Human remains from Spanish Reconcentración camps in Cuba during the Cuban War of Independence, 1898 www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPor...

"Hanan Abu Hadaid's family was fast asleep in their tent when the attack began." "I started calling out to them one by one, screaming, but no one answered." "[T]argeting of civilians and displaced people continues." #UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military #Weapons

"Historians, museums and universities all function as necessary accomplices to the political project that Israel is engaging in. And they are recruited to this ideological project by organisations like UKLFI...Israel’s attempt to rewrite history is also a dangerous attack on academic freedom." 🏺

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

Devastating investigation of how the world’s biggest bank, JPMorgan, facilitated Epstein’s money-laundering &!sex-trafficking because he had a lucratively large account, helped them make more money (eg in getting into hedge funds), & had a top exec (Jes Staley) as a close crony.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Reminder: The biggest source of disparagement of hostage families and downplaying of Oct 7th has been the Israeli government because anything that makes Bibi look bad is verboten. Let that sink in. forward.com/opinion/8049...

UBI isn't shot down because it doesn't make economic sense, it's shot down because it empowers workers. You don't have to hate your job under UBI because you can afford to leave. Employers will be compelled to respect your rights because they can't count on your desperation any longer.

The British Museum has removed the word Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following “concerns” by a UK-based Israeli advocacy group. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-bri...

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech. She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide. They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

📜 “Yesterday UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) announced that they had written to the British Museum to encourage them to remove references to ‘Palestine’ in the gallery panels and labels of their collections.”

The ever-changing “Yellow Line” is a slow-moving takeover of Gaza’s territory.

Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.

1/ Hope this thread helps break through the mental logjam for normies. For anyone in the game of technology/ innovation/development this is just basic facts now. For the first time in 2 centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology,but the follower www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"The China challenge isn't what American policymakers think it is. It's not primarily about security threats or unfair trade practices—it's about Chinese companies making better products for less money, and winning hearts and minds in the process." musgrave.substack.com/p/oh-no-i-be...

This is the new “TV is turning our kids gay!” and, from the 60s, “Rock music is making our daughters like Black people!” A cisgendered woman with no experience in her self-declared expertise gets a whole article. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Price of Gasoline in the Third World, 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5109

This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.

Dr Beth Upton went to work one day to help sick people, and that is it. She's done nothing wrong (highlighted by the courts), never got involved in the media, never said a bad word about anyone, even once. And she's been hounded out of the country by bigots who hate that she exists.

Hear that poor people? You don’t understand how rich you actually are

Trevor Phillips tying himself in knots while trying to trip up Zack Polanski. Phillips gets everything embarrassingly wrong, clearly not done his homework and is roundly outclassed by Polanski

It's quite obvious that criminal damage and terrorist activity are entirely different things. It's yet another move of this increasingly authoritarian Labour Government to try and conflate the two.

It is a damning indictment that Labour continue to falsely parade Cass as some kind of expert when she has no qualifications or experience in healthcare for trans youth.

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

If only the symbolic elite didn't hate the people and democracy because they know a democratic system would threaten their position, we wouldn't be here today Rancière diagnosed our current crisis incredibly precisely 20 years ago... www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

The same goes with the idea that the solution to the resurgence of the far right is to continue placing our faith in liberal democracy when it is really existing liberalism which has led us here I know critical work is easy to ignore but come on... 3/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Pretending the rise of the far right and the focus on issues such as immigration or trans people comes from the "legitimate concerns" of "the people" is not just factually wrong, it's a deeply political point Refusing to see this as primarily top down processes is to protect the status quo 1/

"Rubio hints that #Cuba can reform its economy as a way to ease U.S. pressure." This comment from Rubio struck us... The way he just doesn't mention the blockade, as if had zero impact on Cuba's economy. Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

That’s the thing where it might turn out the decolonial theories were right: modernity doesn’t start with Britain and France, it starts with Spain. Dussel shows that Cartesianism was first developed among Spanish theologians, and it is intricately tied to the exclusion of „The Other“ in colonisation

The desistance studies she relies on in the report have been repeatedly debunked.

#MarkRubio, whose family immigrated to the US from #Cuba before the #CubanRevolution—but DIDN'T flee #FidelCastro’s takeover as he #claimed early in his #PoliticalCareer—has long called for #RegimeChange in the country. The US State Dept. refuted the accounts-diplomatic talks—are taking place, but

www.commondreams.org/news/marco-r... According to Drop Site News, said one organizer, “Marco Rubio is personally overseeing the starvation of an entire nation.”

6/ Cuba is not my focus but I think Rubio— whose name literally means “blonde”— is likely from a white-identifying Creole class that was desperate to align with the real white Christian Iberians and disclaim any of the enervation of the Americas or mixing with racialized others.

The United States government is doing to Cuba what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. They are systematically murdering civilians. A cry for help:

elpais.com/america/2026... Reportaje sobre las crisis de Cuba (humanitaria, energética, sanitaria, política, represiva, económica, demográfica....) y sus factores internos y externos.

Claudia Sheinbaum’s attempt to send oil to Cuba was stymied by Trump’s pressure and U.S. threats, turning Mexico’s support into humanitarian aid and highlighting Washington’s hard-line squeeze on the island’s energy lifeline.

So many world leaders are just silent and letting the people starve and die in Cuba because they can't and won't stand up to Trump

Cost of living crisis laid bare as almost half of Britons ‘have under £25 left at end of week’. Real average wage unchanged since 2008. 24m Britons live below minimum living standard. Poverty doesn't provide economic growth, justice, social stability.

Yes, @lucympowell.bsky.social here is a list of 14 peer-reviewed critiques of Cass to date (and don’t forget The Cass Review has NOT been peer-reviewed). It is junk science. You cannot credibly use it to justify your party’s policy of harming trans children & driving them to suicide.

Goose meme: Who weaponised them Hilary?

A newly unsealed FBI interview shows an entire Deutsche Bank staff team internally tried to cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein in 2015, after seeing wires to young women. One compliance officer says she was later pushed out and fired after raising the issue. Management kept the accounts open.

So, it's ok if we use these chatbots to run safety critical messaging systems and stuff in our internal systems, right?

Whistleblowers say the CPJ is scrapping its Impunity Index—the list of countries where journalists are most likely to be murdered with no consequences. "Had it been published, the 2025 Index – which would have covered ... Israel’s genocide in Gaza – would have seen Israel skyrocket into the lead."

The above was from NYPost, here's what FOX says

In case you were wondering what one of the major lines of attack on AOC will be in 2028, it won't be about Taiwan or populism but about her belief that Israel isn't entitled to free and unlimited military assistance from the US

The outrageous decision by Kier Starmer's government to unlawfully ban Palestine Action (while maintaining business as usual ties with genocidal Israel) - and immediately announcing plans to appeal today's High Court ruling - should be front and centre of calls for him to stand down.

If one is looking for left-FP ideas from electeds in the US, could do worse than follow the lead of Ilhan Omar, who has repeatedly put forth a repeal of the Hague Invasion Act as a core necessity for international rule of law. US alignment should not function as a backstop against justice for crimes

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.