Last year, my bf and I went to a townhall with this guy (squint and you'll see us top right)

It was just after the election and we needed something positive to focus on. A smart, smiley socialist with an extremely long shot at the NYC mayoralty fit the bill.

And here we are!

🗽 MAYOR MAMDANI 🗽

This year, I've been working on a project to explore how we can take a smarter, more ambitious and coordinated approach to funding how UK social leaders learn, build power and look after themselves along the way.

Learn more: socialleadership.carrd.co

My mate @swajcmanearle.bsky.social wrote this excellent piece on the frightening rise of Farage.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

This headline was published in the Detroit Free Press in 1974. Stevie had been considering emigrating to escape American racial injustice.

It took 50 years before his plan to come to fruition. He became a citizen of Ghana on May 13, 2024—his 74th birthday.

lifeonsaturn.substack.com/p/stevies-ut...

On Saturn is an adventure into the future. Together, we’ll explore the projects and ideas that foretell the next world—one in which we are free of the tyranny of today.

With beautiful illustrations by Ngadi Smart.

lifeonsaturn.substack.com

“Struggle is par for the course when our dreams go into action. But unless we have the space to imagine and a vision of what it means fully to realize our humanity, all the protests and demonstrations in the world won’t bring about our liberation.”
Robin D. G. Kelley

“Showing Black and white people sitting at a lunch counter together was science fiction.”
adrienne maree brown

Many years ago @joshbabarinde.bsky.social told me about the domestic abuse that he and his family experienced as a kid.

To hear the full extent of the abuse was heartbreaking.

This sunny young man, beloved by his peers, had lived through some serious darkness.

Doechii said: “I want you all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us. What type of government is that?”

And she spoke with more courage and moral clarity than most Dems can muster.

The proliferation of lies from Musk and his far right friends about child abuse in the UK is abhorrent and Islamophobic.

It must be pretty inconvenient for them that actual survivors of abuse like @joshbabarinde.bsky.social can see through their confected righteousness.

Jimmy knew what was up.
RIP.

2 charts I've been thinking about:

L: trust in government since 1960 = 🛝

R: Dem support among voters of colour without a college degree since '08 = also 🛝

That trust vacuum created the conditions for Trump to pull away enough of the Dems' assumed base (working class, not white) to win.