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No more illegal wars. Introduce a prevention of military intervention act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.

The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war.

Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war.

The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.

@elliechowns.bsky.social : "In 2020 Starmer said he did not think the UK should enter into military action without a legal justification, without a clear goal & without parliamentary approval. None of those conditions are in place now. Indeed, it is an illegal war led by a war criminal"

I thought Starmer's statement this morning was a disaster. Pretending that the Greens are as bad as Reform, jUsT oN tHe LeFt, is an idiotic strategy for attracting back voters that clearly like what GPEW has to say.

House and Harbor (1924) exemplifies Hopper's early mastery of planar composition, distilling architecture and maritime clutter into crisp geometry. Painted during his breakthrough watercolor phase, it captures New England's industrial edge through abstraction.

You can have a drugs policy based on evidence, best practice from around the world, speaking to clinicians, experts, drug users, their relatives and the police, like the Green Party.

Or you can have drugs policy based on the Daily Mail comments section, like Labour.

"Tax dodging immigrant worries about immigration."
via Rooban Mahan

Spend how much?

To defend the UK against the threat from a country that has failed to knock out Ukraine in over a decade.

The only credible threat from Russia is a nuclear one and it doesn't matter how much we spend, if that happens we're fucked.

Hill and Houses, Cape Elizabeth, Maine - 1927
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104431

Chop Suey (1929) captures interwar cosmopolitanism and modern emotional distance: two women talk, detached, while a couple behind sits in silence. The public solitude contrasts with the restaurant’s vivid color, sharpening the isolation.

Help keep essential nursing staff in the UK Nursing staff from all over the world make vital contributions to the UK’s health and care services every day. Tell your MP that proposed changes to Idefinite Leave to Remain put your community at ris...

Nursing staff from all over the world make vital contributions to the UK’s health and care services every day. Tell your MP that proposed changes to Idefinite Leave to Remain put your community at risk.
action.rcn.org.uk/page/185165/...

A classroom scene with a teacher standing at the front of the room and pupils seated at desks in the foreground. Overlaid text reads: “REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.” and “WHY ARE EXPERIENCED TEACHERS LEAVING?” Beneath this is a quote asking what assessment the Government has made of the comparative loss of experienced upper pay range teachers in academy and local authority-controlled schools, and what assessment has been made of the extent and impact of settlement agreements and confidentiality clauses when such teachers leave employment. A small circular image of Natalie Bennett appears with the label “Natalie Bennett, Green Party Peer,” and the Green Party logo is displayed at the bottom.

If plastic is labelled as recycled, it must genuinely be recycled and produced under proper environmental and labour standards.

The Government should assess the EU proposals carefully — and match them to protect people and planet.

#Recycling #EnvironmentalStandards

Facial recognition technology is bulldozing our human rights The government is stealing our civil liberties – and giving them to Reform, writes Jeremy Corbyn MP

This government is taking away our civil liberties — and handing them to Reform.

My article for @islingtontrib.bsky.social on facial recognition, the erosion of jury trials, and the attack on our right to protest.

www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/faci...

The Long Leg - 1935
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/39889

Wall Street loves the AI bubble

... until it doesn't 📉

While I don’t think the AI chat on Bluesky is up to much, it‘s hard to see how chucking unlimited resource at immature tech, in an attempt to brute force it, ends well for anyone

Exclusive: Greens Hit Out At Reform 'Frauds' After Zia Yusuf Suggests Poverty Rates Are Exaggerated "Reform have totally let the cat out of the bag this morning about what they really stand for."

Wild to see wealthy Reform politician "explaining" to poor people they don't understand their own experience.

Let's make sure every single person in Gorton & Denton (and the country!) knows exactly that Reform is bankrolled by dodgy donors. Mask is off.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

And many organisations concerned with disability, illness, medicine, Equality & Human Rights are decisively against the Bill & its feeble safeguards, as are many disabled people.

The US knows this, that’s why they push in negotiations for ‘Country of Origin’ labelling to be curtailed, describing it as a ‘trade barrier.’ Still up in the air.

Bill Latham's House - 1927
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104427

Stop scanning us all with facial recognition The government is about to unleash the “largest ever” roll out of live facial recognition surveillance. At the same time, shops across the UK are wiring up facial recognition cameras to their doorway...

Say "No!" to fascism. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Luke is part of a government that is selling off our NHS data to a US spy tech firm, Palantir.

Luke is part of a government that is subservient to Donald Trump - a dangerous President who wants to annex Greenland.

Luke is part of a government that is increasingly desperate & utterly rudderless.

A lot of this “food” could end up on school, hospital and prison menus, where they contract out to the cheapest bidder.

Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...

Sainsbury’s, Iceland and Morrisons, have responded to the letter but it was half-hearted, stopping short of a full outright commitment.
Tesco and Ocado, didn’t even bother to reply We’ve seen responses in the media, but we need it in writing from the source
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...

From 6th April, new claims for Universal Credit (UC) Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity (LCWRA) element
from severely disabled &/or sick people will be cut in half. A massive cut for the most vulnerable.

Nobody voted for disability benefit cuts, Digital ID, facial recognition and state assisted suicide.

Govt minister Jake Richards declares that Labour is a centre left party.

There is nothing left wing about demonising the disabled, scapegoating refugees, siding with profiteering private companies & refusing to tackle inequality by redistributing wealth.

Ryders House - 1933
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103976

Resign the whip and cross the floor. Or you are on the side of the oppressors.

We haven't heard a peep from the Government RE: the letter they received from the UN, and the response was due on Monday.⏰

Disabled voices have been brushed off for months; welcome to the club, UN! Fancy a cuppa?☕