“The Invasion of the Body-Snatchers: Trump Whistles an Old Tune”

by Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar in The Byline Times on Substack

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“The White House ‘They Walk Among Us’ video is a satirical cartoon, echoing the tropes of a time when the infiltrators were linguistically and facially indistinguishable from the general population. But, directed at migrants today, it serves the same purpose as the McCarthyite rhetoric of the 1940s and 1950s. Both seek to dehumanise alleged enemies within by claiming that, despite how they looked, acted and behaved, they were not really people at all”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/the-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers

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Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess

https://hamishcampbell.com/thatcher-reagan-were-the-wrecking-crew-how-we-pushed-the-current-mess/

Today in Labor History May 30, 1381: Tax collector John Bampton sparked the Peasants’ Revolt in Brentwood, Essex. The mass uprising, also known as Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising, began because of attempts to collect a poll tax. However, tensions were already high because of the economic misery and hunger caused by the Black Death pandemic of the 1340s, and the Hundred Years’ War. During the uprising, rebels burned public records and freed prisoners. King Richard II, 14 years old, hid in the Tower of London. Rebels entered the Tower and killed the Lord Chancellor and the Lord High Treasurer, but not the king. It took nearly six months for the authorities to suppress the Peasants’ Revolt. They slaughtered over 1,400 rebels. Roughly 600 years later, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tried again to impose a poll tax on Britain’s working class. It also sparked a revolt which brought an end both to the tax and Thatcher’s regime. Billy Bragg references Thatcher’s poll tax in his song, All You Fascists.

All You Fascists, by Billy Bragg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWBeGK96pVQ

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23 May 1988

Shared from Working Class History

On this day, 23 May 1988, four lesbians, including Booan Temple, burst into a BBC news studio during a live broadcast and called out: “Stop Section 28!” The protest was against the new anti-gay law, Section 28, that was about to go into effect at midnight and had received little if any critical news coverage.

Pushed by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government, Section 28 sought to prohibit the “promotion” or “acceptability” of homosexuality in local authorities and schools. While the four women were arrested, they were never charged, likely due to the BBC not wanting to give the protest any further attention.
The homophobic mass media unsurprisingly ignored their message and spun the protest in such a way so as to justify the discrimination of LGBTQ people.
Even still, the protest inspired many LGBTQ people, especially younger folk, to keep up the fight. The law would be in place until 2000 in Scotland and 2003 in England and Wales.

@Drachenstreichler It's an odd thing to think each morning, isn't it?

But then I remember the joy people had when #Thatcher died and... yeah. There's that.

A Lyrid meteor captured from orbit

The Expedition 74 crew on the International Space Station turned into meteor chasers as Earth passed through a cloud of dust and small debris left behind by comet Thatcher in 1861.

Credit: NASA/ESA – Sophie Adenot

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/05/A_Lyrid_meteor_from_orbit

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