I was 17 years old when I was introduced to the idea of class consciousness by this song and it's foundational to so much of what I believe. I like to think I always would have gone on this journey but Rise Against was a real catalyst for me.

Pete Hegseth arrives at a shop in dire need of some groceries to find the doors locked. Frustrated, he yells "the store is open! The only thing prohibiting me shopping is that they've locked all the doors! It's open should they not do that" It is 3am and he is beginning to sober up

Love that Cumberland's Green Party membership has *quadrupled* in the last 6 months. 🚀 This is happening all over England & Wales. Join us! 💚 www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2592768...

Keir Starmer thinks standing against violent oppression and the indiscriminate murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people is completely intolerable I think a former human rights lawyer being this morally compromised is completely intolerable but what do I know?

The media when the government knowingly hires a child rapist's best pal: "They said it was an accident so I think it's ok" The media when anyone left of Thatcher stubs their toe and says it only hurts a bit: "Really, this is about trust in politics" Pathetic.

Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo. The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.

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I've just used Good Law Project's tool to email MPs on the Council of Europe and let them know they don’t have to bend down to Sex Matter’s transphobic threats. The more they hear from us, the harder it’ll be for them to ignore us. goodlaw.social/9f10d1

Zack Polanski stood outside Palantir HQ to demand that the spy-tech firm - which has supported deadly ICE raids and enabled genocide in Gaza - gets out of our NHS Say no to Palantir in the NHS ❌👇 goodlaw.social/658abc

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the thing is, universal human rights are only universal if they include everyone, even the groups of people society has decided are less important (children, prisoners, people with names you can't pronounce, homeless people, the unemployed, disabled people who don't make good inspiration porn, etc)

Terrible racist unveiled as MP for the terrible racism party after being sacked by terrible racism party tribute act. Whole world too shocked to speak. More at 10!

Can't believe what's happened to my home

Yes. We're spending £476m on the militarisation of Calais - where babies are being tear gassed. The fact people are hearing this for the first time is exactly why I made it the subject of the Christmas Day message. We could be spending that money instead on a fair and managed migration system.

At least 20,179 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, according to the UN's latest reports. Children should be playing, learning & laughing - not part of a casualty list. They've been forced to grow up in unrelenting violence & suffering during Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.

When Ian McKellen asks, the Amnesty Shop delivers, making sure everyone knows where to get those last-minute presents.

The sheer contempt these people have for anyone that they deem unworthy is incredible. Switching to a font that is more legible for people with visual disabilities is a "wasteful diversity move"? Wasteful how? Allowing disabled people to exist is deserving of scorn to these scumbags.

If you started siding with the right and being wary of the left because some leftists were cunts to you on social media you were never particularly left-wing to start with. I've had mad leftists and woke scolds say insane stuff about me and to me and it never made me hate centrists any less, bitch.

Human rights were built for hard times, not rewrites when it suits the Government. Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's very telling how "trans people" became "Trans activists" and now they're knocking at the next door "People with ADHD" have become "ADHD activists".

Trump being given the FIFA peace prize like when my cousin got Sonic 2 and would give me the second Mega Drive controller in 1992 so I could "play" as Tails.

Trans erasure is rooted in virulent misogyny, full stop. The TERFs can pretend that they're the true feminists and they're trying to protect women from violence all they like, it's a lie. Anti-trans legislation makes ALL women less safe and is a betrayal of everything feminists have fought for.

Police inaction on sexual violence against women & girls laid bare again. A culture of impunity for misogyny. Almost 1 in 3 women experience rape or domestic violence. Over 90% of perpetrators are known to victims & 1 in 2 rapists are partners or ex-partners. #r4today

Read about the Nazis that they kept on Spandau. They were huge jokes, spent all their time bickering about whose fault it was they lost the war and fighting about who got to use the best broom to sweep with. At its core, fascism is just a bunch of losers who get enough losers to support them.

Water makes things wet, report claims

Nigel Farage on Russia Today before the 2014 European Elections talking about the European Union: "They are fanatical and, and I believe the most dangerous people we've seen in Europe for 70 years." Make of this what you will.

This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened

new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped

I keep thinking about the Raymond Williams line: "To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing". Hope is not easy. Despair seems obvious. But every howl of despair manifests as further malignance. Compliance with fascism is despair metastasising.

Yes! Speak up, not for praise but because if we don't then we allow tyrants and bullies to control the narrative. They want us to think that most people support them. The more of us dissent, loudly, the less viable that lie becomes.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Sometimes I think people who dislike cats behave how people pretend vegans do. "How do you know someone doesn't like cats? Don't worry, they'll tell you!" It's so strange to make part of your personality the dislike of a small furry animal that mostly minds its own business

This is a heartbreaking read, and really serves to highlight all of the ways our institutions continuously fail vulnerable young people, minor offenders, drug addicts, and how in fact the system is basically a pipeline from one of those things to the next.

I think that the BBC clearly has issues that desperately need addressing, but it cannot be overstated how valuable an impartial journalistic body is in principle. The BBC needs to have its independence restored so it can properly hold power to account.

In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing 500 million years ahead of schedule. His critics say they are — literally — fool's gold. At stake? The question of when and how complex life arose at all. My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!

Free speech & democracy. He absolutely hates them.

School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.