Last year Anthony Blinken was personally directed by Joe Biden to go to the UK and ask David Lammy what the British needed from Israel in order for the UK to not suspend military exports licenses to Israel. In other words the POTUS told his chief diplomat to be the lawyer for another country.

Doctors Without Borders is also Hamas, just like Human Rights Watch are, like Amnesty International and indeed every aid and civil liberties organisation on earth that comments. Mercenaries firing machine guns at starving civilians scrambling for bags of flour though, that is just fine.

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#israel #gaza #palestine #msf

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

If you spend five minutes in Trinidad, you will see (hear) signs of this everywhere: 'Mastering its formal cadences, its slightly archaic vocabulary, its rigid grammatical structures, was not just about passing an exam. It was a signal.'

"Or, more accurately, it writes like the millions of us who were pushed through a very particular educational and societal pipeline, a pipeline deliberately designed to sandpaper away ambiguity, and forge our thoughts into a very specific, very formal, and very impressive shape." marcusolang.substac

Cosigning this as someone who experienced a very similar post-colonial education (albeit in a Caribbean context) 'The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education.' marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

Ludicrous for the Guardian to badge 'single sex spaces' a key test facing Starmer. It's neither a key test (polling shows it's a voting issue for almost no-one) nor a test for Starmer (it falls to judges to try and work out the disgraceful Supreme Court meant). Still, gotta stir the culture war pot.

Israel has said it will suspend more than two dozen humanitarian organisations from working in Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF) www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Starmer at this point is in thrall to Trump and the US. He makes Blair look independent. Labour are lap dogs to fascism

Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.

Artists show the way it's done.

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person that remembers Toby Young was just relatively recently a social pariah after he was booted from an appointment to a state position when it was revealed he was involved in a secret white supremacist eugenicist conference at UCL, and also creepy sexist tweets

🇨🇳 🇹🇼 China has launched missiles and deployed dozens of fighter aircraft and navy vessels around Taiwan for a second day of live-fire drills aimed at simulating a blockade of the self-ruled island's key ports and assaults on maritime targets. ➡️ u.afp.com/S82c

Desde hace meses, Israel ha establecido un promontorio para que los “turistas” puedan asistir al genocidio de Gaza mirando por binoculares. Está cerca de Sderot. Eso sí, hay que pagar 1,60 dólares www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

A major workshop organised by the Gaea Conservation Workshop at St. George's University, Grenada in October. The work? Brainstorming an urgent Conservation Action Plan for the Critically Endangered Grenada Dove -supported by BirdsCaribbean,American Bird Conservancy, Re:wild. Did I say "URGENT"? YES!

"Latin America has been one of the most important sources of income for (mostly Western) corporations seeking legal damages against national governments, as well as their highly paid arbitration lawyers." www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/12/hall...

Here is a convicted sexual predator sat next to a king at a banquet . Here is a peaceful pensioner protesting against genocide being arrested. Just working on the words for the learning to read series I am developing for children (reading words and reading a society’s priorities)

it's colonial 'humanism' as in claiming the right to own and define humanity rather than post WW2 humanism as in supporting universal human rights

White dude with camera arrives at daycare and demands to see kids. Daycare workers keep doors and windows closed. White dude alleges fraud. Every Republican backs white dude. That's the current story in Minnesota.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya refused to leave his patients. He was the last to leave Kamal Adwan Hospital. A year later, he is still imprisoned. We, the world, failed this brave man.

"You shouldn't be getting a medal for being robbed by your own government." Betty Brown 92, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Scam was outraged about being in the New Year Honours List. We want compensation and prison sentences not worthless medals.

“The word ‘doctor’ had a price. We’re now paying this price.” Gaza doctor and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, has been in an Israeli prison for a year after being detained without charge or trial. Watch the film: aje.news/DrAbuSafia

@humanists.uk went wrong quite some time ago. As a humanist who belongs to one of the communities that they hate, this doesn't surprise me at all. They abandoned compassion for all humans a long time ago. #transrights #homeeducation #humanrights

We’re at the point where we have concentration camps and slave patrols and the people with the most safety think a mean joke is the pinnacle of resistance

State of things. Trump continues to break international laws and no country or regional/global entity says a word. Complicity in genocide, complicity in war crimes and complicity in international law breaking. That's the Western world of capitalism for us. What a shit hole future we've built.

Where is the world-wide condemnation for violating international law by attacking a sovereign nation unprovoked ? Maduro is irrelevant. Every nation's sovereignty is threatened when rogue nations attack without provocation in order to overthrow the government & pillage their natural resources

This is an act of war and illegal under both US and international law, let’s just be clear about that:

Trump claims the US and Israel are helping the people of Gaza? Fact check:

Roz is absolutely correct. Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review). In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.

Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water. There are no warnings on bottles. Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay. What do regulators do?

This.

Quick reminder that when Elon Musk was in government, he lied about massive fraud, and did so to eliminate safety net programs as well as government capacity to oversee real fraud. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

Useful facts to show any Lib friends, relations, or co-workers who say shit like "You refused to vote for Harris so now we've got ICE". Non-White immigrants had a nickname for Obama: "President Deportation". And Biden broke a ten-year-old record for the number of people deported in one year.

The New York Times subhead indirectly blaming NYC’s lack of “affordability” on the guy who is not the mayor. If a Republican had been elected the headline would have been how the swearing-in is boosting tourism $.

The 51st state. Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets. UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies. 'Tacking back control', someone said.

Shame on Greece, Italy and France for letting this criminal through Don't preach to us ever again about international law, you hypocrites. substack.com/@aisha402525...

This is incidentally why I believe you can't win by pointing out that their positions are illogical and incoherent. Being unbound by logic is a privilege of wealth. Incoherence is a flex.

for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism

www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/c... Lab error, even unintentional due to a software bug, is orders of magnitude more common than an actual false match. And it is *very* hard to actually bring up lab errors except years later when the damage has already been done

A Colorado forensic scientist faked hundreds of DNA tests over decades. Literally such as putting the suspect's DNA in both the sample slot and the suspect's slot: voila, it is a match, the odds are astronomical that it'd be a false match. 3,000 cases at least, she fucked with.

unstoppable force (US/UK boomer need for care labour) vs immovable object (the global g20 rage against immigrant labour)

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Trump confirms his belief that the US bombed Venezuela on land last week:

600 -700ish+ nuclear warheads on missiles ready to fly 24/7/365 & Trump has virtually unrestricted launch authority. Protest, mass & other remains necessary. Contacting Congress—toadying wretches that most of them are—remains necessary. A diversity of tactics is necessary.

There is no national security so long as we leave the Trump et al regime in power. Many of the explanatory possibilities here involve a terrifying amount of ignorance, incompetence, & governmental disarray involving extremely powerful military forces.

A leading author has called out CNN for attributing the deaths of Palestinians to 'harsh winter weather' rather than Israeli policy

Palestinians killed for 'venturing too close' to an imaginary shifting yellow line. In the rest of the world we call this Murder.

LOL. Labour Party donor.