobiauk

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Every new heat record exposes the same divide: workers and the planet vs billionaires.

People are dying in the heat right now. Yet we’re told there’s always billions for endless war and militarisation, but never a serious plan for the climate crisis.

The richest keep profiting from fossil fuels while insulating themselves in air-conditioned bunkers. Everyone else is left to work through dangerous temperatures, live in overheated homes, and rely on public services pushed to breaking point.

Climate breakdown isn’t just an environmental crisis, it’s a class one.

We need rapid decarbonisation, serious investment in adaptation, and workers’ rights that include a legal maximum workplace temperature.

[Cllr. John Burtchaell- Solidarity @BurtchaellJohn]

The suicidal absurdity of end stage capitalism, destroying all that is precious, finite & essential for our survival in the insatiable pursuit of money numbers which are limitless & emanate from the state.
Capital has twisted human intelligence into a means of self destruction

[Ben Jamal @BenJamal48]

You of course leave out this. "The Commission interviewed a total of 17 medical practitioners deployed to different hospitals in Gaza between 7 October 2023 and July 2025 who reported a consistent pattern of receiving children with single gunshot wounds either by quadcopters or snipers. The killing of a child from a single gunshot wound indicates a high degree of precision in the use of force, suggesting that the shot was carefully aimed rather than incidental or the result of indiscriminate fire. In such cases, this pattern is indicative of the deliberate targeting of the child victim, particularly where the circumstances do not point to crossfire or other conditions of hostilities." The report is comprehensive , forensic and overwhelming in its conclusion of the systematic targeting of children. Imagine being a human being who reads that and thinks my task is to get people to disbelieve it so that this barbarity can continue unchecked.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Absolutely stunning victory as Greens gain another seat in Brighton & Hove. 🎉

Look at that swing! 🙌🏽👀

Huge congratulations to Nadia and the entire team! 💚

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

Why does the state pay companies to underperform and underdeliver?

Economist Mariana Mazzucato offers a solution.

[Jorge Martin ☭ @marxistJorge]

In the face of the devastating Venezuelan earthquakes, Britain should immediately return the Venezuelan gold illegally held in the Bank of England. 31 metric tons.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sophie Livingstone from the Baby Bank Alliance points out there are 4 million kids growing up in poverty & the govt needs to be much more radical - including tackling the cost of child care, housing & transport.