Notices by Police State UK (policestateuk@mastodon.me.uk)

"Online disinformation campaigns have repeatedly targeted efforts to promote active travel, reduce air pollution by reducing car use and expand clean energy. These attacks don’t only come from anonymous online accounts; they are often amplified by populist politicians and partisan influencers. As a result, policies designed to clean the air and protect public health have been distorted into culture war flashpoints."

#UKPol #FrPol #London #Paris #Environment

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/23/london-paris-vicious-backlash-climate-action-sadiq-khan-anne-hidalgo

"A preventive strike by #Israel against a sovereign nation is a blatant act of aggression. It is fundamentally illegal under international law and will further erode the prospect of sovereign states living in peace and security with each other."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/benjamin-netanyahu-war-israel-strikes

#Israel vows to expand genocide to include anybody attempting to bring humanitarian aid to #Gaza

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-aid-flotilla-greta-thunberg-5899bcc088496dbcba4cb192c84ea367

UK Attorney General forced to apologise for entirely accurate statement...

#UKPol #Labour #Tories #Reform #Nazis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0gye0wq8lo

"The UK government’s letter to the UN makes it abundantly clear that Starmer has no intention of letting the law – UK or international – interfere with his abuse of terror legislation to persecute opponents of Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians and other crimes."

#UKPol #Labour #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/05/28/starmer-govt-tells-un-off-for-wanting-persecution-of-journalists-to-stop-says-its-bad-for-the-victims/

“America’s silence, and the silence of others around the world, only encourages Putin."

#USPol #Trump #Russia #Ukraine

https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/27/trump-admits-to-protecting-russia.html

"The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and also consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations”, more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including former supreme court justices, have said."

#UKPol #Israel

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/uk-must-impose-sanctions-on-israel-to-meet-legal-obligations-say-more-than-800-lawyers

"Low turnout is, in practice, unequal turnout, with some demographic groups now far more likely to vote than others. Researchers around the world consistently find that younger, poorer, racialised, and more insecurely housed groups tend to have significantly lower turnout rates than older, wealthier, whiter, and more secure groups."

#UKPol #Voting #Democracy

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-compulsory-voting-low-turnout-worsening-inequality-australia/

"Studies have found that compulsory #voting leads to lower inequalities in income and wealth, a more generous welfare state, higher levels of social investment, and (perhaps relatedly) higher levels of satisfaction with #democracy."

"Moody's, which downgraded the U.S. credit rating on Friday, estimates that extending #Trump's 2017 tax cuts alone — a central component of the bill — would add $4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade."

#USPol

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/21/trump-tax-cuts-budget-deficit-debt

"In an open letter to the EBU this week, 72 musicians, lyricists and performers associated with the contest called for Kan’s exclusion, alleging the broadcaster was “complicit in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in #Gaza and the decades-long regime of apartheid and military occupation against the entire Palestinian people”."

#Israel #Palestine #Eurovision

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/08/irish-broadcaster-requests-discussion-israel-eurovision-ebu

"The number of European travellers visiting the US has fallen sharply as political and economic tension and fears of a hostile border under President Donald Trump threaten the world’s most lucrative air routes."

#USPol #EUPol #UKPol

https://www.ft.com/content/6dc16a54-8de1-4f3b-8409-ecb566118127

"A network of #Xitter accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat."

#CanPol #USPol #Misinformation #Disinformation

https://thelogic.co/news/canada-election-x-misinformation/

"Female MPs say they are unnerved by how women seem to be taking brunt of anger over government decisions."

#UKPol #Labour #Misogyny

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/29/cabinet-no-longer-feels-safe-labour-mps-criticise-briefings-against-female-ministers

"The loophole in WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is simple: The recipient of any #WhatsApp message can flag it. Once flagged, the message is copied on the recipient's device and sent as a separate message to #Facebook for review."

#Privacy #Security

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/whatsapp-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-arent-that-private-after-all/

@harld

'White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt boasted, "The Kennedy Center learned the hard way that if you go woke, you will go broke”.'

"In the week following Trump’s announcement, ticket sales dropped by roughly 50 percent compared to the previous week."

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#USPol #GoFashLoseCash

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kennedy-center-reeling-from-stunning-ticket-sales-collapse-after-trump-takeover-report/ar-AA1zzYd1

"Far-right activists will demand the release of Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who is in solitary confinement in prison after committing contempt of court."

#UKPolitics #Protest

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/met-police-tommy-robinson-stop-racism-protest-london-whitehall-b1208426.html

"I was part of a team that was directly ordered to manipulate Twitter's systems to influence the 2024 US presidential election. It wasn't subtle, and it wasn't ethical."

#USPol #Xitter

https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-and-xs-role-in-2024-election

"We should now be imposing the same boycotts on Musk’s hideous fascist US that we once did on apartheid South Africa."

#USPol #Trump #Musk

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/19/information-dark-age-elon-musk-donald-trump-jeff-bezos