Just wanted to add, in case it wasn't clear: Reform plans on negotiating with countries such as Afghanistan and Eritrea to return refugees there as that's where a lot of them come from. This means making a deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan and PFDJ, the totalitarian dictatorship of Eritrea

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

The Gestapo is being exported. This is why Abolishing ICE is a matter of global urgency.

Dang, now I’ve got a Martyrdöd earworm. 🤘

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Just in case anyone thinks that hyperbolic. rudevulture.com/journalist-e...

The search engine degradation was lead by Google in a deliberate effort to make search less effective, and thus deliver more advertising. The fundamental problem, as if often the case, was greed.

c.org/NLJXZWgJTq The Open University continues to platform BAE Systems. It is time they stopped, please sign this petition to urge them to reconsider.

A Dutch term for someone who acts tough but is actually a coward is held op sokken. It means “hero on socks.” The phrase originally referred to when, during a confrontation, a phoney tough guy would ditch their noisy clogs so they could retreat quietly in just their socks.

If a guy says, “lovely little land you’ve got there, would be a shame if something bad would happen to it. Not by me, I’d never use force,…” and you need to be told what this means by the good people on the internet, you need to check if you should work in journalism. I have had enough of dimwits.

Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.

Israel bombed 5 towns in Lebanon today. Another day of an Israeli ceasefire: you cease, we fire

Massive hats off to everyone who dedicated their energy in the months after October 7th to attacking the UNRWA, discrediting the UN, and dismissing, sanctioning, intimidating the ICJ and ICC. Amazing work.

Well riddle me this Kaja Kallas, why does Israel still have a preferential trade agreement with the EU?

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

we hear so much about trans people from the British press yet so rarely hear from them - I'm really pleased this piece was commissioned, and will also be in the physical paper: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Carney describing the cynical upholding of the "useful fiction" of rules based order, admitting it was asymmetric and getting plaudits for criticizing it now it doesn't benefit him... it's not brave it's fucking rank. how many lives is he callously dismissing as "having been worth it" before now

Ta Nehisi Coates called this right: people who will not draw a line at genicide are not going to draw a line at democracy, and I expect this will play out in all kinds of innovative and very exciting ways here in Britain, never mind America.

Or do you think Trump looked at our grovelling, Yes-Mr-President-Sir complicity and thought: I can do absolutely anything I want to these pathetic ball-suckers, and they will smile into the camera and say Thank you.

What did we think Trump was going to do, if Europe showed him we would fully collaborate on the total destruction of the Gaza Strip and ferociously repeat even the most absurd lies about it to our citizens? Did we think he would decide: best to not push the law breaking and war crimes, be sensible.

More than half of Greenland's capital turnout to protest Donald Trump's planned invasion.

No. Don’t tell me to ‘calm down’. Glasgow is a city filled with artists. Approving this AI slush is a cunt move.

Prepping the system for Farage to take over.

The slow motion stage. Amidst the destruction and death, Israel has moved the yellow line another three hundred meters west.

Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

But the UK police is Hamas for not letting them loose on the streets of Birmingham.

I got sick of dealing with paywalled recipe sites, so I made nyetcook.ing to use their bot-friendly discoverability to bypass the paywall! Just paste a link and go! Check out this lovely dish from Bon Appetit, a Condé Nasty company! nyetcook.ing/bonappetit.c... #Foodsky #Cooksky #Recipe #GoodLunch

I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:

I'm not sure people talk enough about the lack of water in Tehran and how this may have sparked whatever is going on there right now.

The length of the Palestine Action-linked remand prisoner's hunger strike has surpassed Irish republican Bobby Sands' hunger strike during his 1981 UK imprisonment

Damon wins.

NO WAR, NO KINGS, NO ICE. NYC, 1/11/26

"You mock us, we shoot you in the face"

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

Mask’s off. Will the good people of Britain continue to fight fascism? Wil Labour finally reconnect with their antifascist roots again and kick out the ‘respectable face of fascism’-faction?

Slightly diminish a band. The Pebble Roses

So, one of my friends carried a surrogate pregnancy- egg donor and the dads’ sperm- and when the baby was born, despite having no biological relation to my friend, let alone her husband, her husband was put as the father on birth certificate. So uh. This doesn’t track

Incredible* to see the Times assert that apparently a woman hurting a man's feelings means he should be able to kill her. (*completely expected)

This is how they react when a fascist militia in another country shoots a woman in the face for no good reason, live on camera. Do you imagine they are more honest than this about events occurring in this country?

The Times was right behind Trump in his first term, cheering him on and denouncing his opponents as elitist leftist swine who hate the working man, right up until that torchlit Nazi march where that fascist killed that girl. Then it all went sotto voce. No such concerns, this time.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Just for the recored: Seeing people hurt or killed, or looking at the remains of people who have been hurt or killed, robs you of the analytical faculties you need to make a sound judgment about how to react. A major feature of modern warfare is recirculating old atrocity videos to hype people up.

Once again, the first thing that comes to mind is that is the same mo under Israeli occupation in Palestine. Shoot, block ambulances until the victim bleeds out, deny wrong doing. Repeat because no one will stop you.

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.