Lord Richard Cole

There will always be someone better looking, smarter, funnier or richer than me, but unfortunately for them, they will never be me #ProudSalopian #BigKid

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

We need actions, not words, on the genocide in Gaza.

End all military cooperation with Israel, impose sanctions, and establish a public inquiry into British complicity, now.

[Warren @swd2]

This piece of shit threw boiling water at his wife as she held their child and we gave him a badge and a gun?

[Dr Martin @MartinRemains]

Companies that had no money, that had just been incorporated, that no history at all in PPE, were paid up front so that they in turn could buy dodgy, shit, cheap PPE, that they then marked up to make massive profits. It is crooked, corrupt and criminal.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

We had all these Police Tents outside Nicola Sturgeon's house for £400,000.

But they won't even investigate £10,000,000,000.

Blatant corruption.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Heatwaves are killing thousands in this country.

Fossil fuels are an economic dead end.

Approving new oil and gas drilling would be environmentally disastrous and economically illiterate.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski, "The hoarding of assets is causing inequality in the country"

"If you're the poorest billionaire in the country with £1 billion, you're making £1 million passive income every week"

"That's unsustainable when we have nurses queuing up at food banks"

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@ZackPolanski: "We know if we taxed 1% on assets of £10m or 2% on assets of £1bn or more, we could be raising between £15-£24bn.. & just as importantly, we would stop the hoarding of assets. Its that hoarding of assets that's creating the inequality in this country" 🎯

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

NEW: Mayor Zohran Mamdani invoked Nelson Mandela to demand Palestinian freedom, and asked why the world keeps waiting until injustice is safely in the past before opposing it.

“Why must we wait until thousands more parents bury their children, until even more lose their limbs, their homes, their futures?”

Mamdani warned that one day nearly everyone will claim they opposed the devastation in Gaza. The real test is where people stand while it is still happening.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

The ex-wife of ICE agent David Brouillette speaks out: “He’s like, ‘I need you to lie about my character because what it comes down to is my character, I don’t want you talking about any of the abuse in our relationship.’ I told him I was not gonna lie for him, that I’ve waited years to speak my truth, I’ve been silenced long enough and now I need to come out with everything because a man lost his life. It was abuse not only to me, but to our daughter. Even being divorced from him, I’ve dealt with harassing phone calls, threats of him wanting to kill me. I believe this man was murdered. I believe David’s mental health played a part in what happened”

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

"You shouldn't be getting a medal for being robbed by your own government."

Betty Brown 92, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Scam was outraged about being in the New Year Honours List.

We want compensation and prison sentences not worthless medals.

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

Don't deify Starmer, the man categorically refused to see photos of children murdered by Israel which a UK surgeon brought to show him as evidence of Israel's terrible crimes , hoping this knowledge would change Starmer's support for Israel. There was no change .

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

On this day in 2003, David Kelly, the man who tried to warn the world about the lies of the British government’s claims that Iraq possessed WMDs to justify the illegal invasion, was found dead.

He was one of Britain's most respected weapons experts and raised concerns that the government's case for war had been exaggerated.

The BBC reported that the infamous claim Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes had been "sexed up" to strengthen the case for invasion. Dr. Kelly was identified as the source.

Just days later, on the 18th of July 2003, he was found dead near his home, the official story was that he had committed suicide. Many do not believe that narrative.

No stockpiles of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were ever found. David Kelly was proven right, as Iraq was smouldering in ruin.

1 million people were killed as a result of George W. Bush’s and Tony Blair’s lies. The entire region was destabilised, and ISIS and Al Qaeda rose as a result.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"We now know America did do this, the evidence is overwhelming.. what's worrying is [the US govt] do seem to be now obstructing the investigation.. it is one of the worst mass civilian casualty incidents in modern warfare"

Dominic Waghorn on the Minab school bombing. A war crime

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

The worst thing about Rachel Reeves is what turns her to tears

Here it’s Starmer resigning

21000 children murdered in Gaza 🇵🇸

We all know Rachel hasn’t lost a single night thinking of those children

These people should disgust all of us:

Phoney
Selfish
Vacuous

Repulsive.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Thames Water has just increased bonus payouts for "key management personnel" from £2.8 million to £4.1 million – despite being £18.5 billion in debt and causing several category 1 pollution incidents.

Thames bypassed Ofwat's bonus ban, which ONLY targets chief executives and finance managers, by awarding the bulk of the £4.1 million to other executive team and board members.

We were told privatisation would bring efficiency and lower costs – instead we got shitty rivers and some of the highest bills for water in the world.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Charlie Stayt, "You said Andy Burnham is too in hock to vested interests to deliver real change. You haven't given him a chance, have you, he hasn't even started?"

Zack Polanski, "If he does do the right things I'll be the first to applaud him"

"He's appointed James Purnell as chief of staff. This is a man who is a corporate lobbyist for private water companies"

"When we have water companies pumping sewage into our rivers and charging us extra for the privilege, this doesn't seem a good start"

"Then we know Josh Simons hired a private investigator to look into a journalist who was talking about undeclared donations for Labour Together"

"And finally, the only substantial thing he's voted on as an MP in the last week, is to support Shabana Mahmood's regressive immigration reforms. Including asking asylum seekers to review their cases every 30 months. That's deeply inhumane for people fleeing war and persecution"

"Andy Burnham might surprise me and move in a more progressive direction and I'd really welcome that"

"But the rumours of appointing Shabana Mahmood as Chancellor, a politician who cites Margaret Thatcher as one of her political heroes"

"This doesn't sound like we're moving in a direction to end ripoff Britain, it looks like more of the same"

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship.

She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@ZackPolanski: "Most people in this country are probably happy to see the back of Keir Starmer.. people on the left are looking at Andy Burnham & going, this looks a lot like Keir Starmer with a different face"