Nineteen years ago, on October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated by Putin's hitmen. She was the first to tell the truth about Russia's mass crimes in Chechnya, which foreshadowed those in Syria, Ukraine, Africa and elsewhere. They could have been prevented. Almost no one listened to her.

There is a pub in Poplar named after him. A fitting tribute for a local working class lad.

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia. Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

@peterfitz1.bsky.social A good interview and I was surprised by some of Abbott's answers which were fairly self-reflective. Even though he has given it a good review and I studied under Prof Blainey (and he even gave me one of his books autographed), I am probably still unlikely to get Abbott's book

Eating at my local Italian Restaurant we have been going to for almost 20 years. New young waitress says to me "Some of our menu is in Italian and I can translate for you." It sweet of her but she doesn't realise someone my age may not sprak Italian but does understand every Italian dish by name.

Being an Atheist, a historian, and someone who despises those that seek to cover up child sexual abuse, clearly I have huge issues with the Catholic Church, but this Pope is certainly living up to what Christians claim their religion is about. Very impressive.

When I see and hear these weird fundamentalists, I see exactly the same as the Taliban in Afghanistan. Religious nutjobs whom we would all be better off if they did not benefit from modernity and had died of smallpox. Still, it is funny to see Ramaswamy find out that MAGA truly think of him.

Labelling educators as "Marxist" is identical to every far right politician right back to Adolf Hitler. The problem is that the more educated people are, the less they will support ignorant populist parties like Reform. Farage knows he needs to go a bit Pol Pot on teachers to increase ignorance.

Folks.. If I, a reasonably bright critter with literally thousands of hours operating one of the most absurdly complex machines humans have ever invented, can’t use my phone while driving, then you, an average dipshit with a room-temp IQ, sure as hell can’t either. Get👏off👏your👏fucking👏phones.

It is incumbent on all of us to intervene if we witness something like this. The more that people get away with it the bolder they become.

In case you were wondering, Mark Bray, who wrote a book about anti-fascism, got death threats from MAGA, and is fleeing to Spain with his wife and young children - yeah, he's Jewish.

Early image of the girlfriend of the founder of the Antifa Network:

At least there is an honesty in stating they see the current people and pretend organisation they label as "Antifa" as being the same as the people who opposed the actual Nazis in the Weimar Republic.

9 November 1891 | Czech Jewish woman, Eliška Budlovská, was born in Benešov. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 January 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

Curious if there might be a single event that is common to both the UK economy lagging and Polish people now less likely to come here? Hmm...

8 October 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Helene Akar, was born in Bar-le-Duc. In August 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Won't happen or will be utter shit just copying another game.

Footage of the murder of civilians in boats used as propaganda and people revelling in it. Glad this is just the fictional imaginings of George Orwell

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

6 October 1939 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Klara Jas, was born in Amsterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 26 August 1943 with her mother Henderika and little brother Isaac. They were all murdered in a gas chamber. --- Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

#USDemocracy #Mississippi • County officials claimed that Black student Trey Reed committed suicide in his dorm. • But he was hanged in a tree by a belt he didn't own and had back-of-head blunt force trauma. • Days before, Trey had argued with 4 White men about Charlie Kirk; 2 were fellow students.

Had to tear one of these down outside my building. Not far from here 89 years ago, local East End people turned out to stop Mosley's Blackshirts marching through the Jewish East End. Sadly the bastards are back and one of them is even being given the red carpet treatment by the Israeli government...

Don't spread this Nigel Farage really wants it to disappear.

This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

I am surprised that no media site I have seen is referencing the 2002 film Simone when reporting on the AI actor controversy. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

So what is the only thing that in history that definitively the US Military has proved better at than any other in history... oh well, just sell it off and privatise.

Sadly we have almost, for a very long time, tolerated a level of antisemitism with the fact that synagogues and Jewish schools in the UK have long required additional security to other religious buildings and schools. In a country where events like this are very rare, this a chilling development.

We are seeing what a meme against their opponents would have looked like were the Nazis on social media in the 1920s and 30s, except AI would be adding kippahs.

Two dead after suspected terror attack on Manchester synagogue, police say, with suspect shot by officers – latest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

1 October 1925 | 100 years ago, Stanisław Zalewski, a Polish man, was born in Sucha Wola. Join us on the occasion of his birthday and share your birthday wishes in the comments.

A room with 1000s of years of military experience had to sit through a speech by an increasingly senile moron rambling on about no longer making Liberty Ships & ugly stealth ships followed by an man with a teenage brain lecturing them on a military ethos based on still jerking off to the film 300.

Amazing bit of 2019 footage this. Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout. And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.

29 September 1930 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Hilda Weinberger, was born in Antwerp. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- The first two gas chambers near Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

28 September 1916 | A Polish woman, Aniela Piękosz, was born in Borzęcin. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943. No 32431 She perished in the camp on 13 June 1943. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

How many times were you a passenger in one of these @dermotncosgrove.bsky.social

You are not a patriot if your associates sell out your country to Russia. You are not a patriot if your associates brag about annexing Commonwealth territory. You are not a patriot if you advocate for policies that impoverish & weaken your country.

28 September 1910 | A Czech, Franz Palek, was born. A foundry man. In #Auschwitz from 14 August 1942. No. 58685 He perished in the camp on 24 November 1942. --- A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

In a bar in Toulouse for the Women's Rugby World Cup finals. Good venue with a decent stout on tap.

So it is the Fuhrer Oath?

U.S. border officer dangerously speeds toward a Canadian tourist in road rage, yelling, 'Never come to the U.S. again!'

In any real Western Democracy, not only would this be a constant headline and leading story in all media, but it would also bring down a government. Sadly it suggests that the USA has always been ripe for unfettered totalitarian power even before Trump. Unaccountability of police has always existed.

The Civil Rights movement was mostly (though indeed not entirely) led by the Silent Generation, b. 1925-1942 — those too young to fight in WW2 but born before the post-war baby boom. Martin Luther King was born in 1929. They’re an even more forgotten generation than Gen X.

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To any ignorant racist Reform-voting scum who think dual nationality should be disallowed, here are the 2 passports I was born with the right to hold. You can kiss my dual-national arse!