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Back after 3 hours of sleep. They are reigning hell on my people

Don't miss the news that an Israeli missile destroyed an Iranian girls' primary school, murdering at least 25 girls between 7 and 12 years old. At this point it might just be muscle memory for the Israeli military. www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-2...

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Still seeing Briefcase Cunt Cope in the form of "Keir Starmer might be boring but that's what the country NEEDS right now!" and a) 2024-ass take b) he just lost a fucking safe Labour seat c) when has he ever been boring please? He's clearly been a liability since long before his inevitable election.

"UK, Germany and France have condemned Iranian attacks on countries in the region saying Iran must refrain from indiscriminate military strikes" They did not comment on US and Israeli attacks Beggars belief, but just what you would expect from these US lapdogs www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This week my students were asking about the distinction between anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism. The conversation happened in the context of reading Gandhi’s Satyagraha in South Africa. They were amazed that Gandhi could see the Boer as an iconic figure of colonial suffering and resistance 1/

Just finished the Behind the Bastards episodes on the impact of Jeffrey Epstein. And like a takeway is that he started funding anti-trans research because he allegedly SA'd a trans girl (she was 16 at the time) who turned around and sued his ass for it and he was mad that she sued him.

I'm going mad! "UK, Germany and France condemn Iranian attacks The UK, Germany and France have condemned Iranian attacks on countries in the region, saying Iran must refrain from indiscriminate military strikes." Who the fuck started the bombing? Condemn those!!! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This is just cold-blooded state murder. And the West will just nod along, again.

lol labour and reform both peddling the same bollocks

Just listened to 'Horror, Hospitality, and the Social Risk of Saying No' at #GothsForBreakfast. Not sure I'm ever going to be able to refuse a cup of tea at someone else's house without anxiety now 😆 Some great insights.

If you're unfamiliar with the millennium challenge, the US spent a quarter million dollars to simulate war with Iran and lost right away. They then restarted the drills, changed the rules so the US would have to win, then reported it as a huge success. A lot of people are going to die over this

I just feel like, ideally, the Labour response to yesterday's result would have tried to talk people *out* of detecting to the Greens, rather than, y'know, the opposite?

If Reform had won Starmer would be on his knees to those voters begging for forgiveness. Greens win and it's like "Fuck off cranks"

Wrong wrong wrong conclusions from ross here about the Green's strategy. "Divisive etc..." was the broad message.

I really dislike this account. Every instance of the US or an ally’s violence against people outside of Europe is nothing more to this person than an opportunity to own the tankies for being disingenuous on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - the only aggressor and victims that matter to this person.

I'm not one to usually comment on someone's appearance, but wearing what looks like an imperial uniform from Star Wars to a removal centre is a choice. Just as Labour's inhumane, hostile, discriminatory, and massively unpopular anti-immigration policies are. #r4today 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It now appears the Aziz family have been kicking hundreds of Londoners out of their homes using no-fault eviction notices since January ahead of the Renters’ Rights Act coming into force open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

Billionaires man! "what she found, after visiting more than 200 flats, was a vast number of units that had been vacated by private tenants in recent days. It became increasingly apparent that rather than simply planning a mass eviction, the Aziz family’s business had already been carrying it out."

food heroes here

I tried so hard And got so far But in the end No one fucking likes me I joined Reform To deport you all But in the end No one fucking likes me

The biggest problem with the UK's political system is that colossal pieces of shit can write abhorent nonsense like this in a journal famous for publishing vile poison... and still have everyone come to their garden party because it's all a bit of a lark and all in good fun eh chaps wot wot.

“Gorton and Denton…. was a stress test for grievance politics, and grievance cracked first. Reform’s instinct when challenged is not to persuade but to tantrum; not to build trust but to erode it. That’s the playbook. Win, or cry foul” @zoegrunewald.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...

The bombing is happening after we learned of progress in the nuclear talks. The lesson continues to be that you can never trust Americans. Any state threatened by the Americans will have concluded by now that their only safety is to develop nukes asap, surely?

2/4 so far. Cool. Cool cool cool.

And it is losing them very specifically because - this is the phrase every Labour friend tells me they hear on the doorstep - "it stands for nothing". How is it possible No.10 have concluded that they can reverse this if only they stand for nothing even more resolutely? WTAF are these people doing?

And all based on an idiotically shallow and wrong diagnosis: that Labour is losing votes to the right AND the left. It's simply not true. Look at the fkn numbers. Labour LOST a few votes to the right - that were on loan and never coming back. It is currently actively LOSING votes only to the left.

Historic attempt here that will be remembered for years to come because he may have been the only third party mediator willing to just say the truth out loud.

How little we understand about incredible rich complexity of life. "Long before the genome fully activates – a milestone known as Zygotic Genome Activation – an intricate 3D DNA scaffold is already forming." Don't mess with what you don't understand scitechdaily.com/scientists-d...

I would actually support calling parliament into session to rescue / nationalise Sharp's in Cornwell. Oh and if we lose St Austell and Proper Job, we riot.

I co- wrote this Observer Food guide to some of the world's most interesting noodle dishes with Holly O'Neill observer.co.uk/style/food/a...

This is crazy. Surely by now the government must realise it will not achieve decency over division by trying to be Reform Lite?

Whilst I couldn't give two fucks about the Iranian regime, all my thoughts are with the Iranian people and the horrendous ordeal the imperialist states of Israel and the US are subjecting them to right now. Thinking of the men, women, & children who will no doubt already be losing their loved ones.

Why is the United Kingdom quietly helping the United States to flagrantly violate international law (staging aircraft)? How does that in any way, shape, or form, benefit this country's interests?

1. These are not 'pre-emptive' strikes, they are just strikes, violating the UN charter. 2. Trump lied in the aftermath of June 2025 strikes that the *never-proven* nuclear bomb of Iran was set at least two years back. 3. Iran now has a legal right to respond. 4. Iran regime consolidates again.

Iran signed the JCPOA with the US, China, and the EU in 2015. Two years later, the US withdrew and imposed sanctions purely out of spite. 8 years later, America and Israel bomb Iran completely unprovoked. Now we're doing it again not even a year after that. There is no winning with the United States

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime. You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

Beatings to continue until morale improves

Hey BBC R4, quoting Niall 'Fungus the Bogeyman' Ferguson is not a sign of 'intelligence'

Fucking mental warmongers. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Beautiful.

Starmer isn’t going to learn this lesson. A lot of it’s been blamed on McSweeney, Blue Labour, the Labour Right or whatever, but he seems really personally committed to pulling the party to the right and aggressively alienating the centre left. His backbenchers must really despise him at this stage.

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

Lmao

Sky News don't seem as excited as the rest of us. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Npvw...

So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".

He is literally the dumbest PM ever.