Given what we saw last night, I think this particular paper taking this defensive position puts them firmly on the side of fascism tbh

Don't tolerate the media legitimising thugs who attack people for the colour of their skin. They aren't 'anti-immigration campaigners' like the BBC said this morning, they are violent scumbags. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery. Depraved. amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

I saw David Scott speak on Stuart Hall today. If he were to be believed hall was 19, then he was 72. He never read marx, he was not active in the socialist movement in britain, etc - I dont like Marxist reduction of Hall but this was just awful

Restacking amid news that Isfahan had been targeted by Israeli strikes. open.substack.com/pub/bobbygho...

I mean, the oil was being sold on a global market and its price is set by that market, a capitalist market - what America is doing is violently undercutting competition using military might. It’s more like they’re not playing by their own rules of free trade, rather than undermining socialism?

in the 00s in small towns all around the country there were 40-something failed rock musician men with ear piercings and thinning long hair who begrudgingly taught popular music at FE colleges - who are those guys now?

NOTTINGHAM PEOPLE, FASH AT THE BRIAN CLOUGH STATUE, GET DOWN

a load of fash turned up at the trans rights demo in Nottingham. if people can get down to the Brian Clough statue that would be good.

In a way, a lot has changed since MacPherson - the term “institutional racism“, on hindsight, was a cover up, removing blame from individuals and moving the spotlight away from the awful corruption around the case

Thing about every platform being algorithmic to keep you plugged in is you can’t hate watch stuff anymore - like if I hate watch a Nickelback video on YouTube, it’s gonna be pushing nickel back videos on me for the next decade

They could just be a grass or a cop tbf tbf

For every £1 you earn on UC, your benefit gets docked by 55p, meaning if you get a min. wage job (£12.21), your real hourly earnings would be £5.49. This is supposed to incentivise pursuit of full-time employment, at which point your earnings pass a threshold effectively canceling out the deduction.

I was speaking to someone yesterday who told a story of a girl he worked with on UC who wouldn’t work more because she would earn less. Until I pointed out that was his bosses fault rather than the “benefit”, it never occurred to him. But then where would one go to find this perspective in Britain?

Remember that they killed a man on a anti-racism demo in bristol this year and that was not big news anywhere: The phrasing used was also atrocious: "A man attending a protest in Bristol died following ‘prior police contact’." www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

got the PhD dawgs - no corrections

this is me when every podcast did their addition of “abolish restos”

They could just be a grass or a cop tbf tbf

its what people get wrong when they think germany‘s pro-Israel position is all about National guilt - no they also really hate Muslims!

I find it so annoying when someone asks you to explain something, you do so, and they say “isn’t that just X“ with a bit of a sneer/scoff. What is this? Is it about clawing back some sense of “well I always knew everything anyway”?

Odai is a child shot by the IDF. He urgently needs treatment. 'All we wanted was to make Eid feel normal for our children....We are trying to raise $500 so Odai can continue his treatment and finally have a reason to smile again. Please help us bring a little joy and relief to his heart. ❤️'

On the first day of Eid al-Adha, while everyone is celebrating the holiday, I am still trying to hide my child’s sadness and pain behind a small smile…The war has stolen from us security, a home, and the ability to provide the simplest things Please put a smile on his face chuffed.org/project/soad

Eid Mubarak 🤲🎊

Yea and far less media scrutiny

it’s just a bit funny at this point

Controverstial opinion: there’s too much AC on the Lizzy line - turn it down a bit! It’s ok to roast a little underground as a treat!

First my train was delayed because of the heat - now it’s been delayed because of heavy rain - this is why we love Britain

A Hovis advert where the dad sits back and says “not bad” in a broad Yorkshire accent is stuck in my head forever

There’s never been a war without war crimes right? The veneer of legality is sham

When ppl tell me they’re hot I just pretend I haven’t heard it. I’m sorry I’ve got nothing to contribute to this discourse

Noah Smith, like a lot of those plausible deniability liberals has gone full mask off recently - imho Gaza and the ensuing cover up has basically given the green light to public white supremacy

I get the weirdest islamophobia boosted to me on insta - it’s not the usual bacon and burka nonsense, but Hindu nationalist stuff about cows getting slaughtered for Qurbani and pictures of Muslim soldiers fighting for Nazis in Eastern Europe

They’re all false flags, I’m afraid 🤪

Remember how much we all despised this guy? Guess what he does now? Presided over job cuts at Goldsmiths University. In a way this statement was prophetic, he knew tuition fees weren’t the most evil thing, because he intended to make a career out of being a venal slug

This looks banging

What trot org do we reckon Paul Embery was in

Al American food is British food because yanks are Brits - same with Canadians, Australians, Kiwis and the posh South Africans

It’s not so much that it’s a centrist drug as much as one of its main effects is inducing centrism - people sitting around a table and letting differences slide in the name of having a drink and a laugh - fine in the pub, devestating in politics

I’ve done something terrible

the anti-trans bathroom ban is very bad—it's also a sign uk democracy is failing my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

It really grinds my gears how a certain kind of woke common-sense will totally unwittingly paint the ”other” as a two dimensional idiot.

Pretty mind numbing watching all the post-corbyn full time talking heads weighing up the difference utter monsters “from the left”

Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...

Would love to see pigs-are-really-clean-actuallycels eat they dinner with a pig (Yes I’m subtweeting someone at work lmao)

I need to think about it more but I just don’t think the term “complicity” is the best word we have for how people across the world are tied up in webs of control and domination

Some of us still work in very physical industries that provide the niceties for said workers after a long hard day down the laptop mines, so in the spirit of pettiness I’ll continue using it as a term of derision 😈

KCL war studies - his livelihood relies on being a perennial innocent flower that’s surprised The Rules were broken

young people getting into marxism today don't know how lucky they are with their "michael heinrich", their "postone" and their "werner bonefeld" - do you know what we had? hardt and negri

I have Metallica’s Unforgiven in my head but the lyrics are “new boy is a slur, it quickly tastes of doom”

The post-68 dinosaurs were the last yelps of theory dying, what do we have now? pbject orientated ontology was gone in like 4 years lol