Ik blijf erbij: dit is geen polarisatie, dit is radicalisering van één kant.

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The emboldening of the extreme right is terrifying The fact it is happening as the left is demonised, vilified and criminalised is not coincidental and it should terrify us even more as it is where resistance only exists The liberal bulwark was always a fantasy

Dit is gewoon fascisme. Er is geen enkele juridische grond om bijvoorbeeld de 250.000 rode lijn demonstranten op te pakken. Dat hij dit duidt als “Hamasdemonstratie” is regelrechte Israël propaganda. Zorgwekkend dat zo iemand in ons parlement zit en zo weinig tegengas krijgt.

This is absolutely part of the wider intensification of protest that has also been targeting eco-protesters as part of a moral panic following years long economic decline. Criminalisation over resolution is the order of the day in late neoliberalism

If you're a juror on a trial where you even *suspect* the defendants are guilty of an offence carried out as an act of protest (because they've also been banning recent defendants from talking about Palestine), you absolutely *have* to acquit them, because you now don't know what the Judge will do.

Abolish Europe! A plea, a provocation, a demand, an inquiry See you at SPUI25 June 4th

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Really telling that London Labour have gone for a retro "Special Branch" style for these smear "dossiers" they are putting out - like they saw the Spycops inquiry revealing Special Branch spying on the left for decades and thought 'that looks fun'.

Im giving a talk on Friday at one of my favourite book shops about policing, climate crisis and fascism 1700-1900 fort van sjakoo See you there!

May 4, 1926: The business life of Britain comes to a standstill on the first full day of a general strike. More than 3 million workers in the country’s most vital industries stay home, but much-feared civil unrest fails to develop as many Britons take the disruption phlegmatically. 1/8

For those who are reading Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois for the first time or again, here are some sources I recommend to read along with it, if you haven’t read them.

It's disgusting and shameful people have to live like this in the UK in 2026 and banning protesting is so far away from how to begin to solve it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The imperial boomerang (burning down the royal docks in the raid of the Medway) has returned to the metropole (burning down massive parts of the dutch landscape)

Dutch defence policy

This is the third fire this week caused by the Dutch military. They are currently struggling to contain the previous ones. 5% of national spending literally going up in smoke

I fucking knew it lmfao

What is being called a ‘natural fire’ was actually started by the Dutch military firing artillery near a nature reserve. The military industrial complex is a disaster for our planet and there is no climate justice while it exists.

"Violence is never the answer..."

Ik lees straks vast dat bezorgde burgers de A12 blokkeren, de T. vindt dat de politiek moet luisteren en dat de fossiele subsidies worden verminderd omdat de zorgen terecht zijn, toch?

The trial of a philosophy lecturer who tossed away a tear gas canister thrown at him and other protestors by ICE begins today. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

My article ‘Policing the Environmental Crisis’ is out now in Constellations. I argue that 2022 was a pivotal moment where policing was used to try to resolve climate crisis in UK as part of a moral panic around protest. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Criminalization is fascism’s indispensable fuel. Since criminalization determines people’s fates, we are all vulnerable. No matter whether it’s in vogue or not to organize to end prisons and jails, we must persist. Through the Warehouse exhibition+

In 2022 had ik een online discussie met Özcan Akyol en dat eindigde met vier man politie in mijn woning. Voor mij is dat een aanwijzing dat we de politie niet nog meer bevoegdheden moeten geven om mensen te volgen op sociale media.

#OtD 1 April 1990 the Strangeways Prison uprising began. Lasting for 25 days, it was the longest prison riot in British history stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8040...

“Every missile strike is another downpayment on a hotter, more unstable planet, and none of it makes anyone safer,” said Patrick Bigger of the Climate and Community Institute and co-author of new analysis about the climate impacts of the war on Iran, in @theguardian.com:

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

Guys, hes only a former human rights lawyer, how was he supposed to know this would be a bad idea?

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Every interaction in S2 of The Pitt is something like Dr: You have an elevated SP-2 factor. It's 87. We need to bivouac your gastric cavity immediately Patient: My set of social inequalities prevent me from doing this Dr: But then you'll go into T-phase 3!

Listening to this is a reminder of how ever green this article is

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Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

Greens causing a 24% swing from Labour and overturning a 13,000 majority safe seat in Manchester. Labour coming in third after reform. Eco socialism is a popular position!

Terrifying in its rapidity - it's taken just 27 years, 2 months and 3 days since scandal first broke.

This Lancet study is the best indicator yet that: 1. The Gaza MoH was doing a phenomenal job under horrific circumstances, and anyone casting doubt on it was/is a ghoul; 2. The full death toll from Israel's genocidal assault is probably near or even over 100k people -- 5% of all Gazans.

When I was working as a SEN TA it was really obvious that the biggest common denominator was poverty. Defunding SEN is monstrous.

If you are in line for a pancake, stay in line!!

Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.

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Fixed it.

45K people may be killed by cars every year, but that pales in comparison to this scenario I just imagined

Uitstekende onderzoeksjournalistiek van De Correpondent over een zeer geheime, en ondemocratische, geheime dienst in Nederland.

New York's youth prisons are a disaster. Kids locked in solitary for days at a time. Staff forced to work 24-plus-hour shifts. Crisis after crisis. "I'm a human rights violator," one whistleblower told me. They recounted the nightmare at one facility: nysfocus.com/2026/02/04/o...

Made some babka yesterday

I helped organise a reading group on abolition with the university of Rojava. Those students I read and studied with are now in a fight for survival against fascism from the north and the south. Solidarity with Rojava and the Kurdish people www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4712...

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THREAD. Is the problem with global warming that Exxon executives need to get "better training" on the science of climate change?