Peter Hain says anti-apartheid campaigners would have been treated as terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that most people don’t want the truth—especially not the kind that tears at the myth of progress, the lie of civilization. Because to truly see—to really let it in—would mean everything they depend on is soaked in blood and ash.

Notice how wealth class media will spend years normalizing authoritarians, giving them the benefit of the doubt, and if someone who is even considered remotely leftist and wants to help people gains momentum they'll change every rule, twist history, and attack them relentlessly.

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

This is what heroes sound like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jordan Peterson desperately defends a black and white worldview but can only describe it in shades of gray

Jordan Peterson DESTROYED BY Jordan Peterson

This is genuinely so bad, he can’t even answer basic questions from budding teen atheists lmfao. It’s like that scene in game of thrones when all the children ganged up and stabbed grand maester pycelle to death

crazy to hear there’s a video going around that shows jordan peterson being incredibly stupid

...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures... This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it. Best we listen up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 10/

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party. I ask again, what is he playing at?

Is AI a good thing?

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

A GAME OF THRONES: PROLOGUE

#Gaza: Doctors Without Borders strongly denounces Israel’s announcement to block aid into Gaza. Humanitarian aid should never be used as a tool of war. Regardless of negotiations between warring parties, people in Gaza still need an immediate and massive scale-up of humanitarian supplies.

Perhaps there is another way we should think about the economy.

What the government can’t afford: ❌Lifting children out of poverty ❌Disability benefits ❌Compensation for WASPI women ❌Winter fuel allowance What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military. Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.

Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism.

So weird question, but is anyone on here concerned about climate change & what is happening with the ocean bc everyone is so deep in denial on Twitter & i don't get why people are pretending this isn't happening 😭

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. —James Baldwin

In this week's column, I explore what I see as a very real prospect of systemic collapse, caused by Trump's actions, and suggest we start preparing. I try to explain how complex systems fail, and suggest some of the failure paths we could be on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Social democracy is not a viable alternative to capitalism. It is a tempting prospect, but ultimately suffers from violent contradictions that cannot be sustained. 🧵

The great @jksteinberger.bsky.social provides some excellent pointers in this essay. Please read it (and follow her): jksteinberger.medium.com/a-few-points...

We're shocked by Trump and Musk's antics because we judge them against the idea that governments should serve the people. But they have no such intention. Government for them is simply about seizing power and wealth. Let's stop being shocked, and build a global, democratic counter-movement.

Did you know that the UK has been conducting surveillance flights in #Gaza throughout? It's called enabling genocide. Top work in uncovering it by @declassifieduk.org - www.declassifieduk.org/gama-aviatio...

Ironborn disciple of Aeron Damphair: “hold my ale”.

1. As Zuckerberg abandons fact checking in the name of “free speech”, let’s take a moment to examine this concept. 🧵

Seeing Arya's arc as a revenge quest, instead of a search for justice, misses the question of what is justice, esp during a civil war. Is it punishment, which can be like revenge, is it protection of the community, how is it applied & to who, & why do the small folk always suffer? #asoiaf

CEO Unveils Bold New Plan To Undo Damage From Last Year’s Bold New Plan theonion.com/ceo-unveils-...

I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”. Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

If you have ever wondered what colonization was like—the violence, the dispossession, the massacres, the genocide, the displacement, the famine, the dehumanization, the racism—you are watching it in real time in Palestine. It is among the most depraved of all possible acts.

We have a report out today on Criminalisation & Repression of Climate & Environmental Protest 1/10 @uob-policystudies.bsky.social

It is shocking that Turkey’s attacks on the Kurds and the autonomous area of North East Syria are treated as kind of footnote to the Syria story. Be clear: a region of Syria is under major assault; the war is NOT over.

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza - www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Deeply alarming news from northern Syria where Turkish-backed militias are attacking Kurds, particularly in IDP camps, committing atrocities and driving them out. Perhaps 200k people are on the move. A humanitarian disaster with no international attention.

It does not stop. What has stopped is western news coverage.

A statement from @healthxr.bsky.social: “Health professionals join scientists & lawyers to occupy the so-called “magic circle” law firms today to call out their facilitation of the climate health emergency. This work is existential and it is all of ours to do” healthforxr.com/29th-nov-202...

An extract from the introduction to the Book; Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber!

In case anyone still doesn’t understand, the tech oligarchs are following in the footsteps of their industrialist predecessors and going full bore into antidemocratic authoritarianism. Look around. Conventional political analysis obscures the truth. You’re in a class war. And it’s heating up.

Officials signing off arms exports to a country committing war crimes might want to consider this warning from Ken Roth. ICC indictments may be coming your way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You cannot sacrifice people to the authoritarian machine in hopes it will stop. It never stops. You’ll only embolden it and lose yourself Trans people, gay people, women, people of color, Palestinians, the poor, people being oppressed around the world. Their struggle is interconnected with our own

Reading the ancients is great because they’re 50% the most profound shit you’ve ever read and 50% Galen you fool, the soul is stored in the balls and that’s why women aren’t people. Usually in the same text.

Background art by Nizo Yamamoto for Princess Mononoke (1997)