A sobering story for Remembrance weekend.

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Both parties actively endorsed Andrew Cuomo and he STILL couldn't beat a vocally pro-Palestine, pro-trans, socialist, Muslim immigrant. The vindication I feel IS a part of that obvs coz I'm a petty little cunt. But I mostly feel intense joy and relief that another way has been shown to be possible.

Horrendous.

Nailed it.

The narrative of supposedly despicable outsiders seizing women as justification for war goes back to Paris and Helen in the Iliad. Heck, it was understood to be massively destructive even then.

While the NYT's asks if feminism ruined the workplace, the Washington Post gives us a look into a workplace without feminism

Excellent.

I have no idea what this says. But I can pretend like I do, chat.

We saw how Irish media reacted to Catherine Connolly winning the presidential election with her campaign 🤯🤦🏾‍♀️ “Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.” #spéirghorm #IrishPol #NYC #Áras25

Farage coins in £1000s a month for a few hours "work" yet he thinks the economic woes of the UK are caused by an 18 year old getting a tenner an hour working their arse off in Burger King.

Frank Knew #revolt #resist #reclaim

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

It is painfully and astonishingly obvious that to correct course we need a few simple things. A wealth tax followed by gradual tax rises for the wealthiest. Nationalisation of industries that should never have been privatised. Reform of Voting. Scotland and Wales must decide their own paths too.

"It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done." I hear they are putting Anthropic's Claude into Excel spreadsheets now.

Today and every day, you can reject the institutionalized cruelty of animal agriculture and choose compassion by going vegan. Not only will you be helping animals, but you’ll be doing something good for the planet and yourself.

Miss Ellie from Dallas was perhaps what she was best known for.

Even a big far-right vote couldn’t give the far-right total control, because the Dutch democracy promotes cooperation. Here in the UK, just one-third of the vote could give Nigel Farage a huge majority of MPs. Our democracy isn't fit for 21st-century politics. We need Proportional Representation.

That's a half a frigate or destroyer every year! Just so people can ride about improving their health and having good lives. That's great and all, but who is going to do the floating around in the north Atlantic looking for Russian submarines?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

The current regime in the US is an absolute disgrace.

My auntie Deanne who helped look after me when I was a baby was in fact my second cousin once removed. Which as a baby I totally knew.

My Dad would say, "poor old boy, look at him". But also the leader of a such a grim, harmful regime.

Seemingly no amount of carnage - from Yemen to Gaza - will cause Labour to deviate from it's decades-old policy of arming the world's worst human rights abusers with the most advanced means of violence. No war crimes too grave. No death toll too high. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Sharing this mainly to annoy / intrigue @jrberkeley.bsky.social

like so many days since the blitz, today was terrifying. but the terror is outpaced by the burning hot solidarity of parents blocking school streets, hundreds of neighbors walking patrol, bicyclists chasing SUVs broadcasting whereabouts, and whistling winemoms bringing the fire of one thousand suns.

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

This is 100% correct. Including as to the chaos the Gender Critical Ideological Movement so beloved of Labour has now descended into as their facade of respectability crumbles like the Berlin Wall. www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

Put it this way, when all this crashes and burns, which country do you think he will be fleeing to?

I used to teach a college level 'community organizing' class many years ago. After a class one day, a student came to me and said "it's so much work to organize. I thought change just happened." I think of that student often.

And here we are.

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

We have had a full decade of this created directly by the UK arms trade, in Yemen, then in Palestine. And before that in East Timor. And before that... Stop the arms trade.

New garage band name just dropped, fellas.

Happy Adult Human Chicken day to all who celebrate!

I have seen smart people with good answers to this. Mine is: they are trash.

Don't obey. Stand up to fascists. Make good trouble.

When the going got tough, they got em out.

Love me a Nancy Meyers. Need to fish out the DVD for this and give it a watch.

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Joined up with the fash is what they did.

David Graeber on the police. From an interview he gave a few years ago with the Scottish publication called Bella Caledonia. davidgraeber.org/interviews/t...

When the shadows grow long, when our names turn to dust, what we loved, what we hated, will spoil to rust. All will be forgotten, save one truth, unshaken… What did we do when the children were taken? - The Shepherd King in One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig,

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If any Government can just snatch basic human rights away from any section of society when it pleases then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

Once again I am begging people to stop demanding reforms that would make being an MP *even more* a preserve of the rich.

Paddington Station in London at night, last month: trains on stop. #stunday #photography