Mimi Trainin

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The right to protest isn’t a gift from government. It’s a democratic principle, hard-won and easily lost.

Last night the government tried to smuggle through a “cumulative disruption” power that would let police ban protests simply because other people had protested in the same area before. Think about what that means: your right to march could be extinguished by someone else’s march on an entirely different issue.

They knew this wouldn’t survive proper scrutiny - so they denied MPs the time to give it any.

I supported the cross-party motion to oppose the cumulative disruption amendment. The government used its majority to force it through regardless.

Protest is supposed to be disruptive. That’s the point. From the suffragettes to the anti-apartheid movement, it was cumulative, persistent, inconvenient protest that changed this country for the better.

One of the most authoritarian political parties in modern British history is leading in the polls. As I said in the chamber when the government proscribed Palestine Action - a progressive Labour government should be building firewalls for our democracy, not tearing them down and pitch-rolling for Reform.

This Bill isn’t law yet. It now returns to the Lords, and this fight is far from over.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

EXPOSED: The Channel 4 Dispatches and The Sunday Times investigation has finally stripped away the mask of Prince William’s £1 billion Duchy of Cornwall.

Whilst he lectures the nation on his "Earthshot" programme, nearly 1 in 7 of his rental properties are in illegal breach of energy standards (EPC F & G).

He isn’t a steward of the land; he is a tax-exempt landlord letting families freeze in "unfit" homes whilst pocketing a £23 million private income.

The most galling part? He is shamelessly profiting from the taxpayer by charging the NHS for ambulance depots and billing the Ministry of Defence millions for the Army to train on "his" soil.

As one distraught tenant farmer put it: "It’s just a business to them now... the heart has gone out of it."

He isn’t a "Prince of the People", he is a billionaire extracting rent from our hospitals and schools.
#RoyalFleece #DuchyExposed #AbolishTheMonarchy #PrinceWilliam #Dispatches #SundayTimes

[LPC @landpalestine]

Young refuseniks burn their IDF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv in Israel

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Forces to kill children in Palestine and Lebanon and are willing to go to military jail for their position

[Galactic Zoo @TonyMarrese]

Choose a better existence, choose not to be offended, choose positivity, choose planting tomatoes over dwelling over the #EpsteinFiles

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Streets of Havana right now.

Full blackout across the entire island.

Hospitals, nursing homes, people's lives....all in total darkness.

For US imperialism.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

In a world where you can be anything, be a number 50

[Lisa Huff ⏳ @LisaWrites4]

@georgegalloway @alive1313 No evidence the missiles even existed.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

“If you criticize Netanyahu's policies, you are then described as being anti-Semitic. That is a disgrace and a slander...”

— Michael D. Higgins former Irish President Ireland 🇮🇪

[Richie Floyd @richiejfloyd]

I wish we lived in a world where I didn't feel constantly compelled to post this video, but until then here's Tony Benn speaking on war with clarity and moral conviction that you won't see from the evil people running the world today

[Brendon Boshell @brendonboshell]

@PolitlcsUK Good, but the tax avoiders must pay for their rescue.

[Jayne Doherty @jayneb64]

@PolitlcsUK @SkyNews Perhaps the ‘forensic’ @Keir_Starmer should have thought about that before he sanctioned our involvement in an illegal attack on Iran. But no, #StarmerZionistStooge does as he’s told. #OperationEpsteinFury

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Corbyn on Starmer: "He knew full well of Mandelsons involvement with Epstein from the beginning"

JC also points out when he challenged the role of Epstein back in 2019 politicians & the press were more concerned about his pronounciation than what he was accusing Epstein of doing

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.”

— Ray Bradbury

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

[Jay Mack @JayMackComedian]

I’m looking for bigots to meet in the New Year. A lynch-mob of antisocial arseholes and hell-baiting heathens. People braver than Paloma Faith’s dentist.

None of those half-baked recreational racists or limp-wristed misogynists using for medicinal purposes. I’m talking about those king bigots who hang around outside tanning salons that shoot anything that comes out overcooked. That’s right! We’re going on a xenophobic safari through awfulness.

Some days ago I turned forty. I celebrated it by being bundled into an MRI machine in order to discover how unspeakably rancid farts become under such a powerful magnetic field.

Though I remain incapacitated — I refuse to die — and intend on flying in witch doctors and faith healers from across the street in order to treat my transphobic pestilence that keeps me from bringing loathing to the stage.

Despite my affliction I’ve had a good year. I’ve seen some beautiful things, been to wonderful places and made a lot of friends with a lot of horrible people.

Having accomplished a lifelong ambition of making a nuisance of myself in Tuscany, I’ve become a pariah on the Yorkshire Comedy Scene. This in spite of awarding myself the Best Female Comedian of the Year Award for the third year running. Due to my bigotry nobody in Yorkshire will share a stage with me—which suits me down to the ground as it saves me from catching their autism.

Nevertheless I committed hate crimes in Edinburgh, Manchester and Leeds for Comedy Unleashed and later performed my first sober gig for them in order to see if abstaining from alcohol made me any less offensive — only to find out it made me incalculably worse.

I became a regular feature on Deadliners — a Jewish cabal funded by Mossad masquerading as an irreverent comedic current affairs show. I was paid in sandwiches and obsolete currencies but in so doing I have made friends with similarly bent criminal minds with whom I will once again conspire to make comedy that pushes the definition of offence beyond all reason.

The brilliant artist Sean BW Parker committed my grotesque likeness to paint like an insane asylum. For reasons known only to My portrait found itself exhibited eleven feet tall in Times Square to terrify the communists.

On balance — in spite of my misanthropic malady — I’ve had a good year.

Sometimes the only medicine is abuse. So I’m calling on a new harvest of bastardry. Hear me, oh vagrant drunks of Facebook. Suffer with me in 2026 - Let’s see if hatred can’t break the sound barrier. Let us ride the steel horse of contempt through this nauseating pride parade of toxic positivity until it bends space and time and we lapse into a racism based coma.

Rest assured — I harbour a love for you all that makes me feel inclined to put you out of your misery.
Hold still. This won’t hurt for long.

Happy New Year Bastards.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

🚨 BREAKING: in London, Piccadilly Circus is being BLOCKED for a second night in a row by people coming out in support of the hunger strikers and Palestine @Prisoners4Pal