Fascinating look at the tangled legacies of colonialism. DRC wants colonial-era geological surveys so a Bill Gates-backed mining/AI firm can digitize them. The Belgian museum won't release them as it's already doing so. Trump II is now applying pressure as part of its resource grab. No good guys.

Reform brought this White supremacist to parliament

As former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett describe Turkey “as the new Iran” I’m wondering when it will be obvious that Israeli political culture cannot sustain itself without constantly creating new enemies.

Whenever Labour brings up how expensive it is to feed kids or house people or whatever I want journalists to ask them about the millions of £ wasted on these royal pricks so that they can commit crimes with our tax money.

Look. People get divorced for all manner of reasons, and it's nobody else's business. However. When a politician is using the slogan: Family. Community. Country. It's perfectly reasonable to point out that they are recently divorced and live in the SE of England miles from Gorton and Denton.

Israel opened fire - ‘warning shots’ - at the Lebanese army on Lebanese soil Israel continues to occupy Lebanese territory www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

I highly recommend you take this course with Elia Ayoub if you want to learn more about Lebanon, especially at such a fraught time like this.

Registrations are now open for the March-April class on modern Lebanese history and politics. All the info you need is here: thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/ (Link also includes free resources on Lebanon) And here's a nice testimony by @diplomatofnight.com who attended the January-February class

Bomb threat against one of the largest French unions in Lyon as young left-wingers attacked by the Far Right www.humanite.fr/politique/cg...

Reform is running on a platform of dismantling all democratic institutions that could limit its power, and it’s wild that there’s no rule against that.

‘Ownership’ and ‘rule’ to avoid talking about sovereignty (Images via @diplomatofnight.com )

Left block: 49% Right block: 42% Yet with our electoral system, Reform would be able to govern without the votes of 76% of the electorate.

Abdallah Alkhatib, winner of the Best Feature Film Debut award for "Chronicles from the Siege," at the Berlinale calling out the German government for its complicity in the Gaza genocide

The Greens are living in Reform’s brain rent-free

If you live in the UK, read Elia's article, send it to everyone you know and get to work. This is a critical period in British history and things will get very bad if we don't turn this around. There is much to do and the stakes are huge but we have 3.5 years to make things better. Do it. Please 🙏

Couple of articles on Reform UK @ayoub.bsky.social "The idea is to get rid of all human rights-related constraints, no matter how rare they are even applied in the first place." shado-mag.com/articles/opi... and @manchestermill.bsky.social manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gan...

All you need is the headline of this story: read it and explain how *anyone* involved in promoting so-called AI should be trusted. #resistAI #bcpoli

I’ll again share my own article on Reform’s plans because it does an objectively better job than the BBC’s coverage. And I promise you we at Shado Mag have a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the BBC’s budget. Disastrous journalistic failure. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

what even is the fucking point

The N-word wasn’t censored on tape delay but you know what was? A speech that included the words “genocide” and “free Palestine” was. Akinola Davies Jr’s speech at the BAFTA was cut by the BBC. www.instagram.com/reel/DVGgtKZ...

It has occurred to me that the optimal level of marketing for my podcast Volts, upon which my family's entire income depends, might be higher than its current level of zero.

It’s only February www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

"Rubio’s speech confirmed the radical ideological gap that has now opened between the US and Europe. To a worrying extent, the US now represents precisely the things that post-1945 Europe organised to prevent." ✍️ @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social on Rubio's speech at Munich ukandeu.ac.uk/the-end-of-t...

BREAKING Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

I don’t think someone like Sam Altman is aware of how dangerous things can get for him as living standards get worse and people increasingly blame dystopian AI. It genuinely wouldn’t surprise me if these Tech Bros start getting killed

The most likely regime change scenario in Cuba is not from Communist Party rule to democracy, it’s from party to military rule. Why is Rubio holding secret talks with “Raulito” Castro, grandson of Raúl Castro, who, at 94, is officially retired as president and first secretary?… (1/n)

I mean cool but everyone I know knew this throughout 2024. I wrote about it in Aug 2024. www.hauntologies.net/p/dnc2024 But ‘top democratic officials’ never bothered to talk to anyone with connections to Palestine bcs whitewashing Israel’s genocide mattered more than even winning an election

Without the ability to import weapons from the US, fund themselves with cash from American narcotics users, circulate illegal tobacco in Canada or launder money through European-controlled tax havens then CJNG and other Mexican cartels would never have amassed this military power

In France, people are spreading fake AI videos showing white professors being bullied by non-white students www.instagram.com/reel/DUoOuqH...

“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.” “‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”

“Hungary is threatening to block a new package of EU sanctions; while Slovakia says it will shut off electricity supplies to Ukraine.” “Both are demanding the resumption of Russian oil deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline, which crosses Ukrainian territory” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

Pretty overwhelming evidence that the UAE-backed RSF committed genocide in El Fasher www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

So as far as we know, someone just told Trump this is a thing and gave him an AI generated image to convince him it’s true ? Denmark (obviously) already said no

This brief and trenchant opinion piece by Claudio Nastruzzi describes the lexical and intellectual flattening resulting from applying LLM tools to prose, due to their tendency to return everything to the statistical mean of their training data. www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/s...

All Matt Goodwin did was suggest that women should be at home having babies to prevent the white race being replaced; argue for a far-right ethno-nationalist state; & choose a Holocaust-denying antisemite to run his campaign, & the next thing you know, he’s being labelled a Nazi. Shocking!

Labour MP reacting to a party to his Far Right: we will happily enable the most racist policies on your behalf while haemorrhaging support from our own base because they never voted for diet fascism Labour MP reacting to a party to his Left: nO to tHe ComMieS

Total mystery as to how Reform keeps on churning out the worst possible men this country has to offer

It’s uncanny how many on the far right are either women-beaters, pedophiles, rapists or friends of women-beaters, pedophiles and rapists. It’s almost as if it’s a defining characteristic of modern fascism.

“On climate, the hour for collective action has already arrived. The science is here. What we need now is courage – courage scaled to the enormity of the task – so we may gift the next generation not only carbon capture, but a planet worthy of their hopes,”

What a great piece. This also reminds me SO much of the anglophone, very online, ostensibly anti-imperialist/leftist talk at the early stages of Russia's attack on Ukraine, where Ukraine was (very offensively) portrayed as a Western proxy, pushing borders eastward on the US's/NATO's behalf.

This is tech that can actually change things for the better www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

"This is a real problem. Anti-authoritarianism cannot be optional. Internationalism cannot be reduced to when the baddies are easily identifiable within a traditional anti-imperialist mindset that limits itself to Western forms of imperialism." Incredible. Thank you.

A brilliant article that everyone commenting about Iran should read. The Iranian government is not your friend, and never will be, unless you happen to be a clerico-fascist enthusiast of mass torture and mass murder. But weirdly, many in the West who claim to be on the left seem to support it.

shado-mag.com/articles/opi... “Despite the ongoing horrors by ICE, we have yet to see nationwide outrage over Reform’s plans to bring those horrors to the UK.”

If you read the BBC’a coverage of today’s fascist rally in Manchester organised by Britain First you wouldn’t know: 1- that BF is a fascist group 2- that ‘remigration’ is a White supremacist call for ethnic cleansing of non-Whites 3- about ‘remigration’ at all www.bbc.com/news/article...

Maybe now's a good time to point out that manchester's chief constable Stephen Watson grew up in Rhodesia before the colonisers were defeated, and has made a bunch of statements on his opposition to things like Black Lives Matter and had a portrait up in his office of a famously homophobic GMP chief